"Green" Cars Screwing Things Up In Dallas

[red states rule]

The enviro wackos have taken their BS to the Super Bowel, and as usual they are doing nothing but pissing people off






It’s been a sub-par Super Bowl week in the host city of Dallas, TX.* The game, traditionally held in warmer climates, has been marred with unusual snowstorms in the “Big D.” But sports patrons lucky enough to score a game ticket have been annoyed by something other than the snow once their planes land: the city is experiencing a frustrating cab shortage. “Big D,” then, might stand for “big disappointment.”

Sure, some blame the weather, but there are others who blame the shortage on a cab driver strike. A strike fueled by anger over a new ordinance that gives preferential treatment to natural gas-powered taxis.

Dallas has two major airports, DFW and Love Field. This past spring, city officials passed an ordinance at the latter allowing new natural gas-powered cabs to jump to the front of the line to pick up passengers, a reward for being “green.”

“We have a responsibility as elected officials to ensure to the best of our ability that we breathe the healthiest air. That is why I voted for head-of-the-line, and I would vote for it again for the very same reason,” local council member Vonciel Jones Hill told the Dallas Morning News in defending the measure.

But that means traditional cabs are sometimes overlooked and some say underused. And considering that the bigger cab companies can more easily buy the expensive “green” cabs, the smaller companies and the independent drivers feel it’s unfair (as they did on New Year’s Eve):


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/are-green-cabs-causing-a-super-bowl-taxi-nightmare-in-dallas/

[texastom]

I'm a Texan and a free-marketer, but I've gotta say, this isn't a bad policy (but probably should have been put on hold during the SB).

I support the policy for a couple of reasons.... 1) it promotes the use of NG, which is good as it get's us away from foreign fuel sources and 2) since Texas is a LARGE natural gas producing state, it's good for the local economy.

At least they didn't do something similar for hybrid cars. Those that support hybrids don't realize how damaging they are to the environment and how corrupt the business is due to the fact that the majority of the rare earth metals needed for the batteries are only mined in a couple of countries that aren't too friendly to the USA.

[red states rule]

I'm a Texan and a free-marketer, but I've gotta say, this isn't a bad policy (but probably should have been put on hold during the SB).

I support the policy for a couple of reasons.... 1) it promotes the use of NG, which is good as it get's us away from foreign fuel sources and 2) since Texas is a LARGE natural gas producing state, it's good for the local economy.

At least they didn't do something similar for hybrid cars. Those that support hybrids don't realize how damaging they are to the environment and how corrupt the business is due to the fact that the majority of the rare earth metals needed for the batteries are only mined in a couple of countries that aren't too friendly to the USA.

The last thing we want to do is to drill for all the oil sitting in the ground, put those oil rig workers back to work, increase the supply of oil and bring down the price at the pump for working people

These are not the priorities of the Obama administration and the enviro wackos

[texastom]

The last thing we want to do is to drill for all the oil sitting in the ground, put those oil rig workers back to work, increase the supply of oil and bring down the price at the pump for working people

These are not the priorities of the Obama administration and the enviro wackos

Texas has about run out of oil, but we have natural gas deposits as large as Saudi Arabia's oil deposits... anything that promotes natural gas production should be supported. That's all I'm saying.

Oh, and a lot of those oilfield roughnecks that used to work in the oilfields are now working in the gas fields.

Google Barnett Shale.

[red states rule]

Texas has about run out of oil, but we have natural gas deposits as large as Saudi Arabia's oil deposits... anything that promotes natural gas production should be supported. That's all I'm saying.

Oh, and a lot of those oilfield roughnecks that used to work in the oilfields are now working in the gas fields.

Google Barnett Shale.

Yea been hearing how America has been running out of oil for the last 20 years




America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.

In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at $20-$40 a barrel.

It was not until 2007, when EOG Resources of Texas started a frenzy when they drilled a single well in Parshal N.D. that is expected to yield 700,000 barrels of oil that real excitement and money started to flow in North Dakota. Marathon Oil is investing $1.5 billion and drilling 300 new wells in what is expected to be one of the greatest booms in Oil discovery since Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.

The US imported about 14 million barrels of Oil per day in 2007 , which means US consumers sent about $340 Billion Dollars over seas building palaces in Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the World, if 200 billion barrels of oil at $90 a barrel are recovered in the high plains the added wealth to the US economy would be $18 Trillion Dollars which would go a long way in stabilizing the US trade deficit and could cut the cost of oil in half in the long run.

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html

[texastom]

Yea been hearing how America has been running out of oil for the last 20 yearsI said "Texas", not the USA. Was that difficult to comprehend? Also, not sure what your disdain for natural gas is? It's cleaner, more efficient and abundant. There's no reason we shouldn't be using both. Use NG where feasible for transportation and use oil where needed (plastics, transportation, medicines, etc.).

Why not take advantage of both natural resources?

[trobinett]

Drill, either vertically, or horizontally, excavate, blast, or do WHATEVER, but get the shit out of the ground, and put it on the market. Personally, I prefer to see more use for nuclear, and COAL isn't a bad idea either.

Ok, all you veggie heads can start breathing again, OR NOT.:poke:

[red states rule]

I said "Texas", not the USA. Was that difficult to comprehend? Also, not sure what your disdain for natural gas is? It's cleaner, more efficient and abundant. There's no reason we shouldn't be using both. Use NG where feasible for transportation and use oil where needed (plastics, transportation, medicines, etc.).

Why not take advantage of both natural resources?

Let me be clear - do all of it

Build new oil refineries, open up drilling wherever the oil is, tap the natural gas, fire up the coal plants, build more nuclear power plants, and put our people back to work

At the time piss off millions of libs and tree huggers while making America more energy independent