King of America

[Griff]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

Say it with me now ...

All nuclear power, all the time.

All nuke-u-lar waste to be stored in the LA basin.

[smoothmoniker]

you mean it's not already?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

you mean it's not already?

You're thinking of human waste.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Lead us lest too far we wander
Love's sweet voice is callin' yonder
Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Hey, there don't get dimmer, dimmer
Light the path below, above
And lead us on to love

[wolf]

I always automatically hear the Spike Jones and His City Slickers version of this.

[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.

[wolf]

Or move a couple caribou and drill in ANWAR.

[Troubleshooter]

I like the NASCAR thing.

Fuck NASCAR.

[lookout123]

i like oil. i like using oil. in fact, every where that i park my car - i leave a large oil puddle behind as a sign of my passage. my engine is in good repair and doesn't leak oil, so i have dump out a quart of oil from a bottle - but that is ok. i think we should have more things that run on oil. why can't we have oil powered computers? when it is cold outside, i just dig pits in the backyard, pour oil in, ignite it then invite my friends over for a marshmallow roast.

at my family events we don't encourage water balloon fights, we have 10-w30 balloon fights. i don't drink much anymore so when i have extra cash i just buy a case of motor oil and dump it down the sewer - i don't even get a hangover from it and it is just as much fun as binge drinking.

i want to use up all the oil in the world so that there is absolutely no reason for us to give one little damn about the middle east or the people who get off on killing eachother there. i figure using all the oil is more likely than getting humans to quit using oil, so i'm doing my part.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by lookout123

i want to use up all the oil in the world so that there is absolutely no reason for us to give one little damn about the middle east or the people who get off on killing eachother there.

You know, if you take the profit motive out of it, maybe we can finally get around to actually killing each other for differences in ideology, as has been claimed for so long.

[lookout123]

well, you've got an idea there. but what if profit IS our ideology?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by wolf

Or move a couple caribou and drill in ANWAR.

Looks like that's going to happen now with yesterday's budget agreement.

[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?