As oil prices rise, so do urban wells

I suppose these folks complaining don't drive cars or take buses or airplanes. When they stop using oil, I'll listen to their complaints.

Suck away!

Wasn't this the basis for "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"

If the politicians really wanted to lower the price of gasoline, they could do it with a pen stroke. Federal, state and local taxes in Chicago total 74 cents a gallon, or $7.40 on a 10-gallon fillup. Think they'll do it? When their coffers get fuller and fuller, especially at the state level and local level with a 10.25 percent sales tax on gasoline? Dream on! In the meantime, since the pols won't put up, they should shut up.

what crap! they chose to buy there,knowing the oil well was in production.Why complain now?

People, people, PEOPLE!! GIVE IT UP!!

Plains Exploration & Production Co. of Houston WILL get their oil wells... remember, we have a Texas Oilman in the White House... Pollution? Not in his backyard. Cancerous fumes? Not in the air he breathes... Los Angeles? Just a bunch of urban Hollywood yuppies, complaining again.

When will people learn? It IS NOT the middle class or the working poor that supports the Repuke-ian party... it is BIG BUSINESS that donates to them. As long as their corporate lobbyists have access to our elected officials... lining their pockets with cash in exchange for their votes... nothing will change... and big oil is in the top three in campaign donations!!

black gold, Texas tea!

Hey we all have to sacrifice. I can no longer purchase those economy sized 55 gallon drums of Vaseline...gotta just make do without.

Kate wrote:

People, people, PEOPLE!! GIVE IT UP!!
Plains Exploration & Production Co. of Houston WILL get their oil wells... remember, we have a Texas Oilman in the White House... Pollution? Not in his backyard. Cancerous fumes? Not in the air he breathes... Los Angeles? Just a bunch of urban Hollywood yuppies, complaining again.
When will people learn? It IS NOT the middle class or the working poor that supports the Repuke-ian party... it is BIG BUSINESS that donates to them. As long as their corporate lobbyists have access to our elected officials... lining their pockets with cash in exchange for their votes... nothing will change... and big oil is in the top three in campaign donations!!

Kate.. Kate... Let me see if Clinton was in the whitehouse and the price of oil went to 110 a barrel do you think the Plains E&D would say no I'd better not Clinton is in the whitehouse and he wouldn't like that.... At 20 dollars a barrell you loose money at 110 dollars a barrell you make tons of money.
I'm sure this site was drillin pretty heavy in the 70's when ol Jimmy Carter was in there..

That must be awful. This community builds million dollar homes. Then some big bad oil company sneaks in during the night and drills for oil in their park.

Idiots. They buy a house next to an oil field, then complain. As Homer would say, Doh!

drill them right in their front yards.

Tara wrote:

If the politicians really wanted to lower the price of gasoline, they could do it with a pen stroke. Federal, state and local taxes in Chicago total 74 cents a gallon, or $7.40 on a 10-gallon fillup. Think they'll do it? When their coffers get fuller and fuller, especially at the state level and local level with a 10.25 percent sales tax on gasoline? Dream on! In the meantime, since the pols won't put up, they should shut up.

and how are we supposed to pay for bridge & road maintenance if we don't tax gasoline?

i don't care to pay taxes as much as anyone else, but i live in the real world & know that we need them to live the life we do here.

Kate wrote:

People, people, PEOPLE!! GIVE IT UP!!
Plains Exploration & Production Co. of Houston WILL get their oil wells... remember, we have a Texas Oilman in the White House... Pollution? Not in his backyard. Cancerous fumes? Not in the air he breathes... Los Angeles? Just a bunch of urban Hollywood yuppies, complaining again.
When will people learn? It IS NOT the middle class or the working poor that supports the Repuke-ian party... it is BIG BUSINESS that donates to them. As long as their corporate lobbyists have access to our elected officials... lining their pockets with cash in exchange for their votes... nothing will change... and big oil is in the top three in campaign donations!!

And you think the Dixiecrats are clean on this. If you did you have one of the following:

To young

To old

A Dixiecrat who drink the cool-aid

Dropped on your head as a baby.

They all (both parties) do it. The one thing about the Dixiecrats and greens are a few lies about oil in the USA.

Like the oil off FL down south. Its OK for China to drill there but not us.

Or the oil in the north is not to be touched. But if we drill there we could stop getting oil from the middle-east.

And you can thank Billy-boy and the Dixiecrats for that. We could have started the work 99 or 00 and been a few years from it hitting the pumps.

urbaneddie wrote:

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and how are we supposed to pay for bridge & road maintenance if we don't tax gasoline?
i don't care to pay taxes as much as anyone else, but i live in the real world & know that we need them to live the life we do here.

Your world is ANYTHING BUT real, citizen.

I can't say for sure that it's still going on, but when 'Big Jim' Thompson was governor, Illinois motor fuel taxes were used to pay for food, staff and upkeep on the governor's mansion in Springfield.

My point is, don't just ASSUME gasoline taxes end up rebuilding roads. And even those motor fuel taxes that ARE spent on road construction often go to politically-connected firms who provide shoddy workmanship using inferior materials, but at full (or inflated) prices.

Sorry, I hope your vision of the 'real world' hasn't been too badly damaged.

so,katie,how do you get to work on bicycle or horseback or walk
as for the physician in the million dollar home built overlooking an oil field that has been there since the 1940's ,don't you really fell sorry for the stupid azz? like building a home to be close to the airport and complain about the sound ! physician heal thyself see a physciatrist !
oh ! and katie, you need to share the couch with him maybe the shrink can help you too.

It's the "airport syndrome". The oilfield has been operating for 100 years, yet people that move adjacent to it don't think it's fair that they continue to operate. What a world.

Arnie wrote:

<quoted text> Kate.. Kate... Let me see if Clinton was in the whitehouse and the price of oil went to 110 a barrel do you think the Plains E&D would say no I'd better not Clinton is in the whitehouse and he wouldn't like that.... At 20 dollars a barrell you loose money at 110 dollars a barrell you make tons of money.
I'm sure this site was drillin pretty heavy in the 70's when ol Jimmy Carter was in there..

Actually, no it wasn't. I grew up in the L.A. area. Those wells were uncapped and re-tapped in the year 2002... you'd never, EVER know they were oil fields unless your real estate agent told you so... in fact, there are active oil wells in downtown L.A., believe it or not, in the Belmont district... that were re-activated at the same time... in fact, Belmont High was built in the late 1990's, but never was opened: the seismic activity because of the tapping of the oil wells and being too close to the wells toxic, sulfuric fumes made it downright dangerous for the kids.... if the school district didn't know land they owned for years had capped oil wells, do you REALLY THINK mere mortals buying real estate around LA had a chance? Yeah, THAT'S gonna happen!!

Read all about it:

http://www.fulldisclosure.net/belmont_learnin...