I totally agree we need to find other fuels to use... but this president while talking the talk, hasn't walked the walk. What can you expect from one that has his historical roots tied in oil? He SAYS he is funding things to insure other sources are found but where are ANY sort of announcements of universities etc getting grants to do this? That solar car thing they have every year doesn't count. lol
I know for a fact that there are literally thousands of oil wells that have been abandoned way back when, that they no longer could pump from. They NOW could get millions of barrels from them with the current technology. I was at an Aunt-in-laws a few years ago and asked what these pipes were sticking out of the ground out at the rear of the property...
They were and are oil wells, capped back in the early 1900's. The oil rights belong to BP (now). There are such wells allll over that county. Now they could use the water-steam (or whatever it is they currently use) to force that oil up and out. Why ruin pristine wilderness when we have such oil sitting and waiting? There are pipes like that all over the US. Waiting...
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And Yes WarKiddie... I understand VERY well how government works. Probably alot more than you'd even begin to think. ;-)
Lets keep it a secret on how many congress folks have come out with their comments on why they voted to give doofus the right to use war... (note, show me where they said IRAQ specifically) and also lets keep it hush hush that many have since said they would have NOT given their votes had they known then what they know now...
But we are in there now and have to stay to the end. We ourselves have had casualties in the family. I just wish I could somehow think they were for a better reason than some clowns 'agenda' to rid the World of tyrants and impose his religious beliefs. (Oops, yet another show on PBS where even the religious groups are questioning the admins use of 'religion' in his comments etc)