Did u ever know this?
idk why everyone says that the middle east is poor and all but... saudi arabia is one of the richest in the world here in palestine there's a lot of people that make more money in a year than americans i just dont know why americans say middle easterns are poor...
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ok. well now we know
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i knew that!
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Im sure.
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Cool!!
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we kno now lol thanx
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idk I guess bc maybe their GDP per capita is lower than here in America?
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Because they encourage stereotypes to satisfy their nationalist ego
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Yeah, ok. Hollywood Hills is good too. I am very proud to be an American.
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my parents went to Dubai,they could not believe the wealth and decadence.Truly beautiful from the postcards i got. I hear the shopping would give New York a run for it's money.
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You're robbing us blind with the price oil, so ya sure as hell ain't poor...
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i already know that.
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Thanks for sharing.
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I'm American, and I'm poor. And I will be even poorer if Obama or Clinton get elected, as my taxes will increase exponentially.
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we make fun of other countries cuz theres nothing to talk about.
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That is interesting....
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It's probably because it makes better copy for the news reporters to push poverty than affluence. A few years ago, there was so much reporting in New Zealand about poverty and hard times in the UK that worried friends contacted us to see if they could send a food parcel!
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suppose all the devastation being caused over there doesn't matter then seeing as you all have so much money to pay for shiny new things. Not being funny, but no picture that I have seen, whether it be on TV or in brochures, makes it look like a wealthy country. Why don't you put the effort in and make the place look more presentable! lol Nah, like with everywhere in the world, there are poor places and well off places. At the moment, most people see the poor places being destroyed and devastated by war and terrorism and think that's what it is like all over.
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Because it is poor! Just because a few individuals are wealthy doesn't mean that the great majority of individuals in The Middle East aren't poor. For instance, in Jordan, many children don't go to school because their parents need them to help get money for the family. Look at the great majority of people, not the few wealthy ones!
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Should we go to war over gas prices?
Should we go to war over gas prices?
Saudi Arabia is now refusing to increase production after the US President asked. We have tried deplomacy with Saudi Arabia and its like they think its a joke. Where I live it cost $3.69 and its going up fast, $70 every few days to fill my parents tank. I DO NOT think this should happen until Obama wins, Bush did a horrible job in Iraq. SO with all this in mind do you think we should go to war with Saudi Arabia for example of oil? I think we should, we shouldn't have to beg them to produce more oil so they can make more money. A VERY OPINIONATED 14 YEAR OLD
Current Events - 14 Answers
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no
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no
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Wakeup man - that shit was a set-up by our zionist government. Bush is a bumbiling fucking pupet. Take to the streets against our own gov is more like it.
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We should not go to war. We should move speedily toward a energy policy that will make them irrelevant
5 :
War with Saudi Arabia? Not in this lifetime, or any other. The answer is to build a car that runs on seawater. There's enough of that to go around.
6 :
You have some good thoughts, but it goes a lot deeper than that. First of all, whenever there is a crisis in this country, it's always that "others" have to bend to what WE want, but yet we sacrifice nothing. I've heard a lot of carping about the gas prices, but are we (as a majority) doing anything about it? Are we buying more economical cars? Are we driving with a lighter foot? Not from what I've seen so far we aren't. So my logical conclusion from that is...if you can't be bothered to drive more economically or if you can't be bothered to get rid of that big gas-guzzling SUV, then the gas prices aren't bothering you as much as you say. I'm all for alternate fuel sources though, and I'm especially excited about both electic run vehicles and hydrogen powered vehicles. As technology improves, so will our choices. But the choice we can make right now is to slow down and down-size, and until that happens, I have no pity for the citzens of our country.
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Nope--
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no blood for oil if we drill in Alaska we would be selling them oil Americans shouldn't have to die to drive to work if we all got together and stop buying oil for one week that will bring down oil prices
9 :
You have a lot of questions in here. It really just comes to why can't we figure out a way to run our world without increased energy usage which WILL decrease energy costs. Entire parts of the world in the middle east, europe and asia have developed & USE within their own countries appliances, vehicles and products such as escalators, elevators, lights for corporate towers that use less than 1/3 of the equivelant average product in North America. Yes they sell their product (oil) to the USA & other countries however there are other areas in the world where oil is produced. Cheaper areas as well. So another question is why is the USA so focused on buying oil from a country who's political outlook is so very different than their own. Why do they continue to do business with a culture that they have publically disagreed with on a regular basis. Why do they continually defy the obvious that if they were to increase production on ideas that used less oil for energy--they could remove themselves from the economy that exists between the 2 (& more) countries. It comes down to finding out what each side is getting out of this current relationship. To do that, you'll have to continue your research. Start with researching the relationship the current Bush Administration has with the Bin Laden's & the Royalty of Saudi Arbia as its a long & involved one. Michael Moore's Farenheit 911 asks more questions than it answers but they are still GOOD questions. Ask & research why the president of the USA chose to conspire with top levels of Britan's government in 2002-2003 to create false documents that allowed them to invade Iraq. Ask & Find out why the USA, who in the 40's helped institute the UN (which btw is based in NY city) but then in 2002-2003 ignored their warnings about invading Iraq. Why did the USA "jump" from invading Afghanistan to "Suddenly" ivading Iraq. Go & get GOOD information, go & find educated people who are higher up in the government such as your state represenative & ask him/ her these questions. Research the HUGE amount of media that has since been published on all of this & THEN Give your opinion! Its such a MASSIVE & COMPLEX question to ask & its so very difficult to answer it.
10 :
No, we should stop buying oil from Saudi Arabia and rev up domestic production. That would hurt them far more than any war could. Get used to high gas prices and tell your parents to stop driving so much. I only fill my tank up once a month (or less) because unlike all the other hypocrites, I actually live what I preach about conservation.
11 :
Why does it so often seem that the people with the strongest opinions have so little command of the facts. I will forgive your ignorance and try to remember that you are only fourteen. But please, as you get older, before you form an opinion about a subject, particularly a strong opinion, make sure you've done some basic research and know what the heck you're talking about. The US is already involved in two costly occupations, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. Both of those have so taxed the military that many professionals complain that the Army and the Marines are nearing the breaking point. Yet you advocate going to war with yet another Muslim country, and this time without even pretending that it isn't about oil. Saudi Arabia is several times the size of Iraq and has a comparable population. They also have some of the most sophisticated weapons in the world, ones which the US has sold to them. Forget about the morality of it -- and such an attack would not only be illegal by UN standards, but also by US law as well -- just how would you suggest the US take on such a foe? The answer to the problem of high gasoline prices is not to launch wars to seize a resouce that is getting harder to locate and produce, at least cheaply (and this is coming from someone who works for a major oil company), but to apply our human ingenuity to developing a better alternative. After all, the current oil industry only began about 160 years ago, when whale oil, which used to be the norm, became scarce as whales were hunted almost to extinction. But your answer is to launch a war in which tens of thousands of people, at least, will die, just so your parents can fill up their car with cheap gas. Many people in the US claim that the terrorists, or even Muslims in general, have little or no respect for life. How much respect does your attitude show when you would quite willingly trade so many human lives for more oil?
12 :
You Americans should shut up and stop complaining. Instead of a war, why can't you guys junk mail your govt about prices? You seem to be an ignorant idiot who doesn't know why prices are rising. Here are the main reasons. 1. Inflation. If there was low inflation, crude would be at around $80/barrel. Proof-Gold is high/dollar is low. 2. Supply and Demand-Oil is not unlimited and the world population is growing. The less there is and the more it is sought after, the more expensive it would be. 3. Irresponsible govt. The US govt has not been responsible with the economy.
13 :
All it would take to lower oil prices is to stop crazy,....lazy people starting up the car and driving half a mile to get a Big Mac. War is not the answer just quit driving so much. I read a story about a guy who quit altogether and rides his bike to work.....that is what it will take to short the oil.
14 :
Our soldiers have been fighting Iraqis war for more than 5 years while the gas price keeps breaking new records. Do you really believe war with Saudi will bring down the oil price ?
Saudi Arabia is now refusing to increase production after the US President asked. We have tried deplomacy with Saudi Arabia and its like they think its a joke. Where I live it cost $3.69 and its going up fast, $70 every few days to fill my parents tank. I DO NOT think this should happen until Obama wins, Bush did a horrible job in Iraq. SO with all this in mind do you think we should go to war with Saudi Arabia for example of oil? I think we should, we shouldn't have to beg them to produce more oil so they can make more money. A VERY OPINIONATED 14 YEAR OLD
Current Events - 14 Answers
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no
2 :
no
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Wakeup man - that shit was a set-up by our zionist government. Bush is a bumbiling fucking pupet. Take to the streets against our own gov is more like it.
4 :
We should not go to war. We should move speedily toward a energy policy that will make them irrelevant
5 :
War with Saudi Arabia? Not in this lifetime, or any other. The answer is to build a car that runs on seawater. There's enough of that to go around.
6 :
You have some good thoughts, but it goes a lot deeper than that. First of all, whenever there is a crisis in this country, it's always that "others" have to bend to what WE want, but yet we sacrifice nothing. I've heard a lot of carping about the gas prices, but are we (as a majority) doing anything about it? Are we buying more economical cars? Are we driving with a lighter foot? Not from what I've seen so far we aren't. So my logical conclusion from that is...if you can't be bothered to drive more economically or if you can't be bothered to get rid of that big gas-guzzling SUV, then the gas prices aren't bothering you as much as you say. I'm all for alternate fuel sources though, and I'm especially excited about both electic run vehicles and hydrogen powered vehicles. As technology improves, so will our choices. But the choice we can make right now is to slow down and down-size, and until that happens, I have no pity for the citzens of our country.
7 :
Nope--
8 :
no blood for oil if we drill in Alaska we would be selling them oil Americans shouldn't have to die to drive to work if we all got together and stop buying oil for one week that will bring down oil prices
9 :
You have a lot of questions in here. It really just comes to why can't we figure out a way to run our world without increased energy usage which WILL decrease energy costs. Entire parts of the world in the middle east, europe and asia have developed & USE within their own countries appliances, vehicles and products such as escalators, elevators, lights for corporate towers that use less than 1/3 of the equivelant average product in North America. Yes they sell their product (oil) to the USA & other countries however there are other areas in the world where oil is produced. Cheaper areas as well. So another question is why is the USA so focused on buying oil from a country who's political outlook is so very different than their own. Why do they continue to do business with a culture that they have publically disagreed with on a regular basis. Why do they continually defy the obvious that if they were to increase production on ideas that used less oil for energy--they could remove themselves from the economy that exists between the 2 (& more) countries. It comes down to finding out what each side is getting out of this current relationship. To do that, you'll have to continue your research. Start with researching the relationship the current Bush Administration has with the Bin Laden's & the Royalty of Saudi Arbia as its a long & involved one. Michael Moore's Farenheit 911 asks more questions than it answers but they are still GOOD questions. Ask & research why the president of the USA chose to conspire with top levels of Britan's government in 2002-2003 to create false documents that allowed them to invade Iraq. Ask & Find out why the USA, who in the 40's helped institute the UN (which btw is based in NY city) but then in 2002-2003 ignored their warnings about invading Iraq. Why did the USA "jump" from invading Afghanistan to "Suddenly" ivading Iraq. Go & get GOOD information, go & find educated people who are higher up in the government such as your state represenative & ask him/ her these questions. Research the HUGE amount of media that has since been published on all of this & THEN Give your opinion! Its such a MASSIVE & COMPLEX question to ask & its so very difficult to answer it.
10 :
No, we should stop buying oil from Saudi Arabia and rev up domestic production. That would hurt them far more than any war could. Get used to high gas prices and tell your parents to stop driving so much. I only fill my tank up once a month (or less) because unlike all the other hypocrites, I actually live what I preach about conservation.
11 :
Why does it so often seem that the people with the strongest opinions have so little command of the facts. I will forgive your ignorance and try to remember that you are only fourteen. But please, as you get older, before you form an opinion about a subject, particularly a strong opinion, make sure you've done some basic research and know what the heck you're talking about. The US is already involved in two costly occupations, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. Both of those have so taxed the military that many professionals complain that the Army and the Marines are nearing the breaking point. Yet you advocate going to war with yet another Muslim country, and this time without even pretending that it isn't about oil. Saudi Arabia is several times the size of Iraq and has a comparable population. They also have some of the most sophisticated weapons in the world, ones which the US has sold to them. Forget about the morality of it -- and such an attack would not only be illegal by UN standards, but also by US law as well -- just how would you suggest the US take on such a foe? The answer to the problem of high gasoline prices is not to launch wars to seize a resouce that is getting harder to locate and produce, at least cheaply (and this is coming from someone who works for a major oil company), but to apply our human ingenuity to developing a better alternative. After all, the current oil industry only began about 160 years ago, when whale oil, which used to be the norm, became scarce as whales were hunted almost to extinction. But your answer is to launch a war in which tens of thousands of people, at least, will die, just so your parents can fill up their car with cheap gas. Many people in the US claim that the terrorists, or even Muslims in general, have little or no respect for life. How much respect does your attitude show when you would quite willingly trade so many human lives for more oil?
12 :
You Americans should shut up and stop complaining. Instead of a war, why can't you guys junk mail your govt about prices? You seem to be an ignorant idiot who doesn't know why prices are rising. Here are the main reasons. 1. Inflation. If there was low inflation, crude would be at around $80/barrel. Proof-Gold is high/dollar is low. 2. Supply and Demand-Oil is not unlimited and the world population is growing. The less there is and the more it is sought after, the more expensive it would be. 3. Irresponsible govt. The US govt has not been responsible with the economy.
13 :
All it would take to lower oil prices is to stop crazy,....lazy people starting up the car and driving half a mile to get a Big Mac. War is not the answer just quit driving so much. I read a story about a guy who quit altogether and rides his bike to work.....that is what it will take to short the oil.
14 :
Our soldiers have been fighting Iraqis war for more than 5 years while the gas price keeps breaking new records. Do you really believe war with Saudi will bring down the oil price ?
Monday, April 7, 2014
How to coup d'etat a small country?
How to coup d'etat a small country?
I'd like it to be bloodless, quick and incredibly efficient. BTW, the country is Bosnia and you have to factor in the aftermath of rebellions or foreign aid and Western intervention since I'd probably kick out the large majority of their forces and officials. There is no set budget or set timeframe as long as you justify it. And could you guys give me an outline of how many men I'd need, etc. A thing that I was thinking of doing was having a PMC stationed there in many bases and then coup the government, get them under house arrest and set up a new temporary government with everything prepared, including new books for schools, new utensils, new equipment for other forces, etc and disband the current military and give the soldiers the option to go back to civilian life or enlist and go through training in my PMC, which will now be the official military of the country and have the government make new jobs ASAP and employ the people so they can make more money and spend more money, etc. And how would I go about getting the money to fund all of this; ask other powerful nations like Germany, Austria, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia or something else?
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if you want your coup d'etat bloodless, you have to be powerful and legitimate in the eyes of the people. US held only one of these two in Iraq so the outcome is a mess.
I'd like it to be bloodless, quick and incredibly efficient. BTW, the country is Bosnia and you have to factor in the aftermath of rebellions or foreign aid and Western intervention since I'd probably kick out the large majority of their forces and officials. There is no set budget or set timeframe as long as you justify it. And could you guys give me an outline of how many men I'd need, etc. A thing that I was thinking of doing was having a PMC stationed there in many bases and then coup the government, get them under house arrest and set up a new temporary government with everything prepared, including new books for schools, new utensils, new equipment for other forces, etc and disband the current military and give the soldiers the option to go back to civilian life or enlist and go through training in my PMC, which will now be the official military of the country and have the government make new jobs ASAP and employ the people so they can make more money and spend more money, etc. And how would I go about getting the money to fund all of this; ask other powerful nations like Germany, Austria, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia or something else?
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if you want your coup d'etat bloodless, you have to be powerful and legitimate in the eyes of the people. US held only one of these two in Iraq so the outcome is a mess.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
What does, " We can't drill our way out of this crisis" mean?
What does, " We can't drill our way out of this crisis" mean?
Is this the same as telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!" It seems so senseless to me and that is exactly what Saudi Arabia is doing... trying to drill their way out of this crisis. Why do we want them to drill and give them money instead of our own oil companies? Why do we care more the Saudis, than companies that employ our own people? They certainly have environmental laws that are far from what we have. If we were so concerned about the environment, why do we promote drilling by countries that don't have the same environmental laws we have? We are making them rich while Obama wants to tax our oil companies and make them less profitable. Why doesn't Obama try to tax the Saudis and make it harder for them to make profits drilling? ==== I can't believe people are so ignorant about oil. Get a clue. Some oil is easy to get, some oil is hard to get, some oil is sweet crude and some is junk crude. The fact that an oil company has leased land doesn't mean they simply drill and pump oil. I wish everyone would have to take a freshman geology course instead of make themselves look like complete fools talking about something they have no clue whatsoever. Oil companies are not stupid and that is the reason geologists come at such a high cost. They determine which wells can be drilled to make a profit and which ones will cost a bundle to get the oil to the surface and process it into a viable fuel source. Many of these leases are not worth the effort until oil prices are much higher. Likewise the fact that someone can drill in the middle of the ocean at 20 times the cost of drilling in the outer continental shelf is an absolutely moronic conclusion that is good enough for many people's thoughts. Only recently has technology and cost made it practical for oil shale production. These are technologies breakthroughs, that the simple minded mentality of "stick a drill in the ground and hit oil for a 'gusher'" of the 1940's, somewhere else, has prevented leasing of federal lands. There are estimated to be 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone. How much is that? Equal to more than a century's worth of currently projected oil imports. Just last year congress insert a provision blocking oil shale leasing on Federal lands that would have allowed this. A source at today prices makes it worth drilling and extracting. In 1995, Congress passed legislation allowing oil production in a small fraction of ANWR's 19.6 million acres, yet President Clinton vetoed the bill. With a drilling footprint of less than 2,000 acres – about 0.01 percent of this remote Alaskan terrain – America could produce an estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil. This is the equivalent of roughly two decades of imported crude oil from Saudi Arabia. And much less expensive than shale production. It has been 30 years since our nation built a new refinery. And everyone is just happy as punch to sit back, pay enormous prices to foreign governments to extract oil for us as our economy trashes in hopes an alternate fuel source magically appears. Why not the same confidence in a cure for cancer? ========= "Who, exactly drills for oil in Saudio Arabia?" Too bad the people that make the holes in Saudi don't have the lease or mineral rights. Here's your answer: http://www.country-studies.com/saudi-arabia/oil-industry.html You bet we're sending our money to them... they aren't giving it away for free. ======= If we leased our federal land to the oil companies like the Saudis, we'd balance our budget overnight and be filling up for $20 instead of $75. It's all about congressmen getting their fair share to run for the next election. No one should ever look at the price after a fill up other than a tax by our government... which came about after we gave the Democrats control of congress... and it will continue just like under Carter. This is Carter all over again. Study his presidency and you will see the direction we are going. ========= Ash, we consume so much because we produce more than anyone in the world. When our economy crashes, so does the world and it is always worse than our own. ======= This is Katrina on a National scale and congress is saying, "nothing can be done on our watch." They say we've already lost the war in Iraq, and now they are saying we don't need to drill because it won't help. I wonder what people will say about the levees when they fail only to find that we are sitting on such a huge oil reserve and congress didn't do a thing to make a difference? Not one of these guys will get back into office. They WILL be exposed.
Politics - 10 Answers
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Thank the democratic party and the left. Between caribou, global warming, and 50 years to develop alternate energy, they have bent us over a barrel (of oil so to speak) and pounding us hard. The only thing we will accomplish with a democrat ruled country is ruin.
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its rhetoric, thats all however due to the do nothing congress it may be true we need to lift restrictions now and drill drill drill
3 :
Who, exactly drills for oil in Saudio Arabia??????????????? Last I was there EXXON/Mobile, BP, ChevronTexaco, Royal Dutch Shell all had rigs there. Nowhere did I see Prince Faisal Oil or Royal Saudi Oil. And yes i do know that BP is BRITISH Petroleum, and Royal dutch is The Netherlands oil co. Our oil companies are drilling id Saudi Arabia, and the North Sea, and Malaysia. and about everywhere else except Mexico, PEMex. is the only state owned company that actually does any drilling and refining since the USSR broke up
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It's just typical left-wing fear-mongering. They tell us the economy is in crisis (despite us not being even in a recession yet), that Iraq can't be won (despite the fact that violence is right down and the political benchmarks are being met), etc etc. Obama's just trying to sow enough fear, uncertainty and doubt that he'll get elected. It's just politics: high office is more important to him than honestly debating the facts before the public.
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aaahahahaha!We were corrrect, our forecast 5 years ago was, "The United States of America is epicenter of the world crisis". We, Bolsheviks, love this mess.
6 :
More scare tactics from the radical right. You do know that out of 6931 leases over 4000 are left untapped. The oil companies have to spend money to drill so their profits go down. Let others drill and just charge more and profits go up. You don't have to be a genius to figure if they hold untapped land no one else can profit from it. Thus making them look bad if they don't spend money on drilling.
7 :
This is typical Liberal doom and gloom philosophy. They remind me of Sid Vicious (The Sex Pistols) screaming in song, "There's no future, and England's dreaming!" Well, the joke is on him, because England came out of the 1980s much stronger and more vibrant than anyone could have imagined. But that is how childishly Liberals act. They figure that if they never try, no one can poke fun at them if they fail. Of course drilling more would alleviate the problem somewhat, but the Liberals also prevented any more refineries from being built for about 20 years or more, so we may not even have the capacity to turn that crude into gasoline fast enough.
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American empire is crumbling down. what a pity! lol
9 :
It means, according to dems in congress, that you can ask the Saudi's to pump 1 mil barrels / day to lower gas prices by up to 17%. (Schumer, on the senate floor may13 2008) But, to pump 1 mil barrels per day of our oil, it would only lower gas prices by " a penny". Schumer, one week later. What it really means is that they lie through their teeth to cover the fact the they are OWNED by Big Environmentalists. Democrats pick and choose when the law of supply and demand applies, and when it doesn't. The only thing more "inane" than that is the fact that dem supporters won't admit to the double standard. Party before Country.
10 :
2% of the world's oil reserves and 25 % of the world's oil consumption; just speaking truth
Is this the same as telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!" It seems so senseless to me and that is exactly what Saudi Arabia is doing... trying to drill their way out of this crisis. Why do we want them to drill and give them money instead of our own oil companies? Why do we care more the Saudis, than companies that employ our own people? They certainly have environmental laws that are far from what we have. If we were so concerned about the environment, why do we promote drilling by countries that don't have the same environmental laws we have? We are making them rich while Obama wants to tax our oil companies and make them less profitable. Why doesn't Obama try to tax the Saudis and make it harder for them to make profits drilling? ==== I can't believe people are so ignorant about oil. Get a clue. Some oil is easy to get, some oil is hard to get, some oil is sweet crude and some is junk crude. The fact that an oil company has leased land doesn't mean they simply drill and pump oil. I wish everyone would have to take a freshman geology course instead of make themselves look like complete fools talking about something they have no clue whatsoever. Oil companies are not stupid and that is the reason geologists come at such a high cost. They determine which wells can be drilled to make a profit and which ones will cost a bundle to get the oil to the surface and process it into a viable fuel source. Many of these leases are not worth the effort until oil prices are much higher. Likewise the fact that someone can drill in the middle of the ocean at 20 times the cost of drilling in the outer continental shelf is an absolutely moronic conclusion that is good enough for many people's thoughts. Only recently has technology and cost made it practical for oil shale production. These are technologies breakthroughs, that the simple minded mentality of "stick a drill in the ground and hit oil for a 'gusher'" of the 1940's, somewhere else, has prevented leasing of federal lands. There are estimated to be 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone. How much is that? Equal to more than a century's worth of currently projected oil imports. Just last year congress insert a provision blocking oil shale leasing on Federal lands that would have allowed this. A source at today prices makes it worth drilling and extracting. In 1995, Congress passed legislation allowing oil production in a small fraction of ANWR's 19.6 million acres, yet President Clinton vetoed the bill. With a drilling footprint of less than 2,000 acres – about 0.01 percent of this remote Alaskan terrain – America could produce an estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil. This is the equivalent of roughly two decades of imported crude oil from Saudi Arabia. And much less expensive than shale production. It has been 30 years since our nation built a new refinery. And everyone is just happy as punch to sit back, pay enormous prices to foreign governments to extract oil for us as our economy trashes in hopes an alternate fuel source magically appears. Why not the same confidence in a cure for cancer? ========= "Who, exactly drills for oil in Saudio Arabia?" Too bad the people that make the holes in Saudi don't have the lease or mineral rights. Here's your answer: http://www.country-studies.com/saudi-arabia/oil-industry.html You bet we're sending our money to them... they aren't giving it away for free. ======= If we leased our federal land to the oil companies like the Saudis, we'd balance our budget overnight and be filling up for $20 instead of $75. It's all about congressmen getting their fair share to run for the next election. No one should ever look at the price after a fill up other than a tax by our government... which came about after we gave the Democrats control of congress... and it will continue just like under Carter. This is Carter all over again. Study his presidency and you will see the direction we are going. ========= Ash, we consume so much because we produce more than anyone in the world. When our economy crashes, so does the world and it is always worse than our own. ======= This is Katrina on a National scale and congress is saying, "nothing can be done on our watch." They say we've already lost the war in Iraq, and now they are saying we don't need to drill because it won't help. I wonder what people will say about the levees when they fail only to find that we are sitting on such a huge oil reserve and congress didn't do a thing to make a difference? Not one of these guys will get back into office. They WILL be exposed.
Politics - 10 Answers
Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions :
1 :
Thank the democratic party and the left. Between caribou, global warming, and 50 years to develop alternate energy, they have bent us over a barrel (of oil so to speak) and pounding us hard. The only thing we will accomplish with a democrat ruled country is ruin.
2 :
its rhetoric, thats all however due to the do nothing congress it may be true we need to lift restrictions now and drill drill drill
3 :
Who, exactly drills for oil in Saudio Arabia??????????????? Last I was there EXXON/Mobile, BP, ChevronTexaco, Royal Dutch Shell all had rigs there. Nowhere did I see Prince Faisal Oil or Royal Saudi Oil. And yes i do know that BP is BRITISH Petroleum, and Royal dutch is The Netherlands oil co. Our oil companies are drilling id Saudi Arabia, and the North Sea, and Malaysia. and about everywhere else except Mexico, PEMex. is the only state owned company that actually does any drilling and refining since the USSR broke up
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It's just typical left-wing fear-mongering. They tell us the economy is in crisis (despite us not being even in a recession yet), that Iraq can't be won (despite the fact that violence is right down and the political benchmarks are being met), etc etc. Obama's just trying to sow enough fear, uncertainty and doubt that he'll get elected. It's just politics: high office is more important to him than honestly debating the facts before the public.
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aaahahahaha!We were corrrect, our forecast 5 years ago was, "The United States of America is epicenter of the world crisis". We, Bolsheviks, love this mess.
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More scare tactics from the radical right. You do know that out of 6931 leases over 4000 are left untapped. The oil companies have to spend money to drill so their profits go down. Let others drill and just charge more and profits go up. You don't have to be a genius to figure if they hold untapped land no one else can profit from it. Thus making them look bad if they don't spend money on drilling.
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This is typical Liberal doom and gloom philosophy. They remind me of Sid Vicious (The Sex Pistols) screaming in song, "There's no future, and England's dreaming!" Well, the joke is on him, because England came out of the 1980s much stronger and more vibrant than anyone could have imagined. But that is how childishly Liberals act. They figure that if they never try, no one can poke fun at them if they fail. Of course drilling more would alleviate the problem somewhat, but the Liberals also prevented any more refineries from being built for about 20 years or more, so we may not even have the capacity to turn that crude into gasoline fast enough.
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American empire is crumbling down. what a pity! lol
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It means, according to dems in congress, that you can ask the Saudi's to pump 1 mil barrels / day to lower gas prices by up to 17%. (Schumer, on the senate floor may13 2008) But, to pump 1 mil barrels per day of our oil, it would only lower gas prices by " a penny". Schumer, one week later. What it really means is that they lie through their teeth to cover the fact the they are OWNED by Big Environmentalists. Democrats pick and choose when the law of supply and demand applies, and when it doesn't. The only thing more "inane" than that is the fact that dem supporters won't admit to the double standard. Party before Country.
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2% of the world's oil reserves and 25 % of the world's oil consumption; just speaking truth
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