Re: Stupidity on steroids

<BurtonUrny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 May 15, 9:26 pm, The Trucker <mik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 17:09:15 -0700, Captain Compassion wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:28:32 -0700, The Trucker <mik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > wrote:
>
> >>Would anyone like to offer a rational explanation of why we would pump
> >>70,000 barrels of oil per day out of North Slope, ****p it to Texas,
and
> >>pump it back into the ground?
>
> > Would anyone like to offer a rational explanation of why anyone would
> > work hard all week then take the some of the earnings from that work
> > and put it in a bank?
>
> You missed the point so maybe I will expand using your supposed analogy:
> If you _KNEW_ that your earnings were just as private to you and just as
> stable and accessible to you while being left with the employer, then
why
> would you pick them up and move them somewhere else?
>
> That oil is not going to run away and the Martians are not going to
steal
> it out of the North slope. It is stored where it is. Why move it to a
> different storage compartment?
>
>
>
>
>
> >>Would anyone like to guess why a (P)resident of the _UNITED_ States 
> >>would
> >>threaten to veto the discontinuance of this outrage?
>
> >>Must be the Republican version of a "jobs" program.
>
> >>The "Strategic Petroleum Reserve" already exists in several places and

> >>it
> >>will not be jumping up and running away to Atlantis. But there is
> >>something to consider: Cuba is making a deal with the Chinese to tap
the
> >>oil 60 miles south of Florida which is (according to current
> >>unilateralists and nationalists) part of _OUR_ real "Strategic
Petroleum
> >>Reserve".
>
> >>Can anyone offer a rational explanation as to why our (P)resident 
> >>insists
> >>on not having any dialog with the Cubans? There is a lot of rightie
crap
> >>about "slant drilling" when the fact is that a reservoir of oil can be
> >>tapped in a lot of different places. And as the oil is recovered more
of
> >>the stuff just seeps to the point of recovery; no slant drilling 
> >>necessary.
>
> >>Why do we see an interest in that which will increase the price of
> >>oil in the near term while ignoring the actual loss of oil in the 
> >>future.
>
> >>It would seem that a rational person would have been talking to Cuba 
> >>long
> >>before RIGHT NOW.
>
> >>The Republicans are masters of distraction, always focusing on morals 
> >>and
> >>nationalism while they line the pockets of the rich. The Republicans 
> >>must
> >>at all times use every weapon possible to attack the environmentalists
> >>(and sometimes they need it) but only because the environmentalists
are
> >>easily associated with the Democrats. So the issue is always framed
with
> >>ANWR . LOOK OVER THERE....
>
> >>The Republican leader****p (and that is NOT Pinocchio Bush) are not 
> >>stupid.
> >>But they rely very heavily on the stupidity of their followers.
>
> > You agree then that the US should use more of their oil resources.
>
> More of who's? Who is "their". If we want to "save" _our_ oil why not
> leave it in the bank its in? Why transfer it to a different bank in
> the USA and endure the transaction costs?
>
> --

  So the $35 million worth of oil and gas under your property belongs
to the "people"?? Well hell, tell em' to start drilling I want my
royalty check muy pronto culero !!
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Actually, in Texas, especially east Texas, it is unlikely you own the 
mineral rights. The oil belongs to the owner of the mineral rights.