I almost burst out laughing when they started playing pictures of the American Revolution. Don't you just love how they associate all the great achievements of America with drilling for more oil?
Let us all pray this Forth of July protest can succeed in re-celebrating our Independence.
A final try at peaceful discourse will occur in every hometown USA on that day. Make a stand for freedom.
For staging false terror,
For legislating disarmament, For controlling speech via propaganda media, For selling our economy to illegitimate bankers, For refusing to defend our border with Mexico, For dishonoring your oath to the US Constitution.
@Boljusz And Australians, and Canadians, and fill-in-your SECOND-favourite-country-to-hate...
But you're QUITE right... oil depletion in our lifetime is QUITE well-known, and I'm just shocked that some people refuse to see it in the same way they refuse to see global warming... It WOULD be amusing to see people in the US freezing in their McMansions... ("but we have a three-car garage with a house attached - we NEED that oil!")
WHAT is the incentive for the Oil Co's to drill more? why would they want to lower the price? They're making huge profits now, why would they want to lower the price at the pump?
As for "independence" What keeps the oil here? Why would they sell domestically if the price was higher elsewhere?
Seems to me that the oil co's need competition from other sources of energy before the price comes down
Its time our country stop being beholden to environmental communists. We have all the energy we need right here in this country. Nuclear energy, Coal, Oil reserves, are all here in this country, waiting to be extracted. Unfortunately, the Global Warming HOAX has caused everyone to panic that the earth is going to explode in the near future. This HOAX will ruin our country. Its time we, who believe that America WAS the greatest nation in history, stand up and take our country back!
Brilliant and terrific idea, Mr. Gingrich. If a comprehensively American solution to energy presents itself now, from oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico to new nuclear power plants, then let it develop as America wishes.
It's less flashy name is plugin-hybrid and Toyota has them coming out in the 2009 Prius. Perhaps this company developed a better version, but that's effectively what this does. That means it works really well for people who commute less than 30 miles to work, because then they'll almost never use gas. They may want to invest in solar panels and a battery bank though to keep their utility bills low.
Drilling is not the answer, thats just like giving an addict more drugs. We need new energies developed. Id like to see us get to 50% alturnative fuels within 5 to 8 years. Renewable energy is the answer to the future. I do not oppose drilling but I do not see it as the answer to the problem, only a short term solution and really not a good one. All that money and effort could go to better uses.
All the talk about the future is fine and dandy - but people eat every day, and for them to eat, they need food, every day, and for there to be food, every day, it requires irrigation to run, every day, and for irrigation to run, every day, requires millions of engines to run, every day. Like it or not, the vast majority of pumps run on diesel. The tractors, and delivery systems run on diesel. Won't change overnight, neither will our infrastructure. Not drilling will insure people starve.
Americans MUST be Pro-Active on this Oil Problem.Folkes don't wait around for Government to help you out,they are On VACATION! And Permanently & have their 'HEADS UP ASS". Vote OUT in 08.Remember OUT, ALL.
This week I changed to Geothermal Heating and next week I'm looking into Solar pannels for electric. We All MUST "DO" whatever we can to lessen dependency & then GET OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE ASS HOLES IN D.C.
One cannot logically compare petroleum use between the U.S. and Japan...the sheer size of our country makes this comparison ridiculous. You can't simply compare countries with like populations; compare countries with the same occupied land mass, distance for transporting food/products/supplies, etc. Japan also has an efficient rail system for its small country.
Our country may be large, but the overwhelming majority of people live in a few urban areas. 35 million people live in the 25 largest cities - and that doesn't include suburbs.
And from Wikipedia, "In 2007, 50.13% of Americans lived in the 40 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas."
We also enjoyed a rich train system until our oil and auto industries legislated in oil and auto subsidies and legislated rail subsidies away.
What do you expect the rest of Americans ,265 Million people do?
The Green Liberals all want to dictate How and What we all should Eat,Ride,Live, and teach Our Children...Hey, I think you should live in China! They can just "kill off" the people if they want. Sounds like your kind of Plan! The"Silent Majority" have had enough of the "crazys" and will start making the Changes for this Country,just like always.The Grown Ups will Slap Down the Stupid green kids and take the Cool Aid away.
danesaregreat, really, why do you need to use this kind of language to talk about anyone? There's no reason - it's counterproductive. We are all human beings, with the same fundamental needs and wants. Most everyone wants a safe future for our children. Why not develop clean, safe energy sources now, so that we don't have to fight others for the last reserves of oil? How can you say anything against energy independence?
Totaly agree!We need clean safe energy, however with the Current NON-LEADERSHIP we have in this Country all they seem to think Important is the Next Election! The Blame Game of DC's Democrats/Republicans disgraceful non performance NO Solutions! Americans Will LEAD Themselves. I have just installed Geothermal Heat/AC this past week so this winter NO OIL! But we still need oil in USA for this economy & for people to go to work. We will do it without THEM! WE ARE AMERICA!We are on the right path
@danesaregreat I don't think people in the US should stop using oil immediately, but I DO think that using/developing other resources NOW, before oil runs out, makes sense...
Get the government OUT of the economy. Let individuals make their own free choices, and that's the only way to produce maximum consumer/producer satisfaction.
Question for you pro-drillers: where are you getting the numbers? Wikipedia (ha!) says that the global - not American - supply of shale oil is 3.3 trillion barrels. The same article claims that you need a ton of shale to extract up to 40L of oil. I'd appreciate a fact check on this info.
For that matter, where is this $200 billion in tax revenues coming from? Over 100 years? From increasing taxes? Where does this number come from? Source it, please.
Maybe Americans of all political points of view will start to realize the truth in the NEED to tap our resources while we transition away from oil over the next 20 or so years when the price hits $7-$8 per gallon for diesel fuel.
Opec President said very recently that there was plenty of supply but this Algerian man educated in TX OPEC Pres Chakib Khelil also said that the price per barrel WILL reach $170 per barrel by years end.
This is a deliberate attack on the US economy IMHO.
Look no one with a brain is suggesting that it is oil is the only solution. Spend a few moments on chart 12 on the DOE website. We have a "Energy Crisis" not an "Oil Crisis". Unfortunately we have an oil infrastructure and it will take some time and technology (some technology we don't have yet)to get to true independence. "GLORPY2" your passionate but illinformed. We need everything or you won't have anything. Gingrich is correct on the current market conditions and the long term solution
Why on earth does anybody think the same oil companies that are getting $4+ a gallon out of you now would be good hearted enough to drop the price if they drilled here? They would charge the same. I bet they'd even sell it to China and India if the price was right. There is no patriotism, no "United We Stand" in the oil indu$try. And believe me, Newt knows that. He's not stupid, he's a tool.
There's also a myth that more oil will cause the supply of heating oil and gas to increase. Unfortunately, our refineries already run near maximum capacity and our domestic oil industry is loathe to invest in more for fear of a potential market crash a la the late 80's to 90's.
Without more refineries, the oil does no good to anybody. And refineries are heavy industry with a severe NIMBY factor and lots of nasty output.
If we drill in the USA we don't have to deal with OPEC there pricing or there hate for America. Also we should build more refineries or add onto the ones we already have. Its the same people who don't want drilling that don't want more refineries or any other solution that makes sense.
If you produce oil, you deal with OPEC, member state or not. And our oil would almost certainly be shipped to China and India where demand (and profitability) are greatest.
Oh, and who's modding down the comments of the actual oil industry regarding their total disinterest in adding to the refining capacity of the United States? Is somebody a wee bit divorced from reality?
Your right you are a wee bit divorced from reality but thats not your fault your being spoon fed. Pipe lines run under water and mining shale isn't going to make a huge impact on your hiking trails.
You would run a pipeline in one of the busiest shipping and fishing areas in the world, particularly near a tectonic plate (a minor one, but still)? A line in deep water where repair is incredibly difficult and expensive? And you'd make it 12-50 miles long?
No, in reality, we'd be using tankers to ship the oil from the platform to tanks on the shore, either in Mexico or Florida (Louisiana and Mississippi are rather attached to their shrimping industries).
I really don't care about the scenic beauty of the Rockies, but I know that the cattle ranchers will have a fit if they sense any risk of water pollution that could damage their herds' profitability. Colorado Springs, Denver, Aspen, etc residents surely don't want all that happening anywhere they might potentially see (or smell) it.
The oil extraction and refining industry produces significant airborne particulate matter.
Unfortunately Barack and the democrats are wrong on this one. We absolutely need to tap our oil now. The situation is only going to get worse and if we wait it may be too late.
The Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices (PUMP) Act (S. 3185). If enacted, this Act would close the full range of loopholes being used by oil market speculators and dark market exchanges and give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the ability to better prevent traders from establishing powerful positions in commodity markets that could be used for manipulative purposes.
Industry experts told Congress this could bring down the world price of oil to around $60 within 30 days.
But, then how much oil is within America and off our shores? I've heard it is 3% of the world's supply, not enough to bother. We should keep ours in reserve.
The Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices (PUMP) Act (S. 3185). If enacted, the PUMP Act would close the full range of loopholes being used by oil market speculators and dark market exchanges.
Industry experts testifying in Congress say from enacting PUMP this would bring down the cost of oil to $60 per barrel within 30 days.
We have 3 times as much as Saudi Arabia in Rocky Mountain shale 10 billion barrels in Anwr and who knows how much is off the coast. I don't care what else you do to lower the price of oil but we need to start getting our own oil now.
Do you really think the oil companies would drop the price out of patriotic goodness if they drilled here? Do you really think they would sell domestic oil here only, and not overseas, to China, for example?
No the oil companies wouldn't but the speculators would lower the price or lose there investment. Also if we didn't have to buy from the middle east we could leave and let China worry about that mess. I would much rather sell oil to China than have them come over and take it out from under us.
Less than 2 years ago Pelosi made a promise to those who would follow, that the Dem. control congress would make the "change" we need to lower fuel costs, and the war in Iraq was lost and they could fix, "change", that too. How do you like their "change" so far. Great video!!
Drill. And buy from your friends in Alberta, Canada. We have some of the biggest reserves in the world in our oil sands. And our country is not run by wackos. (Although there are quite a few of those in Central Canada)!
I agree drill more of our own and buy excess from friendly countries. I scratch your back you scratch mine is much better than I scratch your back you crash plane into my building.:-)
Replace the third "scratch your back" with "send billions of dollars to your tyrannical government" and it would be more accurate. (Not justifying terrorism, just saying the Saudi people's backs aren't exactly being scratched.)
The real solution is to phase out oil fueled vehicles (gasoline/diesel). There's enough technology out there to do away with oil fueled vehicles altogether. The oil companies don't want you to know that, but it's true. If we don't phase out oil fueled vehicles, the prices are just going to get worse. The speculative investors and the continuing global demand will see to that. Notwithstanding that fact, that was a pretty cool video.
Another thing to remember is that we do not simply use petroleum for gasoline to run our cars and trucks; petroleum products are used in millions of products throughout our world...even down to your lip gloss!! Read those labels, folks. So we will still need petroleum. Let's make it our own petroleum and not that of some other country that can hold it over us. Let's also create alternative energy sources to drive our cars, power our homes, etc. Americans can do anything we put our minds to!
And when we take the 18b in subsidies away from the oil companies who will they pass there extra costs on to? We'll get a lot more money from drilling more oil at our current tax rates than we would from taking there subsidies away so do more drilling and use the new tax income to subsides renewable energy sources.
In theory, yes, we would earn more money. In reality we wouldn't because of the far lower profit margin of the remaining US oil fields due to either difficulty in drilling (the Gulf is deep, which mean $1b+ oil platforms a la Norway in the midst of a credit crunch and economic stagnation), the difficulty in transporting, and the difficulty of processing (oil shale requires 1 ton of pulverized rock to produce up to 40 liters of oil).
The only place it would be less profitable is the shale. It would be the same in the gulf and in anwr as it is now we already have pipelines in the gulf and in Alaska. We would get almost 200 billion in tax revenue from Anwr alone.
Here's an example from an article of how we could really save:
Suppose we raised average fuel efficiency to 40 MPG [from the current 20] by 2030; this would save us more than 5 million barrels of oil per day, 25 times as much as we would get from Senator McCain's offshore drilling.
I'm not saying everyone can afford the switch to solar, but what I am saying is, what if we invested the billions of dollars it would cost to drill here in the USA into alternatives instead? Don't you think that if we put some energy into mass producing solar cells and batteries that they would get down to an affordable rate? It's just an example, but I feel that if we had cars running on H20 fuel cells instead of oil we'd go a LONG way to becoming less dependent on oil.
Your not that far off from were I am. I'm saying drill the oil and use the extra tax money to develop the alternatives. The USA would get almost 200 bil in tax money from Anwr alone our smallest oil reserve and thats at our current tax rate on the oil companies.
On the frontlines is the auto industry. Automobiles are a large part of our consumption. If we reduce our daily consumption of oil, it reduces our need. We fix that, then we move on to other sources and shifting them. We have enough oil now to focus on that and go green by the time the oil runs out or is low.
And by the time we don't need any more oil, we'll be able to buy it cheap because we won't be consuming it.
20% of our oil consumption is from trucks delivering goods across country. We could switch cross country deliveries back to trains and use trucks for short range deliveries. Trains don't use as much fuel per car and they don't sit in traffic or cause accidents or wear and tear on the roads. I'm 100% behind using common sense to become less dependent on oil. We still need fossil fuels until we switch over to green tech we should be getting the oil from ourselves.
Another thing you can do is grow your own food or at least some of it. If people grew enough food to feed themselves 1 day a week it would cut down on the number of delivery trucks carrying food across the country thus reducing our need on oil.
Umm...I'm going to put this in caps so that people might actually see it for once: WE SHOULDN'T BE RELYING ON OIL AT ALL!!!!!!! Get it? We should be using alternative energies, our cars should be running on fuel cells, and congress should FORCE the auto-makers to start producing these technologies that they already have working prototypes for. Drill more? Do you realize how much it will cost just to get the project up and running? It won't lower prices, but it will mess up the ecosystem.
As gas prices go up American business' go over seas were they add 4 times as much co2 to the air to produce the same product. Your only thinking about your car your not thinking about heating your home powering you computer or industry producing what you need on a daily basis.
No, there are plenty of other ways to heat the home and power our electronic devices. There's solar power with high efficiency battery banks that can actually run homes where I live (Ohio) where we get somewhere around 94 completely sunny days a year. There are power plants that don't run on coal or crude ya' know. We simply shouldn't be as reliant on oil as we are. That's the solution, not finding more. We WILL run out one day as our rate of consumption only increases.
Is your house run on solar energy? If so then great but if not your just talking. The whole point of this movement is to get the power we need as we transfer to green energy. I know I can't afford to switch to solar. I wish I could but it ain't happening.
The oil in the Rockies is in the form of oil shale. You have to dig the rock, crush the rock and then harvest the oil from all the junk in there. Destroys the western landscape, pollutes the water and the air.
It isn't a matter of just drilling a hole and up comes the crude.
The amount available is an estimate. There has not been suitable testing to have concrete numbers.
Mining technology in America is advanced enough to make a minimal impact on the environment. I live in West Virginia well known for mining coal and we have beautiful hills streams and lakes. Nature is safe.
We have enough oil in our reserves to last our country for a long time. First, we could stop buying from other countries today and start using the reserve. And by the time the reserve is getting low, we'll have developed our green technologies. There is no need to drill.
You say, we can drill environmentally responsibly... Yeah right, how many oil spills have we had? You don't seem to understand that everything in the environment is linked together.
You tell me how many oil spills have we had? I know during the level 4 and 5 hurricanes we had no significant spills in the gulf of Mexico. I know China is going to be drilling off the coast of Florida within 2 years and if theres going to be drilling I'd rather they used American standards rather than the standards of a country that sells poison food and toys painted with lead.
Lets not put it in anyones back yard and put it in Anwr near the arctic circle or 50 miles off shore. I should also mention that 75% of the people who live in Alaska want to drill in anwr.
75% of the population? That seems a bit much. And considering the population of Alaska in 2006 was 670,053 (close to half live in Anchorage), which is a decent sized city in the lower 48, I don't put much stock into that fact. Secondly, your boy McCain, according to Jeffrey Kluger, in Time magazine's article, "The Eco Vote", November 2, 2007, says he doesn't support drilling in ANWR either. So it isn't about Dem/Rep. Its about thinking about the future inhabitants of this planet.
Fellow citizens let us unite. stop with the hate language . Let us use poitive words and capture true patriotism with our God given talent to overcome obstacles and challenges. We need to solve this problem of dependence on fossil fuel. It is not going to go away. We have the talent in this beautiful country. Let us stop blaming and start solving.
I'm 100% behind getting off fossil fuels but we need to drill oil in the mean time. Use the tax money from the oil to fund the green movement. We'd make almost 200 billion in taxes just from drilling in anwr our smallest oil reserve and thats without raising taxes. Add to that the taxes from off shore drilling and Rocky mountain shale and you have all the funding you need for green technology.
America has been attempting to keep Iraq oil OFF the market all this time, not get it on.
Look at the Iraqi Sanctions...even with the Oil for food program, Saddam was only allowed to put 100 million dollars worth of Oil up for sale a year, 30% of which had to be paid back to America as 'reparations' for the Gulf War, as if that would stop 500,000 children dying).
Keeping Iraqi oil off the market = high prices = Mega Profits for Saudi & Oil Companies.
America has long wanted control the vast resources of the Middle East & so the War is not neccessarily about getting access to the oil, it's more about controlling access to the oil.
He who has his hand on the lever of oil in the M.East controls the World. Especially for America, the extra veto power it will afford them at the UN will amount to total World Domination for the foreseeable future.
Don't leave Israel out. They want a Pipeline from Iraq to Israel, running from Northern Iraq, Kirkuk, to Haifa Israel. What a Deal huh America? We fight, Die, and PAY for the WAR and Israel gets a PIPELINE.
Its not paying down our dept to China because its not our oil. Once we start drilling our own oil we might be able to pay off China but until then we have to borrow from China to buy oil from Saudi Arabia.
We Invaded Their Country, Bombed the Shit out of them, Killed their leader, Occupied their Country, and Installed the Government we hand Picked. They have no say in whats going on with THEIR OIL, we made sure of that.
If we're steeling the oil I'd like to see your evidence since our dept is still going up we're still paying for our troops in Iraq and our gas prices are going up. Please share with me were your getting your information.
President BUSH and Vice President Cheney, both former OIL-company EXECUTIVES, have long tried to tell us this war was about terrorism, about weapons of mass destruction, about bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people, about anything but OIL.
Your making accusations without evidence it doesn't need to be a court room for you to have to prove your statement. Common sense tells me that since Bush became president the first 6 years he had a republican congress and gas went up $1 in less than 2 years of democratic congress gas went up $2 more and since its the dems who want us to run everything with windmills then there probably the ones raising the price of oil. Thats just common sense with no evidence just like you wanted.
Not to mention, they are saying that many of the OPEC countries are accused of falsifying the information in regards to the amount they have in reserve.
Your fundamentally flawed (but corporate media supported) analysis has nothing to do with the War in Iraq. But securing the vast resources of the region does have.
America only goes to War when it will profit strategically,the humanitarian justifications given are just rhetoric.
No country has ever become the richest in the World by humanitarian intervention. This belief is reserved for indoctrinated childish patriots only.
Clinton was president for 8 of the 12 years of the sanctions so who are you blaming. Then since dems took over congress gas prices have doubled in less than 2 years. Americans are all for green technology theres no reason to shoot ourselves in the foot while we develop new energy.
Drilling won't do a DAMN THING about our INFLATION. Bush SPENDS, BORROWS, and PRINTS more DOLLARS, therefore BARRELS of OIL COST MORE, along with MILK, BREAD, and Everything else. Our NATIONAL DEBT is at $9,494,463,000,000 TRILLION DOLLARS, what the Hell did we Think was going to happen?
A large portion of our dept is from borrowing money to buy oil from people who want to kill us. If we drill our own oil we won't have to borrow as much and wouldn't it be great if we could switch to green tech and be drilling oil for the purpose of exporting it to make money for the USA.
This comment just shows your ignorence of supply and demand. Besides, these prices all held normal for 6 years of Bush w/ Repubs in congress, then Pelosi takes over congress and bang, prices explode. That is not a coincidence.
How many times did Congress vote on drilling in the Gulf and the Rockies and ANWR between 1994 and 2006?
Also, according to the Bush administration, "For the average case, drilling in ANWR would reduce crude oil by 75 cents [a barrel], in 2025. The total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030." (2008)
Not sure how many times congress voted I think 2 or 3 times.
It would be .4 to 1.2 % of world oil consumption in 2030 thats 22 years from now we would be getting oil from anwr in 6 years and also that percentage is if we don't take the next 22 years to switch to green energy. Also I'm not relying only on anwr because its our smallest untapped oil reserve. I would also drill offshore and mine in the Rockies.
Isn't the English language great? I can parse that at least 3 different ways, each with a dramatically different meaning.
To put it bluntly, I love this country enough to be willing to sacrifice MY quality of life so that future generations of Americans can enjoy an improved quality of life.
The drill now crowd is willing to sacrifice those future generations on the unlikely hope that technology will magically improve so that fossil fuels will no longer be necessary at all.
Your comment makes no sense at all. The FACT is even if we switched to every source of alternative fuel it wouldnt keep us sustained. So your basically living in a fantasmic dream land that only you and your liberal tree hugging friends believe is reality. Wake up.
No, because we don't have to switch to alternative fuels.
As I pointed out elsewhere, Japan runs its economy on 4% (and I've rounded up heavily) of US oil consumption and has not significantly increased consumption since the 70's/80's.
We just have (along with China and India) USE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY to REDUCE CONSUMPTION.
I agree that solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and hydroelectric are going to remain niche players - and for almost the same reasons that new refineries will not be built.
THe existing technology is what i was refering to. Even with all the current technology we have it would be no where near the amount of energy we need. So again, get your head out of the clouds and come back to the real world. For the next 20 years there is no way of avoiding that we still need a LOT of oil. Wishfull thinking doesnt keep a nation running even though you have a lot of it.
You keep obsessing about producing. I'm talking about reducing consumption to the rates already seen in Japan - improvements that could be done in a matter of weeks, not years.
I did lie though. Global consumption is 85m brl/day. US consumption is 20m. So the Japanese use less than a fifth of what we do with half the population.
So existing technology reduces the global energy needed from 85m to 34m brl/day. And it can be implemented in weeks or months and with immediate benefit.
Reducing consumption is another phrase for SLOWDOWN THE ECONOMY AND TAKE AWAY ALL PERSONAL RIGHTS when it comes to energy use. That is an even more hair brained idea that your previous one. It will not work. Well let me rephrase that, it might work but you would be jeopordizing the whole economic infrastructure and people right to make certain fuel related choices. Its not gonna happen.
First off, if using water heat remclimation reduced costs significantly it would alredy be done. Secondly, how would the housing insulation help when there are so many already built homes? I understand for newly built ones but those are the vast minority. Your plan has holes in it, thats all im saying.
1. Factories in the US are starting to do this. And it's not just water heat. Smelters require tremendous energy input, but there's enough wasted for heating nearby offices. There's also the issue of education - most people don't know these options exist.
2. Blown in insulation works very well for existing homes and is relatively affordable.
The big challenge is helping people/firms with the significant upfront costs.
If factories are already doing it then what are you complaining about? And with the insulation why on earth would anyone who already have insulation reinsulate their homes unless theyre doing extensive repairs? Let me get this straight, insulation and heat reclamation will reduce our oil consumption by 67%.Sorry.The answer is until we refine new technology and implement the current tech. we have we will NEED OIL. Therefore the drilling now campaign is very relavant for the next 20-30 years.
On their own, no. But there are lots of solutions and they become increasingly affordable as the era of incredibly cheap energy wanes.
And like I said, factories are just starting to convert to more input efficient methods. Facilitate the purchase with tax credits and your companies become more profitable, compensating for most of the tax credit.
We need oil. We'll need it indefinitely. That's why I don't want to use all the easily accessible light sweet crude now, especially for one-time uses
1. We don't need to wait for new technology. The fixes exist already. And subsidized fossil fuels have artificially lowered their cost and externalized a number of costs. The Iraq Wars, for example, are not included in the cost of a barrel of oil.
2. Most American consumers and businesses are unaware that these more energy efficient options exist. Capitalism is most efficient where knowledge is diffuse.
3. Promote the existing technology which is known to work.
4. Direct energy research toward renewables for long-term (5+ year) development.
5. Direct subsidies toward renewable sources of energy and away from fossil fuels
Oh, to clarify 1, "their" is referring to the fossil fuels. We've artificially lowered their prices for decades. Japan and the EU have artificially raised them.
But let's say you need a geopolitical argument. While we buy oil from the other countries, they have a vested interest in maintaining stable relations with us.
If we drill domestically and forbid imports, they have no such vested interests and all of their production will feed China and India, with whom they have exclusive interests.
As it is China controls the lion share of our national debt. We dilute their power by buying allegiance, by the barrel, from Middle Eastern states.
Slow down the economy and take away personal rights? Why would you say that? We can develop clean, home-grown renewable energy sources that give people work and allow a continuation of our way of life. I can say from experience, because I work for a renewable energy company.
Sure we can. Forcing people to do it is another thing. Tax the crap out of business and forcing them to following stict laws is another thing. Working in a renewable energy company Im sure you want all that to happen though.
Drill here, drill now! Also.... Build nuclear plants here, build now! and P.S. over 95% of homes and businesses in California are not insulated. the amount of energy wasted is astronomical.
Agree...our President and military leader holding hands and kissing the ass of the Saudi King is incredible! The republicans have brought US down for the sake of their oil monies....the US without an energy policy...but we know how to kiss ass....
We're all being held hostage by those that have bailed on the dollar, esp. Iran and Russia. The NWO is in full swing, and it's not gonna get better until after it gets much, much worse!
I'm not against drilling, but everyone must recognize it won't solve short term energy prices. The oil prices are a huge bubble that's is just waiting to pop and if I were any of you with oil company stock I'd sell that stock off asap. When that bubble pops it's going to be like the housing bubble.
Actually in parts of the gulf of Mexico were the pipe lines are near by it would take just over 1 year on the continental shelf it would take about 3 years and 50 miles off shore of California and Florida it would take 5 years Anwr 5 to 8 years according to the oil companies who actually do the drilling.
I don't think this will dramatically change the price of oil, but I'd rather $140/barrell be put into our economy as opposed to Iran or Saudia Arabia.
I agree. The actual difference that I'm paying isn't that much per year. But I would love for the money to be going to our folks and put into our economy.
But the majority of our debt and assets are owned by overseas investors in China, Japan and the Middle East. The majority of the money in the stock and commodity markets is owned by people outside of the US.
The very wealthy US citizens who would benefit will see the greatest returns in overseas markets as well due to the weakening dollar and stagnant domestic economy.
Our money is fleeing the US and even massive domestic oil production won't prevent that.
I agree with some of what you say but you seem to be missing the point... is that we as americans and yes the very wealthy are Americans will be dealing from a much stronger position
How so? Wouldn't we be in an even stronger position in the global political-economic system if we allowed the Middle East to deplete its resources significantly before we started tapping ours, making us pretty much the sole source of fossil fuel in the global market?
Particularly if we are able to slow our domestic consumption to something below the level which our refineries are already meeting and foreign states are less ready?
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly ,
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly .
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly ,
There's plenty of blame for our being stupid these past 30 years but no excuse for not taking practical action to correct the problem NOW, however long it takes. Research for new fuels but Drill coastal, ANWR, Rockies, Dakota's; build nuclear plants, windmills and refineries NOW and urgently.
It's our dependence on a limited resource, not just a foreign one, that's the problem
guardsmen13 11 months ago
god bless the usa god bless will smith and god bless usa independence day on the 3rd of july
langagepowerstation 1 year ago
God there are a lot of wacko's and loons here.
Aft3rMiDn1Ght 1 year ago
Republican Jesus says: "Blessed are the Polluters for they shall receive tax subsidies."
AtlasShruggery 1 year ago
We'll never have energy independence until the oil is all gone, that's just how it is!
sapher2020 1 year ago
I almost burst out laughing when they started playing pictures of the American Revolution. Don't you just love how they associate all the great achievements of America with drilling for more oil?
SerendipityPwns 2 years ago
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Let us all pray this Forth of July protest can succeed in re-celebrating our Independence.
A final try at peaceful discourse will occur in every hometown USA on that day. Make a stand for freedom.
For staging false terror,
For legislating disarmament, For controlling speech via propaganda media, For selling our economy to illegitimate bankers, For refusing to defend our border with Mexico, For dishonoring your oath to the US Constitution.
Lets give them a 4th of July to remember!
MilitaryTacticalGear 2 years ago
lol, just ignorant ppl think that Drilling more Oil is the solution.
gemsyjoe 3 years ago
its your fault americans... trying to make money on everyhing whatever the cost... greed is going to finish you off.
Boljusz 3 years ago
@Boljusz And Australians, and Canadians, and fill-in-your SECOND-favourite-country-to-hate...
But you're QUITE right... oil depletion in our lifetime is QUITE well-known, and I'm just shocked that some people refuse to see it in the same way they refuse to see global warming... It WOULD be amusing to see people in the US freezing in their McMansions... ("but we have a three-car garage with a house attached - we NEED that oil!")
shmuli9 1 year ago
Stop importing foreign oil and we will win the war on terror
login001login001 3 years ago
@login001login001 read Energy Victory, by Robert Zubrin is priceless
wackokicker 2 years ago
WHAT is the incentive for the Oil Co's to drill more? why would they want to lower the price? They're making huge profits now, why would they want to lower the price at the pump?
As for "independence" What keeps the oil here? Why would they sell domestically if the price was higher elsewhere?
Seems to me that the oil co's need competition from other sources of energy before the price comes down
beonecity 3 years ago
use algae fuel it would kill the middle east...
SkyFox98 3 years ago
Its time our country stop being beholden to environmental communists. We have all the energy we need right here in this country. Nuclear energy, Coal, Oil reserves, are all here in this country, waiting to be extracted. Unfortunately, the Global Warming HOAX has caused everyone to panic that the earth is going to explode in the near future. This HOAX will ruin our country. Its time we, who believe that America WAS the greatest nation in history, stand up and take our country back!
yaya52 3 years ago
@yaya52 start studying sciences right now!
wackokicker 2 years ago
not sure what you meant by that.
yaya52 1 year ago
great video
iq147atuofm 3 years ago
July 4, 1776 = American Independence Day
July 4, 2008 = American Energy Independence Day
Brilliant and terrific idea, Mr. Gingrich. If a comprehensively American solution to energy presents itself now, from oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico to new nuclear power plants, then let it develop as America wishes.
cangeloc127 3 years ago
AFSTrinity Hybrid SUV gets 150mpg! Look it up on YouTube! GM needs to by their technology and mass produce this vehicle now! I'd buy it today
manyleaves 3 years ago
It's less flashy name is plugin-hybrid and Toyota has them coming out in the 2009 Prius. Perhaps this company developed a better version, but that's effectively what this does. That means it works really well for people who commute less than 30 miles to work, because then they'll almost never use gas. They may want to invest in solar panels and a battery bank though to keep their utility bills low.
glorpy2 3 years ago
Drilling is not the answer, thats just like giving an addict more drugs. We need new energies developed. Id like to see us get to 50% alturnative fuels within 5 to 8 years. Renewable energy is the answer to the future. I do not oppose drilling but I do not see it as the answer to the problem, only a short term solution and really not a good one. All that money and effort could go to better uses.
bdarnell1966 3 years ago
All the talk about the future is fine and dandy - but people eat every day, and for them to eat, they need food, every day, and for there to be food, every day, it requires irrigation to run, every day, and for irrigation to run, every day, requires millions of engines to run, every day. Like it or not, the vast majority of pumps run on diesel. The tractors, and delivery systems run on diesel. Won't change overnight, neither will our infrastructure. Not drilling will insure people starve.
flagold 3 years ago 2
Americans MUST be Pro-Active on this Oil Problem.Folkes don't wait around for Government to help you out,they are On VACATION! And Permanently & have their 'HEADS UP ASS". Vote OUT in 08.Remember OUT, ALL.
This week I changed to Geothermal Heating and next week I'm looking into Solar pannels for electric. We All MUST "DO" whatever we can to lessen dependency & then GET OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE ASS HOLES IN D.C.
DRILL NOW BEFORE CHINA DRILLS HERE!
Americans speak up and Demand Drilling NOW!
danesaregreat 3 years ago
One cannot logically compare petroleum use between the U.S. and Japan...the sheer size of our country makes this comparison ridiculous. You can't simply compare countries with like populations; compare countries with the same occupied land mass, distance for transporting food/products/supplies, etc. Japan also has an efficient rail system for its small country.
GearMaven 3 years ago
Your So Right...don't you love it when they tell us how we should be like Europeans...
They don't have the large countries and it's Appels and Prunes...
danesaregreat 3 years ago
Our country may be large, but the overwhelming majority of people live in a few urban areas. 35 million people live in the 25 largest cities - and that doesn't include suburbs.
And from Wikipedia, "In 2007, 50.13% of Americans lived in the 40 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas."
We also enjoyed a rich train system until our oil and auto industries legislated in oil and auto subsidies and legislated rail subsidies away.
glorpy2 3 years ago
What do you expect the rest of Americans ,265 Million people do?
The Green Liberals all want to dictate How and What we all should Eat,Ride,Live, and teach Our Children...Hey, I think you should live in China! They can just "kill off" the people if they want. Sounds like your kind of Plan! The"Silent Majority" have had enough of the "crazys" and will start making the Changes for this Country,just like always.The Grown Ups will Slap Down the Stupid green kids and take the Cool Aid away.
danesaregreat 3 years ago 4
how many times have i heard this before, if i had a penny for each time...wow id be one rich SOB
tgshark1 3 years ago
danesaregreat, really, why do you need to use this kind of language to talk about anyone? There's no reason - it's counterproductive. We are all human beings, with the same fundamental needs and wants. Most everyone wants a safe future for our children. Why not develop clean, safe energy sources now, so that we don't have to fight others for the last reserves of oil? How can you say anything against energy independence?
DeepGreenMoonbeam 3 years ago
Totaly agree!We need clean safe energy, however with the Current NON-LEADERSHIP we have in this Country all they seem to think Important is the Next Election! The Blame Game of DC's Democrats/Republicans disgraceful non performance NO Solutions! Americans Will LEAD Themselves. I have just installed Geothermal Heat/AC this past week so this winter NO OIL! But we still need oil in USA for this economy & for people to go to work. We will do it without THEM! WE ARE AMERICA!We are on the right path
danesaregreat 3 years ago
@danesaregreat I don't think people in the US should stop using oil immediately, but I DO think that using/developing other resources NOW, before oil runs out, makes sense...
shmuli9 1 year ago
We Americans can suck a cak
dav231988 3 years ago
Your not american and you can suck a cock if yould like you piece of shit. LOL
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
It would take 1 to 6 years to have productive wells depending on location of the well. Good source of alternate power is nuclear.
ragtop86 3 years ago
Great video! Drill here and drill now!
ragtop86 3 years ago
Get the government OUT of the economy. Let individuals make their own free choices, and that's the only way to produce maximum consumer/producer satisfaction.
rbilkie 3 years ago
We must drill everywhere we can. Also bring back nuclear power plants.
1952591 3 years ago
Drill Here Drill Now Pay Less, yes this is the best to keep our economy going and to lower cost on the public and to keep from using foreign oil.
4P60h7i3l0 3 years ago
Question for you pro-drillers: where are you getting the numbers? Wikipedia (ha!) says that the global - not American - supply of shale oil is 3.3 trillion barrels. The same article claims that you need a ton of shale to extract up to 40L of oil. I'd appreciate a fact check on this info.
For that matter, where is this $200 billion in tax revenues coming from? Over 100 years? From increasing taxes? Where does this number come from? Source it, please.
glorpy2 3 years ago
Maybe Americans of all political points of view will start to realize the truth in the NEED to tap our resources while we transition away from oil over the next 20 or so years when the price hits $7-$8 per gallon for diesel fuel.
Opec President said very recently that there was plenty of supply but this Algerian man educated in TX OPEC Pres Chakib Khelil also said that the price per barrel WILL reach $170 per barrel by years end.
This is a deliberate attack on the US economy IMHO.
theoriginalRanter 3 years ago
Look no one with a brain is suggesting that it is oil is the only solution. Spend a few moments on chart 12 on the DOE website. We have a "Energy Crisis" not an "Oil Crisis". Unfortunately we have an oil infrastructure and it will take some time and technology (some technology we don't have yet)to get to true independence. "GLORPY2" your passionate but illinformed. We need everything or you won't have anything. Gingrich is correct on the current market conditions and the long term solution
adelmannaaa 3 years ago
This "solution" is so short-sighted and it will destroy the natural habitat of animals that have done nothing to us.
riddle84 3 years ago
Why on earth does anybody think the same oil companies that are getting $4+ a gallon out of you now would be good hearted enough to drop the price if they drilled here? They would charge the same. I bet they'd even sell it to China and India if the price was right. There is no patriotism, no "United We Stand" in the oil indu$try. And believe me, Newt knows that. He's not stupid, he's a tool.
LeoHareMusic 3 years ago
There's also a myth that more oil will cause the supply of heating oil and gas to increase. Unfortunately, our refineries already run near maximum capacity and our domestic oil industry is loathe to invest in more for fear of a potential market crash a la the late 80's to 90's.
Without more refineries, the oil does no good to anybody. And refineries are heavy industry with a severe NIMBY factor and lots of nasty output.
glorpy2 3 years ago
If we drill in the USA we don't have to deal with OPEC there pricing or there hate for America. Also we should build more refineries or add onto the ones we already have. Its the same people who don't want drilling that don't want more refineries or any other solution that makes sense.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
If you produce oil, you deal with OPEC, member state or not. And our oil would almost certainly be shipped to China and India where demand (and profitability) are greatest.
Oh, and who's modding down the comments of the actual oil industry regarding their total disinterest in adding to the refining capacity of the United States? Is somebody a wee bit divorced from reality?
glorpy2 3 years ago
Your right you are a wee bit divorced from reality but thats not your fault your being spoon fed. Pipe lines run under water and mining shale isn't going to make a huge impact on your hiking trails.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
You would run a pipeline in one of the busiest shipping and fishing areas in the world, particularly near a tectonic plate (a minor one, but still)? A line in deep water where repair is incredibly difficult and expensive? And you'd make it 12-50 miles long?
No, in reality, we'd be using tankers to ship the oil from the platform to tanks on the shore, either in Mexico or Florida (Louisiana and Mississippi are rather attached to their shrimping industries).
glorpy2 3 years ago
Theres pipe line's in the Gulf already we would only be adding to whats there.
If we need to use tankers then I see no problem with doing that
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
I really don't care about the scenic beauty of the Rockies, but I know that the cattle ranchers will have a fit if they sense any risk of water pollution that could damage their herds' profitability. Colorado Springs, Denver, Aspen, etc residents surely don't want all that happening anywhere they might potentially see (or smell) it.
The oil extraction and refining industry produces significant airborne particulate matter.
glorpy2 3 years ago
We can mine without leaving much impact on the area then ship the shale just like we ship coal
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
the envorment will adapt to it
Aggies155 3 years ago
Unfortunately Barack and the democrats are wrong on this one. We absolutely need to tap our oil now. The situation is only going to get worse and if we wait it may be too late.
rajens00 3 years ago 2
The Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices (PUMP) Act (S. 3185). If enacted, this Act would close the full range of loopholes being used by oil market speculators and dark market exchanges and give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the ability to better prevent traders from establishing powerful positions in commodity markets that could be used for manipulative purposes.
Industry experts told Congress this could bring down the world price of oil to around $60 within 30 days.
1Coastie 3 years ago
How would US legislation prevent manipulation of the oil markets as they are traded in London, Frankfurt, Beijing and Tokyo as well?
glorpy2 3 years ago
But, then how much oil is within America and off our shores? I've heard it is 3% of the world's supply, not enough to bother. We should keep ours in reserve.
The Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices (PUMP) Act (S. 3185). If enacted, the PUMP Act would close the full range of loopholes being used by oil market speculators and dark market exchanges.
Industry experts testifying in Congress say from enacting PUMP this would bring down the cost of oil to $60 per barrel within 30 days.
1Coastie 3 years ago
We have 3 times as much as Saudi Arabia in Rocky Mountain shale 10 billion barrels in Anwr and who knows how much is off the coast. I don't care what else you do to lower the price of oil but we need to start getting our own oil now.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Do you really think the oil companies would drop the price out of patriotic goodness if they drilled here? Do you really think they would sell domestic oil here only, and not overseas, to China, for example?
LeoHareMusic 3 years ago
No the oil companies wouldn't but the speculators would lower the price or lose there investment. Also if we didn't have to buy from the middle east we could leave and let China worry about that mess. I would much rather sell oil to China than have them come over and take it out from under us.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
there isnt a lack of oil.... our dollar is just sinking. We have a lack of intelligence.
Innovate god-damnit!
Tap the zero point energyfield aka "dark energy"! Nikola Tesla did. The Hoover administration stole his patents!!
Release the patents!!!!!!!!
Free energy forever!
The Zeropoint Energyfield is the glue that binds the universe. It links Gravity - Electricity -&- Magnetism
ParapaDrifter 3 years ago
Did anyone get the meaning of thid vid... Energy indepenence is understanding the words...
Mother nature is a power most all shouldd understand but few have a mind of...
Solar, and without it there is no wind...
eagleswingwis 3 years ago
Less than 2 years ago Pelosi made a promise to those who would follow, that the Dem. control congress would make the "change" we need to lower fuel costs, and the war in Iraq was lost and they could fix, "change", that too. How do you like their "change" so far. Great video!!
dntpokdabear 3 years ago 2
Great Video, Thanks for the pick-me-up.
cplkv20208 3 years ago
Drill. And buy from your friends in Alberta, Canada. We have some of the biggest reserves in the world in our oil sands. And our country is not run by wackos. (Although there are quite a few of those in Central Canada)!
Kenbrucelesliedale 3 years ago
I agree drill more of our own and buy excess from friendly countries. I scratch your back you scratch mine is much better than I scratch your back you crash plane into my building.:-)
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Replace the third "scratch your back" with "send billions of dollars to your tyrannical government" and it would be more accurate. (Not justifying terrorism, just saying the Saudi people's backs aren't exactly being scratched.)
caseymarquis 3 years ago
The real solution is to phase out oil fueled vehicles (gasoline/diesel). There's enough technology out there to do away with oil fueled vehicles altogether. The oil companies don't want you to know that, but it's true. If we don't phase out oil fueled vehicles, the prices are just going to get worse. The speculative investors and the continuing global demand will see to that. Notwithstanding that fact, that was a pretty cool video.
mikeferr107 3 years ago 2
Another thing to remember is that we do not simply use petroleum for gasoline to run our cars and trucks; petroleum products are used in millions of products throughout our world...even down to your lip gloss!! Read those labels, folks. So we will still need petroleum. Let's make it our own petroleum and not that of some other country that can hold it over us. Let's also create alternative energy sources to drive our cars, power our homes, etc. Americans can do anything we put our minds to!
GearMaven 3 years ago 2
@GearMaven Right! We can do anything we set our minds to. For example:
We can ban shoddy uninsulated home construction.
We can transfer the annual >$18b oil industry subsidy to renewable energy sources.
We can adopt the 35-50 mpg vehicles that dominate the market in most of the rest of the world.
We can stop using long haul trucking and upgrade our rail network to run faster and carry greater volume and provide more coverage.
We can re-urbanize.
These provide energy independence too.
glorpy2 3 years ago
And when we take the 18b in subsidies away from the oil companies who will they pass there extra costs on to? We'll get a lot more money from drilling more oil at our current tax rates than we would from taking there subsidies away so do more drilling and use the new tax income to subsides renewable energy sources.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
In theory, yes, we would earn more money. In reality we wouldn't because of the far lower profit margin of the remaining US oil fields due to either difficulty in drilling (the Gulf is deep, which mean $1b+ oil platforms a la Norway in the midst of a credit crunch and economic stagnation), the difficulty in transporting, and the difficulty of processing (oil shale requires 1 ton of pulverized rock to produce up to 40 liters of oil).
glorpy2 3 years ago
The only place it would be less profitable is the shale. It would be the same in the gulf and in anwr as it is now we already have pipelines in the gulf and in Alaska. We would get almost 200 billion in tax revenue from Anwr alone.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Here's an example from an article of how we could really save:
Suppose we raised average fuel efficiency to 40 MPG [from the current 20] by 2030; this would save us more than 5 million barrels of oil per day, 25 times as much as we would get from Senator McCain's offshore drilling.
QMaverick1 3 years ago
I agree but we should do both
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
I'm not saying everyone can afford the switch to solar, but what I am saying is, what if we invested the billions of dollars it would cost to drill here in the USA into alternatives instead? Don't you think that if we put some energy into mass producing solar cells and batteries that they would get down to an affordable rate? It's just an example, but I feel that if we had cars running on H20 fuel cells instead of oil we'd go a LONG way to becoming less dependent on oil.
QMaverick1 3 years ago
Your not that far off from were I am. I'm saying drill the oil and use the extra tax money to develop the alternatives. The USA would get almost 200 bil in tax money from Anwr alone our smallest oil reserve and thats at our current tax rate on the oil companies.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
On the frontlines is the auto industry. Automobiles are a large part of our consumption. If we reduce our daily consumption of oil, it reduces our need. We fix that, then we move on to other sources and shifting them. We have enough oil now to focus on that and go green by the time the oil runs out or is low.
And by the time we don't need any more oil, we'll be able to buy it cheap because we won't be consuming it.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
20% of our oil consumption is from trucks delivering goods across country. We could switch cross country deliveries back to trains and use trucks for short range deliveries. Trains don't use as much fuel per car and they don't sit in traffic or cause accidents or wear and tear on the roads. I'm 100% behind using common sense to become less dependent on oil. We still need fossil fuels until we switch over to green tech we should be getting the oil from ourselves.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Another thing you can do is grow your own food or at least some of it. If people grew enough food to feed themselves 1 day a week it would cut down on the number of delivery trucks carrying food across the country thus reducing our need on oil.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Umm...I'm going to put this in caps so that people might actually see it for once: WE SHOULDN'T BE RELYING ON OIL AT ALL!!!!!!! Get it? We should be using alternative energies, our cars should be running on fuel cells, and congress should FORCE the auto-makers to start producing these technologies that they already have working prototypes for. Drill more? Do you realize how much it will cost just to get the project up and running? It won't lower prices, but it will mess up the ecosystem.
QMaverick1 3 years ago
As gas prices go up American business' go over seas were they add 4 times as much co2 to the air to produce the same product. Your only thinking about your car your not thinking about heating your home powering you computer or industry producing what you need on a daily basis.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
No, there are plenty of other ways to heat the home and power our electronic devices. There's solar power with high efficiency battery banks that can actually run homes where I live (Ohio) where we get somewhere around 94 completely sunny days a year. There are power plants that don't run on coal or crude ya' know. We simply shouldn't be as reliant on oil as we are. That's the solution, not finding more. We WILL run out one day as our rate of consumption only increases.
QMaverick1 3 years ago
Is your house run on solar energy? If so then great but if not your just talking. The whole point of this movement is to get the power we need as we transfer to green energy. I know I can't afford to switch to solar. I wish I could but it ain't happening.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Hyperbole much?
I totally agree with your cause, but Iwo jima and D-Day? That's a -little- over the top. Keep up the good work, though.
Bucknik 3 years ago
We should never equate Iwo Jima and D-Day to drilling for oil and energy independence. Have some tact.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
There equating Iwo Jima and D-Day to America's ability to overcome adversity.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
The oil in the Rockies is in the form of oil shale. You have to dig the rock, crush the rock and then harvest the oil from all the junk in there. Destroys the western landscape, pollutes the water and the air.
It isn't a matter of just drilling a hole and up comes the crude.
The amount available is an estimate. There has not been suitable testing to have concrete numbers.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
Mining technology in America is advanced enough to make a minimal impact on the environment. I live in West Virginia well known for mining coal and we have beautiful hills streams and lakes. Nature is safe.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
@ArboriusOwns: Who modded you down?! How far are you from the nearest active coal mine?
glorpy2 3 years ago
About 12 miles
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Canada has twice as much oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Why are we courting the Saudi's when we are in the North American Union with Canada?
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
The Rocky mountains have 3 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia why are we courting anyone
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
We have enough oil in our reserves to last our country for a long time. First, we could stop buying from other countries today and start using the reserve. And by the time the reserve is getting low, we'll have developed our green technologies. There is no need to drill.
You say, we can drill environmentally responsibly... Yeah right, how many oil spills have we had? You don't seem to understand that everything in the environment is linked together.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
You tell me how many oil spills have we had? I know during the level 4 and 5 hurricanes we had no significant spills in the gulf of Mexico. I know China is going to be drilling off the coast of Florida within 2 years and if theres going to be drilling I'd rather they used American standards rather than the standards of a country that sells poison food and toys painted with lead.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Let's put it in your backyard and see how you feel about it then.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
Lets not put it in anyones back yard and put it in Anwr near the arctic circle or 50 miles off shore. I should also mention that 75% of the people who live in Alaska want to drill in anwr.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
75% of the population? That seems a bit much. And considering the population of Alaska in 2006 was 670,053 (close to half live in Anchorage), which is a decent sized city in the lower 48, I don't put much stock into that fact. Secondly, your boy McCain, according to Jeffrey Kluger, in Time magazine's article, "The Eco Vote", November 2, 2007, says he doesn't support drilling in ANWR either. So it isn't about Dem/Rep. Its about thinking about the future inhabitants of this planet.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
Fellow citizens let us unite. stop with the hate language . Let us use poitive words and capture true patriotism with our God given talent to overcome obstacles and challenges. We need to solve this problem of dependence on fossil fuel. It is not going to go away. We have the talent in this beautiful country. Let us stop blaming and start solving.
celticboy333 3 years ago
I'm 100% behind getting off fossil fuels but we need to drill oil in the mean time. Use the tax money from the oil to fund the green movement. We'd make almost 200 billion in taxes just from drilling in anwr our smallest oil reserve and thats without raising taxes. Add to that the taxes from off shore drilling and Rocky mountain shale and you have all the funding you need for green technology.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
America has been attempting to keep Iraq oil OFF the market all this time, not get it on.
Look at the Iraqi Sanctions...even with the Oil for food program, Saddam was only allowed to put 100 million dollars worth of Oil up for sale a year, 30% of which had to be paid back to America as 'reparations' for the Gulf War, as if that would stop 500,000 children dying).
Keeping Iraqi oil off the market = high prices = Mega Profits for Saudi & Oil Companies.
CapitalistHolocaust 3 years ago
America has long wanted control the vast resources of the Middle East & so the War is not neccessarily about getting access to the oil, it's more about controlling access to the oil.
He who has his hand on the lever of oil in the M.East controls the World. Especially for America, the extra veto power it will afford them at the UN will amount to total World Domination for the foreseeable future.
CapitalistHolocaust 3 years ago
Don't leave Israel out. They want a Pipeline from Iraq to Israel, running from Northern Iraq, Kirkuk, to Haifa Israel. What a Deal huh America? We fight, Die, and PAY for the WAR and Israel gets a PIPELINE.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
Most of Iraq's oil is sold to China
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Hell, maybe thats paying down some of our Debt to China as well as taking the heat off the " America Invaded Iraq for the Oil" claims. Ingenious.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
Its not paying down our dept to China because its not our oil. Once we start drilling our own oil we might be able to pay off China but until then we have to borrow from China to buy oil from Saudi Arabia.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Sure it is our OIL, we're Stealing it. You think that Puppet Government we Installed is running the show? Really, you believe that?
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
We Invaded Their Country, Bombed the Shit out of them, Killed their leader, Occupied their Country, and Installed the Government we hand Picked. They have no say in whats going on with THEIR OIL, we made sure of that.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
If we're steeling the oil I'd like to see your evidence since our dept is still going up we're still paying for our troops in Iraq and our gas prices are going up. Please share with me were your getting your information.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Honestly, you're really arguing that point?
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
Vice-President DICK CHANEY amassed some $60 MILLION while he was chief executive of HALIBURTON OIL company.
Commerce Secretary Donald Evans held STOCK valued between $5m and $25m in Tom Brown Inc, the OIL and GAS exploration company he headed.
National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice was a DIRECTOR of CHEVRON.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
President BUSH and Vice President Cheney, both former OIL-company EXECUTIVES, have long tried to tell us this war was about terrorism, about weapons of mass destruction, about bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people, about anything but OIL.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
So they had jobs big deal. I asked for your evidence.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
This isn't a Courtroom and you aren't a Lawyer. Use some common sense.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
Your making accusations without evidence it doesn't need to be a court room for you to have to prove your statement. Common sense tells me that since Bush became president the first 6 years he had a republican congress and gas went up $1 in less than 2 years of democratic congress gas went up $2 more and since its the dems who want us to run everything with windmills then there probably the ones raising the price of oil. Thats just common sense with no evidence just like you wanted.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Ahh so you think its a complete coincidence that the Bush Administration with they're huge ties to the OIL industry attacked IRAQ?
Estimated World Reserves:
Estimated reserves in order 1 Saudi Arabia 2 Canada 3 IRAN 4 IRAQ
How odd. Hmm the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq must of had nothing to do with OIL. Must have been those pesky WMDs.
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
Not to mention, they are saying that many of the OPEC countries are accused of falsifying the information in regards to the amount they have in reserve.
JSamsDaMan 3 years ago
Whats your point My arguement is the hell with OPEC lets drill our own oil.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
No I think we attacked Iraq because Saddam Husein threatened to kill daddy Bush. Whats that got to do with drilling our own oil?
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Your fundamentally flawed (but corporate media supported) analysis has nothing to do with the War in Iraq. But securing the vast resources of the region does have.
America only goes to War when it will profit strategically,the humanitarian justifications given are just rhetoric.
No country has ever become the richest in the World by humanitarian intervention. This belief is reserved for indoctrinated childish patriots only.
CapitalistHolocaust 3 years ago
Drilling in the USA would mean we wouldn't have to deal with the middle east. Let China protect the oil we'll get our own.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Then since the middle east will be out of oil soon we should start drilling oil in America before China takes it from us.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Clinton was president for 8 of the 12 years of the sanctions so who are you blaming. Then since dems took over congress gas prices have doubled in less than 2 years. Americans are all for green technology theres no reason to shoot ourselves in the foot while we develop new energy.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Drilling won't do a DAMN THING about our INFLATION. Bush SPENDS, BORROWS, and PRINTS more DOLLARS, therefore BARRELS of OIL COST MORE, along with MILK, BREAD, and Everything else. Our NATIONAL DEBT is at $9,494,463,000,000 TRILLION DOLLARS, what the Hell did we Think was going to happen?
USSLIBERTY1 3 years ago
A large portion of our dept is from borrowing money to buy oil from people who want to kill us. If we drill our own oil we won't have to borrow as much and wouldn't it be great if we could switch to green tech and be drilling oil for the purpose of exporting it to make money for the USA.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
This comment just shows your ignorence of supply and demand. Besides, these prices all held normal for 6 years of Bush w/ Repubs in congress, then Pelosi takes over congress and bang, prices explode. That is not a coincidence.
charodej63 3 years ago
@charodej63: I never knew the Speaker of the House of Representatives had exclusive control over the US economy. Thanks for educating us!
glorpy2 3 years ago
The speaker of the house has control over which bills are brought before the House and which bills are putt on the shelf and ignored.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
How many times did Congress vote on drilling in the Gulf and the Rockies and ANWR between 1994 and 2006?
Also, according to the Bush administration, "For the average case, drilling in ANWR would reduce crude oil by 75 cents [a barrel], in 2025. The total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030." (2008)
glorpy2 3 years ago
Not sure how many times congress voted I think 2 or 3 times.
It would be .4 to 1.2 % of world oil consumption in 2030 thats 22 years from now we would be getting oil from anwr in 6 years and also that percentage is if we don't take the next 22 years to switch to green energy. Also I'm not relying only on anwr because its our smallest untapped oil reserve. I would also drill offshore and mine in the Rockies.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
Amen i think we need to clean house congress
Aggies155 3 years ago
Quit hating tree hugger. LOL
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
Isn't the English language great? I can parse that at least 3 different ways, each with a dramatically different meaning.
To put it bluntly, I love this country enough to be willing to sacrifice MY quality of life so that future generations of Americans can enjoy an improved quality of life.
The drill now crowd is willing to sacrifice those future generations on the unlikely hope that technology will magically improve so that fossil fuels will no longer be necessary at all.
glorpy2 3 years ago
Your comment makes no sense at all. The FACT is even if we switched to every source of alternative fuel it wouldnt keep us sustained. So your basically living in a fantasmic dream land that only you and your liberal tree hugging friends believe is reality. Wake up.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
No, because we don't have to switch to alternative fuels.
As I pointed out elsewhere, Japan runs its economy on 4% (and I've rounded up heavily) of US oil consumption and has not significantly increased consumption since the 70's/80's.
We just have (along with China and India) USE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY to REDUCE CONSUMPTION.
I agree that solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and hydroelectric are going to remain niche players - and for almost the same reasons that new refineries will not be built.
glorpy2 3 years ago
THe existing technology is what i was refering to. Even with all the current technology we have it would be no where near the amount of energy we need. So again, get your head out of the clouds and come back to the real world. For the next 20 years there is no way of avoiding that we still need a LOT of oil. Wishfull thinking doesnt keep a nation running even though you have a lot of it.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
You keep obsessing about producing. I'm talking about reducing consumption to the rates already seen in Japan - improvements that could be done in a matter of weeks, not years.
I did lie though. Global consumption is 85m brl/day. US consumption is 20m. So the Japanese use less than a fifth of what we do with half the population.
So existing technology reduces the global energy needed from 85m to 34m brl/day. And it can be implemented in weeks or months and with immediate benefit.
glorpy2 3 years ago
Reducing consumption is another phrase for SLOWDOWN THE ECONOMY AND TAKE AWAY ALL PERSONAL RIGHTS when it comes to energy use. That is an even more hair brained idea that your previous one. It will not work. Well let me rephrase that, it might work but you would be jeopordizing the whole economic infrastructure and people right to make certain fuel related choices. Its not gonna happen.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
Um, retrofitting waste heat reclamation on to factories reduces operating costs, increasing profitability within one year. Insulating houses likewise reduces operating expenses.
Conservation does not have to mean loss of personal freedom and damage to the economy.
glorpy2 3 years ago
First off, if using water heat remclimation reduced costs significantly it would alredy be done. Secondly, how would the housing insulation help when there are so many already built homes? I understand for newly built ones but those are the vast minority. Your plan has holes in it, thats all im saying.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
1. Factories in the US are starting to do this. And it's not just water heat. Smelters require tremendous energy input, but there's enough wasted for heating nearby offices. There's also the issue of education - most people don't know these options exist.
2. Blown in insulation works very well for existing homes and is relatively affordable.
The big challenge is helping people/firms with the significant upfront costs.
glorpy2 3 years ago
If factories are already doing it then what are you complaining about? And with the insulation why on earth would anyone who already have insulation reinsulate their homes unless theyre doing extensive repairs? Let me get this straight, insulation and heat reclamation will reduce our oil consumption by 67%.Sorry.The answer is until we refine new technology and implement the current tech. we have we will NEED OIL. Therefore the drilling now campaign is very relavant for the next 20-30 years.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
On their own, no. But there are lots of solutions and they become increasingly affordable as the era of incredibly cheap energy wanes.
And like I said, factories are just starting to convert to more input efficient methods. Facilitate the purchase with tax credits and your companies become more profitable, compensating for most of the tax credit.
We need oil. We'll need it indefinitely. That's why I don't want to use all the easily accessible light sweet crude now, especially for one-time uses
glorpy2 3 years ago
Dude your argument changes by the minute. Get a clue.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
You seem confused by my points:
1. We don't need to wait for new technology. The fixes exist already. And subsidized fossil fuels have artificially lowered their cost and externalized a number of costs. The Iraq Wars, for example, are not included in the cost of a barrel of oil.
2. Most American consumers and businesses are unaware that these more energy efficient options exist. Capitalism is most efficient where knowledge is diffuse.
3. Promote the existing technology which is known to work.
glorpy2 3 years ago
4. Direct energy research toward renewables for long-term (5+ year) development.
5. Direct subsidies toward renewable sources of energy and away from fossil fuels
Oh, to clarify 1, "their" is referring to the fossil fuels. We've artificially lowered their prices for decades. Japan and the EU have artificially raised them.
But let's say you need a geopolitical argument. While we buy oil from the other countries, they have a vested interest in maintaining stable relations with us.
glorpy2 3 years ago
If we drill domestically and forbid imports, they have no such vested interests and all of their production will feed China and India, with whom they have exclusive interests.
As it is China controls the lion share of our national debt. We dilute their power by buying allegiance, by the barrel, from Middle Eastern states.
glorpy2 3 years ago
No, no, YOU seem confused by your points.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
Slow down the economy and take away personal rights? Why would you say that? We can develop clean, home-grown renewable energy sources that give people work and allow a continuation of our way of life. I can say from experience, because I work for a renewable energy company.
DeepGreenMoonbeam 3 years ago
Sure we can. Forcing people to do it is another thing. Tax the crap out of business and forcing them to following stict laws is another thing. Working in a renewable energy company Im sure you want all that to happen though.
MeLikeGoFast 3 years ago
Drill here, drill now! Also.... Build nuclear plants here, build now! and P.S. over 95% of homes and businesses in California are not insulated. the amount of energy wasted is astronomical.
rustEshakelford 3 years ago
yay!! free energy for everyone!!!! electromagnetics the wave of the future!!
dscglfr00 3 years ago
Agree...our President and military leader holding hands and kissing the ass of the Saudi King is incredible! The republicans have brought US down for the sake of their oil monies....the US without an energy policy...but we know how to kiss ass....
Pkr 3 years ago
The Dems are no better buddy.
brettmajors 3 years ago 2
We're all being held hostage by those that have bailed on the dollar, esp. Iran and Russia. The NWO is in full swing, and it's not gonna get better until after it gets much, much worse!
Zile77 3 years ago
global warming is a myth
SomethingAwfulYT 3 years ago 3
Agree!
Montagraph 3 years ago 2
I am happy that 'ol SomethingawfulYT gets it.
brettmajors 3 years ago
I'm all for making the air cleaner and shit, but this whole "GREEN" shit is a trend and another way to make more and more money.
SomethingAwfulYT 3 years ago
Drill here, Drill now, pay less in 20 years.
I'm not against drilling, but everyone must recognize it won't solve short term energy prices. The oil prices are a huge bubble that's is just waiting to pop and if I were any of you with oil company stock I'd sell that stock off asap. When that bubble pops it's going to be like the housing bubble.
blacksteel25 3 years ago
The 20 years argument is a myth. It can be online in 5 if the government moves on it.
brettmajors 3 years ago 2
Actually in parts of the gulf of Mexico were the pipe lines are near by it would take just over 1 year on the continental shelf it would take about 3 years and 50 miles off shore of California and Florida it would take 5 years Anwr 5 to 8 years according to the oil companies who actually do the drilling.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
I don't think this will dramatically change the price of oil, but I'd rather $140/barrell be put into our economy as opposed to Iran or Saudia Arabia.
hegshen 3 years ago 3
I agree. The actual difference that I'm paying isn't that much per year. But I would love for the money to be going to our folks and put into our economy.
davidloeffel 3 years ago 3
But the majority of our debt and assets are owned by overseas investors in China, Japan and the Middle East. The majority of the money in the stock and commodity markets is owned by people outside of the US.
The very wealthy US citizens who would benefit will see the greatest returns in overseas markets as well due to the weakening dollar and stagnant domestic economy.
Our money is fleeing the US and even massive domestic oil production won't prevent that.
glorpy2 3 years ago
I agree with some of what you say but you seem to be missing the point... is that we as americans and yes the very wealthy are Americans will be dealing from a much stronger position
If and when things become even more desperate.
CONAMERICAN 3 years ago
How so? Wouldn't we be in an even stronger position in the global political-economic system if we allowed the Middle East to deplete its resources significantly before we started tapping ours, making us pretty much the sole source of fossil fuel in the global market?
Particularly if we are able to slow our domestic consumption to something below the level which our refineries are already meeting and foreign states are less ready?
glorpy2 3 years ago
Thats what we've done already basically if its going to take 10 years to get like the Libs are arguing then we should start drilling now.
ArboriusOwns 3 years ago
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly ,
94HX26 3 years ago
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly .
94HX26 3 years ago
drilling now or ten years ago is not gonna change the price , it may ease the pain , but we need (as a species , men kind ) to get off oil completly ,
94HX26 3 years ago
Bring out the vomit bag. Energy independence and research into alternative sources of fuel and energy are indeed important, but this video is a joke!
joestudent1 3 years ago
There's plenty of blame for our being stupid these past 30 years but no excuse for not taking practical action to correct the problem NOW, however long it takes. Research for new fuels but Drill coastal, ANWR, Rockies, Dakota's; build nuclear plants, windmills and refineries NOW and urgently.
walkercmelvin 3 years ago 2