tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post111325967392025253..comments2023-03-29T07:33:35.853-07:00Comments on Great Blogs of Fire: The EnvironmentKylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14459912711528974289noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113511500354116582005-04-14T13:45:00.000-07:002005-04-14T13:45:00.000-07:00Three points:1. Right on, Kyle. The answer to the ...Three points:<BR/><BR/>1. Right on, Kyle. The answer to the oil crisis is not to try to get more oil. The answer is to find (or in many cases subsidize the development of) other sources of renewable energy, such as the hydrogen fuel-cell technology. The government can help this along by providing incentives and subsidies. These oil companies apparently need that carrot to get them moving.<BR/><BR/>2. Ann Coulter is a lunatic. She, Karl Rove, and Tom Delay are the epitome of what is wrong with the Republican party, each for their own, unique reasons. I stopped taking anything she had to say seriously years ago when she started making stuff up (the article quoted is a good example).<BR/><BR/>3. I've found that riding a bike is often a MUCH better way to do everyday commuting, but only if the infrastructure of the city supports it. Most people do not commute so far that cycling would take that much longer to get around (in many cases, it would be shorter). When city councils wake up to this, we'll all be better for it.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191507766053284525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113499137342812952005-04-14T10:18:00.000-07:002005-04-14T10:18:00.000-07:00Point taken on the Bush responsible for companies,...Point taken on the Bush responsible for companies, thing. BUT, there have been measures that crossed his desk that would force companies to do things more ecologically that he's refused to sign. (the Kyoto treaty for one.) It would be nice though if someone with as much influence as he does would encourage a more responsible use of our environment. <BR/><BR/>And mom, it always seemed that you loved to hate politics and I always hated to love them and so I guess those paths never crossed. I'd rather have converstations with you about more important things like, ...well, most anything.Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459912711528974289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113480579885540592005-04-14T05:09:00.000-07:002005-04-14T05:09:00.000-07:00That was really long. But I did like how it is Bu...That was really long. But I did like how it is Bush's fault that companies are not working on oil free solutions.<BR/><BR/>W! Start forcing companies to do stuff! Why don't you control American business better!<BR/><BR/>Ann Coulter is my new best friend.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I am in Europe, and they have no space, so they do things pretty economically. I imagine that America will realize the fault in it's ways just as soon as we run out of space... in 3,000 years. When people start moving into Oklahoma, then we should get worried. <BR/><BR/>You can lead Americans to water, but you can't hit them on the back of the head and then drown them. It is illegal.Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05369662367122270060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113365782446176592005-04-12T21:16:00.000-07:002005-04-12T21:16:00.000-07:00Kyle I didn't realize how political you were. I w...Kyle I didn't realize how political you were. I would agree that we are bonbarded by too much junk mail and paper in general. We recycle the newspapers and magazines, but if we would recycle all paper it would be even better. However, I just wish we didn't get all that paper. Computers have helped but it seems that in the long run we still have to have a "hard copy". <BR/><BR/>Now I don't know a lot about oil and gas drilling and such. But I do know that my dad worked in an oil refinery where he worked to refine crude oil. Its a lengthy process not to mention just drilling for the oil. I'd say that prices on gas and oil have a lot to do with the difficulty in obtaining the product and then processing it. Also there is the whole safety aspect of just working in a refinery that is hassardess to one's health. <BR/><BR/>I'm not complaining too much about the prices. That is unless the product is being wasted. And it just could be a waste to use so much of it on those 3 block trips to my school everyday. (I just don't want to walk to school with my bookbag and my clean clothes. I'd be out of breath and hot and sweaty by the time I arrived. That would only make me cranky and the kids would not get a lot out of a cranky, hot, sweaty old teacher.<BR/><BR/>Okay I'll stop since I've stepped off into the senseless realm.<BR/><BR/>MomMary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13276239655439786223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113334427597264952005-04-12T12:33:00.000-07:002005-04-12T12:33:00.000-07:00Kyle,I couldn't put it into words the way Ann Coul...Kyle,<BR/><BR/>I couldn't put it into words the way Ann Coulter can, so hear is my reply to "The Environment" post. That being said, I am arguably one of the most "green" and environmentally friendly conservatives you may know. I have a very active compost pile, an organic garden, and three worm bins. Oh, yes. But my armpits don't stink and I don't smell of fried tofu. :)<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>By Ann Coulter<BR/>FrontPageMagazine.com | April 18, 2002<BR/><BR/>HAVING WEARIED OF OPPOSING THE WAR ON TERRORISM, Democrats are now trying to sabotage the country's energy policy. A better idea, they think, is to continue sending large amounts of money to countries that nurture homicidal Muslims intent on destroying America.<BR/><BR/>George Bush has proposed drilling in a tiny, desolate portion of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. According a leading Democratic opponent of the plan, lying is the key to defeating ANWR.<BR/><BR/>ABC-NBC-CBS have been accompanying discussions of ANWR with picturesque footage of caribou frolicking in lush, fertile fields – all of which happens to be nowhere near the site of the proposed drilling. ANWR is 19 million acres – larger than Massachusetts, New Jersey, Hawaii, Connecticut and Delaware combined. If oil is found, less than 2,000 acres would be directly affected. The area targeted for drilling looks a little like the moon, but less inviting.<BR/><BR/>Consequently, Gale Norton, the secretary of the interior, responded to the campaign of lies by unveiling actual film footage of the area at issue. She sent a true and accurate film of the proposed drilling site to the networks and also posted the footage on the department's website. <BR/><BR/>Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts (D, needless to say) claims this underhanded dissemination of the truth is illegal. Telling the truth is not merely contrary to the principles of the Democratic Party, now it's a violation of law. As Markey explains, the law prohibits agencies from promoting any "film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress."<BR/><BR/>It was bad enough when Democrats just lied a lot themselves, purported not to know what "is" means and claimed that "everybody" lied, perjured themselves and suborned the perjury of others. Markey has staked out a more aggressive position by announcing that Republicans who tell the truth are breaking the law.<BR/><BR/>At least we have Markey on the record admitting that a truthful video of the proposed drilling site in ANWR would persuade Congress to support drilling.<BR/><BR/>ANWR exploration is overwhelmingly supported by Alaskans, Eskimos, Teamsters and caribou. It is opposed by Northeastern liberals who would never set foot anyplace near ANWR and haven't the first idea what it looks like.<BR/><BR/>The word "wildlife" in ANWR's title, for example, is somewhat misleading. The coastal plain – where the drilling would occur – is in total darkness half the year and reaches temperatures of 50 below. Most of the year it is uninhabited and uninhabitable by wildlife. Indeed, the only living things in the vicinity of the coastal plain – Eskimos and caribou – enthusiastically support drilling.<BR/><BR/>When oil exploration began in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay 30 years ago, environmentalists claimed it would yield only a "few months' supply" of oil and would wreck the ecosystem. Prudhoe Bay turned out to be the largest deposit of oil ever found in North America. Caribou frolic and play by the pipeline. In 20 years, the caribou population has skyrocketed, from 3,000 to almost 27,100.<BR/><BR/>The Teamsters have been huge supporters of drilling in ANWR, but Democrats treat union members like they treat the blacks. They expect union money and endorsements, but when the prospect of half a million high-paying jobs comes along, the Democrats tell workers it's only "one issue."<BR/><BR/>Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.<BR/><BR/>So much for "everyone" sacrificing for the war on terrorism. Little old ladies get strip-searched at airports, but the environmentalists won't budge on an uninhabitable wasteland at the continent's edge. The Democrats' idea of sacrifice is for Sen. Teddy Kennedy to stop getting drunk and groping stewardesses.<BR/><BR/>When not jetting around the country on his private plane, paid for by the deceased husband of his second wife, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has emerged as a leading opponent of ANWR. Developing new sources of energy, Kerry says, is "old thinking." The Democrats' innovative new idea is for the little people to wear sweaters and drive smaller cars.<BR/><BR/>That's a bold stroke: We'll delay starvation by eating a little less every day. The illogic of it confounds reason. Everyone is against waste – except Northeastern liberals telling the rest of us to conserve. (How about they practice by conserving our money?) We need more energy. Postponing death is not an energy policy.<BR/><BR/>Markey has similarly "innovative" ideas. He proposes that we "bring OPEC to its knees" by "our technological superiority." What he means by "technological superiority" is this: "Let's make SUVs get 30 miles a gallon"! How about we make cars and airplanes that run on grass? Or hot air, and run a pipeline from the Capitol?<BR/><BR/>There is not a thinking man's Democrat in the country. If only caribou voted instead of Democrats, the country would finally have a serious energy policy.<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/>Ann Coulter is a bestselling author and syndicated columnist. Her most recent book is How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must). <BR/><BR/>----<BR/><BR/>From Right Field<BR/><BR/>Nathan.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12618626273352951634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380429.post-1113327332022773552005-04-12T10:35:00.000-07:002005-04-12T10:35:00.000-07:00Got your address through Ryan. I like your blog. A...Got your address through Ryan. I like your blog. And I'm glad you were sad when Mitch Hedberg died, if that makes any sense. That guy was fantastic.Dan Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054827100976057618noreply@blogger.com