Comments on: A McCain Presidency hangs on the economy (Part III) http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2008/a-mccain-presidency-hangs-on-the-economy-part-iii/ "The Absurd Report...chasing liberals like villagers after Frankenstein" ~Doug Giles Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:59:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: DocNeaves http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2008/a-mccain-presidency-hangs-on-the-economy-part-iii/#comment-665235 DocNeaves Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:40:47 +0000 http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2008/a-mccain-presidency-hangs-on-the-economy-part-iii/#comment-665235 Obama says he wants to spend 150 billion dollars, creating 5 million new jobs. That works out to about thirty thousand a year, or, jobs that are either barely above minimum wage, or he's taking credit for jobs that will be created ancillary to his programs. Or, it's mostly wages. Gee, either way, it doesn't sound like much of a program. I have a better idea. They say that it will take five billion dollars to build a shale oil production facility, and roughly the same for tar sand oil production. Let's take that 150 billion, and build thirty of these plants. That will employ thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of workers, for the ten years or so it will take to build them, the same as Obama's supposedly ten year plan, and when this one's over, we have facilities that can produce oil at a cost of twenty to thirty dollars a barrel all paid for. Or, paid for except the labor and extraction costs. Problem solved, since there are several TRILLION barrels of oil we can get that way. Enough to last us fifty to a hundred years at the heaviest assumptions of consumption. Obama says he wants to spend 150 billion dollars, creating 5 million new jobs. That works out to about thirty thousand a year, or, jobs that are either barely above minimum wage, or he’s taking credit for jobs that will be created ancillary to his programs. Or, it’s mostly wages. Gee, either way, it doesn’t sound like much of a program. I have a better idea.

They say that it will take five billion dollars to build a shale oil production facility, and roughly the same for tar sand oil production. Let’s take that 150 billion, and build thirty of these plants. That will employ thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of workers, for the ten years or so it will take to build them, the same as Obama’s supposedly ten year plan, and when this one’s over, we have facilities that can produce oil at a cost of twenty to thirty dollars a barrel all paid for. Or, paid for except the labor and extraction costs.

Problem solved, since there are several TRILLION barrels of oil we can get that way. Enough to last us fifty to a hundred years at the heaviest assumptions of consumption.

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