Comments on: You’ll Never Believe What Steve Forbes Told Me in the Elevator http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html Investment Advice and Investment Research with a Contrarian Point of View Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jay Lindberg http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60625 Jay Lindberg Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:58:50 +0000 http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60625 My brother owns an environmental company (Louisiana Environmental Maintainence)in the Gulf and confirms that deep water drilling only makes up a very small part of oil industry jobs in the region. The truth is that the oil industry misrepresented their EIR (Environmental Impact Report) on deep water drilling risks. To put deep water drilling on hold, for at least a few months, in the Gulf to re-evaluate the technology and true environmental risks makes sense. We are drilling into fields that contain between 100 million and several billion barrels of oil. We simply cannot expose the Gulf to a blowout of a field that large that cannot be capped. My brother owns an environmental company (Louisiana Environmental Maintainence)in the Gulf and confirms that deep water drilling only makes up a very small part of oil industry jobs in the region.

The truth is that the oil industry misrepresented their EIR (Environmental Impact Report) on deep water drilling risks. To put deep water drilling on hold, for at least a few months, in the Gulf to re-evaluate the technology and true environmental risks makes sense. We are drilling into fields that contain between 100 million and several billion barrels of oil. We simply cannot expose the Gulf to a blowout of a field that large that cannot be capped.

]]> By: Steve Meyers http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60621 Steve Meyers Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:06:10 +0000 http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60621 Excellent article. How can the USA be so blind to the fact that natural gas is our answer to energy independence. You're right, T.Boone has been preaching this for years and still we just sit back and do nothing. Our politicians are so wrapped up in their own agendas that they can't see the big picture. It's time to wake up!! Excellent article. How can the USA be so blind to the fact that natural gas is our answer to energy independence. You’re right, T.Boone has been preaching this for years and still we just sit back and do nothing. Our politicians are so wrapped up in their own agendas that they can’t see the big picture. It’s time to wake up!!

]]> By: Darrell Gudmundson http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60404 Darrell Gudmundson Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:12:26 +0000 http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60404 Great article, except for the misguided conclusion at the end. The moratorium affects only a few rigs of many in the Gulf, and it is aimed at preventing the ruination of non-oil jobs in the Gulf region. Energy independence is more than being free of foreign suppliers. It is also being free of the oil industry controlling the agenda and threatening workers in fishing and tourism. Great article, except for the misguided conclusion at the end. The moratorium affects only a few rigs of many in the Gulf, and it is aimed at preventing the ruination of non-oil jobs in the Gulf region. Energy independence is more than being free of foreign suppliers. It is also being free of the oil industry controlling the agenda and threatening workers in fishing and tourism.

]]> By: LOUIS WITHERS http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60403 LOUIS WITHERS Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:36:00 +0000 http://www.investmentu.com/2010/July/energy-independence-with-steve-forbes.html#comment-60403 YOUR POSITION ON NATURAL GAS IS RIGHT ON! WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE OF NATIONAL RECOGNITION WRITE A SERIOUS LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT & HIS HENCHMEN & IN A FRIENDLY WAY ADVISE HIM OF THE WISDOM OF GOING TO NATURAL GAS,AT LEAST AS AN INTERRIM UNTIL MORE ENVIRONMENTALY FRIENDLY ALTERTATIVES ARE MORE VIABLE. WHO KNOWS HE OR SOMEONE MAY PICK UP ON IT. THANK YOU. YOUR POSITION ON NATURAL GAS IS RIGHT ON! WHY DOESN’T SOMEONE OF NATIONAL RECOGNITION WRITE A SERIOUS LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT & HIS HENCHMEN & IN A FRIENDLY WAY ADVISE HIM OF THE WISDOM OF GOING TO NATURAL GAS,AT LEAST AS AN INTERRIM UNTIL MORE ENVIRONMENTALY FRIENDLY ALTERTATIVES ARE MORE VIABLE. WHO KNOWS HE OR SOMEONE MAY PICK UP ON IT. THANK YOU.

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