Worthy News: Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline - ABC News

[George]

President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government's emergency reserve.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-1887632/

[RGR]

You can thank the tree huggers like Al Gore and his lot for imposing draconian measures upon the oil industry. They are also the same ones who will be against drilling in Alaska while that we continue to buy oil from rogue nations such as Iran.

[apothanein kerdos]

Well we have to have enviromental protection to a point...afterall, why drive in air you can't breath? At the same time, that is used as a smokescreen. If you build multiple refineries with tight enviromental controls, though they may produce less, you still make cheaper gas. For example (these are hypothetical numbers):

Let's assume a refinery without enviromental protection produces 100 barrels a day. A refinery with laws produces only 50. At the same time, without protection we have 10 refineries...thus we are producing 1,000 barrels a day. Let's assume we place the regulations on now, but there are 30 refineries. We now have 1,500 refineries thus cheaper gas and less pollution. Another thing to do is offer incentives to factories, car lots, and consumers that make, sell, and buy hybrid cars. This would inevitably make it cheaper to buy a hybrid and thus more adventageous.

There's a lot that could be done but simply won't be because people (oil execs) won't cave in and lose the money.

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

Do you understand what oil drilling Alaska will do to Alaska?

Did you know Bush tried to sneak in oil drilling Alaska into the emergency bill to help victims of the war and Katrina, when it should not have been snuck in there as a hidden agenda, under an inappropiate title?

Do you know that do to a minor detail in how the most ancient Sequoias are not in the park from a paperwork neglection, that Bush plans to have them all cut down? It is true. They are not under protection and no excuses for this one.

Greedily people are looking through all they can find and hastily trying to exploite the enviroment when they should be protecting it and busy wiht human matters.

It is not the Bush against Gore , that is not the reasoning. There is far more than the democratic vs republican agenda here.

As long as people can be decieved into thinking it is all about dempcratic and rupublic they will miss the entire point and need of the environment and alot more.

We don't need to go haywire on the environment.

God made the trees, I hardly call it a sterotypical "tree hugger" to want to care for the earth that God has made, seems tp me God told Adam it was his job to care for creation. As care takers, we are not seperate from our God made and given environment, as so many seem to think whikle they sit in their homes away from the things God has made and keep dissorder inside and the sun out side.

Anyone recall the scriptures where it says , I will destroy those who are destroying the earth? How about where the angel is asked to hurt not the trees, after loosing part of creation?

I don't find being a conservative, to mean, playing into the hands of people who destroy the environment.

God help us.

elkie

[Marnie]

Elkie,

Your post was very misleading re: ANWR. There is a whole other side to the debate. I have been to ANWR and I can tell you there is nothing there!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/216188_anwr16.html

http://www.anwr.org/archives/senate_budget...n_anwr.php#more

http://www.anwr.org/archives/anwr_victory_in_senate.php#more

http://www.anwr.org/topten.htm

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.pdf

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=1157

http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/...84658-4188r.htm

http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/alaska-oil-anwar.html

[Giaour]

Mexico drills and finds oil in the gulf where OUR elected officials refused to allow us to drill.

China drills for oil 70 miles off the Florida coast.

Where OUR elected officials refused to allow us to drill.

Come on people!

Someone is going to get the oil whether we like it on our coastlines or not.

Why just give it away when it can be ours?

[apothanein kerdos]

Oil is a short term solution. Go ahead and drill, but oil costs won't go down until we have a better way to refine it. Secondly, oil won't last us forever, so it simply makes more sense to go into renuable energy which, in the end, will make everyone more money.

[RGR]

Down here in SE Missouri some company from Texas has gotten the idea that there is oil around here and they're getting into a big fiz to lease mineral rights from people around here.

[Giaour]

If we would have been allowed to drill in Anwar 10 years ago, like we wanted to, then we would have that oil NOW!

[apothanein kerdos]

If we would have been allowed to drill in Anwar 10 years ago, like we wanted to, then we would have that oil NOW!

And what about 20 years from now? How would you refine the massive influx of oil? The problem is refineries, not a lack of oil. Likewise, as I stated, drilling is only a temporary solution to something that will be a long term problem. We should have got the hint in the 70's.