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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:14 PM
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Are higher gas prices part of a repug plot to get into Alaska?
Edited on Sat Apr-22-06 11:18 PM by DanCa
I have been thinking alot about this today and I was wondering if it's plausible that the Repukes will use Alaska drilling as a wedge issue in the mid term elections? Personally I am against Alaska drilling because we don't know what the effects it would have on Global Warming plus the fact that we don't know how much oil is up their. Yet we all know that greed is a very powerful weapon. So I was wondering if this scenario is far fetched or not. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks Danny.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:18 PM
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1. I don't know if it's a plot
but it sure helps their argument to do it. I've wondered the same thing.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:20 PM
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3. How does it help their argument?
(1) There's not that much oil there.

(2) The oil that would be taken from there would be sold overseas.


At least that's how things stood the last time I was paying attention. Have things changed?

If things haven't changed, I fail to see how high domestic gas prices further the republican goal of destroying Alaska's environment.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:39 PM
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9. But the Sheeple don't know that
They think there's enough up there to take care of all our problems. :eyes:

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demigoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 12:50 AM
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12. i heard that the oil would probably be sold to china
is that the plan? Get in good with china who owns a lot of our debt? Ps. why do they keep assisting china? Poppy was on their side for years and years.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:22 PM
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5. I agree with you about the word plot.
The word tactic would be more applicable.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:18 PM
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2. It's a grab bag of opportunism on all sides
but, you can bet the farm the republicans will throw every failed and rejected remnant of corporatism into the mix of legislation that's bound to surface before the next election.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:21 PM
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4. After * stated there's nothing he can do, and the rest of his lame-ass BS
Edited on Sat Apr-22-06 11:22 PM by Whoa_Nelly
about gas prices, I was thinking the same thing, DanCa!

Time to open up ANWR! We need to positiont he US for providing its own oil!

Yup...got the sense that The Decider wants to make sure another one of his stupid ideas happens no matter what the fucking consequences. :mad:
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noahmijo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:26 PM
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6. Simple facts to share with others concerning Alaska drilling
1. According to the Department of Energy the ESTIMATED total amount of oil in the region would reduce our dependence on foreign oil BY THREE PERCENT. That is THREE (3) PERCENT for the next 20 years.
What sort of lowering in price could you possibly hope for at this rate which leads me to

2. What the hell makes ANYONE think that the oil barons wouldn't wind up selling most of it to foreign countries instead of keeping it exclusively for US Consumption?
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:33 PM
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7. Alaska drilling has existed for decades on the North Shore.
Some of it sold to foreign countries.

Anwar was set aside against development by Eisenhower for eternity because of it's uniqueness.
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Ecumenist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:36 PM
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8. They're so eager to get in Alaska,
They'd use a new flavour of koolaid to justify the push to drill in Alaska.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 12:04 AM
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10. Interesting thing about Alaska oil - 80% of it is shipped to Asia.
Our gov't has absolutely no interest in reducing our dependency on imported oil. The game is to have the oil companies make fortunes. I imagine somewhere in the money train it ends up in the Bush/Cheney pockets.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 12:35 AM
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11. Its possible...thats for certain.
I'm from SE Alaska, and I am in contact with my family almost daily(i'm in sw missouri). And, I always ask my mother what the gas prices are up there, and on average, they are 30 cents if not higher than SW Missouri, yet I read on Cnn last year(they listed the 50 states, from highest, to lowest in terms of how much tax is on gas), and I believe Alaska was dead last on the tax on gas stat.

If memory serves, Alaska charges 22cents per gal, for taxes. And yet, their cost is always higher than SW missouri, and from what I see on the affiliate news programs. When, for example, newsman says, highest price of gas, is San Diego, at 3.20, I ask my mom that night, how much gas is back home, and its usually, 9 times out of ten, higher than what the news man said....

So, your scenario, might in fact, all ready be in effect, and could possibly be pushed further.
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