tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post5933285361764327863..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Rock Of Ages—Fuel My CarAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39002922779099429102012-05-19T11:25:37.433-04:002012-05-19T11:25:37.433-04:00Lawhawk
What about microbes. How many microbes l...Lawhawk<br /><br />What about microbes. How many microbes live only in oil shale. What happens to these microbes if we take away their environment. Why! They might mutate into giant black oozing blobs and swallow whole towns in colorado whole. I saw it on a TV movie so it must be a real possibility.<br /><br />We have to stop oil shale to stop the giant mutant microbe blobs. Help! Help!<br /><br />I suspect the above counts for conversations around the water cooler at the EPA.Individualisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005025873042230314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-47398815407110710792012-05-18T22:15:19.161-04:002012-05-18T22:15:19.161-04:00Koshcat: I'm sure you've noticed the ecow...Koshcat: I'm sure you've noticed the ecoweenies are out in force to stop fracking for natural gas. They can't find too much wrong with natural gas itself, so they have to go after the means of producing it. If they don't, America might not have to beg for help from dictators, Islamists, and other foreign scum.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-4848296607739789782012-05-18T22:12:37.798-04:002012-05-18T22:12:37.798-04:00T-Rav and rlaWTX: Some of us missed the disappear...T-Rav and rlaWTX: Some of us missed the disappearing comment. Let us in on your discussion, por favor.<br /><br />Bev: Yes, Blogger the Black Hole has a healthy appetite these days.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-88866860891624310352012-05-18T22:10:44.589-04:002012-05-18T22:10:44.589-04:00Joel (Anon): It's one of those ideas that sta...Joel (Anon): It's one of those ideas that started out right, did some good, then took on a monstrous life of its own--like most bureaucracies that don't have "drop dead" dates. As you point out, we can't blame just the Democrats for these idiotic agencies. Bush the Elder signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, and we've been paying the price ever since. They never seem to think there might be serious unintended consequences, they don't prepare for them, and they create agencies which end up existing in perpetuity against all need or logic.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-9862392800355415142012-05-18T22:06:26.339-04:002012-05-18T22:06:26.339-04:00Tennessee: And that's the thing. We're s...Tennessee: And that's the thing. We're supposed to destroy our economy and way of life for a hare-brained theory from pseudo-scientists whose livelihood depends on finding and combating alleged global warming. It is possible that the earth is (or at least recently was) warming, but there's no proof man's activities are causing it or even having a significant measurable effect on it (how to explain Mars going through the same cycles?).LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-50768594129404718012012-05-18T22:00:03.953-04:002012-05-18T22:00:03.953-04:00tryanmax: That's just too deep for my unphilo...tryanmax: That's just too deep for my unphilosophical mind. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-88088055314901527422012-05-18T21:58:49.238-04:002012-05-18T21:58:49.238-04:00Andrew: I'm pretty sure you're right abou...Andrew: I'm pretty sure you're right about that. This is something we need to do, in The One's jargon, "right away."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-3146404947096802692012-05-18T21:57:39.712-04:002012-05-18T21:57:39.712-04:00Bev: I have to work on my Democrat twisted logic....Bev: I have to work on my Democrat twisted logic. You are absolutely correct, it was the evil Republicans who screwed up the pipeline.<br /><br />We don't have the fracking dichotomy here. We have the tracking dichotomy. LA wants high speed rail to SF. SF wants high speed rail to LA. So where do they start tearing up the ecology? Bakersfield. NOBODY in the Central Valley wants that bullet train, but we're the first to get stuck with it since LA and SF outweigh the Valley in Sacramento (just like the Delta smelt).LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-55668114577585794792012-05-18T20:13:58.955-04:002012-05-18T20:13:58.955-04:00"Fracking" is Hydraulic Fracturing which..."Fracking" is Hydraulic Fracturing which uses sand and water to force gas or oil out of the ground. It occurs thousands of feet below the drinking water table. There has been a big fight here in Erie about it, but the moratorium against it is probably going to be lifted soon. Why? Because the city counsel has actually investigating it and the oil and gas industry has science behind them. The opposition literally is running around yelling "think about the children! THE CHILDREN!"<br /><br />All the natural gas in the US is collected by fracking so ending it entirely would be really interesting (and probably really short). There is one problem with all this oil reserves being found here and in North Dakota region...it may flood the market with product forcing the price down, which could possibly make it less economically attractive to extract. It may also make countries such as Iran, whose current extraction system is stuck with 1950s technology, economically collapse.<br /><br />I can live with both those "problems".Koshcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-79951556514027489942012-05-18T19:22:44.612-04:002012-05-18T19:22:44.612-04:00I know I commented because T-Rav responded... Blog...I know I commented because T-Rav responded... Blogger must have been hungry!<br /><br />T-Rav, I'll try to go easy on the facts for you - I don't want to endanger the kittens.rlaWTXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09319344164726195144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-47607917355382976592012-05-18T18:06:18.893-04:002012-05-18T18:06:18.893-04:00Joel, the fact that it was a Republican who introd...Joel, the fact that it was a Republican who introduced the EPA is perhaps the simplest possible explanation for why the Tea Party was necessary. That just sums it all up.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-30861278053788140472012-05-18T17:43:06.693-04:002012-05-18T17:43:06.693-04:00Canadian oil is still more suitable for our intere...Canadian oil is still more suitable for our interest in some ways than Middle Eastern Oil, and an effective, safe pipeline needs labor, not to mention educated labor, particularly in engineering, geology, and expertise in cutting edge geographic software. Sure, oil isn't perfect, but the truth is, nothing is free of charge to the environment, everything has a cost. Properly supervised energy is efficient, and let's face the fact that carbon is the golden element right now, plastics, computers, steel, polymers, and so much more are all built on carbon in some way. Carbon should be considered an asset, or a commodity, not a vice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-26734529573698104202012-05-18T16:57:41.682-04:002012-05-18T16:57:41.682-04:00Getting rid of the EPA is paramount. We can't ...Getting rid of the EPA is paramount. We can't hope to achieve anything with these enviro-terrorists doing their level best to shut down this country.<br /><br />I have been for shutting the EPA down ever since they outlawed freon for spurious reasons. And it was a Republican idiot president[Bush SR] who allowed it! Shut it down!<br /><br />JoelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-85433687583123206462012-05-18T16:00:02.188-04:002012-05-18T16:00:02.188-04:00there is no better argument for kicking the Dem.&#...there is no better argument for kicking the Dem.'s out of power than this. I am not enough of a science type to effectively argue global warming. I do know that advocates have been found time and again to have over-stated the case and alter their findings. While that, by itself, doesn't mean everything else they claim must be wholly false, it certainly taints their credibility in a major way and makes them out to be blatantly political.<br /><br />Their biggest problem, in the end, turns out to be the "urgency" issue. It permits enviro-weenie types to argue we don't have time to transition to a supposedly friendlier energy source in a way which would not be equally catastrophic to our economy. Still, they haven't even proved that global warming has been even somewhat impacted by man thus far, let alone predominantly impacted by us.Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-20780849016296163112012-05-18T15:46:13.515-04:002012-05-18T15:46:13.515-04:00rla, don't crush my dreams!!! You and your--yo...rla, don't crush my dreams!!! You and your--your stupid "experience" and your "facts"....T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-85504856128824191442012-05-18T14:04:24.053-04:002012-05-18T14:04:24.053-04:00LawHawk, it may be the practicality disorder, but ...LawHawk, it may be the practicality disorder, but this just occurred to me: If "the future is now" and "history is what you make it" then we must be traveling backwards in time.tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-42022594324377079192012-05-18T13:48:15.514-04:002012-05-18T13:48:15.514-04:00I suspect this will be one of the first things Rep...I suspect this will be one of the first things Republicans do after the election.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-66149151764976465242012-05-18T13:18:55.922-04:002012-05-18T13:18:55.922-04:00"...remember that it was Obama's State De..."...remember that it was Obama's State Department that actually stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline."<br /><br />No, LawHawk, it was the EEEEVILE Republicans who forced Obama to say "No" before he was going to say "No", by making his decision part of the "spending less by spending more" budget bill or some such bill anyway. Never, never, never forget that it's the Republicans' fault (or Bush's).<br /><br />We have our own "fracking" fight going on in NY. The Governor wants to approve it because all of the reports say it's safe and our Upstate brethren desparatly need the jobs. But the NYC ecoweenies don't care about jobs in Upstate NY because they do not live at the center of the universe like we do. Pennsylvania is bringing in tax revenue hand over fist, but we can't...BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-82703967054531897842012-05-18T11:54:01.291-04:002012-05-18T11:54:01.291-04:00NOTE: I have a couple of appointments in Bakersfi...NOTE: I have a couple of appointments in Bakersfield today, and will be leaving in about an hour. Please feel free to continue commenting, and I'll respond just as soon as I return later this afternoon.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-59379612459576561572012-05-18T11:37:08.404-04:002012-05-18T11:37:08.404-04:00T-Rav: Well, as I noted above, Romney's agend...T-Rav: Well, as I noted above, Romney's agenda for his first day in office puts the Keystone XL Pipeline in the number one position. But that is a good start only. It's still Canadian oil, and these immense reserves of our own are the ones we should ultimately be exploiting. <br /><br />Obama simply doesn't care at all about American interests. He's a one-worlder, and doesn't see Jihadistan as an enemy.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-8924689854992116462012-05-18T11:29:17.048-04:002012-05-18T11:29:17.048-04:00tryanmax: I remember when Bill Clinton most recen...tryanmax: I remember when Bill Clinton most recently used that "ten year" trope. It was approximately ten years after the first time he said it. And yet, zero sense of irony when he said it the second time.<br /><br />Your third slogan indicates that you are suffering from Severe Practicality Disorder.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-65729401709490249172012-05-18T11:24:55.632-04:002012-05-18T11:24:55.632-04:00TJ: I know it's difficult to ask the presiden...TJ: I know it's difficult to ask the president of the universe to travel on the cheap, but we all have to make sacrifices. LOL<br /><br />The EPA is bad enough, but remember that it was Obama's State Department that actually stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-26575440946753525462012-05-18T11:18:07.113-04:002012-05-18T11:18:07.113-04:00If Romney opens up the oil shale fields (and ANWR,...If Romney opens up the oil shale fields (and ANWR, and the offshore areas) immediately after taking office, I will love him forever. Not only would oil prices probably crash very rapidly, the Middle East despots would lose a ton of leverage over us. It baffles me that this hasn't already been done--even Obama ought to have more political sense than this.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56943925790046129402012-05-18T11:17:10.694-04:002012-05-18T11:17:10.694-04:00Stan: I'm no conspiracy theorist either, but ...Stan: I'm no conspiracy theorist either, but when all the ecoweenies are on the same page, it comes off as a conspiracy even if it means we're giving them too much credit for organizational skills.<br /><br />Your theory works quite well, and dovetails with my earlier article on LOST.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15873175270455367102012-05-18T11:08:23.639-04:002012-05-18T11:08:23.639-04:00Patriot: The country is lawsuit-happy, and has be...Patriot: The country is lawsuit-happy, and has been for decades. Too many lawyers, too few legitimate causes. Congress is going to have to produce all kinds of tort reform as well as limiting actions against the federal government (sovereign immunity) severely. In the meantime, the new president could issue a few executive orders of his own, using emergency powers to get past the Gordian knot of federal regulations. It isn't just conservatives who have recognized that our dependence on foreign oil is a national security risk.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.com