Dem view on $10/gallon

Let's not forget this GREAT IDEA from Obama.....

Yesterday in Missouri, the presumptive Democratic nominee had a suggestion for voters: Pump up your tires.

To improve your mileage.

To thus save energy.

"There are things that you can do individually though to save energy," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said. "Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much."

We need that $1,000 in quarters Sir to blow up our tires!!!

woiyo wrote:

Let's not forget this GREAT IDEA from Obama.....

Yesterday in Missouri, the presumptive Democratic nominee had a suggestion for voters: Pump up your tires.

To improve your mileage.

To thus save energy.

"There are things that you can do individually though to save energy," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said. "Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much."

We need that $1,000 in quarters Sir to blow up our tires!!!

Dont be to hasty.
Obama is correct.

Proper tire inflation could indeed save as much oil as we could get with new drilling. In a mere 11,308 years.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/021122.php?df

woiyo wrote:

" I could care less where members of the GOP want to meet to discuss their policy ideas. The Dems control the House, and the GOP plan is a non-starter there;"

So because the "dems" have control, there is no need to negotiate?

Looks to me the only the the dems control is the light switch.
You are a fool to support their childish antics.

They WERE willing to negotiate; the Republican insistence on blocking any money for renewable energy production brought that to a quick halt.

What kind of fool are you, to support the Republicans, woiyo?

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

woiyo wrote:

" I could care less where members of the GOP want to meet to discuss their policy ideas. The Dems control the House, and the GOP plan is a non-starter there;"

So because the "dems" have control, there is no need to negotiate?

Looks to me the only the the dems control is the light switch.
You are a fool to support their childish antics.

They WERE willing to negotiate; the Republican insistence on blocking any money for renewable energy production brought that to a quick halt.

What kind of fool are you, to support the Republicans, woiyo?

Cycloptichorn

You can't read either can you!!!! I support NO ONE party! Both parties are failures .

Democrats are not interested in helping the average American, especially the poor.
They want this problem to reach $10.00 so they can push their so called "green agenda" yet to date have done NOTHING to even start acting on behalf of their own agenda.

woiyo wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

woiyo wrote:

" I could care less where members of the GOP want to meet to discuss their policy ideas. The Dems control the House, and the GOP plan is a non-starter there;"

So because the "dems" have control, there is no need to negotiate?

Looks to me the only the the dems control is the light switch.
You are a fool to support their childish antics.

They WERE willing to negotiate; the Republican insistence on blocking any money for renewable energy production brought that to a quick halt.

What kind of fool are you, to support the Republicans, woiyo?

Cycloptichorn

You can't read either can you!!!! I support NO ONE party! Both parties are failures .

No, you support the Republicans. You consistently champion their positions on issues and criticize the Dems constantly. That's what a Republican supporter does. I don't care what you wish to call it.

Cycloptichorn

woiyo wrote:

Not that the republicans are offering any better solutions. however, they at least have a plan.

interesting... so they have a plan without solutions? or what?

With the soaring price of oil ...

GEN 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

GEN 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

GEN 18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are
therein?

GEN 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

GEN 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

GEN 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

GEN 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

GEN 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

GEN 18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

GEN 18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

GEN 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

GEN 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi's refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess…
"This is the people's House," Rep, Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) said. "This is not Pelosi's politiburo."
Democratic aides were furious at the GOP stunt, and reporters were kicked out of the Speaker's Lobby, the space next to the House floor where they normally interview lawmakers.
"You're not covering this, are you?" complaing one senior Democratic aide. Another called the Republicans "morons" for staying on the floor…
The scene on the floor is kind of crazy. Normally, members are not allowed to speak directly to the visitor galleries, or visitors are prohibited from cheering. But in this case, the members are walking up and down on the floor during their speeches, standing on cheers, the visitors are cheering loudly. Some members even brought in visitors, who are now sitting on the House floor in the seats normally filled by lawmakers, cheering and clapping. Very funny.

You should also know that the majority of oil and gas leases on PUBLIC land (that's your land, boys) aren't being used to produce oil and gas.

Quote:

WASHINGTON - Nearly three-fourths of the 40 million acres of public land currently leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States outside Alaska isn't producing any oil or gas, federal records show, even as the Bush administration pushes to open more environmentally sensitive public lands for oil and gas development.

An Associated Press computer analysis of Bureau of Land Management records found that 80 percent of federal lands leased for oil and gas production in Wyoming are producing no oil or gas. Neither are 83 percent of the leased acres in Montana, 77 percent in Utah, 71 percent in Colorado, 36 percent in New Mexico and 99 percent in Nevada.

How much exploration has occurred on the nearly 30 million acres of non-producing public land leases is difficult to say. BLM officials could provide no details on the number of exploratory wells drilled on those leases, despite repeated requests for that information over the past two months.

The oil companies would rather hold the lease value as an asset to offset debt rather than drill.

Joe(But let's open up 40 MORE million acres offshore)Nation

This bears repeating:

Joe Nation wrote:

You should also know that the majority of oil and gas leases on PUBLIC land (that's your land, boys) aren't being used to produce oil and gas.

Quote:

WASHINGTON - Nearly three-fourths of the 40 million acres of public land currently leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States outside Alaska isn't producing any oil or gas, federal records show, even as the Bush administration pushes to open more environmentally sensitive public lands for oil and gas development.

An Associated Press computer analysis of Bureau of Land Management records found that 80 percent of federal lands leased for oil and gas production in Wyoming are producing no oil or gas. Neither are 83 percent of the leased acres in Montana, 77 percent in Utah, 71 percent in Colorado, 36 percent in New Mexico and 99 percent in Nevada.

How much exploration has occurred on the nearly 30 million acres of non-producing public land leases is difficult to say. BLM officials could provide no details on the number of exploratory wells drilled on those leases, despite repeated requests for that information over the past two months.

The oil companies would rather hold the lease value as an asset to offset debt rather than drill.

Joe(But let's open up 40 MORE million acres offshore)Nation

And there is a lot of activity occurring on leased lands that does not qualify as "production." For 2006, the BLM reported that there were 77,257 productive holes onshore in the U.S. Beyond that, there were 6,738 applications for drilling permits, 4,708 holes in which companies had begun drilling and 3,693 where drilling had ended among onshore lands. That's a total of more than 15,000 holes that were being proposed, started or finished that do not count as "productive" holes. And that doesn't even include holes that might have been continually drilled throughout the year for exploratory reasons.

It's not known how much of that drilling is taking place on leases currently classified as "non-producing" and how much is taking place on leases that are already producing oil. BLM's Gewecke told us that the agency does not track acreage that is being developed or explored. And Andy Radford, an analyst with the American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade association, told us that the oil companies are "very secretive about announcing where they are testing, exploring and thinking of drilling because the industry is very competitive."