PCNs 
June, 2008

"Rep. Dennis Kucinich warned the House Judiciary Committee that it would be wise not to ignore the 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last week. If the committee does not act within a month, he plans to introduce even more articles.

The Ohio Democrat and former presidential candidate tells the Washington Post’s Sleuth blog that he’s not giving up his fight to kick Bush out of the White House."

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"Elected on a platform of holding the president accountable, the newly Democratic Congress has nonetheless been unwilling to even consider impeachment. A Kucinich-sponsored measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney was referred to the Judiciary Committee last November; the Committee has done nothing with it.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared impeachment “off the table,” and Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has been unwilling to cross her. House Democrats simply do not believe they have enough votes to actually impeach Bush or Cheney, and they are unwilling to dwell on the issue with just a few months left in the current administrations’ term.

Kucinich told the Sleuth that he plans to sit down with Conyers this week to try to convince the chairman to consider at least one article of impeachment, which accused Bush for waging a war “based on lies.” "
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You know, I voted for Peter Welch (VT) because he said he wanted Rumsfeld fired.  That's not much to go on - just a feeling.  Oh wo wo woh, what a feeling... Rack and thumbscrews!  Good luck with that.

Cheers -

Mark

What is that?  We call it fossil fuel?  How about something you can make in a lab?  What if there's a hundred times more oil on this earth than man generally thought, and it regenerates itself from living bacteria in the earth's crust?

The Russians first drilled to 40,000 feet (7 miles down) in the eighties - the Kola mine... (1985)
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/725.html

This hole was for scientific purposes, but the belief is that the Russians learned some important things from it.

And then other deep drilling appeared...

"Record Gulf of Mexico well could revitalize drilling"
Feb 21, 2005
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050221/ai_n9774388
Mentioning great increases in Gulf Coast oil production from going 30,000 feet deep or more there.

"Deep Drilling for Oil"
Sept 25, 2006
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/09/20060925_a_main.asp

"An extraordinary five miles down, the Gulf's deep-water Jack oilfield looks like it might be the biggest find since Prudhoe Bay. The deep-water technology is amazing, and now racing to deep oil worldwide."

On PBS's Nightly Business Report, the "Deep Oil Reports",
Jan 26, 2007
"Part 1: The Tahiti Field"
http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/features/special/070126_deep_oil/

"Deep Water Oil Drilling - World Oil Supply Hinges on Unlocking the Subsea Industry"
February 14th, 2008
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/deep-water-oil+drilling/619

Which appears to describe how deep drilling is expensive, but something worth doing when oil prices go up.

Now, proceeding on a different track...

"Abiogenic Oil"
Apr 21 2008
http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/21/abiogenic-oil/

"In 1999, Thomas Gold published “The Deep Hot Biosphere,” a paper that postulated that coal and oil are produced not by the decomposition of organic materials, but in fact are “abiogenic” — the product of tectonic forces; i.e., deeply embedded hydrocarbons being brought up and through the earth’s mantle and transformed into their present states by bacteria living in the earth’s crust.

The majority of the world’s scientists scoff at Gold’s theory, and “fossil fuel” remains the accepted descriptor of oil. Yet in recent years Russia has quietly become the world’s top producer of oil, in part by drilling wells as deep as 40,000 feet — far below the graveyards of T-Rex and his Mesozoic buddies."

"Prime slime: UMR has big plans for underground algae"
Missouri Science and Technology Fall 2006
http://magazine.mst.edu/2006/09/prime_slime_umr_has_big_plans.html

"Imagine thousands of Plexiglass tubes stored underground much like wine in a temperature-controlled cellar. While grapes are the prime ingredient in a bottle of Chardonnay, these tubes are full of odorous algae. And the long tubes of green slime are stored vertically, with carbon dioxide bubbling up from the bottom. Timed pulses of water push overflow algae – engineered to replicate four times daily – out the top of the tube and into a collection system, where the overflow is squeezed to yield, get this, crude oil.

“Why wait 10 million years for oil?” asks David Summers, one of the masterminds behind UMR’s underground algae project.

Typical algae are about 25 percent oil, which gives the slimy stuff its floating properties. The key to making UMR’s plan work is maintaining constant reproduction rates and finding a way to extract the oil efficiently.

Researchers have long known about the possibilities of extracting oil from algae and various crops. A lot of money has been put into producing biofuels from corn and soybeans, for instance. But, according to Summers, there is a growing conflict between using the crops for food or fuel – and the process of growing the crops, alone, consumes energy, time and space."