A battery powered car in every garage and a nuclear power plant in every county.

MB4 on December 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM

The GoBernment could buy those for us via the bailout cash that would otherwise be wasted, but O. Hussein Obama has promised to curb the technologies that make Nuclear Power Plants an option. Best to get a windmill built on your rooftop. /sarc

Are you kidding? Our population has the attention span of gnats.

Entelechy on December 12, 2008 at 1:38 PM

In addition, they are so lazy that America has fallen dependant on the work ethic of Illegal Aliens guest visitors.

In fact, unleashing American oil production is such a no-brainer that only a Democratic-run government would miss it. Republicans need to press this issue hard over the next few months.

In twenty of the last twenty-eight years Republican administrations as well as most conservative blogers over a shorter time span have missed it.

You can not grow an economy and reduce the absolute energy consumption. It is simply impossible. What we HAVE done is become the most energy efficient economy on the face of the earth.

In 1949 the United States consumed 19,570 BTU for each dollar of economic output. By 1960 that had declined to 18,020 BTU per dollar. In 1980 we had managed to consume only 15,130 BTU of energy per dollar of GDP. As of 2007 we were down to 8,780 BTU per dollar.

In 1980 we produced 917 tons of CO2 per million dollars of GDP, in 2006 we produced 520 tons per million dollars. And these figures are in constant year 2000 dollars.

We are the most energy efficient economy on the planet. Nobody else even comes close to producing so much with so little waste as we do. Sure, we do use a lot of energy, but we are still by far the most productive, in addition to the most efficient, economy on the planet.

We could pause for a second to remember that after the original Moses lead the children of Israel to the Holy Land, there were exiles, wars, and change. The car-suburb Holy Land is unlikely to be the last word on human existence unless whatever secular or religious apocalypse comes soon. And then you people turn around and attack climate change as “unproven”? It makes the leftist moonbats look sane.

Forgive me for ranting above. Let me put this simply. It’s perfectly sane to say that we need to do more domestic drilling as a short run energy strategy. But it’s crazy to believe that we don’t need to make any long run changes in our live style.

Leave it to the Dems + Messiah to completely miss the biggest thing they could do to get re-elected and up their numbers in both the House and Senate in 2010.

Not only are they totalitarians, but stupid totalitarians.

Trade deficits are not a bad thing at all, in reality, though to a person who doesn’t understand economics they can seem like a problem. Without knowing the real impact, one could jump to the conclusion that any kind of a “deficit” is bad just from the sound of the term. I would MUCH rather be running a trade deficit than a surplus. If we were running a trade surplus, we would probably be in a huge depression, nobody in the US could afford to buy anything, the dollar would be down considerable and our stuff would be so cheap even the Chinese would be buying it. No thanks.

Remember ANWAR?

LMFAO! You mean ANWR.. Alaska National Wildlife Refuge… there is no war on the Tundra.

IlikedAUH2O on December 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM

So after reading your little diatribe on crap that is irrelevant to Alaska’s ANWR issue… what was your point again.. on Poland?

Now we’ve got Obama – as predicted – pitching ‘global warming’ as a national-security issue. Nonsense. He’s attempting to conflate ‘global warming’, which is psuedoscience, with energy security, which is a national security issue.

I am, henceforth, a single-issue voter. I vote against climate fraud. I refuse to vote for anyone who gives more than lip service to anthropogenic-global-warming nonsense.

Want to fix the automakers? Let’s try this: allow 5yr straight-line depreciation on all new car purchases in the next three months, private or business. Okay, we’ll cap it at $50K per purchase, and three per return for private buyers.

This is common. People do not like the idea of seeing American industry go by the wayside, but they don’t want to pay people either.

Unless they are college professors. I like Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit but I have to admit that the other day I was struck by the irony of a tenured professor vacationing in the Cayman Islands complaining about how people are just too dependent on government. Where would universities be without grants, and tax dollars and government secured financial aid for students? There is no way they could charge the kind of tuition they do if regular people really had to write a check for that education. No way. And tenure? Well, it is a lot easier to get rid of the UAW than it is a tenured professor.

So unless Americans are willing to sustain domestic energy, then it will be just one more thing we cede to the foreigners. Sad but true. But then again, the doctors and lawyers and college professors and the like will not have to worry about foreign competition. They are more protected by their status than any working person will ever be.

They tried, over and over again. There were never enough Republicans to stop the Democrat filibusters.

MarkTheGreat on December 12, 2008 at 5:29 PM

They accomplished nothing. They tried and FAILED. Not somthing I would brag about at work, “All my attempts to find a suitable solution failed. But keep me on for another 4 years and I promise the same results”

What did they do to expand domestic oil production?
Nada

Let’s not blame the Boogeyman for recent squishy Republican failures.

omnipotent on December 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM

They tried, over and over again. There were never enough Republicans to stop the Democrat filibusters.

Why should an oil company do it then?

starfleet_dude on December 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM

I shouldn’t be surprised. You really are this stupid.

It’s in his interest because he makes more money.
Remember he doesn’t have a monopoly. Other oil companies are also searching for more oil sources. If companies A’s discoveries don’t drive down the price, comapany B’s will.

The only way to make the most money is to be the guy who brings in the gusher first.

IlikedAUH2O on December 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM

Proposing something is entirely different than getting things done. (see Social Security debate)

Also, Rebublicans controlled congress from 2002 to 2006. (as well as the White House, obviously).

Therefore, Republicans controlled the Legislative as well as the Executive branches of gov’t and didn’t increase domestic oil production by 1 barrel/year.

So you’re saying Bush isn’t dumb, he’s just a horrible, ineffectual leader?

I agree with that entirely.

See, wasn’t that easy???

We have always had Republicans that act like Dems. and oil prices were somewhat acceptable in 2000.

Remember ANWAR? Juan watches Caribou films at least once a week right after the film showing the horrible effects of Poland trying to eject illegals in 1939. Not to mention the epic film with Rome and the European helpers they suddenly didn’t like!

And omnipotent, if you knew squat about oil supply and politics you would know that President Bush’s energy plan called for an incrrease in drilling, refineries and production generally in 2000. He spent more than any other admistration on alternative fuels. He favored increases in production but nobody wants to recall any sound policies of President Bush!
Please see Bush Energy Policy: Overview of Major Proposals and Legislative Action
August 22, 2001 to start your review.

The Dems blocked the programs just like The One will have to scuttle drilling as a sop to the left wing ‘let’s live in dark caves’ gang.

The One was sounding like a Republican by the end of the fight with Juan. Before that, he was ready to arrest the speculators and President Bush for the high prices at the pump. Of course this all followed the “no blood for oil!” mantra in protesting the Iraq war before we started winning it.

The Dems change political footballs about five times as often as they research or actually read anything!

Let us hope you aren’t one of them or that you can change.