Comments on: Five for fueling http://monoblogue.us/2008/06/24/five-for-fueling/ News and views from Maryland's Eastern Shore since 2005, and home site of the Liberty Features syndicated columnist. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Soccer Dad http://monoblogue.us/2008/06/24/five-for-fueling/comment-page-1/#comment-94148 Soccer Dad Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:04:49 +0000 http://monoblogue.us/?p=1051#comment-94148 <strong>Carnival of Maryland 35th edition...</strong> What is the Carnival of Maryland? Why it's a blogging carnival about Maryland. A blogging carnival is a collection of blog posts focusing on a certain theme. So here we have different approaches to Maryland from many different bloggers. Photos The Rid... Carnival of Maryland 35th edition…

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]]> By: Outraged Richard http://monoblogue.us/2008/06/24/five-for-fueling/comment-page-1/#comment-94115 Outraged Richard Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:04:41 +0000 http://monoblogue.us/?p=1051#comment-94115 Michael, Did I miss something, or did he — and you — not mention public transportation? Michael wrote: "Someday someone probably not yet born will figure out a newer and better method of fueling transport" Michael, are you daft? Along with my above suggestion, a huge consumer of fuel is long haul truck transportation which could easily (apart from union protest) be converted over to freight rail transportation. Unfortunately, the difficulty in lowering energy consumption is that millions of people's livelihoods are entrenched in the exact opposite. Michael,

Did I miss something, or did he — and you — not mention public transportation?

Michael wrote:

“Someday someone probably not yet born will figure out a newer and better method of fueling transport”

Michael, are you daft? Along with my above suggestion, a huge consumer of fuel is long haul truck transportation which could easily (apart from union protest) be converted over to freight rail transportation.

Unfortunately, the difficulty in lowering energy consumption is that millions of people’s livelihoods are entrenched in the exact opposite.

]]> By: ShoreThings http://monoblogue.us/2008/06/24/five-for-fueling/comment-page-1/#comment-94107 ShoreThings Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:40:24 +0000 http://monoblogue.us/?p=1051#comment-94107 I have a post popping up on Wednesday that I wrote on Monday, and I agree with you about the word temporary in reference to reducing gasoline blends. A reduction should be made, and it should be permanent. The problem is that this is not a short term solution, and maybe he threw the temporary in there to make it sound like the blends could be changed next week. As for the 68 million acres, the estimates show the potential to double domestic oil production with existing leases. The reserves of ANWR are not "proven" any more than the 68 million acres are. All of the numbers are best guesses, and the best guess shows that the 68 million acres hold several times the estimated peak output of ANWR. Drill here, drill now. Absolutely. They have 10,000+ existing permits to do just that without ANWR or additional offshore areas. I'm wondering why Andy didn't include ending the tariff on imported ethanol. We could get boat loads of ethanol from South America cheaper that we can produce it ourselves. Brazil is almost totally self sufficient on ethanol, and they are producing a surplus that could be lowering our fuel costs right now. I have a post popping up on Wednesday that I wrote on Monday, and I agree with you about the word temporary in reference to reducing gasoline blends. A reduction should be made, and it should be permanent. The problem is that this is not a short term solution, and maybe he threw the temporary in there to make it sound like the blends could be changed next week.

As for the 68 million acres, the estimates show the potential to double domestic oil production with existing leases. The reserves of ANWR are not “proven” any more than the 68 million acres are. All of the numbers are best guesses, and the best guess shows that the 68 million acres hold several times the estimated peak output of ANWR. Drill here, drill now. Absolutely. They have 10,000+ existing permits to do just that without ANWR or additional offshore areas.

I’m wondering why Andy didn’t include ending the tariff on imported ethanol. We could get boat loads of ethanol from South America cheaper that we can produce it ourselves. Brazil is almost totally self sufficient on ethanol, and they are producing a surplus that could be lowering our fuel costs right now.

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