- The United States has 268 billion tons of coal reserves or about a 240 year supply (National Mining Association)
- The levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 3.53 cents for coal, 5.47 cents for gas, 5.94 cents for nuclear
- Only 1.5% of the United States electrical generation comes from oil (EIA) (48% Coal, 20% Natural Gas, 19% Nuclear)

- 2 Trillion barrels of oil are estimated in the United States Oil-Shale Reserves (USGS)
- 175 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada (AGS)
- 86 Billion barrels of oil are estimated on the Outer Continental Shelf of the United States (MMS)
- 32 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in ANWR, NPRA and the Central North Slope in Alaska (USGS)
- 4.3 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana, United States (USGS)
- 214 Million barrels of oil are estimated in the Illinois Basin, United States (USGS)

For Comparison:
- 260 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in Saudi Arabia (EIA)
- 80 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in Venezuela (EIA)

Some facts on ANWR:

- ANWR: 19.6 million acres. Size of oil production area: 2,000 acres (about the size of an Airport)
- 10.6 Billion barrels of oil are estimated in ANWR by the USGS
- Original Prudhoe Bay estimate: 8 Billion barrels, Actual: 14 Billion barrels (to date)
- The Central Arctic Caribou Herd has grown from 3,000 to 32,000 since Prudhoe Bay production began
- 75% of Alaskans support responsible energy exploration in ANWR

Norm Coleman may not be as conservative as some would like…

No, but next to McCain, he looks like Reagan.

Coleman for President!

Kay Bailey Hutchison was speaking yesterday on the Ingraham Show (with the sub Monica Crowley who kept calling her Sen. Hutchinson throughout the interview). Sen. Hutchison explained that though the democrats had since 1970 created too many stipulations and waiting period during which time investment money kept draining without proof of either acceptance or rejection, JUST PRIOR TO THE GOP LOSS OF THE MAJORITY, they passed legislation allowing ALL application materials be submitted/considered simultaneously rather than one at a time as the democrats again NOW are trying to re-legislate. So for the moment, getting the required OK or rejection can be done in a timely fashion should investors begin the process for a nuclear power plant such as AZ has west of PHX valley, or newer as what Japan and France have succeeded using.

maverick muse on June 13, 2008 at 2:22 PM

That’s MY Senator, right there. She doesn’t always make decisions I agree with, but she does the right thing a lot more than she gets it wrong.

And her office also responds with letters whenever I write or fax. Hearing some of the nightmares some of you are living with, I am thankful we here in Texas are so fortunate to have what we have for representation. That goes for John Cornyn too.

Throw in ANWR and Utah, and we’d really be on our way…….

Then sit back,thats one political group that will
be in a tizzy during this election cycle! haha.

• The lower 48 outer continental shelf. Watson estimates there are 86 billion barrels of crude in the Gulf of Mexico to which access is federally restricted. There’s as much as another 4 billion to 10.3 billion barrels on the Atlantic coast, 11 billion to 13.8 billion on the Pacific coast.

Clearly the correct number is way more than what was in the text above for recoverable oil on the continental shelf. The point made by Coleman is valid however.

Norm Coleman: Start drilling now, and go nuclear.

Common sense seems downright exceptional these days.

I called JIm Oberstar’s (D-MN) office a while back to express my displeasure with his vote on decreasing funding for the military. I ended up getting into an argument with the useful idiot taking calls regarding Jimmy’s anti-military stance. Dummy kept arguing about the number of troops killed; when I asked him how many died on Omaha Beach the response was ‘I dunno, a lot?”. When I told him how many did (10K), he hung up on me.

That’s what we here in Minnesota have for representation. I truly do not understand the mentality of the population here. It boggles the mind.

I have yet to figure out why so many are against nuclear power.

Successful wacko MSM propaganda.

I remember in grade school watching the newsreels with the smiling nuclear energy picture telling us it was the way of the future.

Then came jr.high when the hippys and uberleftist MSM began their campaigns against “the system”, as though drug induced mentality had moral authority over the establishment. But we were all persuaded, being “of age” aka gullible and naive and “idealistic”, willing to refute rather than trust the establishment.

So “democracy” following our fair-minded MSM reporters demanded safety beyond reason, safety as in overly cautious. We ended up playing “Bubble Boy” mommy with our nation, denying science for myth. The MSM proved their success in swaying the “silent majority” into remaining silent or actually changing their mind after hearing the MSM wholecloth more than three times, just as any ad will succeed with the lame brain. No we suffer Goredom. Hence, the stoopid factor when young commenters scream, “You just don’t get democracy” or even more indicting of their idiocy “you’re just like a holocaust denier” as though they have the monopoly on experience (NOT), feigning ignorance that outside of the US, holocaust deniers are prosecuted, fined, and even imprisoned. Who has the monopoly on hypcrisy? Liberals could claim the prize, being the first to deny free speech.

That dead-end thought is now being sold “new” as repackaged new age is to be scoffed and rebuffed.

While people learn how to read and think, let life be. Meanwhile, it’s the economy stupid. So drill, refine, build nuclear plants and enjoy JOBS, fuel, prosperity and security.

GO GOP: proudly made in the USA

Just seems it’s going to be difficult to start building nuke plants again. I’m all for it, but it’s not going to be easy.

Kay Bailey Hutchison was speaking yesterday on the Ingraham Show (with the sub Monica Crowley who kept calling her Sen. Hutchinson throughout the interview). Sen. Hutchison explained that though the democrats had since 1970 created too many stipulations and waiting period during which time investment money kept draining without proof of either acceptance or rejection, JUST PRIOR TO THE GOP LOSS OF THE MAJORITY, they passed legislation allowing ALL application materials be submitted/considered simultaneously rather than one at a time as the democrats again NOW are trying to re-legislate. So for the moment, getting the required OK or rejection can be done in a timely fashion should investors begin the process for a nuclear power plant such as AZ has west of PHX valley, or newer as what Japan and France have succeeded using.

Senator Coleman delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate where he outlined his new, *comprehensive* energy bill

Finally, some common sense from Norm. We’ll have to wait for the details, hopefully it’s not like Bush’s “comprehensive” immigration reform amnesty.

Populist revolt. How are Democrats reacting? By simply lying and claiming they’re actually all in favor of domestic drilling. Despite, of course, all the votes they cast against it. It’s a real These Are Not the Droids You’re Looking……

Estimates are that the average dose to about 2 million people in the area was only about 1 millirem. To put this into context, exposure from a full set of chest x-rays is about 6 millirem. Compared to the natural radioactive background dose of about 100-125 millirem per year for the area, the collective dose to the community from the accident was very small. The maximum dose to a person at the site boundary would have been less than 100 millirem.

2) The accident at Chernobyl was due to stupidity, to be blunt. They used graphite (carbon) as their moderator, versus water, like we use in the states. (The moderator is the medium by which the nuclear particles pass from one fuel rod to another. The rods are arranged in a honeycomb-like pattern with either water or carbon between them.) The problem with the carbon moderator is that when the rods get hot, they expand. Carbon, being a solid, doesn’t allow for the rods to be removed. In an American reactor, was just drain the water, hence ending the nuclear reaction.
3) A nuclear power plant is not a bomb. The uranium used in power plants is nowhere near the same grade as that of a nuclear weapon. The structures themselves are also completely different.
4) The waste, if deregulated, can be recycled, much the same as we refine the fuel for nuclear weapons, and reused in power plants. This would solve some of the issues we have with radioactive waste.

I called McCain’s election office and said if he came out forcefully with an energy plan that included drilling, he would win in a landslide. Also called some local politicians and told them the tide is turning and they might want to get on the correct side of it before it washes them out of office.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM

You’d be even cooler if you changed your name to DJ Cwac Cwac. (per obscure Dexter’s Laboratory reference). Any response to this and I will be forced to look up the episode title, et cetera…et cetera.
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eh hum! *my favorite cartoon*

Nichevo on June 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM

actually you are wrong. It is Alaska, due to Federal constraints. Or are you talking continential? The you would be right it is FL with CA a close second.