Added bonus: Once we find out they’re seeking nuclear capability, we get to bomb the crap out of them whenever our President’s approval ratings dip too low!

As I think has been said around here once or twice, Sadly No.

Oil companies have intentionally shut down refineries to increase demand. It isn’t a bug it’s a feature.

Phase 1: Convince people to stop wasting so damn much energy and polluting so damn much.

Phase 2: …

Phase 3: PROFIT!

I’m beginning to think there is some crucial wiring missing from these people’s makeup. Like they’re broken or something.

Wrong! God only creaed the Univers 10,000 years ago, smart guy. Christian geologists have already calculated it to the day. Or do you believe in some sort of whacky magical time travel theory?

Oil reserves are developed by the death and compression of carbon life-forms over the years. Forests, wildlife, marine life, and humans have not stopped dying – nor are they expected to anytime soon.

Where’d all the trees go?!? We clearcut this place just last week, and there were tons of them around then!

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tigrismus, you are Officially Brilliant. If you don’t stop it soon, I won’t have to use any words of my own: I’m still calling fetuses “Godberries”, fer crying out loud.

Better still, permanently exile them to a small Micronesian island. These are all low lying coral islands whose high points are only a few feet above sea level. All of them are expected to disappear within a generation.

That’s kinda like wondering why diamonds are so rare when they’re just rocks and rocks are all over the dam place.

Or, “I don’t believe anyone who says that Kangaroos are only native to Australia. That doesn’t make any sense. They’re mammals with tails, and last I checked, there are plenty of mammals with tails elesewhere.”

Mind boggling.

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…and of course, he leaves out that it takes millions of years for the process to work.

Kevin doesn’t concern himself with small details like that. He’s more of a big-picture kind of guy.

Snorghagen said,

May 26, 2008 at 0:32

Wow! Reading Kevin McCullough totally expands my conciousness into higher levels of petrochemical awareness.

Some proponents of energy exploration have argued that we are running out of oil reserves. Yet any one who uses common sense wonders how that is so. Oil reserves are developed by the death and compression of carbon life-forms over the years. Forests, wildlife, marine life, and humans have not stopped dying – nor are they expected to anytime soon..

There you have it – as long as things are dropping dead we’ll have plenty of oil. America’s energy needs could be easily met by drilling in cemeteries, except for all those restrictive regulations pushed through by left-wing eco-terrorist morticians.

…and of course, he leaves out that it takes millions of years for the process to work. Even if you subscribe to the abiogenic oil theory (which has shaky evidence), it still takes a few hundred years for oil to be produced.

Some proponents of energy exploration have argued that we are running out of oil reserves. Yet any one who uses common sense wonders how that is so. Oil reserves are developed by the death and compression of carbon life-forms over the years. Forests, wildlife, marine life, and humans have not stopped dying – nor are they expected to anytime soon..

There you have it – as long as things are dropping dead we’ll have plenty of oil. America’s energy needs could be easily met by drilling in cemeteries, except for all those restrictive regulations pushed through by left-wing eco-terrorist morticians.

Dibs on using the phrase “move (/ing) into healthy new conditions” for the foreseeable future to mock wing-Gnutt sophistry and idiocity, thereby moving liberal discourse into healthy new conditions.

Now you try it!

This shit isn’t going to stop until we nationalize the oil companies with the express purpose of shuttering them permanently.

Refineries are a choke point. Because they have not invested sufficiently in refineries to increase gasoline supplies, oil companies have been unable to meet the growing demand in recent years.

This only proves McCullough’s point. It’s well known that multinational oil companies are controlled by disciplined cadres of environmentalist Neo-Maoists.