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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Top oil lobbyist doubts reduced-use promises

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Gene44

We currently have 100 coal burning power plants blocked by the environmental groups with lawsuits and they also oppose nuclear power plants. Thus the stage is set for America to have less electrical power available for companies, offices and homes. The complete system is loaded with no excess at present and the environmental groups want electric cars on the road now, but, where oh where will they get the electrical current to recharge the batteries? It takes time to build plants, create distribution lines, and the cost will be high. Still to power the above 100 million cars in America it will take thousands of plants generating 30 megabites of electricity to just handle the cars. Thus oil will be around for a while and it would be best to use American oil instead of oil from countries who are not so friendly to America.
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kmooneyham

Another misunderstanding of intent...the real intent is to get Americans to move around less, especially on a daily basis. Those who live in the suburbs would be forced by a low-energy economy to move into cities to live, to be closer to work. This in turn creates a need for greater social services, thus creating a need for more government, and a greater demand for taxes. This IS socialism...being forced onto people, even if people do not realize it...one day Americans may wake up to find they are enslaved, but then again, if the socialists follow their master Marx's playbook, Americans might be unable to understand this is even happening...someone who reads this will say that I am off-base or flat out wrong...I say "Prove IT!" Not with Demo talking points...show me how I would be able to live in the 'burbs, go where I want, when I want, how I want, and pay less money to do so...but, I'm not going to hold my breath. In the meantime, I'll keep on clinging...
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cedarhill

Anyone with any intelligence and not ignorant knows the AGW crowd is blowing smoke up everyone's skirt. Dr. Hanson, for whatever good science he ever did, is being shown to be either simply incompetent or intentionally manipulating data. The Mann hockey stick has been shown to be solely based on using either doubtful or simply wrong data sets. Even most Europeans think AGW is a crock. If green means nuclear dependence, I'm all for it. All the other greenie ideas to develop alternate energy are just loony socialist control mechanisms as prior posts have pointed out.
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soxconn

Global warming has evolved to climate change because it may not be warming and without a foundation for Cap and Trade the Democrats will lose an acceptable tax. There is also the issue of national security. We don't need energy independence 10 years from now, we need it NOW. Russia is the only economic power in the world that is energy independent and they are making incursions into the western hemisphere and energy sources here. The U.S. could be independent within a few years but Congress continues to put constraints on our carbon energy production. Additionally those constraints will act against us if the global warming is a farce and we are entering a cooling period as some scientists predict. We could have developed carbon energy sources to offset the increase requirements in food and energy production, instead we are making contingencies against warming, relying on non-U.S. sources and strangling our own energy production. It will only take one event to bring down that house of cards, just like the economic crisis.
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xpress_yourself

Too bad the left-wing illuminati keep promising the people they will help. Higher gas prices and no drilling, you read the article.
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