And Our Government Wants to talk about GAS GUZZLING HUMMERS

[TGCOFTN]

Has anyone ever thought how stupid our government is? They want to sit back, and talk about gas guzzling SUV's and how we need to go "green" and save gas, and all this other garbage.

This is what I find very stupid. Has anyone ever been off the coast of the U.S.? I have done a lot of traveling by sea, and let me tell you there are HUNDREDS of oil rigs out there 30,40, and 50 miles off the coast of the U.S.

Those Oil Rigs are owned and operated by OTHER COUNTRIES. Why is it, they can come over here, and drill off our coast, but we cant? If we did that, it would give America's more high paying jobs.

Why is it, we have to buy our oil from the other side of the world when we have our own oil here?

I wont use any names, but it just burns me up, everytime you turn around all you hear is going green, saving gas, more miles per gallon. If the government was so smart, they would figure out how to stop global warming instead of worrying about a little Hummer, or some other SUV getting 15 miles per gallon.

Let me run this interesting fact by you all, and you tell me if this adds up or not.

When it comes to ships, I dont claim to know everything, but I am very educated about them.

A Cargo Ship that carries Crude Oil from lets say, Saudi Arabia to the U.S. If you measured in pounds of fuel per horsepower per hour. Roughly speaking, 0.25 lbs/hp/hr is considered to be pretty good figure, and 100,000 hp is a low-side estimate of an average container ship's horsepower (some have more, some have less). This then works out to 25,000 pounds of marine Bunker fuel per hour. Bunker fuels weighs about 7lbs/gallon(maybe a little more), which would equal about 3,600 gallons per burned per hour. A common cruise speed is 25 knots or 28.75mph. To make the math easier, let's call it 30mph. What this means is that for a container ship to travel 30 miles, it'll burn through 3,600 gallons, which is the same as burning 120 gallons to go one mile . There are 5280 feet in a mile, so if 120 gallons is good for 5280 feet, then one gallon is burned every 44 feet!!

Lets pretend that from Miami, Florida to Saudi Arabia its 7,000 Nautica Miles.(WHICH IS ACTUALLY FURTHER THAN 7,000 NAUTICA MILES) If it were, that distance, that means that ship would burn 840,000 GALLONS, and how many of those ships transport Oil to the U.S.???? Multiply the ships and you will get BILLIONS of gallons of wasted fuel when we can drill, and use our own fuel, to create jobs in the U.S. and best of all, IT WOULD LOWER OUR GAS PRICES.
I really feel its safe to say a cargo ship would burn 1 Million Gallons to bring oil to the U.S. Which would be like 100 Tractor Trailer Tankers of wasted fuel.
I guess the ship has zero emissions, and is hybrid huh.

Now when our stupid government talks all this crap about a gas guzzling hummer, someone needs to smack the **** out of them and tell them to go green and save on all this wasted fuel and not worry about these SUV's I get so sick and tired of hearing about going green, global warming, gas guzzling hummers.

I love my hummers, and I dont care if they got 7 miles to the gallon (which they dont) I still would not trade them in.


Sorry everyone........just had to vent a little, and thought you all might like to look at a few facts.