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Old 03-09-2011, 10:34 AM
 
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Inhofe: Obama Trying to Kill Oil and Gas, Force Green Green Jobs.......hows that working out?
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:09 PM
 
Location: In a Galaxy far, far away called Germany
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I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Even if you drilled in every available spot in the country, very little of it would go into the gas tanks of Americans.

Why would any oil company capitalist sell it where they would make the least profit.
They wouldn't. They will sell it where they can get the most - outside of the USA.
Using the same tankers that they import with, they would then be able to export.
Maximizing for greater profit.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:18 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Deleted because a joke no longer made sense after the OP was edited.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:20 PM
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I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
What other freedoms would you like to remove from us by force to satisfy your agenda?
Religion? speech? ideology? property ownership? gun ownership?

This isn't the USSR.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Inhofe: Obama Trying to Kill Oil and Gas, Force Green Green Jobs.......hows that working out?
Peak Oil... not a tinfoil hat subject but a reality that has to be addressed or civilization itself will collapse within the next few decades. This isn't Obama waking up one morning and deciding to go wild and crazy; this is part of a long-term stabilization plan that is ultimately the lesser of 2 evils. Big O is just another salesman for the change.

Remember that when you are cold and hungry, and be greatful you aren't dead and/or eating your neighbor as it would have been otherwise.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:25 PM
 
Location: In a Galaxy far, far away called Germany
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What other freedoms would you like to remove from us by force to satisfy your agenda?
Religion? speech? ideology? property ownership? gun ownership?

This isn't the USSR.
Don't be such a drama queen. Things that are a matter of national security are denied us all the time.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.

That's all well and good but how will an already shaky economy do when gas tops 5.00 per gallon? Remember that menas that the price of food and everything else we use will sky rocket. Can we survive that while we wait what could turn out to be many years for viable alternative energy sources to become available?
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:37 PM
 
Location: In a Galaxy far, far away called Germany
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That's all well and good but how will an already shaky economy do when gas tops 5.00 per gallon? Remember that menas that the price of food and everything else we use will sky rocket. Can we survive that while we wait what could turn out to be many years for viable alternative energy sources to become available?
The infrastructure isn't there to make a quick switch. It would have to be a gradual weaning off of it. But, we really should start that weaning process. The process may even create new jobs. I just know that our dependency on oil is hurting us as a nation and it shapes our foreign policy. It rubs me the wrong way that we have anything to do with countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. We really need to be self-sufficient when it comes to the energy that move our nation.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:37 PM
 
Location: The middle of nowhere Arkansas
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I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
You do realize you're only hurting the poor, right?
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