Comments on: Breaking: House approves drilling in ANWR (Update: Senate to filibuster?)

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Housemania! Ban lifted on offshore drilling

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Housemania! Ban lifted on offshore drilling — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:42:22 +0000

[...] Will it get past the Senate? The House approved drilling in ANWR last month, but that looks DOA due to filibuster. There’s talk of filibustering this one too — and it’s not just the Democrats: Opponents of the federal ban argued that the nation needed to move closer to energy independence and insisted the gas and oil could be taken without threatening the environment and coastal beaches. They said a state choosing to keep the moratorium could do so… [...]

By: Inoperable Terran » Doing something useful

Inoperable Terran » Doing something useful — Sat, 27 May 2006 21:30:17 +0000

[...] The House passed drilling in ANWR. Excellent! Donks are expected to filibuster it to death in the Senate because that drilling might upset some of the billions of mosquitos that inhabit ANWR. Posted by Ian S. in [...]

By: Shmo

Shmo — Fri, 26 May 2006 20:10:37 +0000

Some guy just patented an electrolyses machine that converts H2O (water) to HHO. It’s blue flame burns cool to the touch but heats metals quickly. He has a car that runs on the stuff and the exahust is plain water. No kidding.

It would be nice if rhe next “oil” is “water”. We could have some real fun then. And, once again a great world changing invention was American. (I wonder how much longer that kind of success will continue here once we officially join the ranks of other banana republics after the amnesty.)

By: Dread Pirate Roberts VI

Dread Pirate Roberts VI — Fri, 26 May 2006 18:25:02 +0000

Now if we could somehow guarantee jobs up there for illegal immigrant insurgents, perhaps the Senate Dems would go for it!

By: Kramer

Kramer — Fri, 26 May 2006 18:23:14 +0000

Maybe we should buy a bike and cycle to work.

By: Gooch

Gooch — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:17:56 +0000

Until oil wells start running dry other forms of energy will never be cost effective. If we spend lots of money on alternative fuel sources, and it starts to impact oil sales the price of oil will just drop to a level that will make the alternatives to expensive. So for now we just need to pump our own oil everywhere we can find it, until it is gone.
Why is it that we always blame cars for all the energy use, lets get the older homes off fuel oil heat. I have no problem with wind, solar, electric, geothermal or any other form of energy for a house that isn’t going anywhere. But I want the full power of gas or diesel for vehicles. Plus if I have an emergency I can fill up in less than 5 minutes, not wait for a battery to charge. Also if I have to pay twice as much for a car using some other form of energy, I might as well get the cheaper gas guzzler and feed it.

By: Kramer

Kramer — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:33:26 +0000

Stop the madness!!!!!
We need alternative fuels badly.
Oil is not the way of the future, never was.

By: Small Town Veteran

Small Town Veteran — Fri, 26 May 2006 02:05:17 +0000

House approves drilling in ANWR…

House approves drilling in ANWR Maybe if they agree to have the work done by illegals the Senate will go along with the…

By: inmanjh

inmanjh — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:17:59 +0000

If Brazil can become energy self-sufficient on alternative fuels, so can we. I’m not entirely delusional, I know that petroleum is here to stay for a long time, but we throw away plenty of potential energy sources every day. Now that the price of oil has ka-chinged its finally cost-efficient to explore alternatives. Give me a Mr. Fusion to dump my trash into!

By: tommy1

tommy1 — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:02:43 +0000

Actually, a better proposal to reduce our dependence on oil would be to not allow more immigrants into our country. Population growth fuels petroleum dependence. Even the small gains that we will reap from ANWR oil will be more than undone by the number of relatives our illegals turned American citizens are going to be bringing into the country once they get their amnesty.

By: bdfaith

bdfaith — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:39:51 +0000

Maybe if we promise to have all the work done by illegals the Senate will approve it.

By: Cake or Death

Cake or Death — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:32:54 +0000

House or Representatives approves drilling in ANWR…

Well it’s about damn time! But Allahpundit at Hot Air quotes the Anchorage Daily News which says that the bill won’t make it out of the Senate. So what happened in the markets today along with this? Exxon’s stock’s up… Crude oil went up $0.18 b…

By: tommy1

tommy1 — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:29:56 +0000

I’m afraid this won’t matter significantly, either way.

Democrats exaggerate the potential for environmental damage to ANWR but Republicans exaggerate the potential of ANWR to free us from dependence on foreign oil. Its effect on gas prices will be small and not felt for some time and it won’t have a sizable impact on our need to import petroleum.

Yes, we need to work on making nuclear viable again. We also need to try and make ethanol and alternative fuels feasible. We need the equivalent of a Manhattan project (or maybe several) to find new and creative ways to free us from our dependency.

Hell, we really should investigate everything: nuclear fission (nuclear fusion even), wind, solar, alternative fuels, cleaner coal, everything we can think of and then some.

By: brtex

brtex — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:15:39 +0000

“Am I the only one who’s afraid that this the last gasp of common sense to ever come out of Congress?”

speed647 on May 25, 2006 at 4:47 PM

I hope not speed647…The House seems to get the drift but the self indulgent, head in the sand whiners in the Senate have yet to wake up from the party. Maybe November will get their attention.

By: pullingmyhairout

pullingmyhairout — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:52:05 +0000

Finally. Finally. Finally. Now lets work on Jeb in Florida and The Terminator in California and get China out of our backyard. I know it won’t make the price of gas go down, but at least it sends a message to our Arab “friends” and other world dictators. They don’t give a flying cr*p about the environment. they just want to drill oil and make their money. Meanwhile, we have Algore whining and crying about global warming while taking a car ride for 500 yards to the cannes film festival. aaaarrrrrggggg!!!!!!

By: Ex-Donkey Blog

Ex-Donkey Blog — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:48:42 +0000

Here We Go Again…

The House just approved ANWR drilling…again. But how long will it take the Senate to kill this? Freaking Northeast Liberal Republicans will bend over for the enviro-whackjobs…again. You’d think with gas prices being what they are they’d strap on …

By: speed647

speed647 — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:47:53 +0000

Am I the only one who’s afraid that this the last gasp of common sense to ever come out of Congress?

By: inmanjh

inmanjh — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:45:29 +0000

If drilling in the ANWR makes some caribou crap themselves, just collect it and refine that too. They can extract crude oil from pig poop, why not caribou crap?

Now _there_ is a job Americans won’t do!

By: clyde

clyde — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:39:38 +0000

Nuclear-powered cigars would be good too, but Castro on the back burner where he belongs.

By: clyde

clyde — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:38:35 +0000

I like the idea of a nuclear-powered SUV. WOW. Imagine how fast you could get from, say, Arizona to Mexico and back. Probably make four, five trips a day, carrying 6 illegals a day…

Pay for your car the easy way.

By: labwrs

labwrs — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:33:30 +0000

This is a start but it is nuclear power that is going to save us! The biggest thing about this vote is the message it should send to the ME oilsheiks..we are serious about becoming LESS dependant on YOU.

By: Gulf Coast Pundit

Gulf Coast Pundit — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:22:11 +0000

More breaking news: ANWAR drilling approved by the House…

Allapundit over at Hot Air has the numbers and updates on this breaking news about ANWAR.
Now, there’s the challenge of the nutbags over in the Senate throwing a wrench in the idea of being closer to self-sufficiency.

……

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:19:24 +0000

Hallelujah! THERE”S HOPE AFTER ALL!!!
Senate; go approve of it damn it!

By: easy87us

easy87us — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:07:28 +0000

The price of oil will still be determined by the international market. Developing ANWR will not lower the price but it will reduce our exposure to sudden spike in price of oil due to circumstances beyond our control. We need to increase our strategic reserves to damp down spikes.

1 million barrel a day of anticipated production rate is about 5% of US consumption. So don’t set your hopes too high on cheap gasoline.

Easy87us

By: bucktowndusty

bucktowndusty — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:06:38 +0000

Drilling? Is that a job Americans simply won’t do, too?