Comments on: 5 Misunderstandings About Strategic Oil Reserve

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:53:38 +0000

the thing is that all of you are right,we need oil drilling now for the short term.
this might get us out from under the big oil countries.they have huge profits so can we.
we also need other energy sources so the hybrids are good but right now only starting out.we need to find and look at all ways,but we all know that will take time.i see that maybe if we drill the oil comps might want to slow up on the other energy types. so we must be sure that the do not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:10:06 +0000

wow halo9x, that’s a lot of rehoric with nothing to back it up. Try to educate yourself about drilling and how much it would help, not to mention for how long. then what? stop living by the seat of your pants and plan ahead for once. this is important because your money is being used to fight against you by hostile countries.

By: Halo9x

Halo9x — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:01:36 +0000

Margonelli is correct we need to do something that is long term. The harsh reality is that there is NO viable alternative than gasoline/diesel for the millions of cars/trucks on the road. “Mr. Fusion” has NOT been invented. Fuel Cells are only affordable if you are Bill Gates, and Electric cars are not viable during Winter north of Dallas! Furthermore, electric cars are only good if you only want to drive to work and back. Where is anyone going to buy an electric car just so they can go to work, especially with the high cost? You can’t realistically do a road trip with an electric car. The Prius still goes farther than a Volt!
In the REAL world the ONLY viable alternative is gasoline/diesel, PERIOD!
So, we need to stop talking about the SPR and strat allowing our oil companies to do what they know how to do, DRILL, DRILL, DRILL!!! In the meantime maybe somebody could invent “Mr. Fusion” that people can actually afford, someday…

By: Halo9x

Halo9x — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:51:23 +0000

The fact of the matter is very simple, we need to be drilling more in every place where we can. We have enough resources to reduce significantly or eliminate the need of importing foreign oil. There is no good reason for us to be as dependent on the Arabs except for stupid politicians who interfere with oil production. We need to learn what the Germans knew about converting coal in to a liquid fuel in WWII. We have vast resources that remain untouched.
Why are the Chinese wanting to drill in our backyard? Are they going to be more environmentally responsible than our own companies? I doubt it! We should be drilling in Alaska, off the coast of California, off the East coast and every other place we have access to.
The Dept. of Energy was "supposed" to make us energy independent. We are now more dependent on foreign oil now than when the DOE was created! It needs to be eliminated for incompetence.
America did not get where it is today by being this insanely stupid. Yet, I see more stupidity in many of our politicians everyday. It's like looking at people from some alternate universe or maybe they just went stupid on the rest of America.
The author is correct. The Strategic Oil Reserves are there to protect against short term disruption and for our military. It was NOT created to help bring down oil prices. That would be like putting a band aide on a deep wound when what is needed is stitches. We can't keep shooting ourselves in both feet if we expect to do anything in this world.
We need to fire every progressive politician (democrat or republican) in Congress and the White House and put some more people in who will really tackle the problems we find ourselves in. It's not too late but the clock is ticking and we ARE running out of time!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:42:01 +0000

before you call anyone moron, look in the mirror first.

the reuters news is by this website.

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This story is a copyright infringement from Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/idUS394088311820110314

Quit being dicks and stop ripping off good reporting. I will be reporting you to Google News asking that they remove you from their news feed.

Fucking morons.

By: Anonn

Anonn — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:29:08 +0000

Thank you for your hard work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:55:26 +0000

strategic oil reserve, when needed, is likely going to be saved for the military and most critical uses only.

even then, don't expect it to be sustainable. the economy will see a huge shock if we don't diversify and make more most out of our energy sources.

By: Samie

Samie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:07:05 +0000

Another great article. 'Duck and Cover?', outstanding analogy.

My guess is that petro politics will continue for quite some time. I think it will take another generation of legislators to drastically change how we think of our energy needs. Opening the reserve is stupid but clearly we need to think beyond petro & start building a "electric reserve", that is a national energy grid to reduce regional outages.