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Post by jdredd on Apr 22, 2010 23:44:05 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-rig-explosion-20100422,0,1672934.story When people start chanting "Drill, baby, drill", maybe we should consider that it never comes free. There is a price to pay, whether it is burning oil rigs or suffocated coal miners. Perhaps this is why some of us are so insistent on prioritizing conservation over increased production. Or Perhaps, this is one of the most superficial statements you have made... My Bullshit Alarm went off as soon as I opened the thread! Yeah, and "Drill, baby, drill" is some deep intellectualism...
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Post by johng on Apr 23, 2010 13:20:56 GMT -5
Or Perhaps, this is one of the most superficial statements you have made... My Bullshit Alarm went off as soon as I opened the thread! Yeah, and "Drill, baby, drill" is some deep intellectualism... I prefer Redheads myself...
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Post by jdredd on Apr 28, 2010 1:59:58 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Apr 28, 2010 2:05:21 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Apr 29, 2010 15:02:50 GMT -5
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Post by animal on Apr 29, 2010 15:08:12 GMT -5
He actually got Jano involved and it was reported that SWAT Teams are checking other platforms.... should be an article somewhere, no time to find it yet.
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Post by jdredd on May 15, 2010 22:10:26 GMT -5
It's becoming pretty obvious those oil company morons have no idea how to clean up an oil spill. And we're going to let them drill more? Of course we are.
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Post by johng on May 27, 2010 12:04:04 GMT -5
I am a suspicious type by nature and I just can't get over the timing of this disaster in the Gulf... Climate Change failure in Copenhagen now this...
So many opportunities to fulfill the suspicious character here and no one has come forward with an explanation of "what happened" but lots of folks want to pull the plug on all the drilling, damnest thing yet hey?
SOmething as simple as a few thousand bales of hay spread around to absorb the oil would really help right now but going forward I think we need to send Obama down to personally inspect every damn well before they continue with deep water drilling! Maybe Nappy can carry his tool pouch...
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Post by animal on May 27, 2010 12:09:17 GMT -5
we will see who whines the loudest when the middle east prices go up.... since they are limiting our own drilling.
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Post by jdredd on May 28, 2010 21:59:30 GMT -5
www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/amy_myers_jaffe_of_rice_university_on_oil_spill_100527/So the world's globalized economy depends on ever-increasing amounts of deep well petroleum? Did they really expect to maintain increasing supplies forever, or just until the present world leaders are dead or retired, and to hell with the future? I can't imagine a scenario where petroleum supplies won't become scarce sooner rather than later, so we better just prepare for shortages now.
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Post by nikki on May 29, 2010 4:30:27 GMT -5
www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/amy_myers_jaffe_of_rice_university_on_oil_spill_100527/So the world's globalized economy depends on ever-increasing amounts of deep well petroleum? Did they really expect to maintain increasing supplies forever, or just until the present world leaders are dead or retired, and to hell with the future? I can't imagine a scenario where petroleum supplies won't become scarce sooner rather than later, so we better just prepare for shortages now. Gee, just who has forced us into "deep-well drilling," Mr. Dredd? Those do-gooders who want to protect the environment? ??
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Post by jdredd on May 29, 2010 15:25:17 GMT -5
I was simply shocked how they had already factored in deep well drilling into their plans for more oil usage. I say save some for future generations.
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Post by Tired in CV on May 30, 2010 4:20:32 GMT -5
I was simply shocked how they had already factored in deep well drilling into their plans for more oil usage. I say save some for future generations. There is more oil on land in the continental U.S. than there is in all our off-shore sites (drilled and undrilled). Due to the environmentalists, that will become the heritage for future users. But then, they will have new technologies that will require less oil (or maybe none at all)! It may have been better if they had allowed the drilling on land while they developed a better method of "deep" drilling off-shore!
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Post by tpfkalarry on May 30, 2010 10:52:58 GMT -5
I was simply shocked how they had already factored in deep well drilling into their plans for more oil usage. I say save some for future generations. There is more oil on land in the continental U.S. than there is in all our off-shore sites (drilled and undrilled). Due to the environmentalists, that will become the heritage for future users. But then, they will have new technologies that will require less oil (or maybe none at all)! It may have been better if they had allowed the drilling on land while they developed a better method of "deep" drilling off-shore! There are also more oil leases issued than you can shake a stick at. Republicans have consistently fought efforts to put a time limit on how long they can be held. No real compelling reason other than oil company profits for that. There is also more oil being traded on paper than we have in barrels. "I am a suspicious type by nature and I just can't get over the timing of this disaster in the Gulf... Climate Change failure in Copenhagen now this... So many opportunities to fulfill the suspicious character here and no one has come forward with an explanation of "what happened" but lots of folks want to pull the plug on all the drilling, damnest thing yet hey? SOmething as simple as a few thousand bales of hay spread around to absorb the oil would really help right now but going forward I think we need to send Obama down to personally inspect every damn well before they continue with deep water drilling! Maybe Nappy can carry his tool pouch." To imagine a conspiracy about this particular spill reeks of 911 conspiracy theorists. I think the alarm sound you are hearing is for your own post. JDredd- society is much "greener" than it used to be if it makes you feel better. Young people are willing to recycle everything. I saw a young person the other day search for a recycle bin for over twenty minutes until she found one. I have students who will come early and stay late every day in order to run a recycling program. When I ask them why they are so motivated they say (in effect) that it makes them feel good to do something small where they live because the state of the environment looks like such a big problem when taken as a whole.
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Post by jdredd on May 30, 2010 20:48:11 GMT -5
There is more oil on land in the continental U.S. than there is in all our off-shore sites (drilled and undrilled). Due to the environmentalists, that will become the heritage for future users. But then, they will have new technologies that will require less oil (or maybe none at all)! It may have been better if they had allowed the drilling on land while they developed a better method of "deep" drilling off-shore! There are also more oil leases issued than you can shake a stick at. Republicans have consistently fought efforts to put a time limit on how long they can be held. No real compelling reason other than oil company profits for that. There is also more oil being traded on paper than we have in barrels. "I am a suspicious type by nature and I just can't get over the timing of this disaster in the Gulf... Climate Change failure in Copenhagen now this... So many opportunities to fulfill the suspicious character here and no one has come forward with an explanation of "what happened" but lots of folks want to pull the plug on all the drilling, damnest thing yet hey? SOmething as simple as a few thousand bales of hay spread around to absorb the oil would really help right now but going forward I think we need to send Obama down to personally inspect every damn well before they continue with deep water drilling! Maybe Nappy can carry his tool pouch." To imagine a conspiracy about this particular spill reeks of 911 conspiracy theorists. I think the alarm sound you are hearing is for your own post. JDredd- society is much "greener" than it used to be if it makes you feel better. Young people are willing to recycle everything. I saw a young person the other day search for a recycle bin for over twenty minutes until she found one. I have students who will come early and stay late every day in order to run a recycling program. When I ask them why they are so motivated they say (in effect) that it makes them feel good to do something small where they live because the state of the environment looks like such a big problem when taken as a whole. It's good that young people in general are more tuned in to the environment than their parents were, it shows they are thinking ahead. But I am sad for them that 40 years after the start of the "environmental movement", we have left them such a mess.
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