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2005-01-14 Home Front: Economy

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-14 12:08|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I grew up in the 1970s, the age of the so-called energy shortage."

Hell, Dave, that was no oil shortage, that was Saudi economic retribution - finally an overt declaration of war against the US, subsequently forgotten, it appears - for saving Israel's ass.

"The world will never run out of oil. It will just stop using it."

As a fuel, yes, indeed. As a source of long carbon chains for use in hundreds of other ways, probably not - but as Dave sez, price will determine what is used.

Interesting piece, Barbara, Thx!

Posted by .com 2005-01-14 12:26:23 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:26:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 yes that's true but its also true that if we use less oil the terrorists get a smaller subsidy

Posted by mhw 2005-01-14 12:35:10 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:35:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 That is true if we put an import fee on the oil also.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-14 12:49:58 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:49:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm broadly opposed to tariffs...
but I'm open to discussing the merits of one on oil.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-14 12:55:45 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:55:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree about tariffs, but it's a question of how much cash goes to the bad guys. And remember, even though we don't buy much from the Arabs, we do buy a lot from Venezuela and Mexico.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-14 1:14:38 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:14:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's some science-fictiony irony. Not about oil, but about fuel methane, locked up in vast amounts below the sea floor. It is known that it can, and periodically does, explode forth with devastating effects to the atmosphere. To get around this problem, you carefully mine it, then use it up to generate electricity. In that these are oilfield-sized deposits, we're talking a LOT of electricity. And you save the planet from disaster in the process.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-14 1:40:39 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:40:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The world will never run out of oil. It will just stop using it. When that happens, the world will never know and never care how much oil remains in the Earth.

"It [the world] will just stop using it." Seems like a good place to be.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-14 2:40:05 PM|| 2005-01-14 2:40:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 SInce the US Navy protects ALL shipments of oil, they should have a collection mechanism for a "maritime security" fee.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2005-01-14 2:52:50 PM|| 2005-01-14 2:52:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bretts got it!
Who knows who owns the oil, but it's damn sure our ocean.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-14 3:51:21 PM|| 2005-01-14 3:51:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Anyone here getting Dune flashbacks?

"Who can destroy the spice controls it."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-14 4:51:48 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-14 4:51:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Just gotta shrug off this PC thingy, put on the hobnail boots, and we can go get us some oil - oh and create the Republic of Eastern Arabia, yeah, that too.

Posted by .com 2005-01-14 5:52:23 PM|| 2005-01-14 5:52:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 No no no... it should say...

The world will never run out of Bullshit!

and that's the truth!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-14 5:58:40 PM|| 2005-01-14 5:58:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Nuclear power. No more Saudi/Iranian blackmail. Works fine for the French and can work for us. So let's get going, already.

Posted by lex 2005-01-14 11:09:26 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:09:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 We were talking about French nuclear power in New Zealand, and I asked where they put their waste from their nuclear plants. Somewhere in French Polynesia in concrete overcoats was the reply. I imagine the Polynesians are pissed off about that one.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-14 11:35:09 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:35:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 CF
You are aware I trust that bovine manure is a potentially rich source of bio-mass methane. We will never run out of fuel as long as lefty media exist, provided of course they can be concentrated in some safe place to allow for economical extraction.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-14 11:51:48 PM|| 2005-01-14 11:51:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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