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BLM oil and gas lease sale 'criminal,' Redford says
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By the way, if you want tough times to get worse, keep supporting economy killing environmental concepts. We will all be back in the "dark ages".
Look at the fit Redford threw when the State widened the road through Provo Canyon.
It seems to me that if it is a benefit to the majority, the minority will scream the loudest to get whatever is proposed stopped.
After that, we'll STILL have to change.
There has been so much 'crying wolf', that I discount about 98% of any thing I hear about the negative effects on the environment.
Thank God these alarmists wern't around when the dinosaurs were here, or none of us would be able to venture outside our homes.
If it auctions for below Market value ...then you can tag it a Fire Sale, not before!
I wouldn't ask a wildlife biologist where to find oil. I wouldn't ask a petroleum geologist about effects on wildlife or on people's quality of life.
"If Obama protects a few million more acres in Utah it won't effect them politically. Clinton wasn't hurt. We liberals could turn Utah in to an environment reserve and there's no political penalty. Obama could send a message to other states that don't support him. If you don't have any political support in a state, it not like there's votes you can lose."
It's good to see you liberals actually admit to your unethical behaviors for once. When Clinton created the Escalante National Monument all on his own, I was disgusted by his dictator like behavior, but not as disgusted as I was with the American people for letting a single person get away with exercising that much power.
I have no problem with the monument, but that type of political behavior is very, very dangerous. It just shows, as long as you have the media on your side, you can get away with anything. Just look at what George W. is getting away with right now! Creating an auto bailout in spite of Congress and in spit of the people.
I believe the sun will rise from the east, but I sure don't know how you prove that we will run out of oil. The predictions years ago (70's) said we would be out by now, and that was with less usage than we currently have. The sky is not falling, there is plenty of oil and the "environmentalist" want you to ride a horse. (Please bring own shovel and wagon to collect waste and dispose of properly!)
Oh Utahns, I pray for you.
We can affect the cost of transportation by using the oil we buy more efficiently and finding alternative fuels suitable for transportation. We can ruin southern Utah, providing some jobs for a few years, making money for some people, but it won't make any real difference in terms of oil imports or oil prices.
Drill, baby, drill sounds impressive, but it's a slogan invented by somebody who thinks that living across the ocean from Russia makes you an expert on foreign policy.
All those who say gas is scarce, explain to me why I here about speculaters buying cheap gas and storing it in super tankers off the coast. Yes we certainly are running out of "cheap" gas because speculators are once again trying to create a sellers market by limiting supply(which was also decreased by oil executives). So by all means lets drill needlessly and let capitalism sort it out, cause that is so consistent and egalitarian.
1) It takes years to actually get the oil and gas on the market, according to the Democratic party.
2) We currently do not have enough alternative energy sources. We have nothing but fossil fuel that can move semi-trucks and automobiles, the two chief methods of moving cargo and people in this country.
3) If we fail to start extracting more energy from U.S. lands, then we'll become increasingly dependent on foreign oil, which could lead to high prices that could again cripple our economy, a prime reason the economy got in trouble in the first place this time around.
However, let's put in some rules that all roads placed for oil and gas exploration be closed to the public, that no oil and gas workers can access public lands for recreation on such roads, and that all such roads be completely eliminated after the gas and oil wells shut down. The chief negative impact of gas and oil extraction is the creation of roads, which harm wildlife by reducing isolation, so let's minimize that harm.
Mr Redford is like most people in this country "misinformed" and to lazy to find the truth.
I bought gas the other day for 1.46 gal.
We need to do like Bush did, just mention drilling for off shore oil or producing Shale. It puts the fear of domestic production on their greedy plates.
I fear Obama will let the oil companies take us to even more higher prices for energy.
One reason: they don't work on a macro scale.
Windmills have become more efficient, solar arrays can produce more volts per square inch, and geo-thermal is becoming more accessable. The difficulty remains that these can only be used on either a single household scale or municipality to augment what is all ready there on the grid. None of those technologies can be used to actually supply the grid.
Should more homes be built with these technological accessories? Yes, but they should not be mandated, only done on a voluntary basis. The only technologies available to supply the power grid continuously are the ones we are currently using: hydroelectric, natural gas, coal (which is a whole lot claeaner than the envirowackos want you to believe), oil and the dreaded yet world-wide tested nuclear.
Until we can develop nuclear power without the envirowackos being the source of over 2/3's of the cost to build (through stupid lawsuits), our best bet is to use and explore our own resources. We all saw, briefly, what happened to gasoline prices in mid-summer when the US just threatened to drill.
I have seen their oil and gas platforms, the area around them supply the wildlife with better browse and food than adjoining areas.
We should all look to Redford as an example of an eletist attitude... don't do as we do, do as we say.
Uncle Teddy's boat was dumping diesel into the bay at Hiannas port, nobody wanted to remove his boat, nor did it get much press coverage.
The greenies have no viable solutions, hard to imagine doing research in a cold darkroom.
He is just playing a part, just acting.
If you can drill these parcels from existing parcels, using slant drilling, then go for it. Otherwise, leave a few vistas alone.
Environmentalist -- one who has already done so, and now wants to make sure no one else can.
You are such a liberal hypocrite it makes me sick. Driving your big gas guzzling cars, flying in your private jets, etc. Now we a have chance to create some domestic jobs and revenue and all you do is complain. Be a part of the solution not part of the problem.
By the way, please close down your ski resort, it's destroying the landscape and environment!!!!
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