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Here is a thought about the oil spill

69hemibeep

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In Sept 08 the Congress controlled by Nancy and gang blocked off shore drilling within 50 miles of the shore. This mess is 52 miles out, would they be that far out without the ruling? I had a real thought today, what do you think? :soap:
 

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 3:17pm

This is a message to extreme “environmentalists” who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing “clean and green” about your efforts. Look, here’s the deal: when you lock up our land, you outsource jobs and opportunity away from America and into foreign countries that are making us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like America. Some of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as evidenced by our stricter environmental standards.

With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited arctic land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the size of LA’s airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas up north. ANWR’s drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a football field.

But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor Sean Parnell noted today in the Wall Street Journal:

“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.

Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know about NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent developments, it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our national discourse.

NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside by President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of supplying our country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has been administered by the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it has been theoretically open for development. The most recent estimates indicate that it holds 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively little additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our domestic market.

But even here, progress has been stalled.”


Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.
 

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I am torn between drilling and not drilling our supply of oil. I will leave out the obvious reasons why we should, but here is something to think about.

1. Earth has a limited supply of oil
2. We are using everyone elses' supply at relatively cheap cost
3. They will run out before we do
4. I would like to have a supply when everyone else runs out

If this is part of the plan, then our government might actually be doing something right, but it wold make too much sense. And we know our government's knack for making sense and making the right choices.

Anyone working on making an electric 69 Road Runner?
 

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bstan70rr said:
Anyone working on making an electric 69 Road Runner?

I hope not. If someone wants to convert an internal combustion powered vehicle to electric power then use an old phord Ranger or a Dodge Shadow or some other run-of-the-mill daily driver. One of my friends forwarded me an article last year about a '71 Duster 340 (MCG featured a write up on the same car) that was converted to electric power. He knew it would piss me off. It did. :puke:
 

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I just wonder what will happen to all our old cars a hundred years from now. A hundred and forty year old cars. Museums? Anyone getting buried in theirs? LOL!!!

I would like to think at least a few will make it that long. Wonder what NOS parts will cost then. Will there be gas to run the beasts?

Someone in the furture will try to convert one.

Check out this dude's electric race car. I believe he had to restrict his speed so he would not have to put in roll bars.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYrsEOxqYc
 

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I just wonder what will happen to all our old cars a hundred years from now. A hundred and forty year old cars. Museums? Anyone getting buried in theirs? LOL!!!

I would like to think at least a few will make it that long. Wonder what NOS parts will cost then. Will there be gas to run the beasts?

Someone in the furture will try to convert one.

Check out this dude's electric race car. I believe he had to restrict his speed so he would not have to put in roll bars.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYrsEOxqYc
 

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I know of cars A LOT faster than 11.84.........
Keep in mind the weight of that car.
One year at the Nat's I saw a K-car run in the 10's - it was gutted.

He never mentions COST.

20 minutes to recharge after one run???

How long could I drive the car to and from work?
 
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