Originally Posted By woody "No woody, I'm just saying that a lot people *might* be blaming Bush for it. Most people are very self-absorbed and approved of Bush until they started feeling spending a lot more money on gas. Most people are going to blame whoever is in charge." You're not exactly saying Bush is NOT being blamed. Many will blame Bush, but I think we should have more drilling especially in Alaska. I'm disappointed that the public haven't demanded drilling. DRILL DRILL DRILL.
Originally Posted By woody "How about CONSERVE CONSERVE CONSERVE?" Conservation will NEVER get us out of using oil. It's fools game. Our money is funding the Middle East when it should be staying at home. The ONLY solution is more drilling and alternative energy sources.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Conservation is not about getting us out of using oil, Woody. It's about needing less to meet our demands. You don't need to drill quite as much and you don't need to import as much if you aren't using as much.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy We need to drill everywhere. Uth and wyoming are nice spots with lots of oil. So is the coast of Florida, so is Alaska.
Originally Posted By DlandDug There are large sections of Oklahoms that haven't been turned into barren wastelands yet. Let's drill there!
Originally Posted By woody "Conservation is not about getting us out of using oil, Woody." It should be. That's the missing component. "It's about needing less to meet our demands. You don't need to drill quite as much and you don't need to import as much if you aren't using as much." Our economy depends upon growth. You can't grow without more energy to feed the growth. You need energy to build and manufacture goods. You need energy to transport goods to market. We will continue to use more energy, but in the meantime, we should use alternative sources and look for more oil in our own lands. I realize that oil won't last forever. It may only last a few more hundreds of years. There will only be two conclusions.... (1) a soft landing with alternative energy sources, or (2) a hard landing when the oil runs out.
Originally Posted By itsme >>Funny... some folks on the right don't like what Bush is doing anymore and they suddenly start calling him a liberal. ------ Well this is one guy on the right who did not vote for him cause i have seen him as not being real conservative from the start. Just because you cut taxes, have strong feelings for religion and want to give the miltary something to do does not make you conservitive, though many today do think that.
Originally Posted By patrickegan I say we get with the winning team and come in for the big score! Winning team, big score what the heck is talking about? Hey gang let’s get with the program I say it’s time to bring the boy’s home from Iraq with a prayer rug and Koran for every man women and child in the United States. Why right after we all submit to the religion of peace women will no longer be allowed to drive now that’s conservation in action friend! With all of that praying and flashing back to the eleventh century we will be embracing a life style with very little adverse impact on the planet. Let’s think circa 1160’s but instead of benevolent hippies rocking out to country Joe and the fish you’ll be going for the same look rocking and rolling to the din of your AK-47. And don’t even get me started on the social benefits I can see it now in my minds eye Al Bin Gore after taking power as head Mullah will in his first fatwaw "Our Prophet did not run for office in any election ... he won the war against the infidel" will change the world by inventing goat herding-
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>And don’t even get me started on the social benefits<< I'll try not to. Honest.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer World Events: You don't have to get your political commentary from the guy talking to himself on the bus any more.
Originally Posted By RC Collins The thing about these polls is that people hearing the results forget that not everyone who is unhappy with Bush's performance are tilting Left, or against the Iraq war, etc. Some of the people are unhappy with his performence because they want him to be more conservative, or because they wanted him to nominate someone like Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, or they want him to build a huge wall along the borders and staff it with military personnel, or they want him to stop spending money on social programs, or call for the abolotion of the Department of Education. Not all of the people are thinking like Democrats or Greens. And when the rubber meets the road, as in elections (he's not going to run again, but some Republican will, and the 2006 Congressional elections are coming up), a lot of those people unhappy with Bush's handling of things are going to vote for the Republican over the Democrat.
