FED UP with fuel prices?

[Crazy Horse]

If you are sick and tired of high fuel prices GET INVOLVED!



Bush, today finally asked Congress to open ANWR.



You all should contact your elected officials to tell them of your support to open ANWR and other oil rich areas of our country to oil exploration.



Here's the note I sent today:



June 10th, 2008

News today said Bush finally asked Congress to open ANWR.



I say it's about time!



We need to open ANWR and other oil rich areas of this country for the good of the people. It's better late than never. Now we need to get some incentives for the oil companies to build new refineries. It's sad to say the last one was built in 1979.



You can click on the link above to send emails to all your reps and presidential runners. Just put your zip code in the box in the upper left corner and all your reps will be listed. Follow the "contact" link for the email. Copy and paste the 1st letter you do and to the following representatives and you are done.







It Only Takes A Minute To Do.

 

[DCreed]

read the proposals first! Their plan is to KEEP the price as is (to justify the expense of course) and it gives free reign to sell the fuel to whoever they like. Canada has high price fuel and sells their own fuel to china. Crude is a commodity and no one wants the govt to control it so we have to deal with the lesser of two evils and VOTE to CHANGE THE LAWS/POLICIES THAT MATTER!! There is NO shortage of oil. Only AFTER we take it in the shorts do we want change. be sure the change is a long term fix and not just a bandaid for now that will screw us again later.

 

[Sled Dog]

Drilling ANWR is NOT the Anwser to the Problem.



Please, Read This.



Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs

 

[WOT]

It may not drop the price of fuel considerably, but I would much rather be creating jobs and improving the economy in the country I live in...

 

[Tractorat]

I partially agree with you Drilling in anwr is not the major issue. Although, we really need to drill there.



It is an interesting article. One that I fully believe. I think it asks if the democratic congress would risk bursting the bubble in an election year. I think that, if they "burst the bubble" in an election year, there wouldn't be a repulican in office, anywhere. But, if the congress votes in a wind fall tax, prices will most certainly go up. And we could be looking at an all republican congress again.

 

[Simplysmn]

what we really need to do is start Sh--ting the dumbbutt we have that is controling this IE the one that was not elcected into office he we were suckered into him then maybe things will get back to what they should be .

just my hosest opinion

 

[Jengle]

We don't need to do any more drilling anywhere. We do need to stop sending full tankers out of Alaska to foreign ports. My source on this is a recent Alaska magazine article on the pilots guiding the tankers in and out of there, in empty, out full. Keep our oil here. Where the real problem is, is on Wall Street with the unregulated speculators. Its time for tar and feathers.

 

[DHayden]

Bush, today finally asked Congress to open ANWR.

Just an FYI Bush wanted to drill ANWR when he took office AND this went through the house or senate a week or two ago and was voted down by the democrats.

what we really need to do is start Sh--ting the dumbbutt we have that is controling this IE the one that was not elcected into office he we were suckered into him then maybe things will get back to what they should be .

just my hosest opinion

I like to hear all sides of a story but I've completed the side splitting laughter phase of how "EVERYONE" was DUPED by the "DUMBEST" guy in America. Now I am down right embarrassed for people with so much hatred and so little education on various states of our country (honestly, you think its only one guy screwing over our country? you think its only one party?).



BUT I do agree we need to flush all the people in Washington that have "been looking out for our best interest". Cut terms and pensions and hopefully cut down on the number of "career criminals"

 

[JesseJ]

A lot of our tankers leave Alaska for foreign ports because they have to. We made an agreement w/ Japan that they get half of the oil coming out of the pipeline because they helped financed part of it.



Drilling IS THE ANSWER! Clinton vetoed drilling in ANWR in '95 because "it would take too long to get the oil to market and by then it won't make a difference. " 1-2 Million barrels per day now would be 5-10% of total U. S. consumption and it would come to the U. S. instead of foreign markets because they planned to build a separate pipeline to the lower 48 for ANWR. It can and will make a big difference. Why should we continue to get oil from OPEC and let them decide when they want to ramp up production and let more oil flow and lower the price? Why don't we do our best to eliminate middle east oil from our diet with all the resources WE ALWREADY HAVE HERE!



If congress all of a sudden came out with a huge public press conference and said "In the next 30 days we're going to pass legislation to open up drilling in ANWR, and open up all our off-shore oil that is off-limits only to us, and we're also going to open up federal land leases in Colorado to begin drilling for shale oil, and we're going to streamline the permitting process for nuke plants so we can build lots of them and we're going to allow for coal-to-diesel plants to be built. " If they said all that and were dead serious, not only would they probably get overwhelmingly re-elected, but the speculators would run from the oil market and OPEC would immediately open the taps. Look at what happened in the 80's. We came out with a plan for coal-to-oil and were dead serious about getting going with this technology and doing it. OPEC saw we were dead serious and flooded the market with oil so that we would still buy theirs and not make our own. The price of oil went from $36/barrel to $8.

That would have an immediate impact on the price of oil.

 

[EBung]

You nailed it on the head right their DHayden Energy NON-CRISIS. I think someone must know something we all dont as to why they keep intentionally driving the price up and then selling our oil over seas hmmmmmmmm just another wall street money for nuthin broker thief BS scheme.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Here is the rest of my letter.



We can keep jacking around with this subject till fuel is too high in price so the majority of people cannot afford it, or take action. It's not too late, and it's not just about ANWR. I'm getting sick and tired about hearing "alternative" this, or "renewable" that. It all sounds good but there's no clear path/solution to replacing everything that we use and consume on a dailly basis for operation.

JMO.

 

[Tractorat]

I keep hearing that the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida. Im not sure if I believe that. But, if they are, what ever happened to our 200 mile limit ?



TRat

 

[JesseJ]

Tractorrat, they are drilling off the coast of Florida. They have teamed up with our good friends in CUBA of all places. I've heard they are anywhere from 40-90 miles off the coast of Florida. Good idea to let them drill on our outer continental shelf, so they can get the oil and sell it to us and send more of our money to China! #@$%! And for all the environmentalists, who is going to be more environmentally responsible, the U. S. , or China and Cuba?



Here's the link, read it for yourself and get even more upset at the lack of action from CONgress.



CHINA STARTS OIL DRILLING

 

[Tractorat]

Thanks Jesse, even without the link to the story, that makes sense. Cuba is well within our 200 mile limit, and is easily able to access that oil.

 

[JesseJ]

The crazy part is there is as much oil there as in ANWR, and notice the date on the article? It was from May 2006! They've been at it for 2 years and CONgress is sitting there doing nothing! #@$%!

 

[Crazy Horse]

Jesse thanks for the link.



Re: Oilfields. . . They were oil fields before they were named "Refuge".



Also here's the real deal on ANWR.

 

[JesseJ]

Just doing my part. I want people to wake up and realize that while not perfect, the oil companies certainly aren't the enemy, it's the morons in CONgress!#@$%! I figure if enough people get angry enough about paying this much then they will let their representatives know and tell them to get out of the way.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Jesse I agree. The oil companies are in the business of making money. A couple of weeks ago there was a news blurp here in SC about the "Senators grilling the Oil Companies" for their high profits. The government has no one to blame but themselves. It's time to quit passing the buck...



Our elected government officials are the ones who closed off our domestic oilfields years ago and sent the oil companies overseas to set up profitable oil

production. I lived in Alaska for 23 years and those people up there also want the oil fields open and have since the mid 80's. It took Clinton and a handful of Environmentalists to lock up the land naming it a "Refuge". Now everyone is paying for it. And I'm afraid it's only the tip of our problems to come. In all my years in Alaska I never met a person who had walked on that land due to it's remoteness and inaccessibility.

 

[RGardner]

Don't get to quick to give the oil companies a pass. I have direct dealings with Exxon Mobil and they will not even clean out a cattle guard! I am certain that they are making more money than they are showing and that their profit percentage is actually more than what they claim.

 

[JesseJ]

The oil companies will get a pass from me because they actually get me a product that I can use. If the oil companies made $10 Billion each last quarter then the government made twice that amount for doing nothing! They didn't go to all the trouble of exploring, finding, drilling, extracting, pumping, refining, shipping, and all that to get diesel to my local kwik-e-mart. Almost all people in CONgress are more concerned about getting reelected and covering their own back sides than doing what the voters who sent them there want them to do.