Comments on: A Pinprick of Potential Power

By: thelotuseater725

thelotuseater725 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:42:31 +0000

I agree with Reboot 100% on this issue.
@ magnus

That is is if congress would pull their heads out of their asses and let the oil companies build new refineries period and pursue more off shore oil drilling we could lower our prices. Lousy democrats.

By: tiki god

tiki god — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:05:16 +0000

I do love the projected usages charts that end up going completely verticle after about 10-15 years, lol

By: mAgnUS BUTTfoorson

mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:14:03 +0000

the above comment resulted from a tip from tiki btw

By: mAgnUS BUTTfoorson

mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:08:51 +0000

Prices are high because of the same creative futures accounting as employed by Enron.

New refineries would take 10 years to make an impact on prices.

Its a bubble that will burst. The projected supply is WAY beyond the reality we’ll see.

By: DasMaus

DasMaus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:03:54 +0000

Drilling in ANWAR would have such an incredibly small effect on the environment it’s totally appalling if that’s the real reason we’re not already in there. If it gives us (and by us I mean US) a little breathing room while we develop/produce a better means of energy (and by better I mean practical, affordable and effective) then just do it…do it wisely and responsibly but fucking do it.

…or do away with speculation trading and get gas prices back down to where people aren’t having to make a choice between gas or food.

By: deuce

deuce — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:29 +0000

ANWR is another one of those stupid issues that don’t actually matter in the real world that much, but that the two political camps have blown way out of proportion to serve as a rallying point.

If we’re allowed to drill in ANWR, then the big-business conservatives win. Gas prices go down 2 cents a gallon 10 years from now, and world oil capacity is bumped up an almost immeasurably small amount, but it opens the floodgates to further economic exploitation of protected lands.

On the other hand, if we continue to keep drilling out of the ANWR, then big-business conservatives get to keep another one of their hot-button issues alive.

By: nyoki

nyoki — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:12:12 +0000

@suicydking
The suprem court just reduced the punitive damages for Exxon from 2.5 billion to 500 million.

www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/27/scotus.exxon/index.html?iref=newssearch

By: storminator

storminator — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:05:47 +0000

I can’t help but wonder how many billions of dollars we’ve spent arguing about something that we’re going to drill eventually, anyway.

I lived in Alaska for 20 years. I’ve been to Prudhoe Bay and Kaparuk. I’ve driven the Haul Road. Let me tell you about the park. There’s a lot of caribou. Not nutritious or tasty. There’s some polar bears, occasionally a brown will go that far in the summer.

There’s a kazillion Mosquitoes, and that’s it. It’s tundra. No trees. No bushes. Moss and rocks.

Three square miles I’ve heard arguements about for 30+ years…

By: nyoki

nyoki — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:36:49 +0000

You may be right reboot but if we started at ANWR now, it would be 10+ years before we’d see that oil in the refineries. So, should we start now…just in case?

I haven’t made up my mind about drilling in ANWR.

By: suicydking

suicydking — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:27:40 +0000

Word up, reboot. As long as there are straw men for corporate jackasses to burn down, we can avoid the real issues. Sometimes you need the long view.