Carbon Nation
by Col. Dan Nolan (Ret.)My participation in “Carbon Nation” came about quite fortuitously. After I retired from the Army, I was working as a government analyst, looking at the tactical implications of energy security. I was leaving that position to try to encourage commercial interest to get involved with the Department of Defense to help solve what had been a strategic dilemma since the ‘70s: oil dependance. A friend asked me to speak to a documentary film maker about my concerns. I met Pete Byck outside the U.S. Capital building on a bright spring day and tried to tell the story of DOD’s efforts to solve a national security issue.
Having received a post graduate degree in National Security and Strategic Planning from the U.S. Naval War College, I put those tools to work to understand the larger implications of our addiction to fossil fuels. What I concluded was that climate change was a concern, the economic drain was unfortunate and that the national security implications were terrifying.
Energy Security for the United States creates a critical vulnerability in all of the elements of national power. In order to protect the free flow oil for ourselves and our markets, the U.S. commits billions of dollars in military, diplomatic, economic and information management efforts. Interruptions of the free flow means increased cost for American consumers and increased trade deficit with our trading partners. The cartel nature of Middle Eastern oil production means we must engage in other than free market activities to maintain the life blood of the economy.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. imports 51% of its petroleum requirements. In 2009 this equated to 11.7 million bbls a day. 51% of our imports come from the Western Hemisphere with the Persian Gulf and Africa providing 17% and 22%, respectively. Although prices fluctuate, given U.S. consumption of 378 million gallons of gas a day, a one dollar rise in gas prices diverts $2.6B a week from other spending. A $15 a bbl rise in oil prices causes a 1% decrease in US GDP.
The international nature of markets links us to regimes that may not have our best interests at heart. After all, nations have interests, not friends.
Budgets of OPEC nations are based on a conservative price for oil. The Saudi budget is based upon $58/bbl. The current price is $90/bbl. Iran is reducing internal price subsidies to increase their export ratio to above the current 52% of 1.5B bbls production annually. Venezuela’s state run oil company had earnings of $4.49B in 2009.
It is not just the U.S. that is vulnerable directly. Japan relies on oil imports to meet 45% of its energy needs in 2009. China’s oil consumption growth accounted for about a third of the world’s oil consumption growth in 2009. Germany, India, South Korea and France import 8.4 million bbls daily. Decreases in availability or increases in the cost of oil are reflect in decreases in U.S. trade deficit with these top six trade partners.
There are three critical vulnerabilities associated with oil: production, transportation and support for terrorists.
Production: Saudi Aramco operates the world’s largest oil processing facility and crude stabilization plant at Abqaiq, in eastern Saudi Arabia, with a crude processing capacity of more than 7 million bbl/d.. Nearly two-thirds of Saudi crude is processed at Abqaiq before export or delivery to refineries. The facility was the target of a terrorist attack in 2006. Terrorist one stop shopping.
Transportation: Middle Eastern oil must pass through the Straits of Hormuz to reach the US and, additionally, the Straits of Malacca to reach Asian markets. Attacks on individual ships can cause massive ecological damage and the closure of a major choke point, massive economic damage.
Funding for Terrorism: Iran is the only oil producing country on the U.S. list of state sponsored terrorism. The funding for Wahhabis’ madrassas can be traced back to charitable contributions from oil rich states. When we fill our cars, we are filling the magazines of those who would seek to destroy us.
“Carbon Nation” tells a story that must be heard. There are people throughout the world who are taking action, but leadership at the national and international level is lacking. We have “islands of excellence” in the quest for solutions, but we lack vision. To paraphrase a good book I read, without vision, the people perish. At no time has this had greater meaning. It is my sincere hope that “Carbon Nation” supplies the impetus to change, to find our vision and to plot a new course into the future.
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A good case, of why the U.S. Department of Energy, that was created by Jimmy Carter, should be abolished.
Col. Nolan, thank you for a factual article.
Included is an excerpt from a Trade Letter I subscribe to:
"The oil import numbers for January just announced show that we imported 366 million barrels of petroleum-62 percent of our needs-at an average price of $89.17 per barrel.
That means we spent $32.6 billion on oil in January. In fact, January was the most expensive month since September 2008, when the economic downturn began.
This problem is not going away. The recent turmoil in Egypt and growing concerns about more crises in the Middle East are showing us just how volatile oil prices can be. Importing 62 percent of our oil underscores our vulnerability and exposes us to risks in price spikes and supply instability. I think we'll see gas prices hit $4 a gallon by this summer."
I couldn't live in a city without a DQ, I think I'll drive my V-10 truck the 2 miles to to DQ now because it's cold and I want to help with the global warming/climate change thing, besides without climate change Earth would be a boring place.
Which article indicates we should be drilling, increasing production and building our own cracking plants, and inderground storage facilities for that day in the future when we may need massive stocks of petroleum, oil shale, methane, etc. At the same time we need to be shielding our electrical systems to protect them from burnout.
Remember one good strong EMP blast in the atmosphere can and will knock out all unshielded electronics over a goodly distance and all those electric cars wont be worth more than squat. It will be coal driven trains, horse back, buggy, wagon or shanks mare that gets us to the battle front.
Excellent article, but we have known about this since the late forties and early fifties. More so since the early days of satellites. Those will go first to knock out the eyes and GPS capabilities will be next. Just saying.
Yup– Nothing like financing all our enemies! There ARE solutions out there, and it's past time WE got started on them.
Drill in North Dakota (Bakken oil reserves), ANWR, etc.
Natural Gas.
Innovations…
We can do this. This is the United States of America. Maybe our leaders have forgotten what that means, but we haven't!!!!!
Obama is a welcome back Carter.
Thank you for the article Mr. Nolan.
Yet another story we read daily that at the end we all could say "great idea, will SOMEONE step up and impeach this prlck so we can save this nation?" We have enough oil reserves to be completely independent, we don't need the Middle East, Obama does, its just a part of his apologetic redistribution plan no one else subscribes to but the minority Progressive/Liberal party.
Possibly as high as $5.00/gal unless we get back to exploration, drilling, and production. That's saying nothing about food, energy, and everything else.
Abolish the EPA, kill the subsidies for wind, solar, electric and hybrid cars, and of course, ethanol. Increase refining capacity, build nuclear power stations, and add refueling pumps/tanks for PNG/LP powered vehicles to the existing refueling infrastructure. Get government out of the way, period.
Right on all counts Rick. Pushing aside oil, for future growth, we should be building at least ten nuclear power plants per year, for the next fifteen years. Power houses should be equal to in size, or larger than the Palo Verde nuke plant in Arizona. Bear in mind, that most, if not all of our nuke plants are old, and dated. This world map will give you an idea of why we're behind:
http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.php
Great. So we've already established that The Gov won't let us drill. Nuclear power has been on hold for the last 30 years, Wind power kills birds, and solar power requires batteries that create an entirely different environmental catastrophe. What's an energy hungry nation to do? By the way I don't give to the notion that we aren't working towards cleaner ways of utilizing fossol fuels and that they shouldn't be included in the future of our energy needs. Imangine as many cars on the roads as we have today with '50's air polution standards. i will not be given to environmental guilt.
Nuclear plants won't help us reduce our oil consumption, since the nuclear plants only generate electricity. 1% of America's electricity is generated from burning oil products.
The phrases, "addiction to oil," is not an accurate one. Our economy reached its peak, becoming the #1 economy in the world, due to cheap and plentiful energy.
We use oil, and we profit from its use. Addicts don't profit from their use of any substance, whether it be alcohol, drugs or oil.
We send BILLIONS a year on the military to purchase most of our oil from Canada, MX & South America?
REALLY?
IF we went on a crash building program of nuclear power plants, we could divert all the natural gas presently being burned to generate electricity to transportation. In addition to that, we could then use the coal not being burned for electricity by converting it into liquid (google SASOL) fuels. Voila, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!!
And if it isn't obvious already, I don't buy into man caused global warming!!
I was only half interested in this until I got to the 1:32 portion of the film.
Isn't that ORGANIZER a Mr. Van Jones??
Isn't he the one preaching that we need to take the money from the rich and give it to the poor via "Green" jobs? Anything with him in favor of, becomes suspect.
I see nothing in this movie but a push for us to go "Green" and ignore nuclear, natural gas and oil.
Sorry, I'll pass on the propaganda.
That's what I'm saying, Drill Baby Drill! In the mean while I think Global Warming alarmists have to get off the "carbon" kick. Water vaper is much more dangeorous a green house gas- let's aim on reducing that!
I don't think he meant that it would reduce our oil consumption. But he is correct. We are WAY behind on preparing for the days ahead when our old nukes are no longer viable to support the grid. They won't run forever. We will need to built new nukes. But it isn't happening now for several reasons. One of which is upfront costs.
Long term, it would, however, free up coal reserves for the production of synthetic oils and fuels. While costly, with the looming price increases on natural petroleum, they may in the future look much more cost effective…..
otherwise, saving some of that coal to make electricity with a few hundred years from now is not a bad thing
Say that again?
Coherently, this time, if you please…….
Very true, although today's oil companies are pretty much opposed to new nuclear plants. It would put a serious dent in their business. Thanks very much for the reply.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. We are presently walking backwards.
I'm 100% behind the nuclear program, and I agree he's correct in saying so. PrezzoBama talks about nuclear plants, but has no intention whatever of allowing one to be built. We need nuclear plants, and we all know this. Yet the greenies (watermelons) sue and sue and sue, to prevent our ability to generate cheap, plentiful electricity.
I appreciate the reply.
Frankly the Co. may know something about security, but he does not know jacksquat about climate science.
So go along with the CO2 bs as a justifier for what you want to do, but in the end it is just bs and the people who read this site should realize that doing anything because of CO2 is meaningless.
I'd love for someone to start building a new plant tomorrow. It would make the value of BigDadio go up rapidly.
That's true, however you may not be looking at the long haul. Unless something cataclysmic happens, our population will increase, and so will will the demand for power, and fuel. Don't get me wrong, whereas I may have given the impression I'm stuck on nuclear power. I just believe nuke power safe, reliable and free from foreign exploitation. I would never discount the use of natural gas, coal, and alternatives wind, tidal, and solar etc, we need it all. e,g,. I didn't do the giga-watts calculations, but 150 super sized nuke power plants, liken to Palo Verde in Arizona, would have the capability of generating lots, and lots of clean power for many years to come.
Thanks for this informative article. I'd be very interested in a follow up article on manufacturing security: what essential items do we now lack the capacity to make in the United States?
I'm right there with you, brother man. We need nuclear plants, huge ones and lots of them. I've been sickened so many times over the years, when the dumb masses (enviro-loons, read that "commies") start with the lawsuits.
I'm absolutely stuck on nuclear power for electricity. Hell, I wish we could safely use it for motive power/transportation, as well. President Obama knows very well that his hippy friends will block any new nuclear plants. That's why he can talk about them as if he actually supports them. He supports the mini-plants, which haven't been fully tested. He does NOT support the super-sized, traditional plant that is proven to work. We could start start building super-sized plants tomorrow.
I just meant that nuclear won't help us weather an oil shortage, or help us combat skyrocketing oil prices, since we use so little oil to produce electricity.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
I thought it was shyte from the hind end of a bull, myself, the minute I read a few key phrases, like "addiction to oil," as if we're evil or weakminded for wanting cheap, plentiful energy.
I agree with all you say. Actually mini nuke plants have been tested. Just look at our aircraft carriers and subs, with very few reported accidents that I've heard of. Plus the U.S. Navy have trained excellent prospective plant operators. From what I understand, the U.S. have within our borders, the largest amount of oil reserves in the world. And yes, the environmentalists, and democrats have so far wacked us from producing our own. It's been mind boggling and a bad dream, that our politicians keep repeating history!
If you really want to know what YOU think of Carbon Nation, just take a look-see at what the Daily Kos thinks of it. They, the delightful little commies that we love to hate, are ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
So where is your support for nuclear power? That is by far a better power source than wind, which still can't compete on the market without subsidies.
If you really want to know what YOU think of Carbon Nation, just take a look-see at what the Daily Kos thinks of it. They, the delightful little commies that we love to hate, are ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
This is another Trojan horse, put in place by people who are flogging the global warming, climate change disruption weirding meme.
He's saying that we buy most of our oil from Canada and non-terrorist states, so using the military argument is a crock of crap.
If you really want to know what YOU think of Carbon Nation, just take a look-see at what the Daily Kos thinks of it. They, the delightful little commies that we love to hate, are ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
This is another Trojan horse, put in place by people who are flogging the
global warming, climatechangedisruptionweirding meme.No doubt. It is sickening. If they had set out to ruin us, I don't see how they could've done a better job!
If you really want to know what YOU think of Carbon Nation, just take a look-see at what the Daily Kos thinks of it. They, the delightful little commies that we love to hate, are ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
This is another Trojan horse, put in place by people who are flogging the global warming, climate change disruption weirding meme.
If you really want to know what YOU think of Carbon Nation, just take a look-see at what the Daily Kos thinks of it. They, the delightful little commies that we love to hate, are ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
This is another Trojan horse, put in place by people who are flogging the global warming, climate change disruption weirding meme.
Nearly half of all oil fuel goes towards electricity generation, so yes, by building more nuke plants, we will reduce out use of oil fuels.
If this were really a film we should or could watch and get behind, I just have to wonder why the Daily Kos loved it, LOVED it. The delightful little commies were ENTHRALLED by the film. Read their gushing, fawning review at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/28/851938/-...
This is another Trojan horse, put in place by people who are flogging the
global warming, climatechangedisruptionweirding meme.Our goal should be to move from a carbon based to a nuclear based with hydrogen gas for all of our other needs. We will not get there by wasting time plugging in our cars or putting up wind mills and solar panels.
They just don't have the stones to do the job.
I've been in some very serious manufacturing plants. Not the cooks tour. The down and dirty kind. It takes raw power to make our factories hum. To tinker with this is suicide. If we want to do it on the margin to make some citizens feel less guilt and they want to pay for it. Fine. But to think we can base our economy on it is nuts.
If we can build a miniaturized nuclear reactor. Put it to sea. Have it dive down thousands of feet, and travel 90+ miles per hour, and do so silently. Don't tell me we can't develop nuclear power on land and use that clean power to make hydrogen gas, and pipe that gas to stations for filling up our cars in the distant future. The electric car is stupid. It will end up being an environmental disaster. Do you have any idea what it takes to manufacture a high capacity battery? Holy cow! Talk about environmental suicide.
I wish the Pipedream was true. It's a lie. Brought to you by the same political party that thought the federal government could run a medical insurance system while simultaneously running a pension system. Why would I let these people run a taco stand, even under a close supervision of the biggest mexican SOB I could find to make sure the feds made the taco just right.
They killed the light bulb. Now they are going to kill the country.
Christopher C. Horner says that 1% of our electricity comes from burning oil.
Your claim just doesn't seem right. I don't know of even one generating plant that burns oil. Is there any way you could cite your source? I'm not trying to be a wiseacre. I just have never heard such a thing.
I looked it up. You must've misread your source. You can see the truth at
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_...
Scroll down until you see the pie chart. It clearly shows 1% of our electricity coming from oil.
It also shows:
44.5% Coal
23.3% Natural Gas
20.2% Nuclear
06.8% Hydroelectric
There are other, smaller wedges in the pie chart, but those are the major contributors to our electricity production.
I liked the video. Good points and amusing. But the real issue is not Green Tech. I like Green tech but what I DONT like is the current administration trying to subsidize it and effectively control it, while handing out juicy contracts to favored energy companies *COUGH* GE *COUGH*
PS. The United States Air Force has the ability to convert coal into jet fuel. Why can we do this for automobiles?
JoeDoakes101-
"To tinker with this is suicide."
"they are going to kill the country"
I think you just hit the nail on the head. There is no clean energy that will satisfy the dolts putting out propaganda like this they're totally vested in the annihilation of the human race and the effects on the earth. They won't be happy until they do- and then they won't be happy because they won't exist… Can't win with some folks…
Neither can oil, which is heavily subsidized.
I was with you until the Van Jones scene. He and people like him are liars and communists. He is not interested in a strong America. He is interested in changing the US from a Free cCpitalist society to a Socialist welfare state. The later always fails. I have been begging for clean air and water since I was a child but I don't think engaging criminals and those working for the downfall of our nation can be trusted.
We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas and coal. And, and we still have large reserves of oil and Canada has more oil than Saudi Arabia (and S.A. has 40% less than claimed). We can't use our nearby supplies because the commies won't let us. They seek our national destruction.
We need to drill here drill now. Conversion to other sources of energy will come when we use our current resources to pay for it. (Global warming is nonsense.)
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You are most certainly correct in so far as a battery operated car. It is sheer nonsense that makes me cringe. I deal daily with the auto manufacturers idea of a "smart" car that cannot remember it's own brand name after a tiny computer glitch. This electric car fantasy is simply NOT in our countrys interest.
Then I feel even more supportive (as if I wasn't already) to have more nuke plants around!
wind, solar, ethanol and other "green" energy pipe dreams are subsidized FAR more heavily than oil.
That tired leftist argument that oil companies are getting exempted from taxes expired when the numbers came out years ago. They're paying from 39% to 41% of their gross taxable income to the feds, before adding state and local taxes in.
what you SHOULD be asking, is why the subsidies going to the oil companies are tagged for use in developing "green" fuels such as ethanol. See 'Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit ' – a subsidy in the form of a tax break on all fuels blended with ethanol. Also note than in 2010 Exxon said they wanted that subsidy eliminated.
It's doable, but very expensive. Synthetic motor oils are made from coal, and a look at the store shelves will show prices of $5 to $10 per quart, compared to $2 to $4 for natural oil.
What I don't understand is why we the people allow this BS to continue. We already have the technology to run our cars on LPG. Convert all of our cars, no need for gasoline. Build enough nuclear powerhouses to take care of our needs there. Drill EVERYWHERE that we have oil, everywhere, and flood the market. That takes ALL of the power away from the mideast potentates by drastically lowering the price of market crude. Without the petro dollars flowing in like the Nile, the Muslim hoards won't have the money to buy arms. Then, all of the same nations that have held us hostage for the last 20 years will be falling over themselves to become our friends. We the people are better off, our allies are better off, and our enemies can go suck an egg.
just sayin
This is a greenie weenie propaganda film, shove your global warming BS.
We feel a need to have an orchestrated effort to replace 20th century energy with,……..
with 21st century energy and indeed if we have the where with all 21st century technology,…….
to accomplish this,…. than by all means let us begin.
But the problem is that many of the powers that be,……
want to use failed 20th century ideologies to do this.
A failed political agenda is no avenue for innovation
UPDATE — 02/15/11 — So sorry. I meant to say that "…today's COAL companies are pretty much opposed to new nuclear plants."
I don't know what the oil companies' position is on new nuclear plants. I don't think, however, that they have the same vested interests as the coal companies, who would definitely be displaced by new nuclear plants.
My apologies… I am so sorry, but I made an error in my comment.
I meant to say that "…today's COAL companies are pretty much opposed to new nuclear plants."
I don't know what the oil companies' position is on new nuclear plants. I don't think, however, that they have the same vested interests as the coal companies, who would definitely be displaced by new nuclear plants.
In any case, thank you for replying.
Your remarks are filled with truth AND wit, a rare combination.
The problems with hydrogen, at present, are the cost of refitting fueling stations to accommodate the new fuel, and, developing the container to safely hold the hydrogen as we drive around. The car's hydrogen tank must be impregnable, or else, in the event of an accident, ka-BOOM.
But, as you said, in the distant future, it's a very real possibility. And the byproduct of using hydrogen as a fuel? Plain old water.
You've just outlined the only plan that makes sense.
You hit the nail on the head.
You ain't wrong, brother Ralph, and you sho' as HELL ain't lyin'!!!
Let's see, Van Jones (loves communism) and Thomas Friedman (loves China). Your hearts in the right place Colonel but that kind of company puts me off of this project.
Sure smells like a glitzy PR stunt there Tripper.
Wow,……. that was close there Jr (1%)
Too funny… Thanks, Mr. Man.
The so-called green solutions to our energy problems are subsidized at a rate about ten times the rate of oil, and about forty times the rate of coal.
It surely doo.
I hope they lose their shirts on that movie.
Maybe Col Nolan should read this before continuing with this folly. http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/02/w...
George Soros is a huge investor in Petrobra(zil) oil industry. It is run by the Socialist Dictator, Hugo Chaves who just happens to be a very good friend of Obama's.
So, B.P. had an accident and got totally shut down….Thanks Obama. Now, if we are forced to by oil elsewhere, guess who?
Now, this might be a rumor, ok…"Obama" lonaed money to Soros to invest in Petrobra…to the tune of $2 Billion, U.S.D. Hopefully that's a rumor.
Obama gave $2 billion, U.S.D. to build a brand new G.M. plant in Mexico.
Not only do we finance unfriendly and out right enemy nations by the outsourcing of our petro-dollars. We also pay them interest on our debt, we are dependent on them for even more borrowing in the future to finance our current debt interest, and our "need" for future borrowing in order to sustain federal government spending and obligations.
I quit reading at "climate change is a concern".
No, its not. Quit pandering to the liberal MSM, Col.
I work with a fair number of meterologists and climate scientists. Even amongst this group there are is a wide divergence of opinion. One of the more interesting questions that I have heard is "Show me how this is bad?" If it increases temperatures at higher latitudes, wouldn't that also increase the length of growing seasons. There are many other similar arguments.
The climate has been changing long before man was around. To state blindly that AGW is a primary driver in the process is the height of audacity.
Societies can only have the morals that they can afford. The costs of "mitigation," given that a limited number of nations would be paying, look to far exceed any possible benefits. Should we further bankrupt ourselves, faster than the government is already doing, in a futile attempt to control something like climate change when others will either not participate or passively oppose change by not changing their actions?
Remember, climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
Amen.
OPEC and others are holding us captive. If we start drilling and building to be free of them, they will kill us with high prices until we become trully free. Just like China that owns us… they get away with whatever they want because we owe them so much money and want us to continue borrowing to fund their growth. I wouldn't be surprised if NObama was forced to continue borrowing from them due to being blackmailed on some other front…
I agree otherwise I think he would have made a push for using the huge amounts of untapped oil and coal we already have.
Look forward to your movie Col. Dan.
From your movie trailer I can surmise the direction the movie is going to take.
First of The Fraud:
-Understate our domestic carbon energy sources, and then accentuate the dependency on foreign oil. ( We get less than 3% of our oil from the Middle East).
-Oversell solar energy capabilities: Only reliable on less than 50% of our nation. Requires a lot of energy to manufacture solar panels(most panels are mfg in China) , very expensive source of energy.
-Electric cars: How are you going to generate the electrons? Solar Panels? In Seattle during January?
-Wind energy: unreliable as on demand power. Power grid contracts charge deep penalties to producers that fail to meet their supply contracts to the power grid. Devastating to bird of prey species, creates a bird graveyard.
Don't let the lies and propaganda continue: Close the Dept of Energy. Future is Nuclear, Nat gas, oil, coal.
All the public buses where I live run on LPG. You can run big powerful engines on LPG, it's 118 octane.
The Colonel is a propagandist, seeing all the former bureaucrats in this video clip raises my BS detector.
Is Van Jones some kind of physicist or engineer?
No, he's a Soros stooge.
What the hell would Van Jones be doing in a documentary on energy? Propaganda.
"Addiction to oil", I hate that term too.
Our scientists and engineers have taken oil and created our modern society. This Colonel is a quack.
Why has Obama shut down oil production in the US?
Is sending $2billion to Petrobras helping the USA to become oil independent?
The dirty secret is we can be energy independent. The Foreign owners of oil know it, and they shove money in the pockets of our corrupt politicians to close off energy development in the US.
But, but, but….. Then hydrogen fuel cells would be banned because the byproduct of hydrogen burning is water vapor. //sarc off//
Why?
Because he can.
He is ill advised.
But, but, but…. water vapor is a green house gas, the largest one! //sarc off//
Too funny. Those alarmists surely do love sounding that alarm, don't they?
Thanks for the reply!
Sorry Colonel but you are running down the wrong rabbit trail. Unfortunately you will be known by the company you keep and people like Van Jones will destroy almost any reputation you might have built.
Climate change has been occurring throughout the entire life of this planet. Without climate change, we would not have come out of the Ice Age. IOW climate change is normal and their is no scientific data whereby humans can affect the direction taken by the climate.
While your credentials in "National Security and Strategic Planning from the U.S. Naval War College" are impressive, unfortunately they do not include credentials in the hard sciences needed to evaluate the various claims spouted by the PC, marxist, and environmental crowds.
Colonel Dan, Colonel Dan… Ice cream!!!
Good one, leadstate.
leadstate, you and Missy8s are reliable as hell. You cut through the BS and deliver the knockout punch.
Excellent comment!
is this purely tongue in cheek or are you making a point? If so please clarify because as far as i can tell the article had nothing to do with climate change.
actually addicts do profit from the high they receive from the substance. In this case its economic. And while yes, our use of oil has been a boon, thats no reason not to explore alternatives. And before I get jumped on for saying this, remember, im saying explore, not regulate – I'm not implying a governmental hand in that process.
Well, first on mexico, ask some people from arizona if noone in mexico terrorizes others.
My point is, that point is only true if those countries are protective of the outside interests affecting them. Unfortunately, I'll be the first to admit i am not qualified to answer that question.
Trolls are out today although they are not adding comments just thumbs down for globull warming deniers.
I think it is more sinister. There are profiteers and Progressives that want this country weakened and put a few bucks in their pockets while they do it.
Thanks, note the thumbs down we get. Must be hitting close to home.
Uh, hello, anyone read this?: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
We have more than enough oil, and this article doesn't even mention the Denver motherlode that is an order of magnitude larger… DRILL BABY DRILL and we don't have to import a durn thang.
Watch the trailer…
It's no rumor. It was a loan guarantee, I think, but it was definitely financial assistance.
I think the AGW crowd is trying to use the Colonel's credentials to enhance their own credibility.
Only trouble is, the Colonel no longer has any credibility.
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