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Disagreeable

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Does this remind anyone of our government handing out checks after Katrina? Geeze. How much gas do these people think $100 will buy? Link below.

Senate Republicans advocate sending $100 rebate checks to millions of taxpayers, and a Democrat is leading the campaign for a 60-day gasoline tax holiday.
Either way, it seems no one in Congress wants to be without a plan, however symbolic, to attack the election-year spike in gasoline prices.
A vote is possible as early as this week on the Senate GOP approach, which calls for $100 rebate checks for taxpayers to cushion the impact of higher gasoline prices. The measure seems unlikely to prevail, at least initially, since it includes a highly controversial proposal to open a portion of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12509275/
 

Faster horses

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Guess who blocks opening Alaska for oil drilling?

I hope they "Get 'Er Done." Don't the Dems realize there is an oil
crisis in this country? Must not, by the way they act. Geez!!

I don't agree with the $100, but I sure think we should be producing
oil in Alaska.

Give 'er up, Dems. Get with the program, you bunch of snivellers.
 

Disagreeable

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Faster horses said:
Guess who blocks opening Alaska for oil drilling?

I hope they "Get 'Er Done." Don't the Dems realize there is an oil
crisis in this country? Must not, by the way they act. Geez!!

I don't agree with the $100, but I sure think we should be producing
oil in Alaska.

Give 'er up, Dems. Get with the program, you bunch of snivellers.

Snivellers? The Republicans control Congress and the White House. If they want to open up ANWAR, they should have the votes to do it.
 

Faster horses

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Yes, Democrat snivellers. They are the ones that throw a royal fit
every time it is mentioned. Wouldn't want to offend the greenies, now
would they? That's about the only voters they have left.
 

Disagreeable

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Faster horses said:
Yes, Democrat snivellers. They are the ones that throw a royal fit
every time it is mentioned. Wouldn't want to offend the greenies, now
would they? That's about the only voters they have left.

ROTFLMAO! Throw a fit? And that stops the Republicans from drilling in ANWAR? You obviously are reading different newspapers and watching different news reports than the rest of the world. Polls say if the election were held today, Democrats would take back the House and the Senate. Only one in three people say they think George W. Bush is doing a good job! 47% say they think he's incompetent! Incompetent. Sort of rolls off your tongue, doesn't it? :lol:

Keep your head in the sand, the fact remains that Republicans run our government. And they've run it into the ground. If they truly want to drill in ANWAR, they should be able to get the votes. And the same for the oil off Florida's coast. Why hasn't Jeb Bush pushed leasing that oil to producers?
 

Cowpuncher

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We would be drilling in ANWAR today - and probably 15 years ago if not for the democrat veto power in the senate. All it takes is 41 sniveling eco-freaks who con't know anything about the oil business to stop any drillling in ANWAR,

Fortunately they couldn't muster 4o votes to stop the confirmation of Alito and Roberts.

Dis, if the democrats take control of the house and senate, don't you think the republicans will be exacting some revenge. Especially if a democrat is elected president in 2008. I don't remember them being so contrary when Clinton was president.

By the way, the discovery in ANWAR was a well named Kaktovik which was drilled before I left Bid Oil in 1986.
 

Cowpuncher

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By the way, I am not real worried about running out of gas - cheap gas maybe.

After WWII, the Germans who had their oil industry destoyed by the war fixed their gasoline truck to run on, of all thing, WOOD!!

When gas gets expensive, ingenuity will surface and some day we will look back at the petroleum age the same we we look back at the horse and buggy days now.
 

Cal

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Cowpuncher said:
We would be drilling in ANWAR today - and probably 15 years ago if not for the democrat veto power in the senate. All it takes is 41 sniveling eco-freaks who con't know anything about the oil business to stop any drillling in ANWAR,

Fortunately they couldn't muster 4o votes to stop the confirmation of Alito and Roberts.

Dis, if the democrats take control of the house and senate, don't you think the republicans will be exacting some revenge. Especially if a democrat is elected president in 2008. I don't remember them being so contrary when Clinton was president.

By the way, the discovery in ANWAR was a well named Kaktovik which was drilled before I left Bid Oil in 1986.
Excellent points. If ANWAR was at capacity today it would definitely have a positive effect on the availability of crude oil.
 

Liberty Belle

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Here in South Dakota our senators canceled each other's votes on drilling in ANWR. Sen. Thune voted to allow drilling and Johnson, who follows orders from his liberal special interest groups, voted against it.

Let's hope that vote and his other votes against refineries and pipelines come back to bite him in the butt next election.

I think about Sen. Johnson every time I fill my gas tank.
 

Disagreeable

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Cowpuncher said:
We would be drilling in ANWAR today - and probably 15 years ago if not for the democrat veto power in the senate. All it takes is 41 sniveling eco-freaks who con't know anything about the oil business to stop any drillling in ANWAR,

Fortunately they couldn't muster 4o votes to stop the confirmation of Alito and Roberts.

Dis, if the democrats take control of the house and senate, don't you think the republicans will be exacting some revenge. Especially if a democrat is elected president in 2008. I don't remember them being so contrary when Clinton was president.

By the way, the discovery in ANWAR was a well named Kaktovik which was drilled before I left Bid Oil in 1986.

If we had started drilling in ANWAR 15 years ago, the oil would be gone by now. There's only enough there for a few years at the rate we're using it in this country.

It's going to cost a lot of money to get oil out of ANWAR. The oil companies aren't interested in spending the money to do that; they'll want the taxpayers to pay their expenses. With the profits they're making today, that's not going to happen. Chevron reported their profits up by 48% over the same quarter last year.

You don't remember the House being so contrary when Clinton was president? :evil: You've got to be kidding, or ignorant.

The Democrats don't have veto power in the Senate. Surprise, surprise, there are Republican Seantors who don't want to drill there either.
 

Faster horses

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One thing I'll say for you, Dis, you have all the answers.
Heck you know more than anyone about any subject.
"If they had started drilling in Anwar 15 years ago, the oil would
be gone by now." Interesting statement of your OPINION. How the hell
do you know that? You are certainly sure of yourself.

I can't believe this government is running without you. Surely you are
destined for bigger and better things than to just teach us all you know right here on ranchers.net.
 

kolanuraven

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ANWAR won't help now as it'd take years before anything pumped out was available on the market.

And I heard a geologist once say that ANWAR only had about a true 6 months supply anyway.
 

Liberty Belle

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ANWAR won't help now as it'd take years before anything pumped out was available on the market.

And I heard a geologist once say that ANWAR only had about a true 6 months supply anyway.
If we’d have started drilling when the oil companies wanted to start, we’d be using the oil from ANWR right now.

The US uses around 20 million barrels of oil a day and ANWR could be supplying us with a bigger share of the total used than ANY of the oil producing states in this country.

The oil reserves in the far northern coastal plain of ANWR represent the nation's largest single prospect for future oil production - greater than any state, including Texas and Louisiana. ANWR is capable of producing 1.4 million barrels of oil per day, while Texas produces just more than one million barrels a day, California just less than one million barrels a day and Louisiana produces slightly more than 200,000 barrels a day.

Now, granted there are only an estimated 16 BILLION barrels of recoverable oil reserves in ANWR, but wouldn’t you rather get all those billions of barrels of oil from our own country?

I don't know how you feel, but it really bothers me to be dependant on countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela
 
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