tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post1581323562334802730..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: The "68 million acres" claim about oil companies.gcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-88330844899742660072008-07-07T14:00:00.000-04:002008-07-07T14:00:00.000-04:00Taking an argument to it's logical extreme does no...Taking an argument to it's logical extreme does not disprove the argument. <BR/><BR/>Do you seriously believe that U.S. oil companies have already developed every profitable acre? I don't.<BR/><BR/>Do you believe that oil companies would develop in national parks simply because it is 2% cheaper than their existing leases? I do.<BR/><BR/>Oil companies are perfectly willing to use a national crisis to increase their long term resources. All those silly "extrapolations" are not an argument, they are just name-calling. <BR/><BR/>You need to start thinking more clearly than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-68175859639893313432008-07-02T02:18:00.000-04:002008-07-02T02:18:00.000-04:00You're right, this was a good read:If we use the v...You're right, this was a good read:<I>If we use the very same extrapolation, we can estimate that an extra 182.5 days (12 hours per day x 365 days) of sunlight per year would produce an additional 2,784 megawatt hours of solar electricity each day. That would double our current daily solar energy today, if the government would just outlaw night.</I><BR/><BR/>That reminds me of Frederic Bastiat's <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemakers%27_petition" REL="nofollow">satirical piece</A> about the Sun and candlemakers.Tim Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03901559188914517588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-21069972785572204652008-07-01T23:29:00.000-04:002008-07-01T23:29:00.000-04:00"...(but the pipeline construction would be a bear...<I>"...(but the pipeline construction would be a bear)."</I><BR/><BR/>Ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com