B-bye, Iron Curtain!
Though it wouldn't have seemed possible just two decades ago, next week's Nato summit will be held in Latvia, a country once sequested behind the Iron Curtain (HT: James Taranto).
For those who despair of ever "winning" the war on terror, it's a worthwhile reminder. Remember that many of the same people who are telling us that we can't win in Iraq are the same people who mocked President Reagan when he predicted -- rightly -- that Communism would one day end up on the "ash heap of history".
For those who despair of ever "winning" the war on terror, it's a worthwhile reminder. Remember that many of the same people who are telling us that we can't win in Iraq are the same people who mocked President Reagan when he predicted -- rightly -- that Communism would one day end up on the "ash heap of history".
posted by LadybugUSA at 3:16 PM
2 Comments:
Defeatists have existed through out history at least they are consistent in their poor judgment.
Cliff,
You must be gazing into the same crystal ball that told you the GOP would keep the House and Senate. Drilling in ANWAR is not a solution, it is at best a stopgap. I will use the bloated high end figure of 16 billion technically accessable barrels of oil in ANWAR and what affect it would have on US consumption figures. At best that 16 billion barrels if it were all pumped directly to the "Strategic Reserve" would last at the current utilization rate of 19 million barrels a day would keep an America cut off from the rest of the world's oil supply in gasoline and other fractals for 2 years four months. Likely, there are about 10 billion barrels there and it will take quite some time to get the oil out at a peak rate of 1.4 million barrels a day. At that pace maximum estimate it would take three decades to get at 2.3 years worth of oil. That does not mean 50 years worth of oil Cliff.
5 decades worth of oil is a staggering 346.75 billion barrels of oil. That's roughly half of the "proven" reserves in the Persian Gulf, all of the Persian Gulf and a full quarter of the estimated Gulf reserves.
Free or renewable energy technology is the only way to go especially when one considers the usage rates in America are rising as well as the usage rates in India, China, Vietnam, and Japan. The global oil demand is around 80 million barrels a day. At that rate remaining static Terra has four decades remaining in the petrochemical age, best case scenario.
D.T.
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