Comments on: Please, No More Pie-In-The-Sky Sermons

National Review Online: We Need To Tap Into Our Own Energy By Building, Mining And Drilling

[flagwavrblue]

The writer of this article is a traitor to the American people and a regressive of the highest order. It is not a question of when if oil will run out but when. We should have taken care of this problem starting in the eighties after OPEC tried to hold our economy hostage. Brazil did it. Why couldn''t we? Reagan napped through all of this. Now on to the stock answer all conservatives give: "Just drill more." Oil, as I said is running out. As a blue collar American worker, I know hard work and hard choices must be made on energy and these articles that advocate sticking our head in the sand and hoping the energy crisis will go away are horrible.

[element51]

I just heard last night that of all the leases that the oil companies have in this country 85% of them are approved by congress for drilling. It is the oil companies who are making the decision NOT to drill, not the congress. It is not congress who is standing in the way of new or re-built refineries. The oil companies are choosing NOT to build new or to re-condition existing refineries. Of course, one would not expect the truth from NRO but the truth is out there. And the republicans use this mis-information to blame democrats for blocking drilling in America. The truth about Anwar is that even if drilling was to start today, it would be at least 7 years before any oil was produced. Then it would be sold on the world market just as the oil from the Alaska pipeline is. And until big business finds a way to make a claim on the sun and the wind there will be little progress made in these alternative sources. Wake up America and get these crooks out of Washington. Until we do, not much will change. Elect McCain and NOTHING will change.

[taxguydave]

There is no way we can drill ourselves back to $4/gallon gasoline. We are already the world''s #3 oil producer (7-7.5 million bbl/day). We already pump a greater percentage of our reserves than any other leading producer. We could turn the entire western US into a forest of pumping rigs, buy every drop of oil that Mexico and Canada produce, and still fall short of the 23-25 million bbl/day that we consume.

I used to sell cars (new and used). We always had some small, inexpensive, fuel efficient cars on the lot. But the folks you''re talking about wanted a pickup or SUV (usually one of the bigger ones--they weren''t interested in S-10s or Trackers, either). When I tried to steer them to the smaller cars, they would have none of it. Now they''re complaining that they can''t buy the cars they turned their noses up at even a year ago, when they were quite cheap.

[incog-nito]

Another straw man argument. Nobody has said to go out and buy a new Toyota or Honda. Funny how some people make an unfounded assertion about others and then blast them for it.

BTW, there are plenty of used vehicles for sale or trade in for if one is so inclined. Judging by the people who drive large, late models SUVs and trucks. They sure look more like the "elite" than those who drive small economy cars. And if they really wanted they could trade it in for a smaller new or used car, probably with no additional cost. But I doubt these elites would even consider such a move.

[joyous88]

what a piece of propaganda, wow!,

this is the legacy of the neo con administration,

one lie after another, for eight years, actually this

all started with the first great criminal, the very UnAmerican ronald reagan.

It has been nothi ng but klie, cheat and steal by the

fascist republicon party ever since in their attempts to retain power,

Hopefully we are finally rid of this parasite on america

[aakalan]

More NRO bull. Is there no end to their treachery?

Note that they failed to mention that it would take more than seven years before the first drop of oil is pumped from Anwar.

A new nuclear plant will take ten years to build.

And when the coast of the US is awash in sludge (Prudhoe Bay, anyone?) and one of the last unspoiled ecologies in your country is despoiled, what are these idiots going to say - whoops?

If, instead, we spend the same time and resources creating new technologies and alternative resources, we can be free of the "black gold" forever and create a huge number of new jobs and a meaningful stimulus to the economy.

Too bad the oil companies own The National Review and its dishonest, bought-and-paid-for owners and writers.

The good thing is that almost no one reads this cr*p.

[talkingham]

Talk about a sermon, listen to this slop from NRO and you''ll go impotent.

Perhaps the NRO''s trillionaire buddies could stop shipping our best jobs out of the country then we might have an economy that has a future and a reason to develop new resources.

The oil companies have done nothing but line their own pockets with trillions using tax breaks from the American work force and since they control most of Congress we won''t see any alternative energy development until the same people own it as own the oil resources. It''s hard for them to own the wind and the sun and that''s why they don''t want energy resources built around competely renewable resources. They would rather send you another 3-mile island and Chernoble in your future.

[irliberal]

"What we don%u2019t need right now are more pie-in-the-sky sermons about wind and solar saving us all or about millions of new jobs in green technology that can be almost instantly created. "

Another fool from the NRO.

Alternative energy is where it''s at. More drilling, especially at the cost of our last unpolluted and pristine and protected lands, is not the solution. This isn''t pie in the sky, it''s reality and the NRO is a political enemy of the state for feeding propoganda consisting of lies and deception to continue their own political agenda.

You will not touch Anwar, scum.