It's kind of sad how the fossil fuel companies have duped people like Boiler into being rah-rah cheerleaders for them. Boiler characterizes enforcement of regulations as "obstruction." I suppose that in Boiler heaven, fossil fuel companies aren't subject to environmental regulations. But sadly for Boiler, we're on planet Earth.
Boiler always dodges questions that point out why his thinking is wrong. No reason to expect him to stop weaseling now.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
I'll take my pick. Honest. And you're not.
Page 3 of this tread....and page 100 of this debate since it started. Boilerman still runs away from the question of undercapacity at exisitng wells (both here and abroad in other countries) while pointing to future projects and pipeline.
I look forward to page 6 when he's doing the same.
(PS - I'm not necessarily against future drilling projects and pipelines...especially in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It might be a good idea to drill more here and remove Russia from the gloabl oil trade. But that has nothing to do with why oil companies are drilling under 100% today. And if Boilerman thinks thats true then he needs to explain how somehow OPEC is being impeded by Joe Biden's evil regulations. Cause they're underdrilling too. See you on page 6 ! )
PJ, I never have to go far before running into something that makes zero sense on your post. Today's existing wells are producing flat out, unless they can't transport the oil to market in a profitable way. If one can't flare, that well must close. If rail/truck transportation makes the well unprofitable (because Libs wouldn't allow cheap pipeline transportation, the well shuts down. If transportation of the natural gas isn't allowed to move to market because there is one and only one method (pipeling), then wells shut down. You fucks obstruct th mearket and then claim that your obstructions don't matter. Then why did you block the pipeline? Why did you block flaring?
I understand why Kevin doens't understand a cost benefit analysis, because the public sector doesn't concern itself with such matters, but it matters when moving oil and gas in a profitable way to market.
Boiler, the fossil fuel expert, appears to not know the difference between operational wells and drilling sites. LOL.
He's also sadly confused when he says "Libs" (there are no such people, but let's accept his terminology for the moment) are the ones stopping the building of pipelines and the unrestricted burning of natural gas. Anyone who cares about the environment would object to both, and that includes more than just liberals.
Boiler is a faithful little shill for the fossil fuel companies that have been draining our pockets and polluting our environment for decades.
Boilerman's 100% bullshit statement:
"Today's existing wells are producing flat out, unless they can't transport the oil to market in a profitable way. If one can't flare, that well must close"
US Oil ouput down 1.4 billion barrels per day compared to pre-pandemic
Did oil companies have pipeline in 2018 that magically disappeared in the time since ? No. Boilerman is saying it is now somehow unprofitable for companies to provide oil from the same sources it did 3 years ago despite the fact the price of oil is near record highs.
PJ's quote. "Boilerman still runs away from the question of undercapacity at exisitng wells". That's why I addressed existing wells.
Kevin, feel free not to heat your home and your water. Feel free not to drive your car. You whine, yet do these things each day, filling the pockets of the evil oil and gas companies.
Kevin is now telling us the oil and gas compainies want billions of dollars spent on pipelines that they don't need.
Next Kevin will tell us that it's just the luck of the draw that our border is out of control. After that, Kevin's going to tell us the Trump's tax cuts caused the deficit to increase, even though the policy left people with more money in their pockets, all the while the government took in increased revenues.
Policies matter, and fighting the oil and gas businesses at every turn decreases drilling and production.
The stupid argument Boiler is making is what's called a false dichotomy. It isn't, as he claims, a choice between unrestricted, unregulated fossil fuel production and no fossil fuels at all.
Having spent his entire working life inhaling chemical fumes limited his ability to think. And being indoctrinated as a conservitard (in which I'm sure he had no choice) finished the job.
The fossil fuel companies have really done a wonderful job convincing the people they fuck over--which includes Boiler and his kind, most definitely--to support and defend them, even as they suck America's pockets dry and pollute our environment (whining all the way about them horrible regulations). And they get great value out of the politicians they buy.
Here is the reality - 15 months ago December 2020, gas was $1.79/ per gallon nationwide.. Now the price of gas is $4.33/ gallon nationwide. In California it is $ 6 to $7 /gallon. What changed? " Brain dead Biden" - that is what changed. All of the lying horseshit being spewed by the lying DemocRats does not change the reality of why. If this had of happened during President Trump's 4 years as President - Lewis , PJ and all of the other lying assholes who spew their lies here would be screaming and demanding the impeachment of President Trump.
Anybody who thinks that the President of the United States decrees the price of gasoline is...what's that favorite conservitard phrase...let me think...ah, "brain dead."
Maybe Davey Dog can tell us just how Biden has managed to force the oil companies to charge those terrible high prices.
Another lie from Lewis. I never said that the President of the United States decreed the price of gasoline - I stated what everyone knows to be the truth. The steps that brain dead Biden took by shutting down gasoline production in America is the reason for the sky high gasoline prices, as has been made clear many times by others who post here. The United States has gone from being energy independant to the point where Biden has asked OPEC and Venezuela to increase oil production. This crisis is all on Biden.
