"The Price Of Oil"
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Well it looks like I cant convince even though to dont argue my point you just keep saying "becuase we need it".
I suggest you look in the cost of building, maintaining and then disabling an off shore oil rig. And see if you think America will make a profit from the endever.
Remember a Cap trade system will go into effect and that will increase the cost even more.
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Because we still need oil for transportation.
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All im saying is why spend millions on creating new oil rigs, when in 10 years after they start producing, we will have to spend millions dismantelling them. Its a waist of $.
An oil rig will produce energy for 15 years a wind farm will produce energy forever.
WE should use the $ that would create new oil rigs and create bigger wind or solar farms.
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We still need oil for cars, trucks, planes, and trains. Whatever, you keep thinking that we don't need to drill oil for 96% of our transportation sector. I'm sick of this.
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No curretly 40% of our energy consumption is oil. Of that 40%... 60% of is imported. Thus 23% of our energy needs are dependant on foreign oil.
You keep think we cant do it without drilling, we can and we will since weaker countries have already shown its already possible.
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You seem to be unaware that 60% of our energy comes from imported oil, so even if we got that 23% from renewables, that obviously isn't enough to even get us off foreign oil by itself, let alone oil entirely. We're still going to need oil.
The only realistic way for us to get off foreign oil is to BOTH drill, AND use alternatives, because neither by themselves is going to get the job done.
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"SO no renewables at all..." Was that supposed to be a question? If it was, you're putting words in my mouth again because I never suggested that we shouldn't use renewables. What I did suggest is that you can't focus all of your attention on it for reasons that I already gave.
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SO no renewables at all, Even though Eurpore is going to renewables full force and their Economy is the better for it becuase once Wind and solar is up and ready its FREE energy.
While Europe is getting power from FREE sources we will be paying to pull oil out of the ground and buying plutonium.
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Look at China or Germany then they are on the same track as sweden.
WE dont have to meet all our energy needs in 10 years ONLY the 23% to get us off foreign oil.
Why do keep forgetting that?
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Even if the US could get 23% renewable energy within ten years, that still leaves the other 77%.
If China has 8% renewable, and Germany has 14.2%, what about the rest of it?
An entire quarter of American energy consumption goes to the transportation sector, so again, even if every city was running renewable, oil (not biofuel) would still account for about 25% of our consumption, so it doesn't even matter if we could get that 23%. We would still need the oil for at the very least another 25%.
The liberals are putting the final touches on choking out American Corporations. Hope you like Polar Bears.
surfstomp 3 years ago 5
Interesting how the libtards are always screaming the Bush Adm. is in he pocket of the foreign oil Co's.
When all the Arab states including their terrorist org. Hammas, along w/ oil Czar Hugo Chavez (another enemy of America) all endorse 0bama for pres.
Even in this crisis, 0bama Still refuses to support domestic drilling off our shores.
Now, who's in the foreign oil Co's pocket?
JesusFrickinChrist 3 years ago 4