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| Leatherneck |
People do change. I worked for Kanye some years back and he is one of the very few that I hated. But to be fair people grow up and people change their opinion on the world. His wife was just robbed by five armed men dressed as police in France during a well planned invasion of the hotel she was staying at in which she was clearly the target. Sometimes shit like that makes you grow up. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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| Freethinker |
I have never understood why some people are so eager to use up our natural resources when we can get other people to sell them to us. Most parents, for example, claim that their children (and presumably their children’s futures) are the most important things in the universe, so why don’t more of them act like it? Would our oil make current gasoline and other prices go down a bit? Perhaps, but part of being a grownup is delaying certain gratifications, and as far as I’ve been able to determine few Americans couldn’t reduce their oil-consumption expenditures if they truly wanted to. ► 6.4/93.6 “Most men … can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it … would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions … which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their lives.” — Leo Tolstoy | |||
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| Member |
Why drill in Alaska when Texas just discovered a huge reserve? We should flood the market with cheap oil and free our political decisions from dependancies on the middle east. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| Speling Champ |
The oil field in Texas is supposed to be large enough to supply the entire US, and then some, for the next hundred years. Alaska adds another hundred. The Gulf of Mexico another fifty to hundred. Plus North Dakota. California. Canada has another hundred. Plus the reserves in the Middle East. Russia. Drill now. Sell it now. Get the money for it now. Alternative and renewable energy is in its infancy but look how far solar has come in just the last ten years. We are probably less than fifty years away from viable fusion energy. There is a single experimental fusion reactor at Los Alamos that can sustain a reaction for about a tenth of a second. In that time it produces enough energy to power everything on this planet. Or so says the people who work there on the NATGEO program I watched a while back. Sooner, rather than later, we are going into space. We may never leave our solar system but we are going everywhere in our solar system. We will colonize everything. Fight over all of it. Build entire industries and economies around the near unlimited resources in space. I would bet that gasoline is largely out of use as a fuel source by the turn of the next century. But we can make money, create jobs and build on all of those promising but infant technologies now. Or we will destroy ourselves long before we run out of oil. Either-or, we should drill it now, while there is still real value. | |||
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There will come a time when oil won't be necessary for anything and will be about as valuable as whale oil or wood for home heating. Technology changes and so do the natural resources we need to live. It's about the fact of looking at how much US $$$ we export to pay foreign nations for oil. If we mined for all of our needs here, that money would stay here and be spent here. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
^^^^^ And we would not be financing activities in nations/groups that don't like us. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Watching the special on Fox right now "Objectified: Donald Trump" and boy let me tell you, right now I could not be more proud of our nation for electing Donald Trump. He is most definitely NOT a politician but he DAM sure is an American. This is Trump Country now. | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
Because the world revolves around oil and we shouldn't depend on anyone but ourselves. | |||
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Ball Haulin' |
+1000 -------------------------------------- "There are things we know. There are things we dont know. Then there are the things we dont know that we dont know." | |||
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Couldn't agree more; what he said. | |||
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Resident Knuckledragger |
This isn't photoshopped, he's advertizing on FB... Kid Rock | |||
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As soon as we start making use of our oil in Alaska & TX, the Saudi assholes will drop their prices low enough to make our oil non-profitable to drill. I see that as a win-win for us. We'll have the infrastructure in place to get our oil out of the ground & to our markets if & when we need it, but we'll be using up their cheap oil. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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| Glorious SPAM! |
"President-Elect Trump"....has a ring to it eh? Not quite "Mayor Goldie Wilson" but it does bring me back to a better time  | |||
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 ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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| Ball Haulin' |
We have been living almost a decade having bullshit fed to us and lied to on an almost daily basis. There is practically an entire generation (wrong word but meaning those reaching adulthood) who have never known good times, or what it feels like to be participating in a growing economy. Once this takes hold there will be an awakening. "Morning in America" if you will... I speculate that some of the butt hurt millenials will sing a different tune. Right now, they know NO BETTER. This has the potential to be YUUUUGE! -------------------------------------- "There are things we know. There are things we dont know. Then there are the things we dont know that we dont know." | |||
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| Member |
Regarding oil, no one knows what the future holds. It is an easy product to use, and gasoline burns clean in modern vehicles. I doubt that there will be a substitute as convenient as oil in the next 100 years. Hydrogen can be made, but is not as safe as diesel and gasoline. Japan has very few natural resources and that country has done very well. Developing and selling technological products, effectively trading for oil, is such a win-win situation. The more we do it, the better we become at it, and the more we have to barter for oil. There is no end to this, but eventually there will be an end for oil. If we new that there was enough oil for 2,000 years, it might not matter. However no one really knows, and demand increases dramatically every year. -c1steve | |||
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Yea. That rings true. Do you remember when the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled Ben Carson an extremist like the KKK? Link That organization is into leftist race-slingin'. I was never able to find their denunciation of KKK Grand Wizard Senator Robert Byrd - maybe I just kept missing it year after year. As Bloomberg Politics noted in 2014, "conservatives increasingly see the SPLC as a pressure group that focuses on them and lets liberals off easy." Link The SPLC targets Christians, wrong-talking conservative blacks and people the left doesn't like. More and more people ignore race-label spewing because it has become so cliche'. The idea that Ben Carson should be lumped in with racists seems an impossible conclusion because the left says that blacks can't be racist. Forget logic with such propaganda centers. They hate Sessions because he will end the DOJ's race-preferenced approach to equal justice. But, they would hate any other AG that would treat everyone the same. _______________________________ NRA Life Member NRA Certified Range Safety Officer | |||
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| Lighten up and laugh |
They are freaking out because Sessions is exactly the right man for the job and it scares them. | |||
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| Glorious SPAM! |
I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between Trump and Andrew Jackson (outsider, maverick, does it his own way) so I figured we should celebrate. The Battle Of New Orleans (in LEGO's) | |||
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