Thank You W and Cheney

[CAA Flagship]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

[mrklean]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

Both of these fuckers should be in someone's prison.

[AZGrizFan]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

Both of these fuckers should be in someone's prison.

Yeah. Fuck them for encouraging capitalism and entrepreneurialism.

[houndawg]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

Cool, looking forward to $1.50 at the pump..

[kalm]

Both of these fuckers should be in someone's prison.

Yeah. Fuck them for encouraging capitalism and entrepreneurialism.

Oil industry capitalism, entrepreneurialism...

[mrklean]

Both of these **** should be in someone's prison.

Yeah. **** them for encouraging capitalism and entrepreneurialism.

DUDE YOU ARE REALLY FUCKED IN THE BRAIN

[Baldy]

Yeah. Fuck them for encouraging capitalism and entrepreneurialism.

Oil industry capitalism, entrepreneurialism...

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

[kalm]

Oil industry capitalism, entrepreneurialism...

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

And it's all based on capitalism and entrepreneurialism!

[Grizalltheway]

Oil industry capitalism, entrepreneurialism...

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

Actually, the quality of life has diminished significantly for the locals there. Do some research before you open your cockholster, eh?

[89Hen]

Actually, the quality of life has diminished significantly for the locals there.

Didn't know that was possible.

[kalm]

My favorite story of Bush-Cheney capitalism was no-bid contracts. What's yours?

[kalm]

Actually, the quality of life has diminished significantly for the locals there.

Didn't know that was possible.

Now that's funny.

[Grizalltheway]

Actually, the quality of life has diminished significantly for the locals there.

Didn't know that was possible.

Says the guy who lives in an over-crowded, traffic-choked, high crime, high tax, polluted swamp.

[Baldy]

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

And it's all based on capitalism and entrepreneurialism!

Much of it is. With the boom of people and wages comes the boom of more goods and services. Stores, restaurants, construction, etc. etc. etc.

Maybe this will help you out...

[Baldy]

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

Actually, the quality of life has diminished significantly for the locals there. Do some research before you open your cockholster, eh?

Sorry, Jizzbreath...

Life 101: Not everyone is going to be happy.

They will get over it, and so will you.

[89Hen]

Didn't know that was possible.

Says the guy who lives in an over-crowded, traffic-choked, high crime, high tax, polluted swamp.

Strike a nerve there bumpkin?

[Grizalltheway]

Says the guy who lives in an over-crowded, traffic-choked, high crime, high tax, polluted swamp.

Strike a nerve there bumpkin?

Why would it? I don't live in North Dakota.

[AZGrizFan]

That's right kalm. The quality of life really really sucks in the Dakotas right now because of that horrible oil production. The middle class is really getting destroyed there.

And it's all based on capitalism and entrepreneurialism!

Remember klammy: You didn't build that.

[mrklean]

And it's all based on capitalism and entrepreneurialism!

Remember klammy: You didn't build that.

I'm still waiting of the WMD's that Bush said was in Iraq.

[Cap'n Cat]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

Well, there's a reason why Flaggy is tiptoeing out of the room on this one.

Being the world's top ENERGY producer might very well be a good thing - IF it's all forms of energy - nuke, wind, oil, coal, green, renewable, NG, bio and etc - and not just petroleum.

If it's just petroleum, it's a problem. Finite supply which we fight ever harder to extract, thus endangering our environment reinforces the notion of what a dead-end resource it is.

Conks and other petro-heads huzzah over the fact that the U.S. and Canada together, by some estimate, have 100-150 year of oil reserves. Really? That much, huh? That's good for those of us around in the next 100-150 years, but what are those after that to do?
PetroConks in Texas (now ND) and DC spend billions short-sightedly lobbying against renewable energy and pollution and emissions standards, all of which could string that supply out PLUS, perhaps, replace it with something better. Thinking of the future, sadly, is not a squark in the genetic makeup of Conks, however.

Stuff my portfolio now, fuck the future. Capitalism and entrepreneurialism, Z and Baldy!!!



Here's something we never think about, too: Our oil supply, be it domestic or foreign-sourced is only available to us somewhat readily because of the presence of the US military, a magnanimously expensive guard-at-the-gate and largely lawless (when overseas) roughneck violator of international borders, which happens to also be the single largest consumer of oil on the planet. This is not sustainable.



Finally, Brother Baldy's comment above, reposted below, is an illustration of much Conk thinking on the subject:

Life 101: Not everyone is going to be happy.

They will get over it, and so will you.

In his Darwinian zeal, he says that the oil spills, loss of productive crop/grazing land, polluted water, petro work-related death and injuries, strained schools, overtaxed infrastructure and state/county/municipal support, prostitution, runaway inflation in the present boom areas up North among many other maladies, are things to be suffered as they were, perhaps, back in 1900 in Oklahoma or 1920 southern California. Lots of people are going to get hurt and die, the land will be fouled forever, but, in the end it's worth it, says Baldy.



Brother Baldy's comment was sent from a place, too, that does not have those sorts of problems, though. His largest worry every day in his environment is the fragrant, pinkish-white magnolia leaves falling into his landscaping. Cussing the palm frond that is rubbing on his truck in the gentle tidal breezes and the flamingos shitting in his backyard.

He has never been to Williston or Minot, ND, both before and during the Bakken craze (I have...several times), yet, in a typically arrogant and patriarchal Conk fashion, admonishes us, telling us to "get over" the past, present and future devastation.



So anyway, largest ENERGY producer - Yes. Largest petroleum producer - Not so fast.

[kalm]

And it's all based on capitalism and entrepreneurialism!

Remember klammy: You didn't build that.

The oil companies did...

[Grizalltheway]

TOP OIL PRODUCER- The United States will knock off Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer by 2015.

Well, there's a reason why Flaggy is tiptoeing out of the room on this one.

Being the world's top ENERGY producer might very well be a good thing - IF it's all forms of energy - nuke, wind, oil, coal, green, renewable, NG, bio and etc - and not just petroleum.

If it's just petroleum, it's a problem. Finite supply which we fight ever harder to extract, thus endangering our environment reinforces the notion of what a dead-end resource it is.

Conks and other petro-heads huzzah over the fact that the U.S. and Canada together, by some estimate, have 100-150 year of oil reserves. Really? That much, huh? That's good for those of us around in the next 100-150 years, but what are those after that to do?
PetroConks in Texas (now ND) and DC spend billions short-sightedly lobbying against renewable energy and pollution and emissions standards, all of which could string that supply out PLUS, perhaps, replace it with something better. Thinking of the future, sadly, is not a squark in the genetic makeup of Conks, however.

Stuff my portfolio now, fuck the future. Capitalism and entrepreneurialism, Z and Baldy!!!



Here's something we never think about, too: Our oil supply, be it domestic or foreign-sourced is only available to us somewhat readily because of the presence of the US military, a magnanimously expensive guard-at-the-gate and largely lawless (when overseas) roughneck violator of international borders, which happens to also be the single largest consumer of oil on the planet. This is not sustainable.



Finally, Brother Baldy's comment above, reposted below, is an illustration of much Conk thinking on the subject:

Life 101: Not everyone is going to be happy.

They will get over it, and so will you.

In his Darwinian zeal, he says that the oil spills, loss of productive crop/grazing land, polluted water, petro work-related death and injuries, strained schools, overtaxed infrastructure and state/county/municipal support, prostitution, runaway inflation in the present boom areas up North among many other maladies, are things to be suffered as they were, perhaps, back in 1900 in Oklahoma or 1920 southern California. Lots of people are going to get hurt and die, the land will be fouled forever, but, in the end it's worth it, says Baldy.



Brother Baldy's comment was sent from a place, too, that does not have those sorts of problems, though. His largest worry every day in his environment is the fragrant, pinkish-white magnolia leaves falling into his landscaping. Cussing the palm frond that is rubbing on his truck in the gentle tidal breezes and the flamingos shitting in his backyard.

He has never been to Williston or Minot, ND, both before and during the Bakken craze (I have...several times), yet, in a typically arrogant and patriarchal Conk fashion, admonishes us, telling us to "get over" the past, present and future devastation.



So anyway, largest ENERGY producer - Yes. Largest petroleum producer - Not so fast.

Game, set, match. Captain Cat.

[Cap'n Cat]

Thanks, G. It isn't hard when the Conks tee it up for you four inches from the hole.

[kalm]

Thanks, G. It isn't hard when the Conks tee it up for you four inches from the hole.

"The two parties which divide the state, the party of conservatism and the party of innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made"

- Emerson

Conks...

[89Hen]

Strike a nerve there bumpkin?

Why would it? I don't live in North Dakota.

Like there's a difference between ND, SD, MT, WY, etc...