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  • The Economics of Political Spin
    I don't go to seekinglapha to see DNC talking points regurgitated.

    The "at least it's a change" has to rate as the most vacuous argument yet.

    Equally lame is the attempt to sew McCain to Bush's hip. Wrong as he is on some things, fiscal restraint is one of the things McCain has been stellar about. remember, he voted against the 2001 tax cuts because there weren't spending cuts to compensate for them.

    Last one wonders how anyone shilling for Obama can call for investing in energy companies. Your guy openly called for confiscating oil company profits to fund a giveaway to everyone, including those who don't pay taxes. How are companies who are going to have their profits confiscated good investments?
    Aug 27 19:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The 'Peak Oil' Myth: New Oil Is Plentiful
    A very superficial and frankly silly analysis. Yes, lots of new reserves have been found. Reserves have actually grown. The flaw in making a simplistic conclusion on that increase is the different nature of the reserves. The recent finds are deeper and/or require more complex and costly measures to exploit. This increases the time it takes to produce from the new found reserves and decreases the rate of production once they come online.
    Jun 22 13:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • America's Energy Policy: Coming to Terms with Reality
    The article itself is spot on, some of the comments it inspired are not.
    1. Panskeptic uses the exceptions to discredit the whole regarding the free market.
    2. GlobalWarmingExaminer writes that "spending one trillion in Iraq is destroying our economy." I note that the US military estimates it has killed between 30 to 35 thousand foreign fighters in Iraq-people who have come from outside that country to attack US troops. Perhaps GlobalWarmingExaminer believes those jihadist nutjobs would be sitting around camel dung fires in the desert, holding hands, and singing "Kumbaya" if we abandoned Iraq. It's more logical to assume a great many of them would be attacking US, Western interests elsewhere. One wonders what that would cost in light of the huge drag on the economy and extra expense created by 9/11?
    3.barnburner writes that Exxon hasn't cleaned up the mess from the Exxon Valdez spill (he ignores how much they've spent cleaning it up) and that these "idiots," referring to the oil industry, shouldn't be trusted in ANWR. One wonders why barnburner thinks shipping in oil from elsewhere is safer and that we regulate the oil industry so that it behaves responsibly in literally hundreds of other locations.
    4. last we come to jjason, the man with all the answers. he wrotes that "OPEC must be broken up, making it illegal." Really? And just how does jjason propose to do that short of a military effort on the scale of WWII?
    May 25 15:25 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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