Comments on: Fool Me Once… http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Babs http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-313131 Babs Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:40:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-313131 Hey Mal Briggs - Send me an email as soon as "renewable energy resources" become more ecomonmically viable than the demon oil... I'll be on board. Until then, please know that many people that read this blog have educated themselves and work very hard to throw off the yoke of fossil fuels. You probably don't want to think so but it is actually true. I am freezing to death here, writing this as I don't want to increase my "fossil footprint" by heating my house to anything over 63 degrees. I never gave PayPal my info so I could speed dial Al Gore my indulgence for heating my house at 72... Get a life... Hey Mal Briggs – Send me an email as soon as “renewable energy resources” become more ecomonmically viable than the demon oil… I’ll be on board. Until then, please know that many people that read this blog have educated themselves and work very hard to throw off the yoke of fossil fuels.
You probably don’t want to think so but it is actually true.
I am freezing to death here, writing this as I don’t want to increase my “fossil footprint” by heating my house to anything over 63 degrees.
I never gave PayPal my info so I could speed dial Al Gore my indulgence for heating my house at 72…
Get a life…

]]> By: STEVEC http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-313023 STEVEC Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:59:30 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-313023 Sorry to have to say so, Mal Briggs, but "front of the trough" sounds more than a bit bitter and envious in a socialist sort of way. You ever hear "Who dares, wins"? The oil companies, and their founders, dared and won big...and they lose big from time to time, while the financially meek souls just continue to drive their Priuses(sp?) and complain about those who risked heavily to put gasoline in their cars. Sorry to have to say so, Mal Briggs, but “front of the trough” sounds more than a bit bitter and envious in a socialist sort of way. You ever hear “Who dares, wins”? The oil companies, and their founders, dared and won big…and they lose big from time to time, while the financially meek souls just continue to drive their Priuses(sp?) and complain about those who risked heavily to put gasoline in their cars.

]]> By: claudio http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-312994 claudio Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:43:37 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-312994 Vigilis, absolutely correct. Really heavy crude, and most refined at HOVENSA in St Croix, a Hess owned co. Not likely that the Chinese and others will invest (not right now) into a huge refinery for PDVSAs oil. And Hovensa is one of the top 10 refineries with capacity of 500k bpd. While a lot of the oil talk coming out of Chavez is just rhetoric, at some point simple economics will rule the day. Mal Briggs: "capitalist stench emanates" And what do you propose as a better alternative system? It will be a while before fossil fuels are replaced by renewable energy sources. Since oil at below $50/bbl, can't recall seeing anymore T. Boone Pickens commercials for his windfarms... claudio Vigilis,

absolutely correct. Really heavy crude, and most refined at HOVENSA in St Croix, a Hess owned co. Not likely that the Chinese and others will invest (not right now) into a huge refinery for PDVSAs oil. And Hovensa is one of the top 10 refineries with capacity of 500k bpd.
While a lot of the oil talk coming out of Chavez is just rhetoric, at some point simple economics will rule the day.

Mal Briggs: “capitalist stench emanates” And what do you propose as a better alternative system?

It will be a while before fossil fuels are replaced by renewable energy sources. Since oil at below $50/bbl, can’t recall seeing anymore T. Boone Pickens commercials for his windfarms…

claudio

]]> By: Mal Briggs http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-312925 Mal Briggs Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:57:41 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-312925 May they not/hold out long enough that they will both suffer the ignominy of fossel fuels being replaced with renewable energy souces so undermining the depth of the cashcow from which the capitalist stench emanates. Not that capitalism is the problem, merely the vast majority of those in the front row at the trough. May they not/hold out long enough that they will both suffer the ignominy of fossel fuels being replaced with renewable energy souces so undermining the depth of the cashcow from which the capitalist stench emanates. Not that capitalism is the problem, merely the vast majority of those in the front row at the trough.

]]> By: Chap http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-312879 Chap Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:19:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-312879 It sure would be interesting to talk with someone from one of those companies and ask how they do their risk assessment for this scenario. Nationalization is one of those risks big companies take in foreign direct investment that can be compared somewhat to natural disasters: hurricane, dictator, earthquake... It sure would be interesting to talk with someone from one of those companies and ask how they do their risk assessment for this scenario. Nationalization is one of those risks big companies take in foreign direct investment that can be compared somewhat to natural disasters: hurricane, dictator, earthquake…

]]> By: STEVEC http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/14/fool-me-once/comment-page-1/#comment-312853 STEVEC Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7181#comment-312853 Who was it who said that the capitalists would sell the communists the rope they would use to hang those same capitalists? Some things never change. Who was it who said that the capitalists would sell the communists the rope they would use to hang those same capitalists? Some things never change.

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