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Archive for September 9th, 2008

Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesdays – 9/9/2008

by @ 17:32. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

This idea was started by Jessi at Wake Up America. It will appear here every Tuesday (whether I’m here or not; the only difference is I won’t be able to update the current gas price while on vacation) until Congress wakes up and allows a lot more domestic drilling (I’m not talking about just ANWR, or just off the Florida coast where Cuba, Red China and Brazil are preparing to drink our milkshake, or just the shale fields in the Rockies).

My Gas Price (south suburban Milwaukee County, Wisconsin): $3.799/gallon

America needs to drill here drill now. America is having a energy crisis, and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress to pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also…

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

If you haven’t already done so, first sign the petition to call for more drilling, and since Congress is finally back in session and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is supposedly going to allow a vote on something approaching max-drill along with the Democrats’ still-unfleshed plan to allow very-limted drilling in hurricane-prone areas in exchange for massive giveaways to the envirowhackos and a bailout of the Big 3 in Detroit, take a moment and tell your Congresscritter and Senators to drill, baby drill.

Sorry, no Scramble today

by @ 17:22. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

My feed reader’s suffering from terminal stupidity (on my part; I thought I could flag more items than it would let me flag), we’re within 2 hours of Drinking Right, I still have the Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesdays post to pump out, and I’m headed out to Phoenix tomorrow for SamSphere/Phoenix and the 16th State Policy Network annual meeting (thanks, Fred and E.M.). I had a killer Scramble too. Oh well; it happens. The least I can do is give you the song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2hpGxhMY4[/youtube]

Yes, Week 1 was weak as usual

by @ 16:48. Filed under Sports.

Did I mention that the hardest week in the NFL season to predict is the first? Let’s go over the carnage.

Washington 7 @ NY Giants 16 (-4.5) – That’s how to start the season. Time to break out the old pre-Alvarez Badger chant – I WON FIRST!
Cincinnati 10 (-2) @ Baltimore 17 – Also not recommended; QBs with broken noses.
NY Jets 20 (-3) @ Miami 14 – Please welcome your division-leading New York Bretts.
Kansas City 10 @ New England 17 (-17-LOSS) – Welcome to Super Loser Curse, Brady.
Houston 17 (+6.5) @ Pittsburgh 38 – Ow; my knee! I’m sending the bill to Gary Kubiak for being stupid and having no defense.
Jacksonville 10 (-3) @ Tennesse 17 – Yep; it’s hurting a lot. At least Guido’s working over the same knees Knock-Knees Tony did for the playoffs.
Detroit 21 (-3) @ Atlanta 34 – How bad are Duh Lions? Fox announcers are already calling for heads to roll. At least I got the over right to salvage a split.
Seattle 10 (+1) @ Buffalo 34 – The Seahags looked like The Walrus retired a year early.
Tampa Bay 20 @ New Orleans 24 (-3.5) – It’s all about the turnovers creating emotion.
St. Louis 3 (+7.5) @ Philadelphia 38 – Mental note; see if the Eagles’ defense is still available in my fantasy leagues.
Dallas 28 (-6) @ Cleveland 10 – Wiggy and Owen are quite happy with this result.
Carolina 26 (+9) @ San Diego 24 – I had the right state for the barking dog, just the wrong town.
Arizona 23 @ San Francisco 13 (+2.5) – Turnovers kill.
Chicago 29 @ Indianapolis 13 (-10) – Yep; it was over at halftime. Only thing is, that Bears’ D still has bite.
Minnesota 19 (+2) @ Green Bay 24 – At least I told you to not take the Aaron Rodgers Won’t Make It Through Game 1 prop bet.
Denver 41 (-3) @ Oakland 14 – How bad was this week? I whiffed on the JaMarcus Russel INT total.

Owie-stingie. 6-10 ATS, 8-8 straight-up, 1-1 over/unders leave Guido hunting my sorry ass down. Worse, I owe Uncle Fred because dumbshit me took the donkey with a broken nose instead of the Ragin’ Cajun who pulled off the Upset of the Week™.

Crap, Crap, Crap!

by @ 5:25. Filed under Global "Warming".

Those are the words heard echoing from the ever increasing carbon footprint abode that Al, the inventor of the Internet, Gore resides in.   Why the outburst?   Well, Al had just seen the top headlines on Newsmax.com which included:
Global Warming’s Kaput; 2008 Coolest in 5 Years
and

 

and

Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage

While Al may cling to information like this:

Added to his assertion was the WMO revelation that the first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years and that the rest of the year almost will certainly be cooler than recent years, although temperatures remain above the historical average.

This leaves him crying about lost residuals from “An Inconvenient Truth,”

"The average of the four main temperature measuring methods is slightly cooler since 2002 [except for a brief el Niño interruption] and record breaking cooling this winter. The argument that this is too short a time period to be meaningful would be valid were it not for the fact that this cooling exactly fits the pattern of timing of warm/cool cycles over the past 400 years," Easterbrook wrote on March 1.

(emphasis mine)

Looks like Al’s income may be flattening or hopefully, decreasing in the coming years. Poor Al will be relegated may be relegated to flying commercial!

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