King of America

[mrnoodle]

It pains me as a Republicanarchist to say this, but I'm sick of hearing about oil. I'm sick of paying for oil. I'm sick of anything related to oil. I wish oil had never been discovered.

As king, I say all oil executives must immediately stop production in their respective companies and turn their attention to alternative forms of energy. I want to see whatever oil is left on the planet lie dormant forever. I hope Saudi Arabia has to sell sand to make a living. Internal combustion engines are banned forever. Make me a nukular car that can still get me up in the mountains but doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run. Sorry NASCAR.

[glatt]

Well, we get to hear Bush's energy plan tonight. Maybe he will renounce oil.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

Well, we get to hear Bush's energy plan tonight. Maybe he will renounce oil.

what did he say?

Originally Posted by President Bush last night

To reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, we must take four key steps.

First, we must better use technology to become better conservers of energy.

And secondly, we must find innovative and environmentally sensitive ways to make the most of our existing energy resources, including oil, natural gas, coal and safe, clean nuclear power.

Third, we must develop promising new sources of energy, such as hydrogen, ethanol or bio-diesel.

Fourth, we must help growing energy consumers overseas, like China and India, apply new technologies to use energy more efficiently and reduce global demand of fossil fuels.

We are going to tell China and India how to conserve fossil fuels. Classic.

I'm surprised to hear a Republican talking about conservation. I'll be very surprised if he gives this more than lip service.

His talk of using existing resources is just code for drilling in ANWAR and strip mining for coal in West Virginia while dumping the rubble in the valleys. It's hardly "environmentally sensitive," but that's how Rove has taught the Republicans to talk. Call something the exact opposite of what it really is, and many fools will actually believe you. The only realistic answer I see to the US's energy problems is to start massively building nuke plants all over the place. We can run electric cars off of them. I agree with him on this one. Finding a home for the waste is a problem, but I'm fine with burying the stuff in the caves in the desert. It's far from perfect, but it's our best option right now. I also would like to see lots of funding for alternative energy sources. I think he's latching on the wrong ones, but at least he's talking about looking.

Before describing this little plan, he also talked about contacting oil producing countries and asking them to ramp up production.

In the near term, we will continue to encourage oil-producing nations to maximize their production.

It seems to me that the oil countries are at maximum production. Saudi Arabia is trying so hard to be our friends where they can, it's in their best interests to be at maximum capacity. It's the one thing they can do to help us without pissing off the muslim world. They must be at capacity right now. I think this is it. We are at world peak oil production today. It ain't gonna get better.

[Griff]

Who is doing the drilling here?

[xoxoxoBruce]

At least we got back to the thread title.