Comments on: Ready The Hoovervilles: SC Unemployment At 10.4%

By: Serrano

Serrano — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:07:14 +0000

SC has MANY uneducated people who don’t make very motivated workers.
If someone wants to hire illiterates they can have all they want. Retail sales are (mostly) reliant on people buying what they don’t need, so they evaporate during tough times.

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:56:37 +0000

Here’s a faster way to energy independence and one that would make electricity our state’s number one export:

require every new home built to have a geothermal hvac system
require every new home built to enough solar panels to cover its peak load
build a new nuclear power plant every five years (NC/GA/TN will all be BEGGING for that juice)

and while we’re at it – let’s put up some windmills – but fuk the windfarms – put them up on land the guv’ment already owns – the medians of every interstate criss-crossing our state.

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:38:20 +0000

Okay, double the number for the entire SE Coast. No, let’s say that it’s four times that amount. Do the math. It’s throwing a chair off the deck of the Titanic.

Look, not that I’m an expert on these matters, but my three biggest clients are oil companies. I’ve never heard a single person in those companies that thinks that the US has suffcient reserves to put a dent into the problem. Actually, it’s the foreign reserves of oil that’s worrying.

I don’t know the answer. I’ll be working in Indiana next week on a windfarm project. That the answer? Dunno. Let’s hope that we can diversify our sources energy suffciently to mitigate the problem. If drilling was a portion of that solution, hell yes. But it’s not the answer in itself – certainly not for what plagues this state.

Best,

Pat

By: Dusk McCoy

Dusk McCoy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:35:31 +0000

Pat,
The amount of natural gas off the coast of South Carolina is debatable. Depending upon whose propaganda you read,the Atlantic coastline offers potentially more natural gas and “gas hydrates” than previously thought. Your numbers are based on older methodologies of oil deposit estimations which may not be as accurate as newer survey techniques.

Now if methane capture techniques were more efficient, I’d say Washington, D.C. would be a far greater source of energy than our pristine waters…

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:39:48 +0000

Snicker, yep, drilling for natural gas will solve these problems.

“The U.S. Minerals Management Service estimates that oil quantities off the South Atlantic region (S.C. to mid-Florida) are at 410 million barrels, or a 20-day supply at current levels of U.S. consumption.”

That’s for the entire Southeast, fellas.

Awesome. Can’t wait to get rich and break that energy dependence – for 20 days.

SC’s problem is that it’s corrupt and backwards. I see nothing on this blog – talk of succession, anyone? – that would suggest a deviation from anything tried from April 1670 to this very moment. Sic just wants to rearrange the deck chairs on the CSA Lunacy.

“but too small to be its own country…” You know the other half of the quote.

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:17:45 +0000

Dusk,

Under the benevolent dictatorship of Sic Willie, our coastal waters would be drilled like Pam Anderson on her honeymoon video.

Not only that, all the product (and profits) would go directly to SC peeps … since we would have seceded from the union and implemented a loving, totalitarian regime based on TRUE free market principles.

America can go socialist all day long, but the benevolent dictatorship of the Sic One will kick the socialists out of our state and declare taxpayer independence!

Woo-hoo!

-FITS

By: Dusk McCoy

Dusk McCoy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:05:07 +0000

Too bad we can’t drill for oil off our own coast. Think of all the revenue oil exploration could bring to this state.

But then again, we might find ourselves energy independent.

I guess our leaders would prefer we be at the mercy of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Russia for our obvious energy needs.

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:26:05 +0000

Thank God we have a guy like Mark Sanford running the show in Columbia. Can you imagine how bad it would be if someobody else was running the state? It might 50%.

Sanford/Palin 2012. An unstoppable force of blind ideaology and stupidity.

By: T3

T3 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Thanks to Sanford (and the like)we have job opportunites in-the-making, left and right…oh wait, we don’t. Thank goodness we’re in a state where “El Direktor” Sanford cares more about his precious 2k12 run (the underdog story of the millenium)than job producing policies, and more importantly, compensating SC employees. Whatta guy…

Items on Sanford’s “Blame List.” (This would be how he explains his failure, and notice everything is now a national issue):

1-Obama
2-Obama
3-Wasteful spending, but does not outline where.
4-Stem Cell research (new one! Hooray!)

A very very short documentary should be written about this guy – sell it in the comedy section.