Fossil fuels...

[mcantar18c]

You'd be shocked at what he ISN'T willing to do.
I'm not talking about punching holes in paper or mannequins or even performance in training exercises. I'm talking about killing another human being... something which we as a species have a strong resistance to, even greater than that of self-preservation in some cases. The resistance to killing one's own species can be seen in every life form throughout the animal kingdom, including ours, and doing so generally puts great emotional stress on the killer.
This "safety catch" that prevents us from killing our own species without being conditioned to do so is a large part of why the camel-f*ckers can't shoot worth a crap. They probably don't shoot much worse than an American would in the same position when practicing on their ranges, but as seen with soldiers in WWII, at the last second they almost subconsciously shoot high or sometimes don't shoot at all. On the other side of this, our soldiers can kill more easily because they have been conditioned to be able to.
In WWII, WWI, the Civil War, the battles of Napoleon, etc., examination and study by many different people and groups has consistently shown disproportionally low casualty rates compared to the effectiveness of the weaponry and troops. In fact, in all of these wars, the risk of becoming a psychiatric casualty from extended exposure to combat or falling ill from disease was greater than being killed by the enemy, and most of the casualties inflicted on the opposing force were done by artillery and other long range weaponry that allowed the killer to create a psychological and mechanical barrier between himself and his victim.
Based on hit rates in training, a 200 man regiment in the Civil War should have been able to hit 120 enemy soldiers at 75 yards in the first volley of fire, which would equal 480 hits per minute (assuming a ROF of 4 RPM). Yet, even at the average range of contact of 30 yards, a regiment only killed 1-2 enemies per minute.
The only way to overcome this resistance that exists in all but 1-2% of the population is through training in such a way that's more like conditioning, in which you desensitize the trainee to the act of killing, justify it to them, and dehumanize their targets. This Pavlovian-like conditioning of soldiers raised the firing rate from 15-20% in WWII to 50-55% in Korea and even to 90-95% in Vietnam (which is why you start seeing a huge increase in the number of PTSD cases coming from 'Nam compared to previous wars, as more soldiers were killing and thus experiencing the common psychological repercussions of doing so).

More on this tomorrow (today) after I get some sleep.

[colocowboy01]

Yeah, down the road, if we and canada are the last hold outs for oil, and gas, you can expect interference from outside our country, well, kind of like Iraq!

The Communist Chinese government could see fit to invade the US so that they could take control of our resources. Who knows the Chinese government might even tell their people that the securing of the US oil reserves would pay for the invasion and war.

[Irving]

Never mind.

[Bailey Guns]

The Communist Chinese government could see fit to invade the US so that they could take control of our resources. Who knows the Chinese government might even tell their people that the securing of the US oil reserves would pay for the invasion and war.

They'd better bring a shitload of body bags.

[Graves]

You'd be shocked at what he ISN'T willing to do.
I'm not talking about punching holes in paper or mannequins or even performance in training exercises. I'm talking about killing another human being... something which we as a species have a strong resistance to, even greater than that of self-preservation in some cases. The resistance to killing one's own species can be seen in every life form throughout the animal kingdom, including ours, and doing so generally puts great emotional stress on the killer.
This "safety catch" that prevents us from killing our own species without being conditioned to do so is a large part of why the camel-f*ckers can't shoot worth a crap. They probably don't shoot much worse than an American would in the same position when practicing on their ranges, but as seen with soldiers in WWII, at the last second they almost subconsciously shoot high or sometimes don't shoot at all. On the other side of this, our soldiers can kill more easily because they have been conditioned to be able to.
In WWII, WWI, the Civil War, the battles of Napoleon, etc., examination and study by many different people and groups has consistently shown disproportionally low casualty rates compared to the effectiveness of the weaponry and troops. In fact, in all of these wars, the risk of becoming a psychiatric casualty from extended exposure to combat or falling ill from disease was greater than being killed by the enemy, and most of the casualties inflicted on the opposing force were done by artillery and other long range weaponry that allowed the killer to create a psychological and mechanical barrier between himself and his victim.
Based on hit rates in training, a 200 man regiment in the Civil War should have been able to hit 120 enemy soldiers at 75 yards in the first volley of fire, which would equal 480 hits per minute (assuming a ROF of 4 RPM). Yet, even at the average range of contact of 30 yards, a regiment only killed 1-2 enemies per minute.
The only way to overcome this resistance that exists in all but 1-2% of the population is through training in such a way that's more like conditioning, in which you desensitize the trainee to the act of killing, justify it to them, and dehumanize their targets. This Pavlovian-like conditioning of soldiers raised the firing rate from 15-20% in WWII to 50-55% in Korea and even to 90-95% in Vietnam (which is why you start seeing a huge increase in the number of PTSD cases coming from 'Nam compared to previous wars, as more soldiers were killing and thus experiencing the common psychological repercussions of doing so).

More on this tomorrow (today) after I get some sleep.

Put the bottle down and get some sleep bud, you're putting waaaaaaay too much thought into this. You're #'s stink of your own shit.

[Scanker19]

They'd better bring a shitload of body bags.

That's why we built the FEMA coffins.

[Atrain1]

All I know is I used to drill for it, and there is enough Oil under Colorado to last us the next 100 years, so we are not coming even close to running out it is moving it is the problem, can not move it out fast enough. And of course we have guys in office that are into oil.

[roberth]

Oil is the lifeblood of this economy. We need to remove the roadblocks to jumpstart the economy. Unfortunately the lie that is green energy rules the roost right now.

[strm_trpr]

My dad works for a small western US based oil company. The Federal Government illegally breached their contract on land sold by the BLM and told his company they were taking the land back so that they could not drill there. We have no refineries built recently which hurts and we don't have the infrastructure necessary to ship oil and gas to where the prices are highest to get the best profit for the small companies, who in turn will do more exploration and in turn find more oil and gas.

[Atrain1]

If we were to get it from our own country it would drive prices of oil down by the barrel significantly, in turn would drop gas prices and our good old boys in the white house would not make there cut, there is were the problem is.