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Title: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Proud American Patti on March 08, 2012, 01:14:56 PM
Obama has stepped in it again trying to make GOP candidates look bad for having what he calls "Phony" gas plans. Well Mr. President (I say full tongue in cheek) my car doesn't agree with you that gas is a thing of the past and that green energy is now. Until you can supply me with a vehicle that uses water or whatever to run, other than fossil fuel, for less than $80,000, I'd say fossil fuels are a thing of the present and you'd better start doing something to help me be able to afford to drive my car!! Really, I mean he's done everything he can to drive gas prices up. Yeah he's for green energy, that's great, but it ain't here yet, so we have to deal with reality!!!
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 08, 2012, 01:17:49 PM

At best owebuma knows only one aspect of the law of supply and demand.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 08, 2012, 01:28:22 PM
When is he and Moochelle getting matching pedal cars?
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Bondai on March 08, 2012, 01:30:59 PM
With any luck at all and a good dose of common sense from the voters Obama will soon be a thing of the past.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 08, 2012, 01:34:28 PM
With any luck at all and a good dose of common sense from the voters Obama will soon be a thing of the past.

Hear, hear!

 :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: NHSparky on March 08, 2012, 01:38:06 PM
I seem to recall that in 2008, just the MENTION of drilling domestically brought prices down. 

I also understand that a change of just a few percentage points can drastically affect the price of a commodity both up and down.

So why NOT increase our domestic production?  We peaked in the early 1970's.  Our domestic production level is the same as it was in the late 1940's, when the population of this nation was HALF what it is today.  Even increasing our production by 15-20 percent would send prices tumbling.  OPEC knows this.  We know this.  Tapping the strategic reserve is bullshit, because that oil has to be put back eventually.

Yes, Obama--drill here, drill now.  What's so ****ing difficult about that?
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 08, 2012, 01:39:03 PM
When is he and Moochelle getting matching pedal cars?

Probably about the same time they get their eviction from public housing.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 08, 2012, 01:40:37 PM
With any luck at all and a good dose of common sense from the voters Obama will soon be a thing of the past.

Yeah, but, "The evil that men do lives after them."...and so it will be with Obama.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: CG6468 on March 08, 2012, 02:33:51 PM
Until you can supply me with a vehicle that uses water...

That would cause a water shortage.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 08, 2012, 02:35:03 PM
That would cause a water shortage.
Jay Leno has quite a collection of steam driven cars. A visionary ?
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 08, 2012, 02:43:13 PM
Hippies are pretty oily.


 :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Kyle Ricky on March 08, 2012, 02:45:00 PM
Hippies are pretty oily.


 :fuelfire:

Especially if they don't take a shower for a couple of days.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 08, 2012, 02:45:59 PM
Hippies are pretty oily.


 :fuelfire:

Yes, but burning them usually requires an environmental impact statement beforehand, or superfund-level damage control after the fact.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 08, 2012, 02:46:38 PM
Yes, but burning them usually requires an environmental impact statement beforehand, or superfund-level damage control after the fact.
Let's just harvest the oil they produce, for now.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 08, 2012, 02:48:03 PM
Let's just harvest the oil they produce, for now.

It's usually easier going straight to the patchouli plant for that.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 08, 2012, 02:50:27 PM
Let's just harvest the oil they produce, for now.

Whihc method do you find works best: compression or rendering?
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 08, 2012, 02:55:20 PM
Whihc method do you find works best: compression or rendering?
I had a be kind to dumb animals approach in mind.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 08, 2012, 02:56:00 PM
I had a be kind to dumb animals approach in mind.

So rendering, then?  :naughty:
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 08, 2012, 02:56:29 PM
So rendering, then?  :naughty:
I like where you're going with this.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Eupher on March 08, 2012, 03:00:10 PM
Yes, but burning them usually requires an environmental impact statement beforehand, or superfund-level damage control after the fact.

Not to mention a fine of $10,000 levied by the EPA with an appeal option, but that takes 6-8 months to process.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DLR Pyro on March 08, 2012, 04:31:27 PM
Obama has stepped in it again trying to make GOP candidates look bad for having what he calls "Phony" gas plans. Well Mr. President (I say full tongue in cheek) my car doesn't agree with you that gas is a thing of the past and that green energy is now. Until you can supply me with a vehicle that uses water or whatever to run, other than fossil fuel, for less than $80,000, I'd say fossil fuels are a thing of the present and you'd better start doing something to help me be able to afford to drive my car!! Really, I mean he's done everything he can to drive gas prices up. Yeah he's for green energy, that's great, but it ain't here yet, so we have to deal with reality!!!

Well he should step up to the plate and lead by example.  For starters, I suggest he park that big shiny 747 he uses as his own personal airline because the last time I checked and from my experience as an aircraft crew chief in the USAF,  jet engines use fossil fuel.  Lots and lots of it.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Big Dog on March 08, 2012, 06:49:53 PM
Well he should step up to the plate and lead by example.  For starters, I suggest he park that big shiny 747 he uses as his own personal airline because the last time I checked and from my experience as an aircraft crew chief in the USAF,  jet engines use fossil fuel.  Lots and lots of it.

Here's my recommendation:

(http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/images/amish-wagon-opt.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Eupher on March 09, 2012, 10:04:40 AM
Here's my recommendation:

(http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/images/amish-wagon-opt.jpg)

Maybe Barry can figure out how best to recycle the "exhaust" from that particular mode of transportation.  :whatever:
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: sybilll on March 10, 2012, 12:41:00 AM
Here's my recommendation:

(http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/images/amish-wagon-opt.jpg)
Hell, you may see ME driving one of those if President Algae is re-elected.  I will convert to the Amish if it will exempt me from ObamaCare. 
BTW President Algae will not be re-elected.
~War
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: docstew on March 12, 2012, 06:12:22 PM
Yes, but burning them usually requires an environmental impact statement beforehand, or superfund-level damage control after the fact.

I don't think he wants to burn em as is. As you point out, it's way too messy. I think he just wants to harvest them and render them down for oil, like we used to do with whales.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 12, 2012, 09:14:09 PM
That's two votes for rendering.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 13, 2012, 06:32:00 AM
One night when the prez ain't flying around in AF#1, we should convert it. DUmmies like to convert people, we'll convert things. So we convert AF#1 to a prop job, then we give Obama and Moochelle each a hand crank to wind the rubber bands that drive the props.  :-)

I should patent that idea and get Al Bore to sell stock in our new company. You plan your trips well in advance and every weekend you go by the airport and wind your rubber band until you have it wound enough rubber bands tight enough to power an airplane.....we'll call it "Green Air Rubber Credits".
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: obumazombie on March 14, 2012, 12:35:39 AM
One night when the prez ain't flying around in AF#1, we should convert it. DUmmies like to convert people, we'll convert things. So we convert AF#1 to a prop job, then we give Obama and Moochelle each a hand crank to wind the rubber bands that drive the props.  :-)

I should patent that idea and get Al Bore to sell stock in our new company. You plan your trips well in advance and every weekend you go by the airport and wind your rubber band until you have it wound enough rubber bands tight enough to power an airplane.....we'll call it "Green Air Rubber Credits".
This idea (invented by AlGore) will go gangbusters initially, so get in on the front end, but as soon as you see your investment prosper, sell out, then shortsell the rest of the way. It's the lib wave, catch it and ride it and the poor unsuspecting slobs at the end will get the short end of the stick.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Kyle Ricky on March 15, 2012, 12:57:26 PM
After November, Obama will be a thing of the past.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 15, 2012, 12:58:45 PM
After November, Obama will be a think of the past.

And we as a nation will be spending the next 12 years trying to damage control everything he's done to us.
Title: Re: Obama says Fossil Fuels are a thing of the past? Really?
Post by: Kyle Ricky on March 15, 2012, 01:00:45 PM
And we as a nation will be spending the next 12 years trying to damage control everything he's done to us.

I think it will be longer, but you never know.