Stop Drilling! Go Green!

LOOK GOING GREEN IS FINE AND CONTINUEING TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE WAYS IS FINE BUT RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE TO START TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAS GIVEN US. FOOD, ELEC., GAS, OIL TO HEAT, MORT.,HEALTH CARE, ETC. HAVE ALL BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY FOR BECAUSE OF THE RISING COST OF OIL. WE HAVE THE MEANS, NOW TO DO IT RIGHT. STOP THIS INSANITY AND LIFT THE BAN.......JOAN

We need to drill everywhere we possibly can to get oil. We also need to explore all possible alternatve energy sourses. We can not allow Viet "freakin" Nam to drill 50miles off the shores of Florida while we do nothing. The Environmentalists need to go to Hell, where they are are taking us all. Wake up America . This is Do or Die time. The rest of the World is kicking our Ass.

When do you not understand what we are really against? It is purely mandatory we drill for more oil, now. We have been upstaged for many years and the time has come that we must do something. Our congress can only play politics and in the meantime we are going right down the river while.

As the world leader when are we going to stand up and take control of our future? As we wait for "what" things just continue getting worse. We don't need majic, we just need to take our future back into our own hands.

I forgot to mention before . You are an idiot. We need oil and natural gas. We should do the alternate stuff too. But that aint enough. We need to get all we can out of your precious earth. That's why it was created. For Us . We need it now or somebody is going to steal it from us. Either way it's going to get used up. Wake up moron. The US of A no longer means anything. To anyone . Not even Viet Nam. We are already a joke.

WE NEED TO DRILL FOR OUR OWN OIL AND NOT RELY ON ANY OTHER COUNTRY!!!!! IF WE WAIT MUCH LONGER WE COULD BE IN BIG TROUBLE,WHEN OTHER COUNTRIES STOP SELLING US OIL(WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN) IT WILL BE TOO LATE!!!!

We need to get off of our butt's and start drilling all of the known oil finds within our country. Two years ago oil was $50 to $60 a barrel, today $160 a barrel!! Wake up America!!! The Democrats are more interested in making the Republican's miserable than looking out for the American people and the survival of our Country!! We need domestic oil and all other fuel resources we can make available to ourselves. If the Democrats continue to drag their feet on our immediate needs which is Homeland drilling and all other available resources then it is time to be treplacing them come next election time. Tired of all the bickering and getting nothing done in Congress or the Senate and House year after year. They are the reason for the problems we are sinking in today. We need new blood and representatives that are for the USA and the people not just for Pork barreling drives for their own states.

In North Dakota we have been blessed with finding a huge deep oil field beneath us that has an estimated 4.3 billion barrels of oil in it. We need to be extracting that oil asap along with building a few new refineries. Relax the red tape that causes a refinery to take 10 years to build and get up and running. We can have all the oil our ports will hold but if we don't have the refinery capacities to refine that oil our situation remains the same. Like watching sand pass through an hour glass. The hell with the EPA and all of their restrictions that are ball busters for the Fuel industry in a time of need. Our country needs this oil now not 10 years from now. We need to get a few more Refineries built asap and pipelines to move this oil. Look not so muchj what it all adds up to in our time but for our children and grandchildren. If we are held hostage by the Arab World now and continue to let it go on our Grandchildren will all be speaking Arabic and wearing Burkas. What has happened to the thinking of our country and it's people? Polar bears, Snail Darters..what gives? Are they more important than the Human life? We need these resourcses to survive for crying out loud. The animals will adjust and with todays new technologies all can live together and we can be independent of the Arab oil Cartel which has a strangle hold on us. All we need to do is relax some of our laws that are a detroment to us during this time of need so we can get up on our feet and run again as the mighty nation we are and can continue to be. We should not be down on our knees begging the Arab's for more oil when we have the solutions right here in our own Country if we play all of our cards at hand to us. Come on America wake up and smell the coffee get after your political party members and make them work for us in Washington. When gas at the pump hits $10 a gallon are you still going to be driving and heating your homes? I think not!! We need action and we need it now!! Let your voices be heard throughout the Country before it is too late. You have already heard the Democrats side of the coin. No more drilling, no money for alternative fuels. Pretty dim looking future for the next 4 years. I'm for voting for the party or Presidential candidate that is looking out for me and my countries future. So far the Democrates are not it...Think before you vote your child's future away this election. We cannot afford to let any more time slip away on us on the fuel situation in our Country. All of our children and grandchildren are counting on us to get it right. Now go out and do the right thing for American citizens of all ages...Bill

We need domestic drilling for oil, we need refineries, we need pipelines!! We have the resources here at home but we need to have the will to go after it along with all other available resources to us. We can not afford to sell ourselves short on this situation. Unless you have deep pockets and can afford the gas prices and heating fuels to continue to skyrocket then don't worry about what I have mentioned. I know that I worry about it all and where it is going to end with the voting records of our current political party members in Congress and the Houses.....Bill

Where's the Green Mafia when they put a Lowes or Walmart in the wetlands in Florida?

We need to take the oil out of the earth - because the oil is evil and polluting - if we dont take it out of the earth and use it, why the earth could just blow up right?....dear god i'm starting to sound just as crazy as a freaking environmentalist! hey wait - I think global warming is making the sky fall! but seriously Liza, if we stopped using oil today - would china and india? in reality such a move now or on a 10-20 year plan would do nothing but hand-cuff our economy and we'd find ourselves really savin' some energy beacuse we'd all be broke and trying to figure out how to grow vegetables because we'd be starving too. Is that your intent?

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Drill now or we will hear 10 years from down we should of drilled in 2008.

Studies of the ANWR coastal plain indicate it may contain between 6 and 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil (between 11.6 and 31.5 billion barrels in-place). With enhanced recovery technology, ANWR oil could provide an additional 30 to 50 years of reliable supply. Natural gas, produced with the oil, could be reinjected or added to a new gas pipeline originating in Prudhoe Bay.

Petroleum development at Prudhoe Bay has not negatively affected wildlife. For instance, the Central Arctic caribou herd is at home with pipeline facilities and has grown from 3,000 to as high as 27,100 in the last 20 years. Drilling activity in ANWR would be limited to winter months when wildlife does not frequent the coastal plain.

http://www.anwr.org/Resources/Making-the-case-for-Arctic-National-Wildlife-Refuge-ANWR-development.php

I BELIEVE THIS CONTRY NEEDS NEW ADVANCES IN THE HYDROGEN FROM WATER,IN SUN POWER AND WIND POWER. WE CAN TRUST ANYMORE IN THE EXECUTIVE POWER WHEN THEIR BUSINESS IS OIL. WE NEED TO HELP OUTSELVES. THE OIL COMPANIES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY WITH THIS GOVERMENT AND THIS NEED TO CHANGE.

THESE GREEN TREE HUGERS WOULD RATHER SEE THIS COUNTRY FALL IN TO AND ECONOMIC DEPRESSION OVER A THEORY OF GREEN HOUSE EFFECT. IF THIS COUNTRY IS BROKEN AND THE PEOPLE ARE STARVING, WHO IS GOING TWO LEAD THE WORLD TOWARD A GREEN PLANET???? NOT GREEN PEACE THEY GET THEIR FUNDS THROUGH WORKING AMERICANS, WHO THEY DEVELOPED THE FEAR IN-THE SKY IS FALLING. IF THEY DON'T GET MONEY FROM THEM, THEY WILL LEAVE AND MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. THEY (MEANING THE FUND RAISERS AND LOBBIEST FOR GREEN PLANET) DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU OR THE PLANET THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL LOBBIEST BACKED BY SPECIAL INTEREST!!!!

Boy there are a lot of thoroughly convinced people that don't make a very convincing argument except "we need to drill now and we need to drill as much as possible.

Here are some facts that with a little bit of searching you can figure out are real

#1
It's a bit strange but all of the CEO's of all the bigger oil companies say that there is no shortage. No gas lines and no empty tanks and waiting for gas at any stations....once again there is no shortage. The record profits posted across the board is an example of this as well.
#2
The price of oil is being artificially driven up which is no surprize to anyone. The question is why are oil companies running prices up beyond what they have to get to make their normal profit levels? Don't you pause to think what is happening? It is having the exact effect of making the public think that it must be a shortage causing these prices so we better get more oil as soon as possible. Keep #1 in mind, the oil companies are on the record as trying to tell the public in no uncertain terms that there is no oil shortage. In fact they have gone one step further and said that it is public response and perception that is under the misconception that we are in a shortage. The Bush administration has been aggressively after an open season on drilling protected land for the whole time he has been in office, after a litany of ill-conceived money giveaways to oil and other big business interests there is still a major contingent of people who can't see through the bull. This is a last run on an open season before Bush is no longer in office and it's too late.
#3
If government support for alternative energy were as aggressive as oil company giveaways in the form of grants, subsidies, tax credits and deferments, we wouldn't need a fraction of what we use now. Look at one piece of oil company giveaway money that was recently maintained in spite of an attempt to repeal it. 17 BILLION dollars in tax credits over the next 10 years are being given in spite of record profits, do you think they need it for some reason? If that same money were given out for battery cars alone we would have a million cars out there and battery charging station network in several of the states with the largest concentrations of people. With 10 billion dollars over a ten year period one million cars could have been subsidized by $10,000 each for one million people. The federal government had already given California one billion to set up a charging station network to service it's mandated car company quotas of electric cars. Electric cars from three companies were already on the road when the program was scrapped because of oil and auto manufacturer pressure. It isn't a fantasy to have that kind of numbers on the road in ten years folks. One million cars saving millions of gallons of gasoline use a day worries big oil companies folks. If it worries them what kind of folly is it to support increases of something we aren't going to need if we get aggressively behind weaning ourselves of the need for oil?
#4
If oil companies are gouging us unnecessarily now when they obviously aren't even in a financial pinch why would you assume that allowing them to drill more and increase refinery production would see them taking it any easier? It won't happen as long as we have a government supporting them and allowing unregulated profits.
#5
Why would you automatically assume that if we hammer the oil companies with excessive profits fines and taxes that we would pay for it with increased prices? Not if we hammer them deeper for increased profits again and again until they are within normal profit ranges. The only way to address this problem is to hammer our government into regulating prices.
#6
We have airlines and other businesses critical to our nation's economy and very existence that are going bankrupt due to fuel costs. The only alternative they will have is to raise prices through the roof which will impact everything we buy everyday. Oil companies should be the ones bailing these threatened companies not the government. We are getting hammered with huge money going to oil companies, then they hammer us with ridiculous gas prices which can threaten critical businesses existence, then we will get hammered again when the government is forced to give billions of dollars to them to keep them afloat.
#7
It is a fact that oil companies are already showing surpluses due to the severe cutbacks in people's driving habits. Not only that but stock market analysts are predicting the price bubble is about to break and are predicting $50 a barrel oil. We need to wait this situation out, the oil companies wouldn't dare go much beyond where they are now as they have pushed the window of what we will tolerate without heavily taxing and penalizing them.
#8
Auto makers are scrambling to get hybrids and electric cars out to us as quickly as they can. The damage has been done and alternatives have been aggressively set into motion. We would be hurting the auto industries at this point who are tooling up for other auto types if gas prices actually did come back down too far. it would be disastrous to them to hurt the sales of what they have been forced to gear up for after making huge investments in the changes.
#9
Oil companies unnecessarily opened the can of worms by charging way more than they needed to, now it is time for us to wean ourselves off of their oil. It would make no sense at all to give them what they've been trying to get when we actually don't need it anymore.

You've seen where 17 billion dollars comes from if we simply repeal tax credits that oil companies have no reason to be getting (giveaway), that is actually just part of what could be freed up. This is a kind of money that could make alternatives happen in a way that makes more oil completely unnecessary. Instead of thinking in the Bush oil giveaway box start thinking about what could be done with the resources that are currently being ludicrously given to a past technology that we should be doing away with.

This open ended free for all on any protected land is unnecessary and is the last Bush abuse we need to wise up on before we are faced with more billions of dollars in giveaways. Hey, did it occur to you that not only are we talking about letting go of the protections that were set up for a reason, but Bush would be giving them billions of dollars to drill as well?

ENOUGH, let's use electricity.

Speculators are driving up the price of gas. There is no reason for it to be this high.

Quite simply, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is coming. Like it or not, Cuba and Mexico intend and are setting their own drilling plans in motion to o access this oil. Aren't we being a little foolish to watch 2 second rate countries take over what could be regulated safely by us.
I have always been in favor of buying our oil elsewhere and keep our oil for down the road when all others have been exhausted, but the rest of the world is not going to allow us to continuedown that road.
I consider myself a conservative and an environmentalist, but to allow the Opec nations to bankrupt our country is just not acceptable. They don't need to sneak a bomb into us, they're buying our country from under us.
The solutions to many of our problems today are:
Have environmentalist and engineers design
a standard building plan for nuclear power plants.
Allow drilling in a very regulated manner in the Gulf as well as in the Artic (where Russia, China
Norway and Iceland are staking claims).
Use some windfall revenues to fund college educations for all kids who enter the engineering and science fields and maintain above average grades. We have enought MBA's and lawyers.
Create a new board of energy that is basically headed by the consumer, to standardize and promote alternative energies. If these companies were given standard designs for wind, solar, etc, each one would not need venture capital, but could organize financing from our own banks. It eliminates so much of the risk for them and puts their dollars to work on the actual power plants.
Give Americans (only) tax credits for purchasing highly efficient autos.
Don't pull out of Iraq so fast that we endanger our whole way of life until we find the way to alternative energies and are producing that energy. I have this vision of all our ships, airplanes, tanks, etc unable to defend us because there is no gas.

Think about that. And don't let the same old oil companies be responsible for new energies. Make the consumer the owner!!!!!!!!!

While we're arguing, the oil companies and speculators are bringing us to our knees. Ethanol is a waste - and will figure heavily in the predicted global food shortage.

I don't like being held hostage by OPEC or any other country - we have the oil -its time to drill.

If you think the oil companies in the US are making a BIG profit - you need to read their balance sheets. They have to compete for oil in a demanding market- congress tells then to cut prices but does not allow them to go after new reserves.

Yes - its time to drill. The alternative is a country in deep trouble and vulnerable to economic disaster.

Russia crumbled because of its economy - don't tell me it can't happen to the US.

It;s too bad idiots like Liza, whose thought process is nothing except...LET;S GO GREEN!!!!, seem to be controlling out congress, who need to grow some hair on their chest. Airlines, truckers, middle America will suffer, while we watch our inflation soar and our country enter financial crises. Everyone who agrees to drill now needs to sign the petition Newt Gingrich has started.

They just changed 70,000 barrel's of oil a day from our National Reserve and yet the price is still going up. Whenever a holiday comes or a weekend or just in the summer comes the gas goes up immediately. But when we do get more oil nothing changes.
Oil according to AMA is our health problem and need to go to Hydrogen that is the answer for health and atmosphere.
Go green as they suggested back when the first combustioned engine was patented. It ran on hydrogen as they knew the hazards of using petroleum as our fuel source.
Hydrogen is the largest commodity on earth and replenishes itself with no help from us, just nature.
Besides that Russia, Canada, and even Alaska there is plenty of oil already proven and tested but just won't bring it down.
Kissinger said, who control's the energy, control's the world. Need I say more??

All of you idiots who think that we shouldn't drill in our own country and buy our oil from over seas are probably the same ones that pay 30% to the credit card company when you have thousands in the bank earning less than 2%. Just don't make no sense. Kinda like wiping before you poop! Also to the author of this piece, Bush said the "Outer Continental Shelf". That extends to 200 miles off shore not 3 as you report. These rigs wouldn't be seen from land. I do appoligize for countering your wacko liberal enviormental B.S. with the truth. I know I am now going to be subjected to personal attack. If it makes you feel better, go for it. (and you say that us conservatives are unsensitive to liberal feelings)

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS PROBABLY A "FRIEND" OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!

THIS MAN WAS “SELECTED” — NOT “ELECTED”. HOW CAN THE DNC AND OBAMA GET AWAY WITH STEALING THIS CANDIDACY? OBAMA IS STILL GETTING “GOLDEN BOY” TREATMENT BY THE BIASED MEDIA.

Everything points to Obama being a far-left, anti-American bigot.

His voting record is the most liberal and least compromising in the Senate, he has no across-the-isle experience… a uniter?

He associates with black supremacist bigots and engages in anti-white prejudice constantly… a uniter?

He wasn’t even able to settle differences with Hillary Clinton in public debates — a uniter?

Obama will tear this country apart as never before!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008. HE HAS PROVEN HE LOVES OUR COUNTRY ENOUGH TO DIE FOR IT