You’ll put the Golden State in play, at this rate. That would be a nice little present to Johnny Mac’s campaign…….

Oil mainly goes into transportation fuels, it only makes up a small part of electrical production. Alternate energy mostly is about producing electricity, so most of if doesn’t even address substituting for petroleum. And we’ve seen how well corn ethanol is working out.

Thanks for the links on petroleum usage – I just find it interesting that there are a ton of other products that are based on petroleum that never get mentioned when we talk about oil usage. Granted it is a much smaller amount of the total, but interesting nonetheless. I am still waiting on a good fusion process to come out. It is truly one of the only viable alternatives with the potential to produce more energy than is consumed in the production, and with little to no waste.

There is a program I saw on the history channel called Oil, a two hour show on the history and uses of oil it was a fairly good show. Be advised though all these channels, history, science etc are on board with the global warming agenda they never miss an opportunity to try to link just about everything to humans and climate change.

True, so very true. I like the History Channel for its original programming like Cities of the Underworld and everything Roman Empire I can watch – but I have definitely tuned them out when they put on their global warming crap. You can’t even watch shows about dinosaurs or earth history without being bombarded with all the hype.

However, I did find a great show on global warming from Penn and Teller on Showtime called “BullSh*t” – yes, I know, not exactly the conservative bunch, but they go after Gore pretty hard in it as well as some of the other wackos in the environmental crowd. Pretty darn entertaining!

These zealots even go as far as not even bothering to hide what they are all about, its Discovery Times, as in the NY times. They recently added a channel called planet green in our educational lineup, I cant stomach watching the liberals doing what liberals do best, sitting around scared to death discussing the impending doom, while they sit at a table eating a catered meal, of course. The propaganda is everywhere on TV they must think we are a bunch of idiots.

And that still doesn’t address transportation fuels.

According to ‘Modern Marvels’ we do use 20 million barrels of oil daily in the US, but only 50% of each barrel ends up in gasoline, 15% goes to create diesel, but the other 35% goes to general use in everyday items from clothing to contacts to pharmaceuticals, etc. If this is true, I would love to hear how the Dems plan on replacing that much oil in the general marketplace without drilling…

Offical statistics on petroleum usage here.

Oil mainly goes into transportation fuels, it only makes up a small part of electrical production. Alternate energy mostly is about producing electricity, so most of if doesn’t even address substituting for petroleum. And we’ve seen how well corn ethanol is working out.

This is going to be an open letter to GOP leadership….

Seeing how Obama fancies himself such an intellect, I am surprised he hasn’t mentioned that source even once.

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pm, Barry F. said:

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:01 pm, lgm said:

Okay. I’m going to attempt a discussion with you on this, lgm.

See. Here’s the problem. You only listen to part of the proposal. You are only focusing on the outer continental shelf drilling aspect. There are also domestic oil reserves in the 48 contiguous U.S. states, as well as billions of barrels in ANWR. Try not to get tunnel vision. Look at the broader aspect of what is available.

I understand that oil is not available to us in unlimited quantities. I’m all for developing alternative methods for producing energy. I also understand that these alternative sources are only in the development stage, some of them only in the theory stage. No one knows when we will see if/when they might come to fruition. Until then, we can drill for domestic oil, which can be used in the interim to reduce the price of skyrocketing fuel for families across the country.

lgm also attempts to forget the psychological effect that even the potential for new oil has on the markets. And the likelihood that we will be able develop resources such as oil shale in usable quantities is far greater than that of the proposed alternatives. That doesn’t mean they should not be developed, but that both will be needed to offset decreasing oil supplies and burgeoning populations in developed/developing countries.

The oil is there, it is in appreciable quantities, and will eventually be developed anyway (particularly when those Northeast liberals start freezing their butts off. To deny that will do nothing but make the costs of whatever energy we have to compete with the rest of the world to get, to the detriment of the “most vulnerable among us,” to use the usual reflexive liberal talking point.

If every light bulb in this state was an LCF, what happens when you build more houses? Think! Somewhere, you hit the point of diminishing returns. Conservation is like that. Alone, it can only get you so far. Alternative energy like wind, solar, and geothermal, produce about 1% of all energy in this country. You MUST increase energy output along with reasonable conservation measures. This is just common sense. Read this issue of Imprimus from Hillsdale College. You will learn about the failure of alternative energy and how nuclear energy is safe, efficient, and clean.

If we stopped buring coal and oil for electricity, and substituted nuclear power, we would be better off as a nation.

On July 31st, 2008 at 4:24 pm, JT said:
I get it now lgm is clairvoyant.

I knew he listened to conservative radio. Picture him just sitting there listening, twitching, blood boiling, wearing a burka.

I don’t know about a burka but I have heard rumor that he has taken up some rather fashionable dress these days, JT.

P.S.
I still like that pic, BM.