Comments for Nix Bits http://www.scottharney.com Notes about life, *nix, and other stuff. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 Comment on Drilling in the Gulf has real risks. by scotth http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-20034 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:49:20 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-20034 Amory Lovins on <a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5180727472968504962:1503000:1655000&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Charlie Rose</a> regarding opening the OCS to drilling and exploration: "There no <em>business case</em> for it..." Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose regarding opening the OCS to drilling and exploration: “There no business case for it…”

]]> Comment on Drilling in the Gulf has real risks. by scotth http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-20026 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:11:08 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-20026 It hasn't exactly dropped a lot and longer term it's not going to get us back to $2/gal and probably not $3/gal. So the idea of opening that door has a temporary psychological impact on Wall Street, but what good does that really do? Again, I refer to the idea of costs vs benefits , and that the potential costs far outweigh the benefits. It's long past time to start coming up with a sensible long-term energy policy. I say this as I sit less then a mile away from a river that experienced a spill yesterday of some 400000 gallons of fuel. The smell outside alone will give you a headache within minutes. Now transport != drilling or even just talking about drilling to try and influence the market. But the point still stands that maybe that effort is better spent elsewhere. I could go on and on. LA has allowed drilling off its shores for years with little control. And we lose a football field of land every 45 minutes due to coastal erosion. This is partly a result of Mississippi river levees and partially due to miles and miles of service canals dug over the past 70 years by the oil and gas industry. I'm not saying that the oil & gas industry hasn't brought benefits to the state over those years, but that the picture is more mixed and complex than the current political rhetoric implies It hasn’t exactly dropped a lot and longer term it’s not going to get us back to $2/gal and probably not $3/gal. So the idea of opening that door has a temporary psychological impact on Wall Street, but what good does that really do? Again, I refer to the idea of costs vs benefits , and that the potential costs far outweigh the benefits. It’s long past time to start coming up with a sensible long-term energy policy.

I say this as I sit less then a mile away from a river that experienced a spill yesterday of some 400000 gallons of fuel. The smell outside alone will give you a headache within minutes. Now transport != drilling or even just talking about drilling to try and influence the market. But the point still stands that maybe that effort is better spent elsewhere.

I could go on and on. LA has allowed drilling off its shores for years with little control. And we lose a football field of land every 45 minutes due to coastal erosion. This is partly a result of Mississippi river levees and partially due to miles and miles of service canals dug over the past 70 years by the oil and gas industry.

I’m not saying that the oil & gas industry hasn’t brought benefits to the state over those years, but that the picture is more mixed and complex than the current political rhetoric implies

]]> Comment on Drilling in the Gulf has real risks. by Storagezilla http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-19160 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:02:20 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2008/07/01/drilling-in-the-gulf-has-real-risks/#comment-19160 You don't have to drill. The US doesn't even have any extra processing capacity right now, but by allowing that oil and gas to be tapped if required you drive down the price as potential supply goes up. That's why the price of oil dropped. Remember it's the market that's setting the price and the market works on what they expect to happen not what does happen. You don’t have to drill. The US doesn’t even have any extra processing capacity right now, but by allowing that oil and gas to be tapped if required you drive down the price as potential supply goes up.

That’s why the price of oil dropped. Remember it’s the market that’s setting the price and the market works on what they expect to happen not what does happen.

]]> Comment on Quitters by YatPundit http://www.scottharney.com/2008/04/30/quitters/#comment-11102 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:52:24 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2008/04/30/quitters/#comment-11102 OK, that's funny. And true, but that applies pre-storm as well. OK, that’s funny.

And true, but that applies pre-storm as well.

]]> Comment on Blakely Starts a fire by scotth http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/11/blakeley-starts-a-fire/#comment-998 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:42:55 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/11/blakeley-starts-a-fire/#comment-998 That sounds right. And he's going to take a beating too from the entrenched political interests who don't like what he's saying. I'm not crazy about the guy -- he comes across as an egotistical ass. But seems to have done some good work so far and tried to take some realistic steps forward. Can't really say that for many other "leaders" in this neck o' the woods That sounds right. And he’s going to take a beating too from the entrenched political interests who don’t like what he’s saying. I’m not crazy about the guy — he comes across as an egotistical ass. But seems to have done some good work so far and tried to take some realistic steps forward. Can’t really say that for many other “leaders” in this neck o’ the woods

]]> Comment on Blakely Starts a fire by ashley http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/11/blakeley-starts-a-fire/#comment-995 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:45:29 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/11/blakeley-starts-a-fire/#comment-995 I think it's the bunker mentality that permeates *everything* here. He's not one of us, so we're hypersensitive to everything he says. I think it’s the bunker mentality that permeates *everything* here. He’s not one of us, so we’re hypersensitive to everything he says.

]]> Comment on Inevitable chatter at a New Orleans party by ashley http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/09/inevitable-chatter-at-a-new-orleans-party/#comment-990 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:52:58 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2007/04/09/inevitable-chatter-at-a-new-orleans-party/#comment-990 We *could* get a job in Europe. And if we get flooded out again, that's probably what we'll do, because this flood has shown us that *we* aren't like *them*, and won't fit in there, anywhere. But for now, we stay here, guarding the fort. We *could* get a job in Europe.

And if we get flooded out again, that’s probably what we’ll do, because this flood has shown us that *we* aren’t like *them*, and won’t fit in there, anywhere.

But for now, we stay here, guarding the fort.

]]> Comment on BOUGHT! by Schroeder http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-565 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:23:11 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-565 Gasp! What an absolutely gorgeous house! Gasp! What an absolutely gorgeous house!

]]> Comment on BOUGHT! by Adrastos http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-357 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:46:39 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-357 Congratulations, Scott. Loved the pictures. It's gorgeous. Congratulations, Scott. Loved the pictures. It’s gorgeous.

]]> Comment on BOUGHT! by Michael Bonnett, Jr. http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-245 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:12:46 +0000 http://www.scottharney.com/2006/11/30/bought/#comment-245 Congrats Scott. The new house looks great. -Mike Congrats Scott. The new house looks great.

-Mike

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