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Where to get oil?

seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Alaska or middle east? I was listening to a debate and I did not hear a good reason to keep buying from the middle east. Wonder what yall think.

I wonder bout stuff when I'm bored



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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Use all the oil from overseas we can,for as long as possible.Save ours until they run out.
    Didgi' know that Prudhoe Bay oil goes to JAAApan ???? Or so I have read.....

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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Screw the middle east, Russia will be pumping before long. Then we'll have them over a BARREL.


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  • shoottilltheneighborscallthesherrifshoottilltheneighborscallthesherrif Member Posts: 85 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What kind of oil you lookin for Seductive? I got a couple quarts in wifies car, 10w30 though. peace!
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hahaaa!! The stuff says "proudly Made is America so we can screw iraq outta money for makin bombs and stuff" (lol)



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  • jager22jager22 Member Posts: 197 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    screw the middle east
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    I think it's very imperative we set up drilling in Alaska.
    I know some will disagree, but, if we don't quit depending on foreign oil, we are going to be in a fix. It would take years to get the oil pumping in Alaska and by that time our economy could be ruined.
    I love the beautiful sites in Alaska, but that won't matter when I can't afford to buy gas and won't have a job to pay for it.
    The California tree huggers are reaping their harvest now that they have saved their trees, but have no electricity. Theres a way to have both, but neither side will bend and compromise.
    "You can't have your cake and eat it too!" goes the saying.
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  • seductiveoneseductiveone Member Posts: 159 ✭
    edited November -1
    ooooh! That is sooo right daddo! Nailed my thought. Also, the more we buy from the mid-east, the more we help them buy the bombs they make, and give money to the families of the suicide bombers families.
    Just my 2 cents.


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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    There is one point I forgot to state, is that, they need us to buy their oil as (if my right) the US consumes most of it. Where else would we go though, if they raised prices?
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is plenty of oil in the Gulf to last a lonnnnnnnnng time. No need to drill in Alaska.

    We are using up the oil in the Middle east first, then we'll use ours. Good idea, I suppose.

    Mexico has a HUUUUUUUGE amount of oil, too. We can always take that. :)

    Merc



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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    most of the oil that comes off the north slope goes to japan
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like Breakfree or FP-10 myself.

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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Totally agree with "daddo". If we do not start preparing to drill in our reserves, ie: Alaska, we will again find ourselves behind the 'eight ball' if foreign product is not available.

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  • trooperchintrooperchin Member Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i agree with airborne and daddo

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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm for drilling off the Gulf Coast of FL. My wife's family used to own some of the drilling rights. The State of FL sold the rights, then told them they couldn't drill. The lawsuits from that are still going on 50 years later.

    I almost forgot to add: There are some "crackpot" theories about the formation of the solar system that aren't widely accepted, but according to those theories, if you drill deeply enough anywhere, you will hit oil. The theory says there is more oil in the earth than we could possibly use in 1,000,000 years at the current rate and that it didn't come from dinosaurs and other biomass but was left over from the creation of the solar system.

    Edited by - Gordian Blade on 05/28/2002 15:09:36
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I order scented edible oil off the web. Comes in a plain package. Real good stuff. Don't think it comes from the mideast.

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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think....
    Next time we have to go into Iraq, and it won't be long, we tell our Saudi friends "Okay, you wouldn't do anything to help so here we come".

    We take the Iraq oil. It's ours. We ship it home. Tell the Iraq people, we will build you schools and hospitals, take care of your welfare, but just go sit in a corner and shut up. ITS OURS! Paid for with the blood of our troops. And then we tell the Oil companies, the price of gas is say 50 cents a gallon. NO MORE! The government uses that revenue to pay for the upkeep of Iraq.

    Oh yes...then we tell the Saudis.....UP YOURS!

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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Screw oil. There are some very promising new technologies being developed, in particular Hydrogen fuel cells, which run off of ordinary hydrogen... there is virtually unlimited amounts of the stuff in the air and oceans, all we need is an effective way to reclaim it (the dipole bond of O and H in H20 is very strong so water is not a viable fuel source currently and thus the hang up). Coupled with hybrid gas/electric cars, our oil requirements would be dropped to where domestic sources could once again fill them and we could tell the Arabs to eat their oil. 10 years, mark my words, and you'll see fuel cell cars as an every day occurrence.

    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    What ever became of bio-diesel.The stuff made from leftover resturaunt grease? I believe they were trying it out in the St.Louis transit system.Any one have the latest on that?




    Edited by - thesoundguy1 on 05/28/2002 17:52:08
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    "RICKSTIR"- I remember when Nazi-Germany had the same idea.
    "jonk"-- Even if fuel cell vehicles come into affect in the next 10 years and are afforable and sold exclusively, it would be another 10+ years before the general populace owned one. Remember- it take oil to make the vehicles and lubricate them, work trucks that haul loads of anykind would still run on gas/oil, not to count the thousands of products that depend on oil for manufacturing and operating. How much oil products are used in the making of a cell? What do we do with the waste product of a cell? Another polluting idea. Without oil, the squeeky wheel would get no grease.
    Things will change in the future as far as our dependency on oil, but it will be a long time.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pelican --
    The edible oil that warms to the touch is really good, but watch out, I once met a very nice blonde who let me cover her with it and suddenly had an allergic reaction -- she wound up standing in the shower until the effects wore off...

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