On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:59:37 -0800, Al Czervik wrote:
>On 2/26/2016 5:24 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:19:28 -0800, Al Czervik wrote:
>>> On 2/26/2016 1:04 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
>>>> I paid 1.49 this morning. It's still going down. It will go up for
>>>> the summer formulation in the spring, but will probably not get near
>>>> the high prices we saw come out of the last administration.
>>>
>>> A pipeline isn't going to be there for a summer. It's a long term
>>> investment for decades. Later this decade the price of oil is going to
>>> exceed $90/barrel.
>>
>> Which means that by the summer of 2021,
>
>The pipeline will be off the table in 2021.
Just as well.
>> it'll still be $50 less than
>> in the summer of Bush's last year. Assuming we don't invade the
>> Middle East again.
>
>Or we can get a democrat congress, like in 2007, who once again will
>indicate to the speculators that the supply of oil will be decreased by
>running on a platform of no drilling in ANWR, no drilling offshore and
>laws against fracking.
So how is it that fracking took off under Obama and the Dem Congress
and Dem Senate to the degree that the US was able to out produce Saudi
Arabia and cause a global oil glut?
Your extremist talking points don't pan out because they are
demonstrably untrue.
>I understand that makes you all tingly.
Actually, that would be my dick up your ass. Hot stuff, man. You
ought to patent that shit.
>> No you're not. You're opposed to businessmen owning a President when
>> they're Democrats. If Romney was in office and sucking Dick Koch's
>> dick, you wouldn't have a fine with it. I repeat, your issue isn't
>> economic, it's political.
>
>Billions of dollars and 5000 jobs is economic. Putting pressure on OPEC
>is a bonus.
Billions of dollars? How will Keystone make billions of dollars for
us?
We disagree on another point. Putting pressure on OPEC is the core of
economic recovery because it allows energy to be more affordable and
frees our foreign policy from its attachment to energy supplies. It
also reduces their political influence in the world. Face the fact
that most of OPEC is made of nations that aren't always our friends.
>> "One of the issues highlighted in national news coverage is the
>> relationship to the Keystone XL Pipeline that has been proposed to
>> carry oil from Canada's oil sands to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.
>> An article in the National Geographic News states: "Now, the broken
>> conduit is at the center of a national debate—the plan to transport
>> much larger volumes of heavy oil from the Canadian oil sands through
>> the United States, through both older pipelines like Pegasus and new
>> ones like the proposed Keystone XL."[21] A Reuters article quotes
>> Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat as saying: "Whether
>> it's the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, or ... (the) mess in Arkansas,
>> Americans are realizing that transporting large amounts of this
>> corrosive and polluting fuel is a bad deal for American taxpayers and
>> for our environment." "
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Mayflower_oil_spill#Relationship_to_Keystone_XL
>
>I understand that public school didn't do right by you and your reading
>comprehension. Contemplate: "Per barrel".
I understand your point, but you still fail to get mine. The problem
isn't how to ship oil, it's the fact of using oil in the first place.
>>>> So that's the problem. Buffett bought an oil train five years ago and
>>>> the Kochs bet on an oil pipeline. Hmm . . .
>>>
>>> Just so you are clear:
>>> "Koch Industries has no financial stake in the Keystone pipeline and we
>>> are not party to its design or construction. We are not a proposed
>>> shipper or customer of oil delivered by this pipeline. We have taken no
>>> position on the legislative proposal at issue before Congress and we are
>>> not cited in any way in that legislation."
>>>
http://www.kochfacts.com/kf/keystone-xl-pipeline/
>>
>> Yet.
>
>You haven't had your special alone time with Buffet.
>
>Yet.
Have you had your special time alone with Dick Koch yet?
>> "Koch Industries, Inc. /'ko?k/ is an American multinational
>> corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, United States, with subsidiaries
>> involved in manufacturing, trading, and investments. It was founded as
>> Wood River Oil and Refining Company in 1940, and later as Rock Island
>> Oil & Refining Company.
>>
>> Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources,
>> **Koch Pipeline**, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, and Matador Cattle
>> Company. "
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
>>
>> Koch Pipeline operates Minnesota Pipeline.
>> "The pipeline is largely fed by the Enbridge Pipeline System that
>> carries crude from Alberta, Canada."
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Pipe_Line
>>
>> Enbridge? Hmm. . . that rings a bell . . .
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_River_oil_spill
>>
>> Now, what were you saying about the environment?
>
>Oil trains, on a per barrel basis, are more damaging to the environment
>that pipelines.
Oil is damaging to the environment. Why don't we just kick the
addiction in the first place?
>>>> The right has whined for decades about us drilling and exploring for
>>>> more oil. Seems better this way. Save our oil reserves for when we
>>>> MUST have them.
>>>
>>> That is the nature of the industry and supply and demand.
>>
>> No, that is the nature of strategic use of resources.
>
>That is idiotic. We don't make our laws to save oil as a resource. Like,
>"no drilling in ANWR because we want to save that oil for future
>generations."
And you're confident that you know every thought had by every
politician? That you know all the motivations of every member of
government all the time? I repeat, stop listening to what they tell
you and look at what they have actually done and the effects that has.
Since Reagan, laws have been made that have limited American oil
production. Now, in the face of a global cultural struggle with Islam
and the attempt of Russia to again dominate it's neighbors with
despotic rule, we have loosened some laws and released some of our
resources to great strategic effect.
I would rather hold ANWR for the next time we vitally need to use oil
as a tool of statecraft than to open it now.
>> Speculators. *spit* They make profit but do no work.
>
>That's the way the market works. Too bad, so sad.
Yes, it is. Speculators have always been hated. Speculators have
done untold damage to societies for millennia.
>>> All three of them have since 2013.
>>
>> Yet the right has bitched about Obama not approving it since 2009.
>
>Because he didn't. The states are fine with it. Almost all of the land
>owners are fine with it. Obama gets hefty donations from Buffet.
By your own admission, the states weren't fine with it until after he
was re-elected. As for donations, again, you're making the political
point. If a President was getting Koch cash, we'd have the pipeline.
>Quid pro quo.
Precisely. Yet if Romney had won in 2012 and Keystone had got built,
you'd be among the first to deny that quid pro quo with respect to the
Kochs or any other donors.
>>>> In any case, the decision seems to be primarily a political one rather
>>>> than economic.
>>>
>>> Immediately it will be billions of dollars and 5000 construction jobs.
>>> Inevitably the pipeline will add pressure to OPEC.
>>
>> Until it spills into the Missouri and has to be shut down.
>>
>> Is the Pegasus pipeline reopened yet?
>
>The pipeline will deliver nearly 1400 tanker cars of oil a day
Part of Pegasus has now been closed for three years. How much oil has
it carried in that time? Train lines are reopened in weeks, sometimes
days.
"The [Mayflower, Arkansas] spill, which Exxon has estimated caused $57
million in damage, occurred on the northern leg of the 20-inch
pipeline, which includes three segments that run 853 miles from
Illinois to Texas. A portion of the pipeline has been reopened but the
segment that goes through Mayflower remains closed. PHMSA has not yet
approved its reopening.
The pipeline safety fine comes less than two months after Exxon agreed
to a $5 million sanction to settle violations of the federal Clean
Water Act as well as state air and water laws. The penalty also
includes payment of legal fees, implementing corrective measures and
funding an environmental remediation project.
The heart of the PHMSA reprimand centers on the company’s knowledge
decades earlier that the Pegasus line was prone to ruptures because of
faulty manufacturing. It had a documented history of previous
failures.
The line had split open or leaked nearly a dozen times during Exxon’s
own testing a few years before the line ruptured. But Exxon gave
little weight to the threat of future ruptures, according to PHMSA.
"
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/02102015/exxon-gets-heavy-fine-and-criticism-pegasus-pipeline-spill-mayflower-arkansas-dilbit>
>and in your world trains are solar powered.
Looks like some non American innovation going on in Asia.
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