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pcbueg71


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:21 pm     Reply with quote

Maybe the price of gasoline in California needs to go up another $2-3 dollars per gallon to change opinions!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/05/california-vote-to-allow-oil-drilling-faces-resistance/
ruxpriencdiam


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:31 pm     Reply with quote

And we are supposed to be surprised by this?
rudyumans


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:56 pm     Reply with quote

I am much more concerned about this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cuba-drills-for-oil-but-us-unprepared-for-spill/2012/02/23/gIQAWTx0jR_story.html
pcbueg71


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:07 pm     Reply with quote

rudyumans wrote:
I am much more concerned about this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cuba-drills-for-oil-but-us-unprepared-for-spill/2012/02/23/gIQAWTx0jR_story.html


If we don't drill, the Cubans and Chinese will and we will have no control if they have a blow=out!
rudyumans


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:15 pm     Reply with quote

pcbueg71 wrote:
rudyumans wrote:
I am much more concerned about this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/cuba-drills-for-oil-but-us-unprepared-for-spill/2012/02/23/gIQAWTx0jR_story.html


If we don't drill, the Cubans and Chinese will and we will have no control if they have a blow=out!


That's what is happening already and it scares me
ruxpriencdiam


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:26 pm     Reply with quote

We are the US.

We clean up everyone Else's mess.

We help everyone else but ourselves.
vanhart


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Post Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:55 pm     Reply with quote

yeah why not



don't we miss them romantic days at the beach.....
pcbueg71


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:42 am     Reply with quote

Yea, It might keep California from going bankrupt!
semmickphoto


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:52 am     Reply with quote

ruxpriencdiam wrote:
We are the US.

We clean up everyone Else's mess.

We help everyone else but ourselves.


Barry, I could argue with you on that until we see blue in the face, but I will say only this, I think thats not entirely a correct statement.
peteklinger


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:18 pm     Reply with quote

pcbueg71 wrote:
Yea, It might keep California from going bankrupt!


I have an idea, give most of CA back to Mexico, at least everything from San Francisco (including Berkley) across to Nevada, and on down the 395 to Interstate 10, to AZ. We lose LA, and the rest of that mess along with that deal. LOL

NIMBY wins over public good.

Love the photo vanhart what is that Pennsylvania in the 1800s?
ruxpriencdiam


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:28 pm     Reply with quote

peteklinger wrote:
pcbueg71 wrote:
Yea, It might keep California from going bankrupt!


I have an idea, give most of CA back to Mexico, at least everything from San Francisco (including Berkley) across to Nevada, and on down the 395 to Interstate 10, to AZ. We lose LA, and the rest of that mess along with that deal. LOL

NIMBY wins over public good.

Love the photo vanhart what is that Pennsylvania in the 1800s?
File info.

oil_derricks_early_huntington_beach.jpg
peteklinger


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:32 pm     Reply with quote

ruxpriencdiam wrote:
peteklinger wrote:
pcbueg71 wrote:
Yea, It might keep California from going bankrupt!


I have an idea, give most of CA back to Mexico, at least everything from San Francisco (including Berkley) across to Nevada, and on down the 395 to Interstate 10, to AZ. We lose LA, and the rest of that mess along with that deal. LOL

NIMBY wins over public good.

Love the photo vanhart what is that Pennsylvania in the 1800s?
File info.

oil_derricks_early_huntington_beach.jpg


Dang that's ugly, no matter what people say about oil prices or driving a car. Just plain blight on the landscape.
jeffbanke


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:45 pm     Reply with quote

pcbueg71 wrote:
Maybe the price of gasoline in California needs to go up another $2-3 dollars per gallon to change opinions!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/05/california-vote-to-allow-oil-drilling-faces-resistance/


Many of us in CA are pro drilling, especially 17 miles off shore! Where is the eye sore, it places them beyond the visible horizon!
libyphoto


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Post Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:14 pm     Reply with quote

jeffbanke wrote:
pcbueg71 wrote:
Maybe the price of gasoline in California needs to go up another $2-3 dollars per gallon to change opinions!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/05/california-vote-to-allow-oil-drilling-faces-resistance/


Many of us in CA are pro drilling, especially 17 miles off shore! Where is the eye sore, it places them beyond the visible horizon!


Tell the government they have to put their worthless turbines 5 miles offshore and listen to them squeal...
mikenorton


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Post Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:58 am     Reply with quote

It's all just a matter of time. Sooner or later there will be drilling offshore in California, in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge, and offshore Florida. We are not living in the computer age, or the space age, we're living in the hydrocarbon age and we will eventually recover all the hydrocarbons we can no matter where they are. Hydrocarbons are used in almost every product from paint, to tires, to aluminum cans, to flashlight batteries, to brake fluid, to pencils, to asphalt, to the insulation on wires in electric cars, to digital camera bodies to . . . well you get the picture.
I grew up in a town that had a forest of oil derricks like in vanhart's picture, maybe more. Today that part of town is a very green, tall tree lined golf course. Why is everybody so scared?
 
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