Comments on: Add It Up: Black Gold, Tifton Tea

By: Merrill Guice

Merrill Guice — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:19:38 +0000

Fact error on time to drilling. Existing wells off California were shut off due to the drilling moritorium. The infrastructure is still in place and could beging pumping in a matter of months, not years.

In the Santa Barbara area, local enviromentalists are calling for drilling to start up. The oil is naturally seeping out of the rocks and spoiling the coastline. They want oil wells to start pumping down the oil table.

Don’t know if this box will let me post html so I will leave a bare link to the story on the WSJ and then attempt a hyperlink

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121936878285762399.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Link

Merrill
Valdosta, GA

By: DaleC

DaleC — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:57 +0000

Depends on what you mean by “short” term :-)

Love the Latin BTW, except for the nightmare I am guaranteed to have tonight where I wake up knowing I didn’t study for my HS Latin exam.

By: Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:07:02 +0000

But, Dale, didn’t you just indicate earlier that drilling was a “longterm” solution? If it’s not midterm and not longterm, and it certainly isn’t short-term (because we couldn’t get the pumping through our veins for at least five years), ergo ipso facto therefore and whereas, it ain’t no solution at all. Here’s how to use less oil: Drive less!

By: DaleC

DaleC — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:43:49 +0000

I love he way you guys ‘fess up :-)

I also oppose our stupid-ass energy policies. We should drill (short term), conserve (mid-term) and innovate alternative sources (long term).

By: Andisheh Nouraee

Andisheh Nouraee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:39:02 +0000

I don’t oppose all new drilling.

I oppose our nation’s short-sighted, almost-suicidal energy policies.

By: Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:28:40 +0000

OK, Dale, I admit it. I oppose (almost) all new drilling.

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:55:25 +0000

Heaven forbid that we actually think long term.

Earliest date oil would flow from ANWR had we utilized the area SET ASIDE for oil by Jimmy Carter: about 1989

Earliest date of oil from offshore drilling if we were more concerned with fuel costs than Florida tourism : about four years ago

Estimated accuracy of price predictions: you mean the same people who didn’t predict $ 140/barrel oil two years ago can accurately predict gas prices in 2025?

Earliest date for reasonable alternatives: uhhh, in years or decades?

Just admit that you oppose drilling no matter what anybody says and I can at least respect the honesty.