Plants are probably the only practical way to extract 400 PPM CO2 from the air. There's probably a lot of potential in eventually developing super-efficient plants that use the increasingly abundant CO2 and produce any chemical you happen to need. How about corn, but the kernels are plastic nubs, various colors, ready to go into an injection molding machine?
John
Because if we don't, we won't own the ground later.
The government already lets the oil companies drill in more places than they can handle. There is no shortage of leases or permits. This is just election year BS.
Gosh, just recently i was reading that the oil companies cannot drill all the leases that they have due to lack of equipment. Kind of pointless to lease more just now.
...just more bullshit from the DemocRATS talking points.
Vote Democrat... it's good for the consulting biz.
Nevermind I'm replacing laid-off engineers... it's not MY problem ;-)
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Never mind that The Left's *Tax and spend* is preferable to The New Right's *Borrow and spend*.
It's been mentioned here before that Progressives spend their terms cleaning up the economic messes that NeoCons leave behind
--only to have the NEXT Republican screw it up again.
The Righties should just call their party what it is: The Subsidize the Trans-Nationals and Send Jobs Overseas Party.
For every one of the engineering jobs that the corps outsource, there are lots of *other* jobs that go offshore. ...and don't try to say that this hasn't INCREASED on Dubya's watch (with no new jobs to replace them).
Let me know when you see job growth under a Republican even keep pace with population growth.
Agreed.
Yup. Why can't 'murcan manufacturers make this change? Unions? Regulations? What??
In some big cities and some other places, not everywhere.
Were they? I remember car average power was about 100 BHP in the
1960's. It seems to be about 200 BHP now. But i know my memory to be somewhat faulty. Could someone check it out?
While neither is a good thing, tax and spend drives the economy to zero, reducing the ability to pay equally. When the economy turns down, the weenies simply spend more. That doesn't make the Republicans.
Hogwash. What about the economic and other messes the progressives hero FDR made? They're the granddaddy of all messes!
Funny. I didn't know Bill Clinton was a Republican.
There seem to be a lot of jobs around. In fact there aren't enough skilled workers to fill them.
For the last 6 years there has been a lot of job growth.
Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
and for lawyers.
krw wrote:
Amen.
At least it's an honest approach. Piling your debt onto your grandchildren is fundamentally dishonest. It's a Ponzi scheme.
It doesn't seem to slow down the Borrow-and-spenders.
Yeah. That getting-the-nation-through-the-Coolidge/Hoover-Great-Depression thing was a real bad legacy. 8-|
...though I'l concede that Social Security was a Ponzi scheme.
...and George H.W. Bush said, "No new taxes". Politics breeds policy aberations.
"The Bush *job growth* record" is an oxymoron. To repeat: The rate of job creation hasn't even kept up with population growth.
No, it's really not.
How does piling on more entitlements help "my grandchildren"?
It does slow down the tax-n-spenders. At least there is an economy left to *hope* to be able to pay the bills.
Complete nonsense.
Silly statement. Even sillier to knuckle under to the DemonRATS and go back on a silly statement.
Only to a flaming weenie.
Nonsense.
Doesn't it bother you any that the country, already over-run by Mexicans, will be dominated by Mexican _voters_ once the DemocRATs get in power?
...Jim Thompson
A bit like this then?
martin
NOT the same thing, and you know it.
Wait until the Islamist take over all of Europe... they pretty much have already done in France.
...Jim Thompson
Jim Thomps>Doesn't it bother you any that the country,
Your racist prejudice is showing. The brown-skinned people that I see work their butts off and represent what's best about the USA. Most don't affect the job numbers (1:1 warm-body/job ratio) because most came here to WORK. Many of them skew the job numbers IN THE POSITIVE DIRECTION by having MULTIPLE jobs because working 40 hours a week won't get them a living wage.
That would be people who have jumped thru multiple hoops, WORKED for their US citizenship, and gotten off their butts to go to the polls.
Doesn't bother me a bit. If YOU feel threatened, you should muster your clique of similarly-prejudiced tight-asses and make sure THEY get to the polls in maximum numbers.
A whole bunch of the brown-skinned people you despise got here on Dubya's watch. Do I really have to tell you about the border states that are trying to sue Washington to get back the *state* money they have had to spend to enforce the **Federal** immigration statutes?
Luckily, the two words: "Immigration" and "Invasion" share many of the same letters. Sort of like: "Al Queda" and "Iraq"
Shouldn't be too difficult to re-write the history books.
-mpm
No this time it is election year BS from the Republicans. They are acting as though leasing more land to the oil companies will lower gas prices when the oil companies have said that they can't drill it.
Did you hear all the howling about the provision that takes the undrilled leases back?
It seems that some of the smarter folks in Washington came up with the idea that undrilled leases and unrecovered oil should time out after a while. This prevents the oil companies from just holding the oil on the books to drive up the stock price.
From the noises from the oil companies and their operatives, you'd think this was the end of the world.
I would not be surprised to find that oil companies have been doing things to keep the cost of oil rising until it becomes profitable to drill in low yield areas before these options run out. Once they are depleted, they will have made their profits, and by then maybe we will lower our consumption or foreign production will increase so prices can drop (at least a little). But things may be happening faster and with more unintended consequences than they predicted.
At the very least, it seems that the domestic auto/truck industry is suddenly caught with present and future inventories of gas guzzlers they can't sell, while more agile and farsighted companies are cranking out economy vehicles as fast as they can. I don't feel sorry at all for Detroit. Any of their layed off workers who are willing and able to work hard for reasonable wages should be able to find jobs with companies that make reasonable cars.
Paul
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