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New energy bill

Wednesday, November 14 at 2:00 PM

Robert Lipton of Lakewood writes:

A new energy bill, hooray for congress , the bill will do nothing to ease the energy shortage which is crippling the American economy. The pie in the sky promises of bio -fuels etc. hustled to the charlatans in congress will not lower the prices or ease the shortage . If we had drilled in Anwar as proposed ten years ago or at least opened some of the off shore prospects we would now not be totally dependent on foreign oil. The promise of alleviating this crisis sometime in the next 40 years is ridiculous. The economy needs help now . The dollar is no longer a stable currency. Promises of a rosy, environmentally neat future are grand but without a sustainable economy we never going to attain it.

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READER COMMENTS

Is there any way we could convert illegal immigrants into fuel?

Posted by Two Birds with One Stone on November 14, 2007 04:50 PM

ANWR, out of bounds; 85% of the outer-continental shelf, out of bounds as Cuba and China joint-venture 45-miles off the Florida Keys; nuke power plants, out of bounds; coal gasification, out of bounds; new crude refineries, out of bounds; Vermillion, out of bounds.

Meanwhile ethanol, solar and windmills that have been promising big things for generations will continue to make their usual pissant contribution that will remain pissant for the entire 21st century.

Get ready for $5 p/g at the pump. The folks back east are staring eyeball to eyeball with $2,000 per month to keep their homes warm. Biofuel that! Or are we now moving onto the unfulfilled, yet exciting, promise of cow flatulence?

Posted by Hank on November 15, 2007 06:17 AM

You could drill in every place that the letter writer and the infamous Hankster state are off-limits and we still will not be energy independent. We're not going to be able to drill our way to energy independence. Every study out there shows that the world is consuming far more oil that can be extracted. No one seems to want to do the practical things, like build cars that get better mileage or build houses far enough apart that they can get some of their heat from passive solar. Mr. Lipton and Hankster remind me of the little dutchmen trying to plug more holes in the dam than he has fingers.

Posted by Keith and Hank sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G on November 15, 2007 11:39 AM