Foreign oil - Topic profile

Our 3rd largest foreign oil supplier same as our "leadership"     Did our beloved "public servants" read any of the reports being produced especially made for them over the past decades from the massive govt data ( information from all over the world I may add ) suggesting our energy security foreign dependency was increasing at an alarming rate ?   40 years ago the US imported ...

  Recs: 1 Time to declare independence from costly foreign oil http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2008/06/29/o pinion/editorials/editorial620.txt Time to declare independence from costly foreign oil By U.S. REP. BILL SHUSTER...

Getting off foreign oil is good. Can somebody explain to me this guys vision and motives a bit more. His name recently came up and I saw a little video but I know little about him. What I know is he's really for this wind-power use. Just to counter, what would happen when tornadoes rip them done? What's the alternative, the backup, what's reliable? Will it work? We use up a lot of ...

AND HOW THE 2 PARTIES VOTED ON THE REDUCTION OF OUR DEPENDENCE ON IT......   Key Vote (How all members voted) Reduction in Dependence on Foreign Oil                         Bill Number: HR 6 Date: 2005-06-16 Sponsor: Amendment: Senator Cantwell, Maria [WA]; Original Bill: Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] Roll Call: 140 Amendment Rejected (Senate)                      ...

Saturday, August 16, 2008 09:38 GMT Oil Ministry stopped negotiating with foreign investment companies in Oil field especially US companies after they imposed conditions including participating in production as an alternative to their due sums of money. Meanwhile, parliamentarians considered that granting companies investments in undiscovered fields is a constitutional breach ...

Advertisements [ ? ] -- Scott Paul ...Unfortunately, the folks promoting smart energy policy have exacerbated the problem by continuing to promise an end to U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Speaker Pelosi has led the charge here. Sen. Obama, among others, has gone along too (and it's in the final Democratic Party platform). Not even the most enlightened officials...

Published: Thursday, 14 August, 2008, 08:42 AM Doha Time DUBAI/AMSTERDAM: Iraq, holder of the world;s third-largest crude reserves, has hit a stumbling block in talks on technical service contracts with foreign investors, including Royal Dutch Shell and BP. The pace of negotiations has slowed, an Oil Ministry official, who declined to be identified for security reasons, said in a phone ...

Quote: Originally Posted by JUSTAGIRL MY DADDY has been saying for some time that they are not willing to share in the development of their oil industry. They don't think like most of the rest of the world.They were willing to let the big oil companies help them with technical help (for free, kinda like the US rebuilding their county'...

 Cantwell's amendment to HR 6 was to remove ANWAR from the bill. This was defeated. a little side note. Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Energy Policy Energy Bill (H.R. 6) Fails Americans in Four Fundamental Areas Reps. Waxman, Markey, Solis and Capps release a report examining how H.R. 6 undermines national security, harms the environment, wastes tax dollars, and costs the American ...

As long as it doesn't involve the biofuel scam, I'm all for the development of alternative energy sources. One equivalent drop of oil produced locally is one less drop of oil we need to get from the terrorists. However, one equivalent drop of locally-produced biofuel oil is one less drop of food fuel for the human machine. Any technology which develops biofuels could be used to ...

The oil belongs to the company that pulls it out of the ground and the last time I looked, they will sell it to whoever pays the most. There are no "American" companies selling oil at bargain rates to Americans only. So unless we nationalize an oil company here or there, the only way America gets money from these guys is to insist they incorporate in the U.S. and tax their asses....

30 years ago we start developing ways not to depend on foreign oil. Rest of the rold was sleeping. Whatever effort any country puts in biofuels is good investment.

  Recs: 0 Boone Pickens Drives a Honda GX Civic NG Powered Car T. Boone Pickens: Oklahoma is Key to How U.S. Gets Energy Posted on: Thursday, 14 August 2008, 00:00 CDT By Jerry Shottenkirk On July 8, energy giant and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens rolled out a $58 million advertising and marketing campaign, and more than a month later he's getting plenty of ...