The Coming Energy Wars

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  • Posted By: niners007 @ 06/01/2008 11:13:37 PM

    Our government knew this could happen back in the 70's and did nothing about it. Today we are paying the price as they have been too busy counting the tax revenue from gas. We need to stuff a sock in the natural alarmists and start drilling out home to buy some time for new energy developments. We did this to our selves. Big oil greed and a wholesale govermental sell out.

  • Posted By: niners007 @ 06/01/2008 11:13:23 PM

    Our government knew this could happen back in the 70's and did nothing about it. Today we are paying the price as they have been too busy counting the tax revenue from gas. We need to stuff a sock in the natural alarmists and start drilling out home to buy some time for new energy developments. We did this to our selves. Big oil greed and a wholesale govermental sell out.

  • Posted By: coldeye3 @ 06/01/2008 9:35:45 PM

    Why not drop a neutron bomb or two on some of the Gulf states or Saudi and then let Halliburton pump out all the oil and ship it to the US for $32/barrel? Less terrorists and more cheap oil for us: a win/win!

    • Posted By: seanw3 @ 06/01/2008 11:10:34 PM

      no, this is a dumb solution.. we need to find efficent ways to get off oil while we are still using it.. kinda like the old saying. "It is always easier to find a new job, while you still have a job."

  • Posted By: ann7535 @ 06/01/2008 11:09:24 PM

    simple person is correct for just 80% of usa familys I make fair money but no ,mass transit to work 100 miles one way witha four cilinder car not a suv 30 mile per gallon
    I am getting to the point of food or gas this is the real middle class . not we need to use are own oil now
    this will help ,start drilling and send all out of touch libs to the other side of the world

  • Posted By: underdog @ 06/01/2008 9:42:39 PM

    Everyone shouts going green, which we should, but anyone with half a brain knows real efficient technology is still 5 to 10 years before it is cost effective. Ethanol looks good because the government supplements it. Same with wind power. Our tax dollars supplement it. It will take decades to change the world industry to go green. That leaves us dependant on oil for sometime. We have oil off the California coast, but we can't drill there. We have oil off the coast of Florida, but we can't drill there. We know there is oil in Anwar, but we can't drill there. At some point, when gas goes above $5.00 a gallon someone is going to have to allow drilling in these sacred cows. Even if we started drilling now, it takes years to bring a field on line..

    • Posted By: seanw3 @ 06/01/2008 11:09:04 PM

      looks like you are gonna have to wait longer, congress just voted down drilling in those places last week...

  • Posted By: kim4077b @ 06/01/2008 11:08:09 PM

    We need to put pressure on Congress to get legislation passed so that we can use the technology to convert coal to diesel fuel. South Africa has used the technology for decades. This country has plenty of coal and the conversion creates a very clean product. We could build processing plants and create more U.S. jobs and not ship any more money to the Arab nations.

  • Posted By: pisch @ 06/01/2008 9:44:17 PM

    Doom and Gloom, this is a worst case scenario only and many things need to happen for $200 per barrel oil.
    Governments will step in to prevent this from happening. Unless there is war in Iran or Saudi Arabia this is doubltul. $200 oil; means there is price fixing in the markets and this would surely be uncovered as oil continues to rise. Interest rate cuts are over in the U.S. so the $1 will stabalize if not rise as Europe begins to stagnate and cut rates. Since oil is priced in $ this should at the least bring us a stable price if not a decrease in oil price. This article picks and chooses convenient facts to support its conclusions, and like the media does so often wants to sell magazines by scaring us

    • Posted By: Ben Stroked @ 06/01/2008 10:10:50 PM

      Your a real idiot! Have you even been to a gas station in the last mounth? Shut up till you grow a brain! And please dont have kids, cuz theyll be stupid too.

      • Posted By: seanw3 @ 06/01/2008 11:07:58 PM

        He's right Ben, the criteria he is giving is what you are seeing at the pumps.. speculators are the amin source of the oil prices. Have you ever noticed that when the media speculates on doom and gloom speculators drive the price of oil up with their investments. If you don't beleve the media can have an effect on this.. go read the history about the Boxer rebellion in China and then tell me the media cannot cause things to change a world away.

  • Posted By: obx124 @ 06/01/2008 11:07:13 PM

    We need to start drilling our own oil and natural gas. China has a deal with Cuba to drill oil in the Gulf of Mexico only 100 miles from the coast of the US. Why are we not drilling in Alaska were it will only effect approx 2,000 acres out of millions. Start taping our own resources and keep developing new sources of renewable energy. Why will the government not allow any new refineries to be built? We need to start now or become totally dependent on other countries. If the US is to stay a world leader instead of a third world country people better change their way of thinking. Quit being politically correct and do what???s right or this country is in big trouble. This country was founded by pioneer???s not politically correct pansies. We are giving the biggest supporters of terrorism the means to destroy our country and way of life.

  • Posted By: uncleeddie @ 06/01/2008 11:05:37 PM

    Great article on oil prices. Mow will Americans listen

  • Posted By: oldschoolrepublican @ 06/01/2008 11:05:10 PM

    stop premature acceleration and start coasting a good distance before you stop. your speed takes a long time to drop. you won't get to your destination any later, trust me. turn off the ac and use the vent or open windows. I went from 21 to 28 mpg in a 1992 accord doing the former. alternate energy doesn't need to be researched, its already available! who do you trust to utilize it?

  • Posted By: Beady_El @ 06/01/2008 11:05:04 PM

    The fact that the global oil supply CAN diminish so quickly underscores the foolishness of relying on it so heavily. For every dollar we spend seeking new sources of oil, we should spend ten learning how to do without oil.

  • Posted By: underdog @ 06/01/2008 9:55:23 PM

    When people start mentioning the US is an energy hog they should remember, we were the economic driver for the world. When our economy hiccuped the world felt it. Our housing market is down, they are feeling it in China. Saying we need to start conserving is a massive understatement, but , our economy is what brought other countries up.

  • Posted By: RHO2784610 @ 06/01/2008 10:02:28 PM

    Everyone has their price, and at some point the price will be reached that forces us into reality. There is a disturbing lack of cogency in the environmental movement. They stubbornly insist that under NO circumstance should we use nuclear energy, coal, or access our own massive deposits of domestic. oil. Gasification of coal would provide gasoline for centuries. Using coal for electrical production would do the same. The environmentalists that are crowing over this situation could soon be sorry for their extremism. If you look at proposed global warming legislation it will increase energy costs dramatically. Businesses would have to choose from investing billions of dollars to meet co2 targets or outsource their production, reducing labor costs and exporting the co2 problem altogether. What do you think they will do? It's time to rein in this situation. We can't limit production of energy in this economic climate.

    • Posted By: seanw3 @ 06/01/2008 11:03:25 PM

      Chevy announced it would stop making the suburban and other huge cars last week...yes things are changing

  • Posted By: enoughallready @ 06/01/2008 11:02:44 PM

    Nationalization is a great idea, because the Federal Government does so many things well... give me a while, I am sure I can think of some example (see social security, welfare, medicare, FEMA,Internal Revenue Code, air travel).

  • Posted By: R Lawrence @ 06/01/2008 11:00:19 PM

    I agree with all the other comments regarding how we are approaching this oil situation. We need to stap all the aid that we are sending to other countries, build our own capacity and manufacture here in the US again and stop importing everything. Tell the Arabs to f--k off and use our technology to produce alternative energies, use our coal and coal oil, drill in ANWAR, build nuclear plants and stop trying to save the world. Bring our toops and all that war money home. Let the Arabs, Afganistan, Pakastan, Iran and all the other sh-ts go to hell.

  • Posted By: Beady_El @ 06/01/2008 10:55:41 PM

    We have built our entire modern civilization upon oil; history will show this to be the height of folly. Not only is oil becoming harder to obtain; we don't dare even burn the oil that we have left! Our oil-supply woes may, tragically, push environmental concerns into the background, compounding the disaster. Our economy and our environment could easily collapse at once.

    The world economy will suffer a terrible hit; today every single modern industry requires a continuing supply of oil to exist. To find a way to remove that requirement, to learn to function in a world in which oil-based fuels are no longer remotely cost-effective should be every country's - and every industry's - number one, emergency priority.

    Fossil fuels are a dead end, always have been. The carbon they contained was slowly removed from the atmosphere by green plants over hundreds of millions of years. The supply was always finite (because the original carbon supply was) and we are well on our way to returning those vast tons of carbon to the air in only a few centuries of frantic consumption. An atmospheric mixture not seen since long before the dinosaurs is fast approaching; we must evolve beyond our species lethal short-sightedness before it is too late.

  • Posted By: funkdome @ 06/01/2008 8:19:30 PM

    You forgot to mention that the sky is falling and that end days are upon us.

    • Posted By: dsmith1196 @ 06/01/2008 10:55:28 PM

      I once saw a movie I believe it was titled "American President" and a comment made by one of the actors in that movie really seems to fit when it comes to the US exploring our assets for oil here at home and it goes something like this. "They are interested in two things and two things only making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it".

  • Posted By: enduser @ 06/01/2008 10:54:45 PM

    Saudi , China, and many other states subsidize their gasoline and petroleum products. Just as we have done our agriculture products for years.

  • Posted By: gearhead4life @ 06/01/2008 10:17:34 PM

    GOOD! I hope the corruption that has blinded the American government, both Democrats and Republicans, spreads like wildfire throughout the oil-rich nations, and they reap the rewards of internal collapse, just as we are headed for. I am an automotive technician, I own 5 vehicles, and I could care less if I ever drive them again. It will be interesting to see how our nation adjusts to the concept of driving only out of necessity, rather than driving for status! How DID we evere survive without petroleum in the previous centuries?

    • Posted By: seanw3 @ 06/01/2008 10:52:36 PM

      Just like every other country...wood, coal, whale oil, wind power, steam, cattle, and horse power.. havent you ever taken a history class? Maybe your question should have been.. how did we ever survive without the new machines that were invented because of oil. Cars, ships, planes etc etc.. Oil just made evrything more efficient and reachable.

  • Posted By: enduser @ 06/01/2008 10:15:08 PM

    doubleu_37 i can assure you that there are NO production limits here in the United States.. .the reason those wells are not pumping is that either 1. they are waiting for a workover rig to replace or repair a damaged pump... or 2. they are on a time clock in order for the well bore to fill back up with crude so they wont.. pump dry. which brings home the sad fact that most of those wells at one time actually flowed or made hundreds of barrels a day and now make less than 10 in most cases...!!!! that is the fact of the matter... sadly.

    • Posted By: eaglwlker12 @ 06/01/2008 10:52:11 PM

      Enter Your Commentsadly, your wrong. If they uncapped the well that were capped in the 50s and 60s we would no have a so called shortage.

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