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With Gas Prices Soaring, Obama Looks to Ramp Up U.S. Oil Production

Nope! As usual, your position and therefore your argument lacks economic validity which is a shame given the topic. Address my comments or leave me alone, i am not here to argue on the basis of opinion and ideology.
As long as your thinking is wrong, so to will your conclusions be.
 
You know what I don't get? Liberals use the argument that going after our own oil will take too long to get to market to make a difference, yet the alternatives to oil will take as long, if not longer to replace it. But, in the meantime, I guess the vast majority of the country that are like me, in the middle class can just eat it while they destroy the economy, forcing us to do what they want, and they don't even know for a certainty if it will work...

j-mac
 
Well, you can think that if you like, and rail is used pretty much to capacity now in the current infrastructure that exists. However, if rail is ramped up further, and destroys more good jobs, what will you do with those truckers then?

See, I am of the mindset that a switch to more Natural Gas type truck will be devoloped in the future.

j-mac

Well, building the rails, the trains, the power lines, and the new power plants would create plenty of jobs in the short term. In the long term, I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't try to halt technological progress to save old jobs. Our system needs to conform to technology, not the other way around.
 
Well, building the rails, the trains, the power lines, and the new power plants would create plenty of jobs in the short term. In the long term, I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't try to halt technological progress to save old jobs. Our system needs to conform to technology, not the other way around.


How is going rail, an advance? That was how goods were shipped before the interstate system, which was at least partially built for trucking goods in the first place. Second, the average trucker is like me, a little older, no collage, and has 20 years OTR experience, now you want me to pick up a pick axe and start driving RR ties? Yeah, I don't think so.


j-mac
 
You know what I don't get? Liberals use the argument that going after our own oil will take too long to get to market to make a difference, yet the alternatives to oil will take as long, if not longer to replace it. But, in the meantime, I guess the vast majority of the country that are like me, in the middle class can just eat it while they destroy the economy, forcing us to do what they want, and they don't even know for a certainty if it will work...

j-mac

What gets me is that no one seems to understand that if we start drilling now it will be years before it makes a difference.

Okay I agree but two things I have to repeat.

1. How long will it take if we never start? This is a no brainer, some people are really dumb-asses.

2. The news that we are going to go after the reserves we have that exceed the Saudi's will cause them to drop the price to try to keep us from drilling because it would eventually put them on the sideline.
 
There's no evidence that increasing the domestic supply will lower oil prices. Oil prices have consistently risen unabated. Many of the sharpest increases in the past 10 years are due to speculation and nothing more. Even when the speculation is wrong, the prices do not re-adjust to lower levels. If the U.S. acquires more oil, it will just be more oil at the same price, unless the government actively creates a price ceiling... but the government will never regulate the oil industry in that way.

The other thing is, the consumption of oil is increasing exponentially while we are having to look harder and harder for areas of new supply. We have three wars in the Middle East, a haphazard offshore drilling plan, sights set on protected Alaskan regions, and a slew of nations who are salivating at the opportunity to explore the arctic once the Bering Strait fully melts.

No matter how much oil we find, it will never be enough to support the man-made consumer growth model. Eventually "growth" must stop or at least change in the way it happens; but how insane will the oil industry and our government become in trying to sustain this system?

It's true... we are all being held hostage by this industry.
 
There's no evidence that increasing the domestic supply will lower oil prices.

On the contrary. There is not only proof as recent as a few years ago when Bush announced he was going to open up drilling, then there is common sense as well.

Oil prices have consistently risen unabated.

This statement is a pure lie. Oil has arrived at the price it is now due, along with other factors, through a series of peaks, and falls in pricing.

Many of the sharpest increases in the past 10 years are due to speculation and nothing more.

Yes, and speculation is a necessary part of business concerning oil.

Even when the speculation is wrong, the prices do not re-adjust to lower levels.

On this you are yet wrong again. Ever heard the term, 'rise like a rocket, fall like a feather'? Ask someone who knows about business.

f the U.S. acquires more oil, it will just be more oil at the same price, unless the government actively creates a price ceiling...

You mean like Carter did, and caused artificial shortages...Wow!

but the government will never regulate the oil industry in that way.

Already tried that one, huge failure.....Needless pain to the people.

The other thing is, the consumption of oil is increasing exponentially while we are having to look harder and harder for areas of new supply.


Another falsehood. The US's demand recently has dropped do to Obama's failed economy.

We have three wars in the Middle East

How many has Obama stopped?

a haphazard offshore drilling plan

Who threw, and continues to hamper this?....Obama

sights set on protected Alaskan regions

You mean the vast wasteland that we only want to use the size of a postage stamp out of an area the size of a parking lot?

and a slew of nations who are salivating at the opportunity to explore the arctic once the Bering Strait fully melts.

I am betting that Obama would let them too.

No matter how much oil we find, it will never be enough to support the man-made consumer growth model.

Yes, humans are the problem....

Eventually "growth" must stop

Wow! scary ignorant dude.

or at least change in the way it happens

Don't fool with things you have no idea what they are, or if they are not broken.

but how insane will the oil industry and our government become in trying to sustain this system?

We should exterminate humans, that would solve the problem.....

It's true... we are all being held hostage by this industry.

Then you should start by not using anything linked to oil at all. K? Talk to ya when you figure it out....

j-mac
 
With Gas Prices Soaring, Obama Looks to Ramp Up U.S. Oil Production - FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to address mounting criticism over high gas prices, President Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.

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His announcement followed passage in the Republican-controlled House of three bills -- including two this week -- that would expand and speed up offshore oil and gas drilling. Republicans say the bills are aimed at easing gasoline costs, but they also acknowledge that won't be immediate

I do not support deep off shore oil drilling because if a leak does happen it will takes weeks or longer to close it off. That said he should open up ANWR, maybe see if deep off shore oil can be reached from oil rigs on shore.

That said I do not trust him to do anything about the oil. Because usually ever lib against oil drilling uses the excuse we won't see results for ten more year which they said ten years ago and possibly ten years prior to that and so on.
 
Exactly. I have no idea why this is so hard to grasp. Canada's tar sands are the largest oil deposit on earth and yet our gas prices are much higher than in the US.

Isn't that in large part due to taxes?
 
Capitalization amortization and R&D tax breaks that every other business gets to spur innovation and keep equipment up to date. Am I close?
 
Capitalization amortization and R&D tax breaks that every other business gets to spur innovation and keep equipment up to date. Am I close?


ding, ding, ding......You get the prize.

It is only disingenuous language that allows the liberals to go after one of their hated industries with taxation practice that is allowed to every other business in America, and call that a subsidy to just one industry.

The bastardization of the language is deplorable these days.

j-mac
 
ding, ding, ding......You get the prize.

It is only disingenuous language that allows the liberals to go after one of their hated industries with taxation practice that is allowed to every other business in America, and call that a subsidy to just one industry.

The bastardization of the language is deplorable these days.

j-mac

So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?
 
So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?

Because it's not true. There are many places where gas is cheaper than it is here, and many where it's more expensive. Looks like we're about in the middle.

Country Price per gallon USD
Spain $8.10
Peru $6.09
Uruguay $6.06
Chile $4.81
Columbia $4.05
Honduras $4.05
Brazil $3.12
Cuba $3.03
Nicaragua $2.61
Argentina $2.40
Mexico $2.35
Panama $2.19
Puerto Rico $1.74
Venezuela $0.12

SpanishDict Blog | $0.12 per Gallon of Gas in Venezuela!

And why is it so expensive in Europe? The gas taxes.

Although the price of raw gas is about the same for both the U.S. and European countries, the tax on gasoline is much higher in Europe (France leads with a 70% gas tax).
 
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So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?

Maybe you should talk to your state and local politicos and ask them about gasoline taxes, and any other tax that is attached to gasoline, or levied upon establishments that sell gasoline and are passing that cost onto you. Just a thought.
 
So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?

Part of it is that trades involving oil commodities are done with the dollar. Go look up the danger of the value of the dollar slipping and exchanges taking place with say, the Deutsche mark instead. Our price would go up a dollar overnight.
 
With Gas Prices Soaring, Obama Looks to Ramp Up U.S. Oil Production - FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to address mounting criticism over high gas prices, President Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.

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His announcement followed passage in the Republican-controlled House of three bills -- including two this week -- that would expand and speed up offshore oil and gas drilling. Republicans say the bills are aimed at easing gasoline costs, but they also acknowledge that won't be immediate

I believe I'm on the record on this site saying that there was going to be a ramping up of oil production in north America as oil prices go up... But not so much to ease price as it's intended to cut off the flow of money to the middle east.

I went so far as listing some of the new reserves that are on the verge of getting tapped.
 
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