We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 5315 Location: Smalltown New Zealand
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: The looting continues
TommyJefferson wrote:
I am surrounded my federally owned "National Forest Land". It's about as much a "forest" as my front lawn.
Be careful, the could use Eminent Domain, throw you off your land and grow trees in your living room if they can claim it's more profitable than you sitting on your couch watching the telly. _________________ "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: Re: The looting continues
UIUCstudent01 wrote:
There was something recently something about selling national forested land to pay for the education cuts.
I'm too lazy to google it..
There was an article in my local paper (Charleston(WV) Gazette) this weekend. It was about foresting Monongohela National Forest even more heavily to make up for education budget cuts. But the only counties that would benefit from it are the ones the forest is in, to make up for the "lost taxes" that would be paid if people lived there.
I was wondering why the counties needed more money for education if no one lives there?
Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 5315 Location: Smalltown New Zealand
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: Re: The looting continues
hippiegunlover wrote:
I was wondering why the counties needed more money for education if no one lives there?
... but ... but ... you've got to have education, er, it stands to reason,... you've got to have your learning, um, and schools, .... schools are good because you can do all that learning and education in them, ... and teachers need jobs, so, .... you need all that money for schools and books and teachers, ... and all that education and learning...., and with not having any revenue because no body lives there, then, then, you have to do something? No? _________________ "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 921 Location: 145'2"E 37'46"S
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: The looting continues
Of course people need education, otherwise they don't appropriately value education, taxation, hyper-specialisation, debt, war, and the god almighty clock that decrees where and what you are.
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