Comments on: Driving the Refinery Fight

By: California Conservative » Blowing in the Wind

California Conservative » Blowing in the Wind — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:16:30 +0000

[...] Sound familiar? It should. It’s what I wrote about here. To make their point, they had to diminish the amount of energy that would be recoverable from ANWR, claiming it would amount to no more than could be saved by Americans pumping up their tires, which would save 4 million gallons of gasoline a day. That pump ‘em up savings is nothing to sneeze at, but it is a drop in what the United States Geological Survey says can be produced from ANWR’s Coastal Plain region, which amounts to between 460,000 million gallons to 1,300,000 million gallons. It would daily pump as much oil to the United States as we get from Saudi Arabia, more than 50 million gallons a day. [...]

By: peter m

peter m — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:05:11 +0000

One goal of the environmental extremists is to force ordinary people(99 percent of US) to give up their SUV’s and use mass transit. They want high gas prices, which they see as forcing people to “conserve”. They see Big SUV’s and Hummers as Evil resource-consuming symbols of an evil industrial/capitalist society. The Catastrophic oil spill is used frequently in environmentalists opposition to oil drilling. Natural earth events such as Volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, rockslides, ect cause far more destruction than man-caused events. The wacko fringe environmentalists use one rare event such as the alaska oil spill or Three-mile Island to justify not building any oil platforms or Nuclear Plants. There is an element of irrationality and hysteria in the Env movement which is able to conjure up images of dead oil soaked birds and fears of radiation sickness to get emotional responses not based on facts and reason.

By: California Conservative » Oil-rich Countries Tap Into New Political Power

California Conservative » Oil-rich Countries Tap Into New Political Power — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:41:06 +0000

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