Comments on: What Republicans REALLY Mean When They Say Drill! Baby! Drill!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:47:53 +0000

41 - I was answering the question sojourner asked in 5, ” I wonder what the heck the government was doing with the natural gas in-kind royalties? Oil can be stored and transported easily… Natural gas is another animal — you need a pipeline to transport it.” In kind royalties for gas aren’t really hard to deal with because there is usually depleted oil field or aquifer storage available near where the gas is produced. I haven’t read the report, but Marcy does point out that the in-kinds for oil were originally directed to the strategic reserves, and when the reserves reached their oil storage capacity, then they went to the private sales shenanigans.

I don’t know what the agreements were for the gas, if the in-kinds were targeted originally for a program like strategic reserves or not, but to answer the question in 5 it wouldn’t be unusual for a royalty owner to want in-kinds on gas, and normally it wouldn’t be that hard to store until sales in the pipeline. All the gas pipelines have complicated formulas as to who gets credit for what gas sold from the pipeline, since everything comingles for transport.

By: wrchambers

wrchambers — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:22:23 +0000

Republicans are the party of horny hypocrites.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:32:22 +0000

Of course you are right. Plunger is plucking words out of context.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:56:58 +0000

I’d want to hear what he went on to say right after that clip cuts out. It seemed to me he was making an obvious point in stressing how qualified Hillary is. The contrast with Palin is implicit, but most people would have picked it up — it allowed him to stay gracious, and then he made a joke about himself. I’m wondering, though, what he said right after that. Silly network soundbites.

By: plunger

plunger — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:23:36 +0000

WTF? Whose payroll is Biden on…I mean really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM537BgCsMg

Is he setting us up for Hillary to replace himself, or Obama?

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:38:10 +0000

Denver is easy to access through the turning Aspens which are all connected at the roots…

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:11:01 +0000

EW — Well said and reported. We never get to fully process each outrage, because there is a fresh one right behind it.

Kinda OT… but Sarah Palin seems to be Alaska’s answer to Florida’s useful Katherine Harris, the SofS. One more ambitious, corrupt, front-woman to baldly enable.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:06:13 +0000

ao funny.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:05:12 +0000

MSM gets kool-aid in the face. Shakes head and fights for consciousness.

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:29:06 +0000

Late but did Bushco:
Attack Iraq unprevoked
Attack Iran unprevoked
Attack Afghanistan unprevoked
Attack Pakistan unprevoked
Attack Russia unprevoked
Where is his CENTCOM logistics and war plan?