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- MacBookForMe, on 11/21/2008, -1/+27Surprise, surprise...
- ModernGeek, on 11/22/2008, -5/+21Does this mean the price of gasoline will rise as a result?
- SkittlesUSA, on 11/22/2008, -11/+21Yeah baby, let's continue to rely on foreign oil!!!111!!11 The federal courts are the best!!!!!!!
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People who want to not depend on foreign oil: 0 - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+10I'm getting buried, but I'd like for someone to comment and admit that yes, they do want corporations to get special treatment and be allowed to break the law. All Shell had to do was follow the rules. They didn't do that and they got slammed.
- ChristNewsWatch, on 11/22/2008, -1/+10Yea, we can get rid of the oil problem and the diet industry all in one shot, by having to walk everywhere.
People walked or rode horses for 1,000's of years, surely we can handle it, right?
(sarcastic) - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -2/+10That's why your husband left you, you told him "Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill."
- uncleosbert, on 11/22/2008, -2/+9yes. please send an additional $.10 per gallon to me.
- Ymeg, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8You do realize that oil is used for oth...
never mind. - uncleosbert, on 11/22/2008, -4/+11so you believe the government should be able to break the law?
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11***** your V8 Firebird, I want a clean environment.
And hey, maybe instead of spending so much money on expensive cars, you can cut out the middleman and just buy penis enlargement pills. - dbzssj44676, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6People are stupid.
- blindmelon1, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Title reads as if they won't let Alaskans drill for shells....
:0) - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7Yeah and contractors should just go ahead and build without the blessing of the inspectors right? Anarchy is so awesome! I think I'll kill my neighbor's dog cause it barks and is ugly. ***** what the law says!
- Oatlord, on 11/22/2008, -2/+8Much better article about this topic: http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/5964 ...
I'm 100% for using our natural resources and 100% for logical, pragmatic approaches to striving for energy independence. But, I think achieving those goals has to be done in a sound environmental way. Fifty years of cheap gas isn't worth a trashed ecosystem. If Shell truly didn't do their due diligence when conducting the environmental study that is required by law, then I don't disagree with this ruling.
I find it humorous though that environmental groups are hailing this as a victory for the indigenous wildlife while the local populations are hailing it as a victory so they can continue killing the wildlife, namely the whales. Guess whales are screwed either way. - Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -3/+9What happens here:
Shell employees approach short-timers at the Department of the Interior... jobs are promised if the study can be conducted post-haste.... Study is conducted in record time, record is appropriately 'packed...' Drilling permit is then re-approved. Environmental groups sue... they lose because the federal courts have to give deference to agencies.... Shell gets to drill, some former agency officials embark on a new career. Life is good for everyone ('cept some caribou). - benitojuarez, on 11/22/2008, -3/+9To those people for drilling I have this nice easy explanation
We use 25% of all oil that exists.
We have 3% of all oil that exists available for us to drill and keep.
You can't make a shiny quarter out of 3 dull pennies. Plain and simple. Its not really even remotely significant progress towards a quarter. Anyone thats had to dig change out of their couch at some point in their life should be able to understand this. - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11All of you ***** trying to blame this on liberals and their lust for foreign oil should really just STFU. The ruling was because the proper procedures weren't followed. You can't add a bedroom to your own house without the proper inspections. They tried to circumvent the law and got slammed for it. Do you really want corporations to exist outside the law? You should really chill the ***** out and stop trying to pick fights with your neighbors when this is NOT a donkey vs elephant situation.
- locojones, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11LOL oh the naivete' of Digg users. Don't you keyboard jockeys understand that any oil drilled here doesn't stay here? It goes up for sale on the open commodities market and gets bought by China, or Russia, or any one of those other counties that you presume to hate. And with a barrel of crude going for less than $50 dollars right now and gas in some parts of the country below 1.40/gal, why would you even want to risk harm to the environment for the potential for a couple cents off gas? Honestly, I can't fathom the short-sighted selfishness of some of the people on here.
- mrgreg, on 11/22/2008, -9/+14Of course, the Obama-worshiping hippies will mark this up as a victory, when it clearly is a defeat, as we make no further progress to stop sending money overseas and use what resources we have. Terrible.
- akchrs, on 11/22/2008, -3/+8Actually the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is just considered, by Alaskans, a stupid stepping stone to an actual decision. They almost always get overturned. In fact we want to get out of the Ninth Circuit, like other states, because they legislate from the bench.
"The 9th Circuit also has a long-running streak as the most overturned, which went unbroken this year. "
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/11/opinion/oe ... - trentrezn0r, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Yah, no *****. They're still the judicial branch of the US GOVERNMENT. Judges need to think and make decisions too you know.
- Kiganshee, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Nah, here's what really happens:
Shell conducts environmental study about endangered species, makes concessions to inupiat about stopping drilling for whales (probably including paying them money, since everyone really just wants a cut), rebuilds rig to run quieter using electricity, agrees to build platform further offshore to please inupiat. Gets plan approved by MMS.
Enviro-wackjobs sue again, because they're really not concerned about the whales, the inupiat, or the endangered species, they just don't want oil drilling, and they'd rather make up issues to play football with than have an open discussion about the pros and cons of drilling in offshore alaska, and whether the government should allow it. - rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Computing has become so easy these days, its ***** Deliverance with a laptop.
I remember the days where it required a certain level of intelligence and funny enough, they weren't around... - Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Nav wipes the dirt off seeingright.
Do you feel better now!
;-) - Frozenlynx, on 11/22/2008, -12/+16Why do people think it's a good thing that we are forcing ourselves to rely on foreign oil when we've got plenty of it here? ***** the environment, I want lower gas prices for my V8 Firebird
- seth553, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Great comment. These jackasses who actually express their opinions are getting buried as much as they're getting dugg, but not you. No matter which side of the oil argument you're on, everyone can agree with you.
- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -6/+10@skittles.. too cool brother! I just love your comment.. still laughing and needed a good laugh today.. cheers, Bob
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -11/+15The Federal Court can suck my fat hairy balls.
- Rivetgeek, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5judicial != executive
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5Who the ***** said anything about communism?
- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4-1 for you
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3cats != dogs
- ChemiosMurphy, on 11/22/2008, -8/+11You're an idiot. Once we ruin the environment, what do we have left? Think of future generations.
- absurdist, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Jesus... ENOUGH with the crappy, misaligned excuse for a pedobear image.
- lccat, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4As long as the "whales" can migrate! If you could find Japanese whalers and harpoons when you need them, problem solved!
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -2/+5What makes you think that oil would have stayed in the U.S?
Prove that it would, otherwise you have no valid argument here. Something tells me if we did allow drilling, these companies would just sell it overseas anyway, then the democrats would propose some kind of legislation requiring it to stay in the U.S, and the fake republicans would cry and bitch ZOMG REGULATION EVIL!
And nothing will have changed, oh except for all the new drilling. Thanks for that. - niradg, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6Oh no, but gas is so expensive right now!
Oh wait, it's not. It's actually cheap as hell. The petroleum bubble has burst. - Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -7/+10Where the ***** did you people come from?
-"wactivists"?
-"***** the environment, I want lower gas prices"?
-"These environmentalist wackos ought to be classified as enemy combatants"?
Get the ***** off of Digg and go back to whatever anus you people crawled out of. - jerryudigg, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6Soon we will be banning factories, cars, shopping malls, strip malls, and houses in the US without an environmental study. The golden age is right around the corner.
- TriMarkC, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Rheaume - If you begin conversations with expletives, and yet still demand that others respect you first before you will respect them, then you're off to a wonderful life of perpetual disrespect. Like you say to others, the world does not owe you one ounce of respect - it must be earned. And a great place to start is losing expletives ... it makes you sound like a teen anyway. Thoughtful responses take time, as Navigator7 demonstrated. So far, you have not earned any readers' respect, but we're willing to listen when you can respect us to the same degree you expect to be respected by us.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6THE SKY IS FALLING!!! OH MY GOD!! THEY'RE MAKING A CORPORATION OBEY THE LAW! QUICK, EVERYBODY TO THE BOMB SHELTER!!
I'm assuming we're on the same page here, because you've got to be kidding, right? - BBWolf, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3@mrsteveman: Commodity prices (like everything else) are a function of supply and demand, and increasing supply will, in fact, cause prices to trend downward. It does not matter that the market is global; Increases in net supply result in a decrease in price. In addition, OPEC now controls a large portion of the worlds reserves and decisions they make regarding production will be blunted if the percentage of world production under their control is decreased. Increasing our production will decrease their market share and result in a more stable and predictable market.
To put it another way. The size of the market has nothing to do with price, but the size of your share of that market has everything to do with your ability to influence price.
Demand is another subject. - Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Between Bush and Obama, only one has been locking people away indefinitely without trials, comrade.
- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2niradg, that stupidity is the attitude that got us in the mess we were in last summer. 10 years ago clinton said "it will take 10 years for returns if we invest in oil production". 10 years later, nothing was done and gas prices are soaring through the roof.
invest now to keep the prices low while also investing in alternative energy for the medium/long term solution. - Navigator7, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Rheaume,
You (and your kind) are an endless source for amusement!
Your abundant use of expletives belies your own inadequacies elsewhere.
The only truth evident here is you lack the tools to engage in any dialog of substance.
There is only 'One' who commands your respect. Thanks to the minions around our nation who think as you ... our nation is headed to his home in a hand basket.
With folks like you around, it's hard not to enjoy the ride.
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Christian/Satan2. ... - youannoyme, on 11/22/2008, -3/+5I buried you above for being stupid. I'm burying you here for double posting. You really needed to write the same thing twice especially when both posts are right next to each other...
g'day. - Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3You might want to check the major stock indexes and decide if it was the petroleum bubble that burst or a much more fundamental one.
- Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -2/+4I hope you're kidding... or you really need to go back and retake Civics 101.
- rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -4/+6Conservatism = Nazism
See how ***** STUPID THAT ***** ***** IS, STFU - Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Wow that whale sure looks happy! Nice name and avatar btw.
LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! ITS A MUSLIM! -
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