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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:27 PM Original message |
If drilling domestically for oil/gas could create a whole lot of jobs would we be for it? |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think another question needs to be asked.... Why not invest in more sustainable energy that |
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holdencaufield (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Suggestions? NT |
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SugarShack (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. All gov buildings in Germany have been solar powered for over 30 yrs now. Start there for now. |
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holdencaufield (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Solar Panels... |
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SugarShack (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Oh my then this means we can't manufacture what China does? oh darn! |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Make them here. Give tax incentives to corporations who will |
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holdencaufield (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:25 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Solyndra NT |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 01:14 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Happened at almost exactly the WORST possible moment in our current economy. nt |
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holdencaufield (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 01:22 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. But it had to happen... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 10:45 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. Yes. Timing is sooo important. I suppose it's too much to hope to see a national |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 06:30 AM Response to Reply #18 |
35. Fuck tax incentives... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 09:35 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Yes! You're right! nt |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. That was my question ages ago but it's just not happening. |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 10:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
41. Amen |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm pretty sure that drilling is going on all over the country. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. If making Zyklon B created a lot of jobs......? |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. Ah, the owl versus the logger. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. I hate to break it to you but already are drilling for oil and gas here. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:10 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. I'm not thinking of replacing foreign sources, just creating what jobs we can. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #19 |
37. "a frontline supervisor"? Uh, what made up position is that. |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. If lead in paint, drinking water and gasoline would create more jobs - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. If making DDT legal again would create more jobs - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. If deregulating the banking industry would create more jobs - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. If requiring everyone to carry a gun made us all safer - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:00 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. If giving Wall Street CEOs huge bailouts of tax payer cash created jobs - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:05 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. If allowing corps to dump toxic materials into atmosphere created more jobs - would you be for it? |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:12 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. If sending more jobs to India and China created more jobs.... hey, wait a minute.... |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. Absolutely... |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. So why didn't it work under Obama? |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
20. But it doesn't create a 'whole lot of jobs'. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. 70,000 in North Dakota? |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #25 |
38. 70,00 people to produce a million BPD? |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. Riiiiight. Just what we need "70,000" more people raping the Earth. |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
23. Its a devil's trade we don't need to make. Creating jobs is easy in a sense. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
24. Declaring war on China would probably "create" a "whole lot of jobs" |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. Deep water drilling was supposed to create 100,000 jobs and |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
28. If we're going to go down that road, just start another war. |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 01:11 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yep - three wars and 100,000+ slaughtered to secure oil in middle east |
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raouldukelives (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
29. I think clearly at this point the writing is on the wall |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
32. ONLY in exchange for equal & rigourous longitudinal commitments to ALTERNATIVES. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 04:38 AM Response to Original message |
34. NO. All you have to do is build a bunch of windmills and electric cars. Wind is cheaper than oil to |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 07:18 AM Response to Original message |
36. If we could eat for free by cutting off and cooking our left leg would we do it? n/t |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-19-11 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
42. This will answer your question definitively: |
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