Drilling for Answers

Hydrogen fuel cells are the answer to our gasoline crisis, not offshore drilling for more oil. Oil is a dirty industry with a very limited fuel supply remaining on the planet. Hydrogen fuel cells use algae to produce energy, and instead of producing CO2 (like oil and gasoline) they emit water and oxygen, which improve the atmosphere and help clean the air that you breathe. Hydrogen fuel cell cars have already been manufactured and work extremely well. General Motors, Honda and BMW all have hydrogen fuel cell cars IN PRODUCTION, not just in development. In five or ten years, we will all be driving them. Unless of course Newt Gingrich and Geo. W Bush succeed in blocking clean energy technology, and ramming this crazy offshore drilling bill through Congress.

Want to dominate the global economy? THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE NATION THAT CAN SUCCESSFULLY BREAK FREE OF FOSSIL FUEL. That is where your tax dollars should be going -- to strengthen America.

Obama's education plan is unique in the history of America. He wants to train thousands of new scientists and engineers to create the best renewable energy infrastucture on the planet. That way, when the oil runs out, the OPEC countries will be coming to US for their energy needs.

Obama is not just a tax and spend Democrat. His education program isn't about your kids taking more art classes, or getting a free ride through college. It is about investing iN American INDIVIDUALS, to STRENGTHEN the American economy. Why ship jobs overseas when we can create them right here while we break free from our oil dependence. Why pour billions into offshore drilling that will provide less than a decade's worth of oil and gas, when we could put that money into an energy infrastructure that really would free us and is renewable -- it would last forever.

Why are Rupert Murdoch and Warren Buffett supporting Obama? Both are members of CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). Many of our Government are members of CFR.

What's the difference between a Neo-Con and a Liberal? Nothing - both receive their direction from the CFR.

What do Dick Cheney, George HW Bush, Trent Lott, Mitt Romney, Mark Brzezenski, Fred Thompson, Robert
Gates, John McCain, William Cohen, David Rockefeller, Howard Baker, Allen Greenspan, John Bolten HAVE IN COMMON with Barack Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Caroline Kennedy, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Gary Hart, James A Johnson, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Andre Mitchell, James Dimon (JP Morgan).?

They are ALL members of CFR - their intent is bring the North American Union a reality. Under the Tri-Lateral commission, there will be the European Union (a reality), the North American Union (coming soon), and the Pacific Union (will Russia and China work together?)

They need to have NO Super power countries.
The United States military has been depleted since the end of the Vietnam War. The draft ended. We are fighting two wars and have sent our NATIONAL GUARD (Our states' Reserve Military) to fight and die in those wars.
Our economy has been weaken and our dollar is at an all time low. Our manufacturing has been all but eliminated starting the 1970's. We have given our manufacturing to South America and the Pacific Union countries. All this under CFR Liberal Congress and CFR anointed Republican Presidents.
Our education has been lowered. Under Ted Kennedy, we have uniform education in which we and our children have been DUMBED DOWN. We cannot compete with Korea, India, China and Japan (the Pacific Union)
Our agriculture is controlled by fewer family farmers and more large corporations.
Our homes are being lost due to unscrupulous mortgage practices set in place by the CEO's who are members of CFR.
Our health care is costly and limited to most.
Our rights are being hacked away by the Liberals and Neo-Cons in office.

We are becoming too complacent, too uniformed and too weakened to fight for our own existence.

With Obama in office, there will be very little show in Congress to disguise the goal of the North American Union. Do not be surprised if it is completed before the first term.

With McCain in office, we will still go forward on the CFR plan, but it will be stalled.

WE CAN FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY by voting out the LIBERALS and NEO-CONS in OFFICE.
Time is precious, and we are losing.

It is funny that Bush is screaming that congress needs to lift the ban on offshore drilling, but has not even mentioned that there is an Executive Order, that bans more drilling, much less, he hasn't lifted this order. By the way, the Executive Order was signed by his father. If this was anything more than just politcal grandstanding, he would lift the Executive Order, then say "I have done my part, now it is congress to do theirs."

The market place really does offer the best incentives for both conservation and technologial breakthroughs. The oil shocks of the early 70s had a lasting effect on our economy. This can be best illustrated by the amount of energy needed per unit of ecominc output. We use much less energy per unit of economic output in 2008 than we did in 1970. The very worst thing our government can do at this time would be to interfere with the market place and artificially reduce gas prices. This would only delay the inevitable and make the pain even greater. We need leaders who don't pander and who have the courage to say - let gas go to $10 a gallon.

TYLER - The price of oil swelled to another record high Monday morning - before dropping back. It almost hit $140 a barrel - but then fell 25 cents. It appears - a recent increase in oil output from Saudi Arabia -- is not driving down crude prices. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who started a bipartisan group called "American Solutions for Winning the Future" held little back at the Texas Republican Convention. He wants to use American solutions to change to the U.S. energy policy.

Simply put - he's fed up with Congress: "The problem is not big oil or the foreigners," said Speaker Gingrich. "The problem is not the Saudis. The problem is getting Congress to do it's job." And that job, he says, is to start using the energy we have. "Congress outlaws every conceivable energy source," said Speaker Gingrich. Gingrich is making his case for domestic drilling by launching a campaign with Actor Chuck Norris, with the slogan: "Drill here, Drill now, Pay less." The campaign is urging Congress to do something now to bring down gas prices. Speaker Gingrich also has thoughts on speculators. "It's people who are betting the U.S. is too dumb to produce (its own oil)."


He sides with East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert -- when it comes to speculators and drilling. "If you began selling off two million barrels a day...we can pump out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It would immediately bring down the price of oil." Speaker Gingrich proposes selling off half of the reserve - now. "Do it suddenly..without telling anybody in advance and punish every speculator."The very speculators, he says, that are betting against America."

The 86 percent that has not been developed has and/or is being explored. The vast majority of it is not being drilled or developed because it does not have oil under it. If every acre of every oil lease contained oil or even 10 percent of the acres contained oil this article would not be written. The overwhelming majority of OCS leases currently held by companies are in the Gulf of Mexico and most contain no oil, but are prospective for natural gas. These leases are being developed at a rate which is consistent with meeting the demand for natural gas in this country and with the ability to develop the infrastructure necessary to connect new developments to our pipeline system. They cannot, however, contribute any oil whatsoever to meet our current or future needs.

Of the remaining acreage which contains oil, much of it is in very deep water, far offshore and requires very deep drilling. Chevron has completed one exploration well in a location that is in 6000 feet of water and required well over 20,000 feet of drilling from the seabed. The exploration well, drilled just to see if oil was present, cost over 100 million dollars. The location is very remote from existing pipeline systems and will cost several billion dollars to develop. There is certainly nothing wrong with expecting companies which hold these leases to develop them, but the very high cost and very high risk of exploration failure also makes it reasonable to seek to balance these prospects with ones which have somewhat lower costs and somewhat lower risk. Much of the area which is currently closed to drilling meets this criteria.

Frankly, I don???t care what our dim bulb leaders do about the problem. I can afford gas at any price. I simply marvel at the underlying ignorance and hypocrisy which underlies their. A 2002 report by the National Research Council reported that existing offshore development in waters administered by the Minerals Management Service have released about the same amount of hydrocarbons to the marine environment than recreational boaters and far less than other types of marine transportation. The same people who would abrogate many of our trade agreements on the grounds that purchasing foreign made products results in environmental damage which would not result if those products were made in the USA are perfectly comfortable foregoing production of our own offshore oil under the highest standards in the world while oil produced overseas in places like Nigeria, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil despoils thousands of acres of pristine rain forests and pollute thousands of miles of rivers and other marine environments.

Hopefully the public is getting wise to groups that have names like Americans for Affordable Energy. Too often those are shams to advocate an industry's agenda.

One of the big political problems is that many people on the right believe it's possible to "drill our way out." The oil & gas industry is actually encouraging this with TV commercials that point out that some 75 percent of U.S. energy comes from "North America" (We just took over Canada and Mexico!) and the energy future could be secured for some 60 or so years if we did it their way. (At least they didn't promise a return to $2 gas). This is what many people WANT to hear, but the same people wanted to hear Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. The numbers don't add up: U.S. dependence on foreign oil is already high and rising. Reserves aren't likely to be nearly enough to plug the gap, and if the cost to extract reaches a certain point we might as well go with the alternatives instead. This is really a battle over whether we'll be buying $6-7 gas from the oil companies in 15 years or will be doing something else.

There's room for a compromise that allows some drilling as a short-term bridge to a future with true alternatives, but to get Democrats to sign on you'd need full funding of the R&D and a dedicated funding source, most likely. Otherwise it looks too much like oil addicts looking for a last fix.

Ok all of my smart little Libs out there pop quiz time. Ok lets say we take the whole drilling scenario out of the equation just for now ok, slow me down if I go to fast for you ok. Here we go: Obama is your president , gas prices are now at $4.50 average in the US. He immediately implements a windfall profit tax on the oil companies, Does : A)The price of gas at the pump goes down and you cheer OBAMA in the streets B) The price of gas at the pump goes up and the little guy gets screwed C) The Oil companies explore more D)The Oil companies explore less E) We all buy bicycles because we can't afford gas no more, if you answered B D and E you are correct and if you answered anything thing else you are clueless and should seek a shrink. Supply and demand is the key factor here and if you increase the worlds total daily output the price will go down. DRILL DRILL DRILL that is what all you libs will be saying when it hits $6.50 and you are digging through your pockets to find spare change to put a gallon of gas in to make it to work, oh wait most of you probably don't work anyway. maybe I'm wrong it is just a guess. my sincere apologies. I mean that

Environmentalists want the population of th world to be 500 million. They come rigt out and say people need to die. These same groups are controlling our energy resources. They want us to die. Read Club of Rome Statements or Sierra Club founders statements..