Suppose that Sarah Palin, the one with all the info and ties and friends in the Alaska Oil business, were to be president
....er Vice President?

She would continue to make oil deals with the oil men and eventually start drilling in Alaska
...which is close enough to Russia to maybe tap into a RUssiAn OIL VAIN

...maybe the Russians would like to tap into that OIL Vain...

so lets figure that if the Russians DON"T WANT us to tap into their oil reserves...then we'd have to fight them, but say for instance that we start a little scuffle with Georgia...

then we could feed a line of BS to the US population about how we have to SAVE GEORGIA to justify WAR,

when all we really want to do is get the oil in Russia Alaska

which is maybe perhaps is owned by RUssiA....

now we got a war and a reason to fight with Georgia against Russia.

What does Marijuana have to do with all this?
As long as it remains illegal, We cannot tap into the oil produced by hashish to make our plastics, clothing, fuel, or dugs.

Low and behold, the OIL BARRONS have a MONOPOLY on OIL!

FYI, THIS IS ALL OPINION.

It might be your opinion, but I would believe that better than 80% of that could be backed up with facts.

Yeah...I'm in the process of checking out some sites on google...

so far here is what I've got about Russia...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/2...oilsqueeze.html

Russia tries to raise oil production

By Catrina Stewart
ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:12 p.m. September 12, 2008

MOSCOW – Home to abundant oil reserves, Russia rarely worried about where the next barrel would come from – until now.
With analysts expecting production to fall this year for the first time in a decade, Russian companies are pushing to find new oil in remote regions such as the Arctic Shelf and East Siberia – but their efforts are hampered
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/conte...09079_mz054.htm

(snip)
In Russia's main oil-producing region in western Siberia, proven reserves represent just 18% to 24% of all oil in the ground, in contrast to about 45% in Western oil-producing regions such as Alaska and the North Sea. But as Russian oil companies adopt technologies, such as horizontal wells and computerized reservoir management systems, the estimated recovery rates are being revised. Thanks to new techniques, which make it possible to obtain oil even from apparently depleted fields, Russian oil companies already have managed to boost their output by 50% since 1998. "The biggest thing is the [new] technology being deployed in western Siberia. The results are beginning to show," says Martin Wiewiorowski, senior vice-president of DeGolyer & MacNaughton in Moscow. (snip)


http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/98317/

Economists estimate tens of billions for governments if we taxed pot like tobacco and stopped wasting money on the drug war.
If marijuana were legal but taxed like alcohol and tobacco, how much money could it bring in to cash-strapped state governments?

One 2006 study called cannabis the top cash crop in the nation, worth more than corn and wheat combined. It was the leading crop in 12 states, outstripping grapes in California and tobacco in North Carolina, and one of the top three in 18 others, coming in just behind apples in Washington and cotton in Georgia. So with states facing massive deficits, could reefer revenues help?

I thought the marijuana was to get high enough to cope with the depression associated with that sequence of events.

Lipstick?

Sorry, but no cookie for you.

Put the cap back on and "TRY AGAIN!!!!

more links:

http://www.russiajournal.com/node/5104

German firm predicts boom for horizontal oil drilling

Germany's Deutag Land Drilling GmbH said more contracts lie ahead after it reentered the Russian market after a nearly 60-year hiatus by signing a 30 million euro horizontal-drilling contract with Russia's sixth-largest oil company, Sibneft.

Under the contract, the Bad-Bentheim-based company, part of the Deutag Group, will drill up to 10 horizontal wells at the Romanovskoye field near Sibneft's company headquarters in Noyabrsk, Western Siberia.

The firm said the deal points to a massive untapped market, as Russian companies look to employ more technologically sophisticated ways to tap oil. "The near future will see a boom in demand for horizontal drilling in Russia," said Jurgen Rueggen, a spokesman for Deutag Land Drilling (DLD).

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Palin............ The other White meat

Wow, she can shoot a gun, have scandles, she is a VP.

So lets say that the BERING SEA... the little bit of water..aka OFF SHORE AREA between Alaska and Russia has lots of oil and the USA and Russia are fixin' to fight over who gets to that OIL FIRST...

WE WILL BE fighting with Russia for oil. Because THEY WANT IT and WE WANT IT.

Unless we say:
say-la-vi
to oil and

LEGALIZE the plant

and GET OFF our addiction to Crude.

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/...re-us-drilling/

snip
President Bush said in his first full press conference since April, touting his plan for expanded offshore U.S. oil drilling.
snip

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2007/04/research3.html

Sub-Sea-Floor Methane in the Bering Sea—USGS Emeritus Describes Possible Gas-Hydrate Accumulations to the Geophysical Society of Alaska

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) emeritus scientist Dave Scholl described evidence for large accumulations of methane hydrate beneath the floor of the Bering Sea in an invited talk at a January 11 meeting of the Geophysical Society of Alaska in Anchorage. Methane hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline substance in which molecules of methane—a primary component of natural gas—are trapped in a lattice of water molecules. Common in Arctic permafrost environments as well as in sea-floor sediment, methane hydrate interests scientists for numerous reasons, among them its potential as a future source of fossil fuel, and its potential to cause submarine landslides and to release large volumes of methane—a greenhouse gas—when conditions cause it to dissociate into free gas and water.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/vie...amp;position=12
Palin for ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it

(snip)
Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone - because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.
(snip)

REMEMBER this Bridge was NOT BUILT!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
The Gravina Island Bridge, also known as the "Bridge to Nowhere", was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects Ketchikan, Alaska, to the Ketchikan International Airport on Gravina Island. The bridge was projected to cost $398 million. Members of the Alaskan congressional delegation, particularly Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, were the bridge's biggest advocates in Congress, and helped push for federal funding.[1] The project encountered fierce opposition outside of Alaska as a symbol of pork barrel spending and is labeled as one of the more prominent "bridges to nowhere".[2]
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At a public forum, Palin held up a pro-bridge t-shirt designed by a Ketchikan artist, Mary Ida Henrikson. The legend on the shirt was "Nowhere Alaska 99901", referencing the buzzword of "Bridge to Nowhere" and the primary zip code of Ketchikan.

Not a bad guess, though.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

I think if people smoke enough pot, they will stay home more and not drive all over - saving fuel. The only problem is before you smoke you need to stock up on munchies and entertainment.