Author Topic: Missed opportunity? (Read 1892 times)

Cobra · « **Reply #15 on:** September 11, 2002, 08:34:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn

Can they be exchanged for comps at the Luxor, Las Vegas?

Yes, along with "Chicken Little Sky is Falling" Omelete during brunch.

And lets think about this......let others use up their oil reserves before we tap ours......hmmmmm.

Cobra

Toad · « **Reply #16 on:** September 11, 2002, 09:52:09 PM »

Milo.. could you.. would you.. just one more time?

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #17 on:** September 11, 2002, 11:16:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Fatty
Think of how many starving people could be fed by all those caribou.

Oh GREAT! So NOW we're trading Animals for Oil!! Why in the HELL don't we start killing the friggin Whales and burning THEM in our cars??? All third world people were cannibals within the last 400 years, and that's a historical fact. Let the Hebrews, Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists eat each other. Fatty you amazinhunk, I've never liked you anyway but when you start calling for motor vehicles that run on whale blubber then you've gone too far. You will hear from the legal department of PETA for this, you insensite clod. Get your priorities straight.

Fatty · « **Reply #18 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:16:05 AM »

Mixed with a dash of cannibalism, you could pick up a hitchhiker, trim the fat and eat on the road.

Thrawn · « **Reply #19 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:26:45 AM »

Cripes. I can't keep up the scarcasm. The problem with the caribou is that they are an shared international resource. Animals yes, source of protien for our indiginous peoples? Definately.

Imagine that those supposed oil fields in Alaska were partially in Canadian land, as they may be. Now also suppose that we (Canadians) create the "Turbo Hyper Oil Pump" (tm). Say we stuck this pump in to the portion of the oil field that is in Canadian territory and sucked up all the oil. I don't imagine the US would be to pleased with this.

Same thing with the caribou herd. This herd spends mosts its time in Canada but breeds in the Alaskan territory where this oil MIGHT exist. You go drilling, our (as in shared) caribou herd gets all diddlyed up.

Fatty · « **Reply #20 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:40:14 AM »

Best keep an eye on yer kariboo then, might wanna leash yer dawgs too.

Fatty · « **Reply #21 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:52:15 AM »

There's only 194 left (I counted them).

senna · « **Reply #22 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:52:30 AM »

Doesnt smell reliable.

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #23 on:** September 12, 2002, 12:53:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Now also suppose that we (Canadians) create the "Turbo Hyper Oil Pump" (tm).

Would that "Turbo Hyper Oil Pump" be manufactured by BMW? I've heard about this on another bbs, but I didn't really believe it.

senna · « **Reply #24 on:** September 12, 2002, 04:10:13 AM »

Oh oh, disapearing animals, whats that building over there?

popeye · « **Reply #25 on:** September 12, 2002, 08:28:32 AM »

Well, guess there was no opportunity missed. At least it made some great material for TV shows, and flag sales went through the roof.

We now return you to "business as usual".

Ripsnort · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2002, 08:30:51 AM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Cripes. I can't keep up the scarcasm. The problem with the caribou is that they are an shared international resource. Animals yes, source of protien for our indiginous peoples? Definately.

Imagine that those supposed oil fields in Alaska were partially in Canadian land, as they may be. Now also suppose that we (Canadians) create the "Turbo Hyper Oil Pump" (tm). Say we stuck this pump in to the portion of the oil field that is in Canadian territory and sucked up all the oil. I don't imagine the US would be to pleased with this.

Same thing with the caribou herd. This herd spends mosts its time in Canada but breeds in the Alaskan territory where this oil MIGHT exist. You go drilling, our (as in shared) caribou herd gets all diddlyed up.

Wrong. The caribou population INCREASED after we laid the Alaskan pipeline, they have patrols that have to reduce the herds yearly now. Go figure.

gofaster · « **Reply #27 on:** September 12, 2002, 08:34:18 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin

When are you going to give your yard back to the gators?

Gators won't have it - no water. But the snakes and small lizards took to it just fine.

Charon · « **Reply #28 on:** September 12, 2002, 09:26:44 AM »

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Biggest opportunity missed was to proceed with exploration of that 2% wilderness area in the Great North that is predicted to have as much as as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait combined...but the left liberals and Demoncrats shot that down like a dove carrying an olive branch....

Then an equally big opportunity was missed recently by not supporting higher gas milage standards. ANWR is good for short-term profits but not for a long-term impact. Your figures, Rip, are not supported by clear heads, even in the oil industy. In fact, some in the industry think ANWR was just a smokescreen to distract congress from some of the significant corporate welfare provision in the bil(s).

As for "Alternative Fuel" research, well it's a piddling amount designed primarly for PR purposes, which seems to have worked. The Democrats strongly support alternative fuels though, as long as they involve Corn, ADM bribes (I mean campaign financing), Agri-Senators and heavy/hidden taxpayer subsidies.

There is too much money invested in the current petroleum infrastructure for there to be a change anytime soon.

A link:

Bush Oil Policy

Charon

Ripsnort · « **Reply #29 on:** September 12, 2002, 09:40:01 AM »

Your last sentence said a mouthful Charon! Considering we have a "Knee-jerk reactionary" type Gov't...doubt anything significant will be done until demand gets higher and the supply, lower.