Comments on: Please Sir Can I Have Some More?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:43:34 +0000

Begging for oil , thats just a shame full thing in this day and age. Now we got this chicken little running all over creation crying the sky is falling never once explaining the fundamentals of the mess and the steps in line to get it fixed right .. nope he instead is trying to put a big band aid on a mortal wound.. we need leaders who know we can pluck them out of office as fast as the private lobbists put money into thier pockets then maybe the fear of loss of power will get them moving on what WE The People want instead of what the super minority business sector.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:45:32 +0000

Fred Thompson rightly criticized POTUS Bush for kowtowing hat-in-hand to the King after the Oil Minister publicly rebuffed GWB.

Bush’s Poppy did that in the late ’80s with King Fahd, but Fahd asked then-VP GHWB first what the former oilman thought the price OPEC would post should be. GHWB said $18 [the price at the time was $35/bbl] and soon Fahd dropped the price, and the USSR’s economy started to tumble. You won’t read this in any books because "historians" don’t like to give Reagan any credit for bringing down the USSR. It all happened by itself!!!

But now Junior begs and I doubt the Saudis will bring down the price by increasing production, which would be a major cost to them to ramp up some dormant fields.

And quite frankly, Fred Thompson is correct. We should drill the ANWR & other fields in-country, develop our vast coal fields using clean coal tech, and build nukes.

Thankfully, Junior the second-rate oilman will not be in office much longer—at least the energy sector might have a chance of being re-organized if a real Republican is elected.

By: Nihat

Nihat — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:53:07 +0000

"Of course until that happens we could actually opt to bite the bullet and conserve."

People are already doing that (not massively enough maybe). If I heard my TV set right the other day, Toyota Pirius (sp?) outsold Ford Explorer last year. I don’t recall the exact percentage changes in sale figures of the two, but they were both significant (Explorer down by, like, 25%).