Arkansas Blog

Whoever pays those prices goes on the "Super-sucker" list!

Is there ever a more precise litmus test for determining when an idea like this stupid-ass "Drill Damnit!" notion is full of s * * t than when it has the sniveling ferret Dan Greenberg as its primary spokesman?

Wet dreams never end !

Trolling Max?

Mark Martin, winner of tomorrows brickyard, is one of the most respected people I know of.

To bad he is not president.

ARK. BLOG: I wasn't referring to the driver, but to a backbench legislator from NWA.

So the idea is that we drill in new areas NOW, for oil that won't be made into gasoline for 5-10 years (infrastructure takes time to build), this will magically lower the price at the pump TODAY and help us use more of a finite resource, thus hastening the day when there really isn't any oil. Sounds like a Republican idea to me: Short term gain, big profits and f*ck the future. (Sorry for the language, but I think it's appropriate for this sentiment.)

Who knew the road to hell was lined with such expensive toll booths:

10,000.00 for an hour with Lucifer's top minions

5,000.00 For a half hour ouiji board session featuring the spirits of Orval Faubus and Mussolini..and thoughts on how to reincarnate them.

2,500.00 With the Chamber of commerce select new candidates and some pyramid scheme on how to keep working folks and their children from ever obtaining health care, no doubt,

1,000.00 for vine ripened shale water runoff fed tomatoes for lunch.. and bottled clean coal holy water

Obviously the drilling needs to be coupled with energy conservation. Why do you dumba-sses think that its somehow better to consume middle eastern oil than US oil. Max Brantley and other liberals aren't going to reduce their energy consumption. Heck Max has been a huge consumer this year with flights to the northeast, Europe, and China. He and his family will continue to consume massive energy in their 3000 sf energy inefficient Hillcrest home. Al Gore will continue to consume 20x the energy of the average consumer. We need both short and long term energy plans. In the short term we do need to conserve, but we also need new domestic energy supplies.

If the Democratically controlled congress is so worried about the price dropping due to domestic drilling, then by all means increase the gas tax to keep it at $4 a gallon.

Sorry, Severus, that "liberal" tarbrush won't work this time. A guy whose rock-solid right-wing bona fides include bankrolling the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth says in his TV ads that "we can't drill our way out of this problem" and suggests we cut the petroleum umbilical cord.

Yea, the democrats are as pure as the driven snow. Give me a break, sweetheart! I get e-mails from the DNC all of the time and, boy, talking about distortions and gimmicks. Maybe the clientle of the AT are of the mentality of 10 year old children but some of us are grownups.

I really hope that you lefty boys are successful in preventing domestic drilling. The more that we are dependant on foreign oil the more the impact will be when it gets cut off. One war with Iran and Israel will put you boys in a very precarious position. When the public of today finds themselves in the situation we found ourselves in the 70s, they are going to love you guys. In fact, the 70s will seem like a picnic to a shooting war between Iran and Israel. We will probably get a little of that action here in the states. Yea, the public are going to remember who was against domestic drilling.

Sev -
I don't recall anyone other than myself suggesting perhaps we shouldn't be drilling for natural gas in AR or the US at all.. I always thought the suggestions / questions around here was to do it with as little environmental impact (clean water) and at least a zero $ balance on impact of existing infrastructure.. like roads from the natural gas industry.

And the only reason I have raised the question of whether or not drilling natural gas is a good idea..was in response to something Al Gore said in an update to An Inconvenient Truth... He mentioned the massive amounts of frozen natural gas now being exposed by melting glaciers in places like Greenland... that gas lays on top of the ground, once exposed to air it will evaporate into the atmosphere... that is a massive, MASSIVE, toxic ozone depleting shock already beginning to happen. Wouldn't it be best if the world used what lays on top of the ground as a threat... instead of drilling up more and adding to the problem? Seems to me all major energy consuming countries should be banding together on an international emergency mission to use that darn near free Greenland gas now... no drilling needed.

The idea is to reduce use of oil dramatically, Sev.. We sure don't need to burn it up in autos and trucks.. There are products made from oil which people will need far far into the future.. and oil, btw, produces twice or more CO2 than natural gas... aside from all the other impacts, like spills from transport in our oceans and waterways etc. If you don't think clean fresh water isn't already a precious dwindling commodity.. I suggest you spend some tie on the google..and you will see the major companies of the world are already buying up water rights all around the globe. The Bush family bought hundreds of thousands of acres in Paraguay, sitting on top of the worlds largest aquifer.

Think a little, Sev, think.

Want to give those muslims a good swift kick where it hurts? Change the way energy is consumed globally... no massive oil market and the sands of Saudi Arabia become pretty near worthless.

One of the big problems with the human race has been the amount of excreta (bodily, chemical, business, nonrecyclable, pollution, etc.) that we increasingly contribute to our environment. It definitely is not good stewardship of our land, air, water and resources.

The continued wastage, poisoning, and excessive abuse of these resources is like a pyramid scheme. We're always being priomised more is available, technology will reduce problems and save us from ourselves, and any change will mean doom to our economy.

If you don't take ecology into account, you will eventually doom your economy no matter what. You can't continually pile shit outside your doorstep and not expect there to be consequences, both to yourself and to your neighbors.

$100,000 for two hours for NOT redefining Workers Comp laws from "back" injury to spinal injury thus keeping injuries to the upper spine, neck, NOT covered by Workman's Comp.

ES, that gas to which Al Gore was referring is more dangerous than many people know. Methane gas has been stored in ice packs for centuries. It is FLAMMABLE. If the glaciers continue to rapid melt and more methane rises to the surface then choose your favorite firework sky to visit. Life under those flaming skies will be an inferno.

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If there is one thing we have learned during the last 8 years, it is that it is wise to oppose everything Republicans support. Especially for energy policy issues.

That's all you need to know.

You lefty and righties spend way to much time arguing about whose plan is stupider than dumb, as if the gubment is somehow going to get Americans out of this energy trainwreck that we are in.

Here's how to solve the currently energy crisis. Nuke Washington, D.C., drill a hole in the head of everyone who identifies themselves as a liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, lobbyist or stupidass. And then start this thing called democracy over again from scratch and see if we can get it right this time.