Comments on: Ken Salazar: No OCS drilling, even when it’s $10/gallon for gas.

By: Joe_Schmo

Joe_Schmo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:17:49 +0000

I hope you’re right about Colorado staying Red, but I think we have our work cut out for us.

Maybe McCain can ride the coattails of Schaffer…

By: Moe_Lane

Moe_Lane — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:25:16 +0000

Although I can't blame you for not wanting to be too openly against poor people getting to drive, too. It is very stupid of your faction to be like that, after all.

By: kowalski

kowalski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:04:15 +0000

As an aside, I expect to see quite a few more hunters in the woods this fall than I did last year: people are hurting for money, and that means they’re going to be looking to lighten their grocery bills by bringing meat to the table the old fashioned way.

By: kowalski

kowalski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:51:32 +0000

That's true enough, but people don't have as much of an option when it comes to heating their homes, and there are a lot of people in the country who simply must drive. Particularly in exurban and rural areas of the country, gasoline at $10 a gallon would be a real hardship, particularly if the price of heating oil rose commensurately.

I live in such a town: one stoplight, a gas station, a pizza joint and a convenience store is our "business district" and people here need to drive 15 miles to get to the nearest grocery, or the post office. You can get a good idea of people's financial situation by watching how they pay for things like milk, bread, beer and cigarettes at the convenience store:

For the past two months, the owner has been getting increasingly nervous because the number of people paying with change (and coming up short and leaving IOU notes) has been rising each week. They're not paying with change because they just bought a new leather sofa and are throwing out their old cushions, either.

The recent small break in the price of gas has been a genuinely felt relief here, small as it is. My seat-of-the-pants guess, based on watching this phenomenon and his increasing agitation, is that a lot of the people paying with change would be in big trouble if their home heating bills doubled this winter.

And do you know who benefits from that in the Northeast? Hugo Chavez and Joseph Kennedy II, because of his Citizens Energy heating-oil company.

By: sanrioscenario

sanrioscenario — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:59:02 +0000

Listen, anybody who's against offshore drilling clearly hasn't thought of the countless problems that it would solve. For example, Problem: pollutants increase nationwide. Your kid has asthma attacks on a daily basis. On "bad air days" he can’t go outside. Solution: You're going to need some cheap fuel to drive him back and forth to the hospital. Try drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. Also, you should gut the clean air regulations. Actually, you have enough to worry about. Let us do it for you. See more reasons why offshore drilling will save the world: http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/30/poordepressedimpotentoffsho8035.php

By: LDockside

LDockside — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:48:33 +0000

If the Chinese continue to increase the demand for oil, which is certain, any additional oil on the international market which comes from the US will, at best, just keep the supply even with the demand. That's not gonna bring down prices.

So the price won't go down because the demand will continue to keep them up. The only sure way to increase the supply is for nations to use less oil (conservation or develop other energy sources, in other words). Or, get the Chinese to stop increasing their demand.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:31:28 +0000

of my youth. He looks for his glasses where the light is good, not where he lost them.

Democrats want us to drill where we know the oil isn't, because they don't want us to drill where it is.

By: Canthros

Canthros — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:45:56 +0000

Get thee to a library, naif.

By: gamecock

gamecock — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:14:32 +0000

very long unless it were due to war damage at refineries or fields. Even an attack on Iran, so long as Iran can't block the strait would cause the price to stay high for more than a week or three.

Given that the $4 point is the known tipping point in the US and that a much higher price would make sales drop dramatically, the market will force the price down to an affordable level.

By: simpson316

simpson316 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:00:02 +0000

Much better response than mine Moe.

By: Moe_Lane

Moe_Lane — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:58:19 +0000

If you ignore their attempts to wrest control of the narrative, and instead just think of it in terms of amusing flailing about against the inevitable, it becomes a good deal more tolerable to witness.

By: Moe_Lane

Moe_Lane — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:53:15 +0000

By: simpson316

simpson316 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:52:17 +0000

that increasing supply will not lower prices (or, heck, even slow the rise in price)?

By: LDockside

LDockside — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:45:05 +0000

No response re selling on the international market to the highest bidder won't do diddly squat to bring down gas prices if drilling offshore or in ANWR.

Still waiting...

By: kingnavland

kingnavland — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:39:48 +0000

Not going to be that great, since this is my first time ever attempting something like this, but it’ll get the job done. Maybe the RNC can take a cue.

By: Vegas_Rick

Vegas_Rick — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:39:16 +0000

It’s the same tactic Obama is using. It’s the same tactic the Dems always use. Most of the time I can stay focused on the issue at hand, but that is one of the most rediculous diversions they’ve come up with. Drill it or lose it? Come on.

By: Moe_Lane

Moe_Lane — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:33:45 +0000

Mad, you might not contemplate that the real question is not “Why must we drill?”, but “Why are you standing in the way of our drilling?”

By: Vegas_Rick

Vegas_Rick — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:29:54 +0000

What possible incentive could the "greedy oil companies" have for NOT drilling on those leases with oil at $130 a barrel?

Come on! Let's hear it! I am freaking sick of that idiotic mantra. Can one of you liberal fruitcakes give an explanation that is even remotely feasible? I want to hear it!

By: aaronbg

aaronbg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:20:49 +0000

there seems to be a few of us Coloradans here at RS…I hope to put up a few good diaries on our state page soon. Our page should be hopping this year, with Udall/Schaffer, and who ever wins the CO 5th CD Republican primary on Aug 12th. I am not convinced of CO going blue this year.

By: aaronbg

aaronbg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:09:18 +0000

n/t