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How high does gas go before Washington decides to drill?

  • I'm getting hammered at the pump. We're sitting on so much natural gas and oil in this country. I think we need to develop alternative energy but it will take time. Meanwhile we've got all this coal, natural gas, oil, shale and tar sands. I heard on TV we've got a thousand years or more of energy in those things.

    So I wonder, how high does gas go before someone in Washington decides that it's time to drill and use our own resources?

    Rudy Baga

  • My friends in LA say they're already paying $5 a gallon.

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    Franz Beard

  • I spent $50 at the pump yesterday and got 3/4 tank!! Wtf! megaphone

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    AlligatorDundee

  • When the idiots that run Washington are no longer in Washington. The real solution is an honest media but that will never happen and if we had that the fools in DC would never have been elected in the first place

    Pierce Kuhn

  • Rudy Baga said...

    I'm getting hammered at the pump. We're sitting on so much natural gas and oil in this country. I think we need to develop alternative energy but it will take time. Meanwhile we've got all this coal, natural gas, oil, shale and tar sands. I heard on TV we've got a thousand years or more of energy in those things.

    So I wonder, how high does gas go before someone in Washington decides that it's time to drill and use our own resources?

    I have some investments in North Dakota right now in the oil boom there and they say there are two HUGE lakes of oil that are just waiting to be drilled. I am hoping this leads to a big oil boom and my investments pay off up there.

    AtlGator

  • I don't know if I just picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue or I'm just so out of the loop with gas prices but I was heading down to Key West a few weeks back and wanted to top off my tank so I put 10 bones in there.........damn needle didn't even move censoredcensored

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  • I'm in the oil & gas business. You're investments in the Bakken in North Dakota should already be paying off. But yes, there's an oil boom going on there. I'm currently on an oil project in Colorado. And yes there is tons of natural gas & oil in this country. ZERO reason other than inept leadership that we aren't energy independent. I just wrote to both my senators in Texas today, who voted against the natural gas act last week, to let them know that if they vote that way again they'll lose my vote for US Senate. As Republicans, the only reason they voted against it was b/c Obama recently came out in favor of The Natural Gas Act. Piss poor partisan reason. I'm definitely not a democrat and I didn't vote for Obama...but energy independence is a HUMAN issue...an American issue.

    This post was edited by TexasGator94 on 3/20/2012 at 7:15 PM

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  • TexasGator94 said...

    I'm in the oil & gas business. You're investments in the Bakken in North Dakota should already be paying off. But yes, there's an oil boom going on there. I'm currently on an oil project in Colorado. And yes there is tons of natural gas & oil in this country. ZERO reason other than inept leadership that we aren't energy independent. I just wrote to both my senators in Texas today, who voted against the natural gas act last week, to let them know that if they vote that way again they'll lose my vote for US Senate. As Republicans, the only reason they voted against it was b/c Obama recently came out in favor of The Natural Gas Act. Piss poor partisan reason. I'm definitely not a democrat and I didn't vote for Obama...but energy independence is a HUMAN issue...an American issue.

    well said

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  • Time to vote Texas Gator up folks.

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    Franz Beard

  • not only do we need to drill we also need to push us towards natural gas

    obma thinking we can make enough fuel out of algae is laughable-

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    g8orbill

  • As if this wasn't an issue before the current regime took over . . .

    Marty Cohen

  • Uh gas prices are not necessarily related to domestic production
    http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/fact-check-more-us-1392738.html

    Talligator

  • Marty Cohen said...

    As if this wasn't an issue before the current regime took over . . .

    Last I checked oil production is up ten percent under the current regime.get your facts right

    southsidegator

  • Talligator said...

    Uh gas prices are not necessarily related to domestic production http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/fact-check-more-us-1392738.html

    This article is as misleading as it claims "others with a 'drill-baby-drill' mentality" to be. Yes we are drilling more than ever, and which administration's efforts should be credited can be debated (which I won't do here in an attempt for bi-partisanship somewhere). That said, domestic drilling has to be met with the ability to get the oil to market, and that my friends takes growth in two areas...(1) pipelines in order to get the domestic oil to market & (2) refining...if you can't refine the oil into gasoline, then prices at the pump cannot change regardless of how much oil we produce and/or import. We haven't built a new refinery for this purpose in 20+ years. Liberal voters don't want to drill & they definitely don't want a refinery in their backyard. Simply put, if you aren't in favor of the U.S. meeting its energy needs by converting to cleaner burning, less expensive, and domestically-plentiful natural gas, then you have to continue to increase domestic oil production (yes we still IMPORT billions of dollars worth of oil from OPEC nations like Saudi Arabia, though we get most from our neighbor to the north, Canada) AND increase the gathering/major pipelines to get the oil to (yes you guessed it) brand NEW refineries at key locations across the United States. I'll say it again, if you don't wanna pay $4-$5 per gallon for gasoline, whether you import or domestically-produce the oil, you have to REFINE the oil into gasoline and transport it...or technically a combo of the two...transport then refine...refine then transport. NAT GAS CAN BE HAD TODAY, COMPRESSED OR LIQUIFIED, FOR AN EQUIVALENT $1.40 VERSUS $4.00 AVERAGE GASOLINE BTW.

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