scoobdog

O M F G It's stupid, and yet's its absolutely glorious.

Is that supposed to be a pick up line?

Easy there, Shrek…. Nobody considers the Daily Mail or Business Insider journalism.

Meanwhile.... LFR posts a cryptic ✌️on his twitter account for no reason at all.

What does it have to do with my "word salad" post?

If you were proven right, why aren’t we drilling more oil now instead of you making the same exact argument?

Yeah..... not so much. The problem is that the people that are most complaining about oil prices rarely connect it to the actual act of drilling. Case in point... you can find a ton of Orange County (CA) residents complaining about oil prices, but you're not going to find any of the ones living in heavily conservative Huntington Beach who would gladly allow for more drilling offshore. Similarly, the biggest point of contention with the Keystone XL was that the pipeline was traveling across reservations at several points and, not surprisingly, the people on those reservations had far less need for the gas than the fear they had of a major leak fouling up their local rivers. Besides the fact that the term "peak oil" is entirely hypothetical, it assumes that no further reserves are viable which is its own subjective definition. But we're getting into the weeds here. Your contention is that we can increase oil production, and that is extremely problematic. The fact is, we're at a point where the technology to more efficiently extract oil comes at an increasingly higher cost. It's not longer just pumping oil, it's extracting oil. The reality is that we probably can't extract much more oil because that would involve drilling or extracting oil in places where the methods are not very popular. As far as we know, the Los Angeles Metropolitan region still holds some of the highest reserves of oil in the country, but there's no way you would ever convince the local residents, let alone the state itself, to ever allow additional wells. The cost of first getting local governments to buy in, then build state-of-the-art wells with increasingly strict protections, then fighting off years of civil litigation makes increasing production less than viable. That mean, by definition, we have reached peak oil in this area because the returns will be diminishing should someone pursue adding oil. If you're going based off the current surge, that's misleading. The price of crude oil on the open market doesn't reflect the cost of the manufacturing of gas or the cost of processed fuel on the open market. You're not going to necessarily make more producing oil in a market where gas prices are astronomical. So, in fact, nothing you said is actually going to happen like you said it would. People screaming for lower gas prices in Colorado aren't going to make the people living off the California coast more inclined to allow for more drilling nor will the make people living on reservations in the Dakotas more inclined to allow toxic spills on their lands, nor will it make those who live in the fracking country comfortable with the prospect of 6.0 or even a 7.0 earthquake. You're basing your opinion completely based on the people in your bubble.

It was a common talking point because the "new technologies" in question were oil-sand extraction and fracking. Are you suggesting that it's acceptable to do increase greenhouse emissions by a factor over current processing (oil sands) and doing immeasurable harm to our water supplies with an earthquake or two for good measure (fracking) just so we can extract as much oil as possible? The problem, Ms @Master-Debater131, is that you seem to have a different idea of what achieving peak oil is than most experts on one side and residents impacted by oil extraction on the other.

I keep seeing you guys say things like "we can drill our way out of oil shortages" or "we have yet to reach peak oil" and so forth. What does it mean to reach "peak oil?"

The entire state of Texas still hasn't figured it out.

More than that... racism is not something you get radicalized into, its something you learn from the beginning and that crackpots can exploit. It takes a village to create a white supremacist.

Background checks don't do shit when the murderous racist is only 18. It appears the school knew he was a psycho and didn't tell the local DA.

But they're infinitely more lovable as losers. The characters of R&M, Rick at the center, are nihilistic. They're unlovable because they openly consider their actions meaningless even as the consequences cascade on each other, devolving (usually) into chaos. The characters in Sunny fail because of their flaws, but their enthusiasm somewhat belies a sense of hope that makes their misadventures enjoyable.

Fuck that. He forgot about it as soon as he posted it, because, you see..... ... He's the most magnificent troll the UEMB has ever seen just like the all the important old guys on the topsides of the table always tell him.

That's the stuff of legends.... or a Chuck Lorre joke. Kind of depends.

Oddly enough, about the only time I watch R&M is when I'm in a hotel room.

I think the point is you’re supposed to hate all of the main characters because of their extreme self centered traits. I find it funny to an extent, but I feel like a lot of the time laughing supposed to be uncomfortable.

I expect another review Friday. You gotta keep this going, man.

I like it. Had to wait way too long for it, though.

I kind of glad you're not stanning for me anymore.

The smell of that coat alone would kill you.

shut up scoob

You all right. You know dat?

Always. U?