Iraq and Energy Haven't Played Out in the Presidential Election the Way We Thought
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The Magic Pill
Steven of TX, you are as blind as most knee-jerk Party Sheep. Barack Obama is not some sort of Magic Pill that is going to change everything for the good.
I have wondered how "Drill Now" was going to help. I think I have an answer. If we had seriously sought alternate sources of energy when Carter was President, we could tell Opec to go ahead and drink their oil.
It may take a few years to become indepentant of Opec That is the long view and it will probably scare hell out of them. By then, I hope, we won't need the oil anyway.
Also, I suspect that we finally have the attention of those leeches in D.C. not that they will do anything useful. Government is not the answer to anything. And that includes Obama.
The research into alternate energy sources, aside from oil, may solve the problems.
Subsequent administrations and that includes the Congress have just sat on their hands for all of those years. They don't kniow what to do now.
Iraq and Energy
Mr Michael Barone. The success of the surge strategy in Iraq is because we are paying them not to fight us and the Iraqis what happens when we no longer pay then? and it will not lower the Gas prices by destroying the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Sea and Sea shore.it the money grubers that drilling for oil and there not going to sell it chep to americans the oil that is pumped in America now is just as high as the Arabs the Republican are destroying America it time to get a Democrat back in office. Barack Obama will be President.
gas prices
dang. the Dems have only been in charge of Congress for a year and a half and already we have $4 gas.
and with their declared policies it will only go higher.
Irag
At one time, I heard that Iraq has the 2nd largest known oil reserves (after Saudi Arabia). With oil prices tripling by now, where is all the money going for whatever oil can be sold by Iraq? If the World economy goes down, it will be interesting to know if someone, somehow will take responsibility for it.
Drill Now?
How is it possible that oherwise rational people believe that drilling offshore and in the refuge will get them cheap oil? The oil companies say it would take up to a decade to actually pump anything. At that point, they would not be selling it cheaply to Americans (never mind that thye are essentially given free leases by the American people), they would sell it on the open, global market, to the highest bidder.
Just yesterday I heard a Big Oil type saying, "People just don't understand when they say, 'Hey, you haven't maximized drilling on the leases you have'. They don't get that developing these wells takes years."
Apparently, the Exxon-Mobil folks would love to get their hands on offshore and ANWAR leases while the moment is ripe. Only then would they tellus, "By the way, you DO understand that these will take many years to develop, don't you?"
Republicans would have had us believe before invading Iraq in 2003 that one of the benefits would be $20-a-barrel oil. Several prominent ones were on record predicting this. The Democrats have every right to be asking Republicans to explain how they got it so wrong. It's not like the Iraq war has been "free" to taxpayers. In fact, the fallout seems to be that even though voters would never have approved higher taxes to the U.S. Government to pay for the war, we're now all PAYING anyway, but paying the enemies and their surrogates..
The fact is, the real world has overtaken the false assumptions of the Democrats, especially on energy.
The energy business is one with long time horizons and deep cycles. These can go unnoticed to most members of the public yet some day those cycles can reach up and touch the day-to-day life of the public. Remember Grey Davis?
The political decision now is to follow the Democratic/leftist/environmentalist game plan and squeeze the population by curtailing energy production OR to let the market deliver the energy resources by allowing the industry more freedom of action.
In other words, does the government ration energy through remote control thermostats and carbon taxes or do we let businesses deliver what people will willingly pay?
Let's take a vote!
Energy and Iraq
Seems the media always expect everything to play out in favor of the Democrats, and are always taken by surprise when it doesn't.
