Thanks to the Japanese

This is totally cool looking car. love it! daisuki!!

But I'm not a Toyota fan in general.

We need to get off the GASOLINE addiction and go with alternatives.

Fuel cells are far too problematic. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/05/3467115/tesla-toyota-hydrogen-cars-batteries/

Edit: also, Toyota has managed to turn out what imo is the ugliest car I have seen, and that is saying something. They need to fire their whole design team--Lexus and Toyota have gotten nothing but worse, and given their competitors are really shaping up, they're going to have a problem at some point.

Hydrogen cars, petrol cars, both are still tethered to the fossil fuel industry.

especially after the comedy of errors that was Shell's first attempt up there.

Who said, "Drill, Baby,Drill" during the 2008 Presidential Campaign?

Not entirely sure however, my memory is not what it used to be. He never pretended to care about excessive drilling in environments ill equipped to handle it, judging by the "drill baby drill" campaign promise, the problem is we didn't listen to him when he said it, so it must be our fault.

The Left must not have been listening and paying attention.
Obama has always been for more drilling in protected areas.

/sarcasm

didn't have to elect Palin after all. Drill, Baby, Drill...as the planet slowly kills its human inhabitants.

who NOT to vote for ...

Lol

McCain promised to lift the ban on Offshore Drilling and was trashed in a debate by Obama who promised he would keep that ban in place.

I believed him.

I believed a lot back then.

We are too consumed with Indiana right now to care.
There may be other things that will slip in there while we are outraged over that state of affairs.

To sell to Japan.

"We" in the Corporate sense, of course, in the Royal Dutch Shell sense of the term.

I am soooooooo disappointed. They're still dealing with that fucking Exxon spill in Prince William Sound.

Oil enough rope to hang themselves!

idea. Rhetorical question.

the excuses. If interest in this goes away, no time will be wasted on talking points.

However they do have some old ones from the time when Obama unbelievably, at that time anyhow, reversed his Campaign promise NOT to lift the ban on offshore drilling, and then did it, just 18 days BEFORE the tragedy in the Gulf.

This is just another bit of reagan adoration.

Shit.

Another horrible blunder by our President.

I am sickened by this.

but truth to tell, the Repukes have ripped off this state so badly, we need the jobs.

jobs have been created eg, in the Solar industry over the past year than any other field.

Imagine an FDR Democrat at this time. I could see the creation of a huge Solar Industry throughout the nation right now.

But alas, we do not have an FDR to support such progress.

Teddy R. would have done the same.

There's not much of an opportunity given the amount of dark we have 1/2 the year - but it does work, only no one can afford to transfer to it.

How about Wind, we have that here too. It's the way of the future, the US is way behind, though some progress is being made and appears to be moving faster over the past year.

And the mountains seem to be sending any wind elsewhere!

Saw proposals for WV eg, that appeared to be extremely advanced in terms of overcoming obstacles to making that state totally oil free. Naturally they were rejected with a lot of help from the Coal Industry, for now.

They'll take anyone down.

We've got wind (already 11 turbines on Fire Island), more sun than Fairbanks, plus they could do a lot with the tide if they put their minds to it. With one of the highest tides in the world, there's plenty of energy being generated in Cook Inlet. It's too bad there's not more geothermal energy up there like out at Chena Hot Springs. I love that place.

Given Alaska's current issues; i'm glad Obama had this happen. I don't think a shell level of fail is that realistic.

The hits just keep coming.

Boo! Hiss!

for good and all.

swore he would not lift the ban on offshore drilling.

WATCH WHAT THEY DO, definitely NOT what they say in campaigns.

And probably disingenuous.

Moreover, if you have to hire over 200 campaign advisors to help you figure out how to disguise describe what you stand for.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=394507

Sometimes, I can't even speak to my own motivations with 100% accuracy and completeness.

Apparently, though, Reuters thinks it knows Obama's motivations. Does it? No clue.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/01/usa-shell-arctic-idUSKBN0MS54K20150401

...whatever this contest of the Pax Americana and its continued viability is.

Please wake up, DU.

Oh, wait.

Shit.

...an accident waiting to happen.

...a U.S. government report, released in February, forecasts a 75 percent chance of a large oil spill occurring in the Arctic over a 77-year scenario. The forecast, in BOEM’s 780-page second final environmental impact statement on Shell’s lease sale, says a spill as huge as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is “unlikely to occur,” but if it did, “the impacts would be substantial.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2015/03/150331-arctic-oil-drilling-shell-interior-permission/?sf8323268=1

Valdez was practically tropical compared with the Chukchi Sea, and they haven't even gotten a fraction of the oil 26 years after the spill there.

There's definitely risk; but I don't think we should assume a shell level of fail from the past. Alaska needs drilling for better or worse. I hope we can diversify and soon; but for the here and now its necessary. 90% of alaska government revenue comes from oil taxes.

At least that's my understanding.

But that can be changed. Obviously doling out more than we get back is ludicrous. I'm hoping walker addresses it soon.

*edit* I just realized you meant drilling on federal lands. I believe you are correct; we receive nothing from the federal drilling. I'm not sure about the specifics though. If so then yeah; this is a waste and just a giveaway to the corporations.

that those idiots in the legislature are busy chopping programs left and right and yet won't revisit SB21. And have you noticed that everything that the majority of Alaskans favor, Pete Kelly goes out of his way to oppose? I can't stand that holier-than-thou pompous fucker.