Originally Posted by vrblackwell
I agree with the natural gas thought. However, take decades to get cars converted and to have stations in place to provide the gas. Are you going to buy a new car for everyone?
Wind power is something we ought to be using more of. Again, it will take years an billions of dollars to accomplish this. Wind alone would never provide enough power for the country.
We use coal and should be using more. Obama and the Dem's are against using coal, and natural gas.
If it was profitable for car dealers to build and sale cars that run on Hydrogen they would be doing it. The technology is not perfected enough to build the cars at affordable prices. Hybrids are also to expensive.
I was raised around oil drilling in La. My have family that has worked in that industry for years. I myself worked in it for awhile. They can start drilling in many new places and have that oil on the market within 2 to 3 years.
I have family that on land with both oil and gas reserves on them in La. You nor the Dem's may can fool a lot of people who do not know any better, but not me.
There is a reason that senators and congressman, both republicans and democrats, from states like La and TX are strong advocates for drilling. Because they know that they lies that Obama and Pelosi spew about oil drilling are just that, lies.
Rico, you bring up the fact that the oil companies have thousands of acres that they are not drilling on. This again shows the lack of knowledge that you and the Dem's who feed you this nonsense have of this topic.
When new land is opened up for drilling the oil companies have to bid on those acres. The acreage goes to the highest bidder. They do not know when they bid how much oil is on tat land, if any. It is a chance they take.
After they win the lease, they have to spend millions more fighting the environmentalist in court just to explore the land to see if enough oil is there to merit drilling. They will spend millions of dollars to explore to see if there is enough oil there to make the investment of drilling.
If these leases had enough oil on them, believe me, they would be using them.
As far as taxing corporations. You guys are economic chowder heads if you think that taxing big business is beneficial to America.
Ireland is sitting back and watching, hoping and praying that we do not lower taxes on big business. There have benefited greatly from America having one of the highest tax rates for big business.
Lets pretend you own a business that produces tennis shoes. You are looking to build a factory that will produce 3000 new jobs. If you build in Ohio, you will pay a tax of 39% between the state and federal tax. You will also be paying your employees a salary starting at $13.00 an hour.
If you build that new factory in Ireland or some other countries, you will pay a tax of 12% and pay your employees a starting salary of 9 dollars an hr. As a business man who is looking to make a profit in order to make investors happy, where are you going to build? Ireland of course.
There goes 3000 jobs that Ohio could have had, plus tax dollars, not only from what the owner paid, but also from each dollar that those employed by the company spent.
This is simple economics as well as biblical principles. "Don't muzzle the ox that treads the corn"
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