Comments by "dangerouslytalented" (@dangerouslytalented) on "Sarah Palin's 'Drill Baby Drill' Vs. Oil Spill" video.

@NCAJAX Yes, carbon credits are a scam. That is why they are quietly dropping them, in favor of cap and cashback or maybe even a simple tax on coal and oil.
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@CommandoDude Problem with having a new Teddy Roosevelt, is that they only let him become president by accident, because they thought that as vice president he would not be able to wield much power, and so they would have been able to shut his reformist mouth UP.... Then the president got shot.
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@thebadone1986 Why? What we should do is do whatever we can to declare INDEPENDENCE from fossil fuels. With enough research we will not even NEED them anymore, and if we eliminate, say 90% of our consumption of fossil fuels, importation will not be an issue.
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@rickamabob13 And they ahave not even paid that.
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@mikepike25 oh, you mean drill, get baby... THAT's what they mean.
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@roodeey Riiiight, BP will pay billions. It has been well over what, 15 years, and Exxon have not paid anything for what happened with the Valdez.
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@trajan74 Because that is where the money is. There is no money in solar, you don't have to mine it or drill or refine or anything, you just leave a panel out somewhere and it keeps on going.
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@LifeIsGood63 BP will not pay. Exxon never paid. Besides, if you rely on fossil fuels, you will have to bow to the Arabs eventually... We have had to wean ourselves off fossil fuel for decades now. I mean, look what they were able to do to the US economy in the 70s simply by turning off the tap.
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@xxEROxxSENNINxx The Ukraine is still paying the cost of Chernobyl, a quarter of a century after the event.
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@Zile77 A) US debt was not instantly quadrupled.The fiscal 2009 books started in september 2008, and included all the Bush bailouts, and also all the stuff Bush kept off the books. B) The auto industry(GM and Chrysler) would have been destroyed completely had it not been taken over, and once they are profitable, they will be sold off again. C)23%unemployment is a Bush legacy that can't be reversed overnight.
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@AlvinEinschwein ... And guess which company built the rig in question... Begins with a H. You know, Cheney used to be the boss...
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@Spartan9095 Conservatives don't get irony. They think Colbert is straight news.
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@WolverineDeus She is nothing but a shill. She says and does whatever her rich buddies want her to say and do.
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@gimmethegepgun Actually, it is a slick the size of Rhode Island going towards Louisiana AND florida. And its getting bigger.
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@Synkflesh Dude, accidents happen. You think that oil rigs are completely invulnerable to everything? They have had a habit of catching fire, Piper Alpha, for example.
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@rebublicanpower troll baby troll.
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@genie0390 Actually, that was the british drilling off the coast of florida. The American government gets final say over who drills where, at least in American waters.
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@Johngeiger747 Why should they MAKE it happen? These things happen all the time. All they would have to do is wait for something like this to happen, THEN take action.
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@halcyon0830 Speculators drive up the oil without the help of oil rig explosions.
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@rebublicanpower Hope you don't like shrimp cocktails, because they won't be available for a few years... The shrimp and the clams and oysters and all the other gulf coast seafood is already dead.
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@MotherFuckYourFaceHo Obama was not all gungho about it. What he has announced was a limited return to offshore drilling, not an overall lifting of the ban.
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@tatsukogarasu what is with them all collapsing? Something to do with the weather?
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@megagagnon1 No omelettes are being made. The eggs are broken all over the floor, and are attracting vermin.
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@ericblr In what way?
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@genie0390 Well NONE of the oil is going to be used now, It is going to do NOTHING but wreck the gulf coast fishing industry, right across Alabama, Mississippi,Louisiana, Florida AND Cuba.
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@tehant1liberal Remember 911, which the Republicans used as a political tool, for like 8 years?
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@TAMARLANE Dictator? He has a filibusterproof majority, and was only able to squeeze a watered down version of universal healthcare through.
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@Cascade3891 Not quite. He wanted to start studies, not chanting drill baby drill like McCain/Palin.
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@hahntsak Exxon haven't yet. I would not hold my breath. Unless you lived in the gulf of mexico...
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@NCAJAX Ethanol. Biodiesel. Hell, cruise ships can be powered by sails. Or at least assisted by sails.But really, we should be saving our oil reserves for doing things like powering aircraft, and use them less for powering cars, which can be powered in other ways.
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@genie0390 How unionised are those states? Not very. Meanwhile, the fishing and shipping industries of at least four states have been devastated, (and the devastation will probably spread to Texas and Cuba), to the tune of many times the amount BP saved by not making sure that safety standards are adhered to.
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@gre913 Cautious research and investigation into offshore drilling is quite a different thing to endless chants of drill baby drill. And this was not one oil tanker leak, this was an oil rig exploding and collapsing, causing the emission of the oil directly from the seabed.
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@JeffersonRepublican But the kind of oil spill that is created by offshore drilling is far worse, as the oil is coming straight from a hole in the ocean floor, one mile down, and is not just limited by the amount of oil onboard one ship, but the size of the oil reserve. THAT is why this spill is far worse.
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@TAMARLANE That is not dictatorship is it? And why should the prisoners in Gitmo not have the rights any other criminal gets? Especially since many of them were not even terrorists, but merely arrested because some warlord wanted to fill their quota of terrorists, or because some innocent guy got fingered because of some petty disagreement.
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@HappySkeptic Slip of the tongue. Exxon were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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@CommandoDude You see, safety decreases short term profits. Management likes short term profits to be as high as possible, because it is not going to be long until they have either climbed the ladder or gone on to another company, with big fat bonuses. Cut as many corners, sack as many union workers, ignore any safety concerns, sell as many subprime mortgages as possible, GRAB THE PROFIT WHILE YOU CAN, LONG TERM VIABILITY BE DAMNED!
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@theMETALDOVE Why is it misplaced? The same thing is happening all over. Corporate negligence. The banking system, the mercenaries in Iraq, the coalmine fire, now this, thats just off the top of my head
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@NCAJAX No, it means dismantling the US and REBUILDING it. The whole world will need to wean itself off of oil. And the sooner we do this, the sooner we can get the economy to run without oil, the sooner that we are not beholden to Arabs and Venezuelans and Nigerians and Russians. The stone age did not end because we ran out of stones.
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@bobbytiger No, Shut down those oil rigs that have UNSAFE designs, or are too OLD OR WORN OUT to operate safely. shut down coal mines WHEN METHANE LEVELS GET DANGEROUS. And don't fly those 40 YEAR OLD SOVIET TUPELOVS, or at least don't try to land them in FOG SO THICK YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE WHERE THE AIRPORT IS.
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@NCAJAX That depends on the initial source for electricity, and electric cars are in their infancy. The fuel efficiency for electric cars will only go up, probably WAY up. But the only way the car companies will spend money on researching them is by selling electric cars.
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@gre913 I could link to a major disaster that has destroyed the fishing industries of four US states (so far) as proof that offshore drilling is definately NOT safe.
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@rebublicanpower Actually, on average it has been warmer, you are only looking at the US, with its high snowfall this year, despite the fact that higher temperatures=higher evaporation=higher levels of precipitation=more snowfall.
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@Zile77 Actually, it was research into offshore drilling, not an out and out pledge to "drill baby drill". Big difference.
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@kangsan2014 Where did god plan for us to put unsafe oil rigs in environmentally sensitive areas? I really hope you were being sarcastic.
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