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Kiss your 100-watt lightbulb goodbye

Let me try to break this down for you even simpler. Peak oil does not mean there is no more oil. It means that we consume more than we produce, and its been that way since 1970, unless you can provide evidence of any year in the last 40 when we produced more than we consumed.

I'll wait.

Let's leave cookies for Santa, too.

Producing less than we consume has more to do with price manipulation and government regulation, than anything else.
 
So corporate profits should be a higher priority for the country than the public good? Is this the new (just like the old) Republican platform?

Obviously not. By the same token, killing corporate profits in the interest of the public good, is just as bad.

You want the government to have the tax dollars it needs to operate? Want to see the deficite go away? Fewer private sector profits means fewer tax dollars.
 
Let's leave cookies for Santa, too.

Producing less than we consume has more to do with price manipulation and government regulation, than anything else.

In the absence of knowledge on the subject it seems you are deluding yourself.

"In retrospect, the U.S. oil peak might be seen as the most significant geopolitical event of the mid to late 20th Century, creating the conditions for the energy crises of the 1970s, leading to far greater U.S. strategic emphasis on controlling foreign sources of oil, and spelling the beginning of the end of the status of the U.S. as the world's major creditor nation. The U.S. of course, was able to import oil from elsewhere. Mounting debt has allowed life to continue in the U.S. with only minimal interruption so far. When global oil production peaks, the implications will be felt far more "

Here's a good place to learn more on the subject ~ Peak oil primer and links | Energy Bulletin
 
Obviously not. By the same token, killing corporate profits in the interest of the public good, is just as bad.

You want the government to have the tax dollars it needs to operate? Want to see the deficite go away? Fewer private sector profits means fewer tax dollars.

What are you talking about? For the last decade, corporate taxes have been the lowest they have been in modern history! How did that work out for us?
 
What are you talking about? For the last decade, corporate taxes have been the lowest they have been in modern history! How did that work out for us?

You tell us.

I hope this isn't one of those, "low taxes caused the depression", rants.

Back to the peak oil myth for a second. Crude oil production in the GOM is down 13%. Is that because of peak oil, or because of Obama's drilling ban?
 
So corporate profits should be a higher priority for the country than the public good? Is this the new (just like the old) Republican platform?

Oh right, right, because no Democrat has corporate ties who would benefit from global warming legislation...
 
So corporate profits should be a higher priority for the country than the public good? Is this the new (just like the old) Republican platform?

What platform do you want them to have?
 
You tell us.

I hope this isn't one of those, "low taxes caused the depression", rants.

Back to the peak oil myth for a second. Crude oil production in the GOM is down 13%. Is that because of peak oil, or because of Obama's drilling ban?


The unfunded wars along with the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans did in fact cause our National debt to climb to historic levels. That is a fact.

You need to read up on the production bell curve of oil wells. You do know that oil is a finite, non-renewable source of energy do you not?
 
Oh right, right, because no Democrat has corporate ties who would benefit from global warming legislation...

We are the ones that benefit from global warming legislation.
 
What platform do you want them to have?

If I get to choose, then I would like a platform of conservatism for our resources, honoring the property rights of other countries as we honor our own. What do ya think?
 
The unfunded wars along with the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans did in fact cause our National debt to climb to historic levels. That is a fact.

Ah, here we go. Are you claiming that everyone that owns a corporation is wealthy? You've been listening to the Messiah, too much. Him, or Keither Olberman.

You need to read up on the production bell curve of oil wells. You do know that oil is a finite, non-renewable source of energy do you not?

Really? So, how did all that oil get there, to begin with?

You might wanna read up on the subject

Oil Fields Are Refilling...Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth
 
We are the ones that benefit from global warming legislation.

Global warming hoax legislation will put millions of people out work and lower the salaries of millions more. How, exactly, do we benefit from GW legislation? Who is we? You got a mouse in your pocket?
 
Ah, here we go. Are you claiming that everyone that owns a corporation is wealthy? You've been listening to the Messiah, too much. Him, or Keither Olberman.



Really? So, how did all that oil get there, to begin with?

You might wanna read up on the subject

Oil Fields Are Refilling...Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth


I didn't say everyone owning a corporation was wealthy.

You go ahead and put your faith in a staff writer with Newsday.com if you wish. I will go with the scientific evidence if you don't mind.
 
Global warming hoax legislation will put millions of people out work and lower the salaries of millions more. How, exactly, do we benefit from GW legislation? Who is we? You got a mouse in your pocket?

Energy efficiency and alternative energy is the answer to both our economic and our environmental successes. How can you have long term economic success without a healthy environment? The we I am referring to is life on the planet.
 
Energy efficiency and alternative energy is the answer to both our economic and our environmental successes. How can you have long term economic success without a healthy environment? The we I am referring to is life on the planet.

I have an even better question: how can we possibly hope for a healthy environment, without a healthy economy?

You can't kill the economy, in the name of saving the environment. Just ain't gonna work.
 
Oh, if we had only known that we could have avoided a decade war against Iraq for their oil. Just let me know when we have our first year (since 1970) of producing more oil than we consume okay.

Ok, so, you're retort is, "we went to war in Iraq for their oil"?

Truferism sucks.
 
I have an even better question: how can we possibly hope for a healthy environment, without a healthy economy?

You can't kill the economy, in the name of saving the environment. Just ain't gonna work.

Like I said, they are co-dependent. Most of our policies have put short-term economic gain before long term environmental gains, without the realization evidently that we are shooting ourselves in the foot, such as our policies that have continued to support an infrastructure dependent on dwindling resources for the last 40 years. This has already put us at an economic disadvantage and will even more so in the future.
 
We have lots of oil in the USA, just not always the good, sweet crude, or where it is easy to get at, or mixed in with sand, shale, etc.
Gas prices will go up, we have no choice.
 
Like I said, they are co-dependent. Most of our policies have put short-term economic gain before long term environmental gains, without the realization evidently that we are shooting ourselves in the foot, such as our policies that have continued to support an infrastructure dependent on dwindling resources for the last 40 years. This has already put us at an economic disadvantage and will even more so in the future.

So, the solution, is to pass legislation that protects the environment and kills jobs. How does that have a hppy ending, again?
 
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