Not sure I agree with anything you said without a lot of research to check
your facts. One thing is certain - I disagree with your last paragraph. While I
dont put a whole lot of faith in politicians I put less in the big oil
companies. The profits these guys are reporting while single handedly wrecking
the economy are disgraceful. Lets not jail them - lets prosecute them for raping
our economy.
Thats just my opinion. Now can we go back to discussing something
less depressing?
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:52 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Oil thoughts
Since we are sitting on a 600 year supply of oil in the US, I wonder why
we are still looking at biofuels as a source for anything? We know how to pump
oil out of the ground, we are now equipped to do just that.
Canada is 99.9% unexplored. The US is 98% unexplored. There may be a 60
year supply just in ANWR.
Less than 1% of the US population can find ANWR on a map. Fewer know that
ANWR is an acronym.
A smaller number will ever see it. None of the West coast waters has been
explored, None of the East coast waters have been explored. The gulf is only
partially explored and the last test well indicates up to 15 billion barrels
may be available at just that one dome. The Chinese are drilling in the gulf.
They are not stupid, and they don't need any permission from us to drill. What
sane person would suggest that we take off in a new direction looking for an
oil substitute?
All of the alliterative energy sources in our future, are just pie in the
sky when it comes to replacing oil.
If all of the future hopes from 10 years ago had been put on line, they
still wouldn't add up to 1% of the picture. Its going to be oil for the next
30 years at least, so we need to quit wishing in one hand and listening to the
tree huggers, and start passing out exploration permits, and open all
government owned lands for exploration. The permit for building a new refinery
should cost $100.00, and take a week to process. There should be no permit
required for exploration, with the land owners permission. Then start cutting
down the amount of oil that can be imported each year until it is down to zero
from the Moslem controlled sources. Just one super tanker sunk in the strait
of Hormuz and the whole of the earth will be in deep dodo in less than 2
weeks. And with a real shortage, and the armed forces getting first call you
won't have to worry about high prices, there won't be any oil for recreational
use at all.
And then suggest that we make fuel out of feed grains, or any kind of
food? The number of independent truckers on the road is dropping daily. Prices
for everything will continue to climb. If there is no additional payment for
fuel the private truck owners cannot make a dime with fuel over $4.00 a
gallon. So their rigs are parked now.
Let the free market determine how much alcohol is used in motor fuels. No
price supports for corn for ethanol, ever, period. All food stuffs, meat and
poultry, many plastics, and motor fuels go up because of the use
of ethanol in fuels. The energy available in each gallon goes down when
ethanol is added. It takes more energy to make a gallon than is in each
gallon. Fuel milage goes down with ethanol. With pure ethanol look for 30%
less power, lower milage and more cost.
We should be importing oil only from sources we can trust. Mexico and
Canada are two of those.
Sending cash to the Mideast to be used against us is insane.
Two of the choices for president want to tax the oil companies for
windfall profits. This is shear genius, in the Wile E. Coyote sense of the
term. Where do we suppose that oil companies, or any company get their
profits? And what will these companies do to make up for profits lost to the
imbeciles in our Government?
Why $6.00 a gallon fuel will cover that my friends. That will be $10.00 a
gallon for low lead aviation fuel just for starters.
But that just my opinion, and I could be wrong.
Lynn E. Hanover