Why do the environmentalist whackos prevent us from getting ahead?

Question

China is drilling for oil 50 miles off our coast (closer to the US than our own oil rigs). The President of Iran stated he was going to build 7 new oil refineries so Iran can become self sufficiant. But we can't get what is rightfully ours because the environmental weenies won't let us. WHY? Have you seen the price of gas?

And please don't give me any nonsense about biodeisel, renewable energy, blah blah blah.

Answer 1

Why, because Gummo-Marxists live in a Renn-Faire World.  They are too busy protesting anything that will make life work on this planet!  For example, Diane Feinstein (super libtard, self serving war profiteer, liberal) , worked like mad to evict the USN from the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) and now she complains that the economy is bad in the SFBA because of Bush! What a riot!

Answer 2

What exactly does "we can't get what is rightfully ours " mean?  I think that for many years people had that attitude, of taking what was "rightfully" theirs.....and forests were cut to the ground, bodies of water  polluted, communities contaminated, animal species almost eliminated, habitat destroyed.   Perhaps there are some people who are extreme in their ideas and approaches, that exists on all sides of any issue.    Sometimes, some people who want to "get ahead" and "get what is rightfully ours" need to remember that their are billions of people out there, other than themselves, and the days of ignoring issues to "get ahead" are done.....we are all responsible for the earth we life on.  But the average "environmental wacko" perhaps simply wants to insure that our children , our grandchildren, the creatures we live with and the people of this earth all have a....future.

Answer 3

I don't know that China is drilling 50 miles from US shores considering that the US has a 250 mile from shore boundary,that would mean China is drilling within US waters unlikely.Trust me if there was oil anywhere the major companies would be drilling there.Have you seen the profits from the 1st quarter for the major oil companies its in the billions how can they justify that I think the governments need to step in and prevent the profit mongering that the major oil companies are doing.It is the oil companies and not environmentalist that are making the gross profits its them we need to give a reality check to.

Answer 4

I am an environmental whacko and I want you to get ahead. I also want you, your children, your mother, father, others, etc to be able to breathe and not be poisoned.

Why don't environment whackos have meetings in the garage with the car running? The emissions will kill you and now take a look at our traffic in the big garage of life(atmosphere)

No environment = no life

Who is the wacko?

Answer 5

Have you ever been to China?  I have.  And trust me when I say we don't want them to be the model we use for environment management.

A person isn't a "whacko" just because they have enough common sense to want to protect the safety and health of their own family.  Sure, there are environmental extremists (the type that use violence to try to get their point across), but there are also a lot of well educated, patriotic citizens who understand that you can only pour poison into your own water supply for so long before it causes problems.

It's too bad you're not interested in learning about new technologies in cars and renewable energy that could free us from oil.

Answer 6

With $50 trillion worth of stuff that requires cheap oil, let them build new refineries. Help China build 8 nuclear power plants. but we have to do our part, see what that is at CoolingEarth.org

Answer 7

Yes Jim, yes they do.

Answer 8

I'm sorry that you can't get a head. You certainly need one.

BTW, the price of gas is up because the US dollar is so weak that people have been buying petroleum futures like mad and driving the cost up.  People trying to get what they consider "rightfully" theirs are s******g the rest of us.

Answer 9

Ever been to industrial cities like Chonqing, China?

Is that what you call the way ahead?

Chinese themselves know that fossil fuels is a necessity for them, not a choice. If they had a country like the US with a much higher potential for renewables, they would have other choices.

Answer 10

Here, Here!

"Environmentalists" killed our most promising alternative, Nuclear Power.

"Environmentalists" have killed drilling all new domestic sources of oil.

"Environmentalists" have kept us from building new refineries.

"Environmentalists" have put into place regulations that are preventing us from having access to cars made in Europe and Australia that are right now getting over 50 MPG and are cheaper than Hybrids.

"Environmentalists" fight any new coal power plants, Hydro-electric plants, or any new power plants.

"Environmentalists and our wonderful news media continue to spead lies about the capabilities of Solar, Wind, Etc.

We can thank our "Environmentalists" for the high price of oil today, and all the jobs lost due to it.

Don't misunderstand me. I love Solar, Wind, Geo Thermal, Waste Fuel, and every other alternative source. I am just an engineer and understand the limitations of these wonderful alternatives. Nuclear Power is the only alternative we have with today's technology that can provide the amount of reliable 24/7 power we need to maintain our way of life.

We should build and use Solar, Wind, etc. where they are practical. We should subsidize these, but even then, they cannot replace coal, oil, and gas. That is just the facts and all the "Wishing" in the world will not change it.