I was kind of surprised yesterday when John McCain’s statement about oil prices — that President Bush’s lifting of the offshore drilling ban had resulted in a $10-a-barrel wholesale decrease — became the lede of the Associated Press story from Wilk…

McCain’s Ad for the presidential race points out the differences between him and Obama on gasoline prices and drilling for more oil. …

Now if I could just get my damn stimulus check. I’m not in desperate need, but I’m pissed that the idiotic IRS screwed something up and I have to wait 6-8 extra, when I was already going to be one of the last to get my check. ABOLISH THE IRS!

RightWinged on July 23, 2008 at 5:27 PM

Heh. The IRS helpfully applied my stimulus check to what I still owed for last year without me ever seeing it. Somehow, I don’t feel all that economically stimulated.

The Gulf of Mexico rigs with the path of hurricanes Rita and Katrina….

Now…someone supply the map of the dead and dying beaches along the Gulf Coast……..

waiting……

Limerick on July 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM

And if you go fishing in the gulf, you will see the most boats around the oil rigs.

Does anyone know anything about this process?

If your work puter has a word processing program, type up your comment there, spell check, then copy and paste in the comment input area here.

He indicates that there are both Republicans and Democrats in the House working on assorted bills and amendments to address energy issues, including off-shore drilling, shale oil, coal gasification, etc. Their thrust also is to use tax revenues from expanded use of our resources to provide tax incentives for developing alternative sources of energy, to provide tax credits to citizens who use energy-efficienat heating, transportation, etc.

The problem is that the Speaker of the House will not allow ANY of these bills or amendments to come to the floor.

It’s not that we have an unresponsive Congress necessarily; it’s that we have retrogressive leadership there, who are more responsive to environmental Luddites.

While he may not be your rep, check out what Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania has to say at http://www.murphy.house.gov. He would probably welcome your observations and questions, for he is knowledgable on this issue. Pennsylvania has loads of natural resources and people of technical knowhow that would supply many of our energy needs, provide jobs, and increase tax revenues.

who owns the water.

right2bright on July 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM

its a never ending fight..and will probably spark the next mideast war.

But do you also think that diverting the water near the end of the river would also threaten the resource?

E9RET on July 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM

don’t know, but given the history of states, people, everyone fighting over water…..

But George Bush’s contemporaneous announcement of the repeal of an executive order on off-shore drilling didn’t have anything to do with the 13.5% drop in oil prices. Oil prices tumbled more than $3 a barrel Tuesday as Tropical Storm Dolly……

get your own water, and stop trying to steal ours.

right4life on July 23, 2008 at 3:46 PM

Well, I think you guys are fighting a fight from over 100 years ago.
From the beginning of time…who owns the water.

I’m never quite so stupid as when I’m being clever

But do you also think that diverting the water near the end of the river would also threaten the resource?

right2bright, I’ve been saying the same thing. Put simply, If all the traitorcrats in congress announced they now support drilling every possible US location, the price of oil would drop to $30 a barrel overnight.

And every one of us knows that is so. If they had agreed to drill ten years ago, we would not be paying $5 a gallon for gas and everyone knows that too.

dogsoldier on July 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM

Every year,vendors come in with a price increase, I tell them I am moving my business to their competitor…magically they find a better price.
What you know isn’t rocket science, it is competition or the threat of competition.
Pretty basic stuff…

Only 22 miles of the Garrison Diversion remain to be completed, and to Missourians, it’s 22 miles to hell. The Garrison Diversion is 150 miles of open canals—some as deep as 114 feet—that would divert and consume enough Missouri River water in a single day to fill 4,000 football fields a foot deep from end zone to end zone. After years of intermittent construction, Congress has yet to authorize completion of the diversion or allow the pumping of Missouri River water, but a new study of the matter is underway.

“It’s like the camel getting his nose under the tent,” Walker says. “You start allowing these diversions for the Missouri River, and you don’t know where it will lead. But you worry that the Missouri will start to resemble the Colorado River where it just kind of disappears at the end because all of the water has been diverted.”

U.S. Rep. Kenny C. Hulshof (R- Columbia, Mo.), fears the diversion could mean nothing less than the shutdown of barge traffic on the Missouri. “The (diversion) plan would not allow for navigation along the Missouri River and could seriously impact Mississippi River navigation.”

everybody wants a piece of those rivers…and they’ll kill the goose…

can’t believe anyone could take enough water out of the Mississippi to make that much of a difference. I haven’t seen one link put up that claims there’s not enough water in the river, just links complaining that releasing more water upstream threatens farms and communities downstream; doesn’t sound like there’s a shortage issue

guess you missed this quote from a link I provided:

We have a resource that looks large and endless, but it’s just not true,” says Stephen Mahfood, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

The water wars are engulfing three rivers and three main battlefronts. The mother of all battles is over North Dakota’s proposal to divert Missouri River water for irrigation and other purposes. The second is a federal plan to further manipulate the amount of water in the Missouri. And the third fight is locks and dams on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.

But look at the benefits; a whole new industry moving Miss. water west, jobs, business development, etc

get your own water, and stop trying to steal ours.

I can’t believe anyone could take enough water out of the Mississippi to make that much of a difference. I haven’t seen one link put up that claims there’s not enough water in the river, just links complaining that releasing more water upstream threatens farms and communities downstream; doesn’t sound like there’s a shortage issue.

But If you can convince me then take it out down near nawlins, believe me, they won’t mind!

The rest is engineering (blithely says the engineering-ly challenged Business Degree Major)

But look at the benefits; a whole new industry moving Miss. water west, jobs, business development, etc Could you pump water into those depleted aquifers? Would you want to?

why? so you can keep importing more and more illegal aliens? find your own water, desalinate the ocean, but think again before you steal the midwesterner’s water.

right4life on July 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM

It’s massive project, but I’m a midwesterner too. So I guess I’m advocating the theft of my own resources. Only it’s not theft if the capital risks are shared by seller and the buyer.

Labor will be needed. I hope it doesn’t have to come from other countries. We should have plenty of people to do this work already in the United States with legal documentation. I hope their hip to relocation for a few years if not permanently. The jobs should pay at least as well as the Teamsters were paid for the Alaska pipeline.

:)