Comments on: In Praise of Oil, Oil Execs and Carbon in General

By: Phillip J Hubbell

Phillip J Hubbell — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:11:32 +0000

Daniel…well considering my gender, what else would I be if not manly? Metrosexual?

By: Frank R

Frank R — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:45:42 +0000

Had the west not developed the oil fields in the Middle East the tribes would still be fighting one another with relatively crude weapons. The Saudis would never be able to afford to fund wahabism, Iran would never afford a nuclear reactor or anything else for that matter. The list goes on. Is that ethnocentric? Perhaps, but without a source of income where would the Middle Eastern tribes have gotten the money to buy the drills to bring the oil to the surface to sell to the rest of the world. They had no thriving modern economy before the west horribly raped them for their oil in exchange for huge sums of cash.
Not to mention that we have domestic sources of oil close by which our illustrious leaders refuse to allow us to tap. Why? Well, because it would take ten years for that oil to impact the market. Oh, yeah, that’s what they said ten years ago.
Finally, people in glass houses . . . . . . The Republicans hold no lock on spending what they don’t have. In the event you missed it our fearless (feckless?) leader just quadrupled the debt. Last time I looked, which was just a few minutes ago because we now have the all Obama all the time news, he was a Democrat.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:48:16 +0000

“I would rather die on a burned out cinder in space than live in the world envisioned by the environmentalists and Barack Obama”

How enlightened of you. Be careful what you wish for.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:57:16 +0000

Please don’t take this wrong, Phillip, but you’re just so darn manly!

By: Phillip J Hubbell

Phillip J Hubbell — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:04:15 +0000

I would rather die on a burned out cinder in space than live in the world envisioned by the environmentalists and Barack Obama….So I will continue to barbeque on Earthday and drive my gas guzzler. We should also drill more wells offshore. Necessity may someday force us to replace oil…the force used by government for political purposes to make us conserve doesn’t create anything except lousy economies and more poor people.

By: Dallasite

Dallasite — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:55:57 +0000

“Faux ‘conservatives’ like Trey”

So who gets to determine what a “real” conservative is, you? You sound like a typical far left socialist, so sorry, you don’t get to make that determination.

I personally love napalm, as long as we’re using on our enemies, and not the other way around. As far the petty dictators and despots you listed above, the best way to bankrupt them is to start drilling domestically. I take it you don’t have a problem with drilling ANWR and the outer continental shelf, do you?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:02:29 +0000

“So, Bob, you’re saying that we should live in poverty, and a regressed society, to keep from having to deal with bad people?”

No, I’m saying there is an enormous price tag for the blinkered self-indulgence of “rev that engine and race someone when the light turns green.” Faux ‘conservatives’ like Trey – and most of what counts for leadership in the GOP – want to guzzle oil and spend borrowed money like there’s no tomorrow and yet they don’t want to pay the price of their unbridled right to consume like drunken teenagers.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:47:38 +0000

If the Federal Government and Exxon stood on the edge of a cliff and I could only save one of them

First, the Government would save Exxon even as it tumbled off the cliff itself, don’tcha know.

Oh, and the answer is three-point-four. Three-point-four babies.

By: Dallasite

Dallasite — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:35:36 +0000

So, Bob, you’re saying that we should live in poverty, and a regressed society, to keep from having to deal with bad people?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:17:02 +0000

Hey Sweetness, in your oil-induced fantasy, you left out napalm, carpet bombing and perpetual war against oil-producing Muslims. If you want to thank somebody for all that oil, thank Hugo Chavez, the Saudi princes and the Chinese for loaning you the money to buy your oil jerk-off fantasies.