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...politicians are inflicting them upon us through excessive regulation and taxation.

That’s always the problem.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

What we now face is our own decision not to use them.

We can also thank the environnazis for that.

Being liberal is never having to admit you’re wrong

That’s true, but the oil sands, oil shales and even the Bakken are hard to exploit. 

Let’s get the will to use ANWR first.  Then focus on other resources in the order that they are economically attractive to do so.

On a somewhat related topic I saw that Mexico may be an oil importer in a decade.  From the little blurb I read I assumed that it was because of lack of investment rather than a lack of oil.  Anyone know more about it?

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

Toot, here is one piece, from Xinhua.

“Mexican leftists reject television campaign over energy reform”

Pemex is drowning in its own wastes. They can not rebuild needed facilities, they are blocked from building new facilities, and they are forbidden to actually make a profit.

And here is more bloggy goodness!

“Mexican leftist parties continue protests against energy reform”

Who needs enemies when you keep electing assholes like this? Seems kinda familiar.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Another fuel we have is uranium, for nuclear power plants. Imagine if every two-car family had the option of making their second car a little electric commuter car, just for going to work and back. I’D seriously consider one, if:

*We had lots of electricity, at fairly cheap rates because of nuclear energy.
*The cars were plug-in, for convenient recharging. This eliminates the problem of “We can’t have E85 until there are gas stations for it, and we can’t have gas stations until there are E85 cars.”

I think that, plus some bio-diesel from soybeans & such, is a good strategy. (Bio-diesel yields a significant increase of energy-yield-over-energy- consumed—unlike ethanol from corn.)

And let’s just drop the tariff on ethanol from Brazil & import it. Ethanol from Brazil is better than oil from the Middle East.

“Let a thousand flowers bloom,” would be my advice.

Let’s get the will to use ANWR first.  Then focus on other resources in the order that they are economically attractive to do so.

That’s true, toot, and there is still a lot of oil in the 48 states that now with high oil prices is ecomical to extract.  Here in west Texas there is already a new oil boom which is enriching many communities.

Being liberal is never having to admit you’re wrong