official 10-22-2012 presidential debate thread

[bogie]

Dude, I have no idea what you just said.

Bitumen is the stuff they mine from the tar sands. dilbit is the shit they want to ship through keystone, it's bitumen diluted so that it flows through the pipe. It's been transported for many years through pipelines, mostly in a safe manner. But there is some debate on the safety of transporting it.

All I got out of it was that he likes laying pipe.

I tried to avoid all 'sextual' connotations...

I'd rather have the US increase jobs, find a way to counter the corrosion, the abrasiveness of the impurities in the oils...maybe better filtration at the input points to keep out the water and sediments and maybe build a refinery or two along the way for domestic production in the central US.

Why let others do the work and make the money when you can do it yourself right here at home?

People are working on this and I agree to the extent of your comment that we need the jobs. A little research will solve the problems of transporting it.

[Rucker61]

People are working on this and I agree to the extent of your comment that we need the jobs. A little research will solve the problems of transporting it.

Let's hope so, as the industry hasn't done too well so far with all of the dilbit currently piped. Google "dilbit enbridge" and see why folks^W tin-hat liberals aren't too keen about trusting pipelines full of dilbit running across aquifers.

[Rucker61]

Then again, we may not need Canuckistanian oil:

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/...S.US.Oil.Boom/

[ChunkyMonkey]

Then again, we may not need Canuckistanian oil:

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/...S.US.Oil.Boom/

Yeah, the US will produce 19 million barrel per day. We will be a net importer for long time, and as long as we are importing, who would be a better business partner than Canada or Mexico? You are supposed to be good at math, mr. accountant

[MrPrena]

^
Is he an accountant? I tought he was a securities/ financial analyst.

[ChunkyMonkey]

That was my speculation... he talks like my lil bro who is a partner CPA for a major firm but has his head up his butt.

[MrPrena]

That was my speculation... he talks like my lil bro who is a partner CPA for a major firm but has his head up his butt.

Well, we can always ask.

He said he work for a financial firm, so I assume he was an analyst. Hehe

Rucker, which area of speciality do you work at ( if we may ask).
Thanks in advance.

[Rucker61]

Yeah, the US will produce 19 million barrel per day. We will be a net importer for long time, and as long as we are importing, who would be a better business partner than Canada or Mexico? You are supposed to be good at math, mr. accountant

Good point, and it's all based on the price of oil. It has to stay above $75 a barrel, apparently, to make US oil drilling economically feasible. Once it falls below that, cheap Mideast oil is our best bet. What's better for America, producing more of the imports we need at $75+ with the resulting higher gas prices but higher employment, or importing cheap oil with cheaper gas but producing less ourselves with loss of oil industry jobs?

Also, is anyone still willing to have a dilbit pipeline run across their back yard now?

[Rucker61]

Well, we can always ask.

He said he work for a financial firm, so I assume he was an analyst. Hehe

Rucker, which area of speciality do you work at ( if we may ask).
Thanks in advance.

I never said I worked for a financial firm, or in that industry. My education is in math, accounting, operations management and combat engineering. I work in high tech supply chain.

Still, interesting that we could be the world's largest oil producer, neh? Whodathunk?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Very good news indeed.