Democratic disdain for energy production by US companies is evident with the current ownership of former US energy companies. Is it any surprise that the jewell Arco Oil Company which owned 80 percent of our Alaska Oil Reserves was bought out by British Petroleum Corporation at the end of the second administration of Bill Clinton due to the hostile Democratic attitude toward energy companies. It is no accident that the largest US builder of nuclear power plants, Westinghouse Nuclear Power Construction Division was bought out by Japan???s Toshiba Corporation. While 80 percent of France electricity is generated by nuclear power, only twenty percent in the US is generated due to the successful efforts of Democratic party to kill the US nuclear power industry. Significantly, nuclear power is not considered a mainstay of Democratic plans to address our energy crisis.There is also a worldwide shortage and backlog of orders for oil drilling platforms and oil drilling ships but US shipyards are not building these ships. Only one percent of the world's commercial ships are built in US shipyards. Hold your breath for the Democratic outcry and push for government help to US ship builders to build oil drilling ships in the US.
The Lure of Black Gold
Is offshore drilling gaining more acceptance?
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Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/08/2008 10:11:02 PM
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Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/08/2008 9:47:47 PM
Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to effectively give away in trust our offshore exclusive economic zone by standing in the way of any current offshore development. Under the 1982 United Nations Law of the Seas Convention the US has an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and mineral seabed rights up to 350 nautical miles extending along the Continental shelf. A nautical mile is 6080 feet so our exclusive economic zone extends about 240 miles and mineral seabed rights extend 420 miles. The US has the world's largest offshore exclusive economic zone totaling 4.4 million square miles. In comparison, the total land area of the United States is only 3.4 million square miles.
On the East coast alone, if you drive from Key West Florida to Bangor Maine it is 2000 miles. Multiply the 2000 miles by mineral seabed rights extending out 420 miles results in a total of 840,000 square miles of ocean acreage. Because we have the world's largest offshore coastline which is twenty-five percent greater than our land area, it only makes common sense that we exploit our offshore resources to achieve our energy independence. -
Posted By: BCSutton @ 08/06/2008 8:07:54 PM
In one word, yes. Drilling is becoming more acceptable as the financial hardship of $4/gallon gas hits people further and further down the economic ladder. Many Republicans in states like California have been afraid to come out publicly for drilling because of the vicious backlash effect that the environmental left has perfected. What many people don't realize (or don't want to talk about) is that drilling offshore will bring prices down immediately, not because it will increase our supply overnight, but because it will burst the speculators' bubble on oil futures. Prices have been largely driven by speculators betting on the continued scarcity of oil into the future because of our unwillingness to develop our own natural resources. Since President Bush lifted the Executive moratorium on drilling, however, gas prices have come down almost $.50 a gallon in my state, and it will continue to decrease as long as we are serious about taking control of our own energy needs and production through every available means - including offshore drilling, developing ANWR and developing the abundant oil shale deposits we have in the U.S. We need to drill, we need nuclear power and we need to give energy companies compelling reasons to reinvest their profits into developing other sustainable sources of energy rather than just issue fat dividends to their shareholders.
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Posted By: uncahal @ 08/04/2008 5:40:30 PM
Using the term "debate" is cute.It's as if the people in this country have a say in what happens. As if. Hasn't happened in my lifetime and I'm 60 years old. Who are you trying to kid? The moneyed interests will do what ever they feel like doing. The people have as much say as the man in the moon. Amercan democracy is a sham/con/joke.
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Posted By: uncahal @ 08/04/2008 5:35:06 PM
Debate? Oh really. I'm 60 years old and know all about your so called debates. The moneyed interests will do what they darn well please, so why even use the word? Few people believe they still have a say in things,that's because they don't and never did. Your question just renforces the BS.As if.
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Posted By: rlritt @ 08/04/2008 11:21:24 AM
Drilling for oil in this country will not decrease the price of gas. The oil retrieved from dilling in the US will be sold on the world market. We are not producing oil at full capacity right now because the lower the supply, the higher the prices. The oil companies are multinational and drilling offshore will not help us one bit. Doesn't the major news media feel any responsiblity for telling the truth?
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Posted By: rlritt @ 08/04/2008 11:16:48 AM
Oil drilled off the coasts does not belong to the American people. It belongs to the Oil companies who are multinational. The oil that they extract will go on the open market. We already export oil that in produced right here. The oil will not decrease prices in the US. The profits will go to the Cayman Islands. Currently, oil production in the US is UNDERPRODUCTION. The less oil produced, the higher the prices and profit. Please use your head.
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Posted By: kmemini @ 08/04/2008 10:36:08 AM
Californians may be shifting according to this poll on the topic of offshore drilling but the rest of us ARE NOT
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Posted By: markci @ 08/04/2008 10:32:58 AM
This isn't surprising. Americans are fundamentally greedy, stupid, lazy and short-sighted. There's really nothing we won't do, nothing we won't despoil and no principle we won't violate if it will save us a few bucks.
And to the mentally retarded who think this has something to do with the fantasy of "energy independence" -- get a clue. "Energy independence" is nothing but a slogan politicians use to manipulate you. We live in a global economy. Oil is a global market. The companies that produce it are multi-nationals. Much of the oil pumped from Alaska actually goes straight to Japan. Grow up and stop being so naive. -
Posted By: mk2008 @ 08/04/2008 8:10:05 AM
the more tools you have at your disposal to becoming energy independant, the better. This is why you see people switching viewpoints. DO it all. (oil, nuclear, biofuels, wind, solar, etc)
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Posted By: susanraj54@hotmail.com @ 08/03/2008 8:57:26 PM
Nancy Pelosi is the most disrespectful insatiable power monger! To not let Congress vote on the drilling bill, it is time for this immoral, unethical wench to be pulled from our government. Look at how she represenys San Francisco and how they have turned unpatrotic and offensive towards our country and civilizatuion as a whole.
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Posted By: WVaJohn @ 08/03/2008 7:33:07 PM
Most Americans do not know where their energy including electricity comes from. The left wing of the Democrats fight anything in the name of protection of natural resources. I have seen many drill sites and many coal mines since the new laws took effect in the mid 70"S. WIth out being told some people would not know it. We have come a long way since 1969. The rigs in the gulf during Katrina and other storms have not caused a problem. The USA must use all tools in the energy toolbox including coal, oil, natural gas, better transportation planning,conservation, alternativie fuels fi we are going to be energy independent.
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Posted By: primo92705 @ 08/03/2008 3:01:33 PM
The Big Bad Oil Companies Not So Bad?
On each gallon of gas you buy the American oil companies average a 10¢ profit. The government on the other hand (who had no investment or risk in the process) make 18.4¢ a gallon - that is only counting the Federal tax. States tax is an additional 26.4¢ to 62.9¢ a gallon! Best case scenario, filling up in Alaska is going to cost you an extra 44.8¢ a gallon. Sorry California, 82.3¢ of every gallon purchased is going to the government, not to those who worked to bring you the fuel.
-DrillNow.net
See how much state tax you are paying on gas at api.org as of Jan, 2008-
Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/03/2008 5:09:52 PM
the post production price of gasoline, including delivery per gallon, is and has remained below three cents a gallon (Roughly $00.88-$1.49 a barrel. That is 89 cents to one dollar and 49 cents a BARREL) FOR years. http://www.opednews.com/Poll/Poll--Should-The-USA-Natio-by-Professor-Emeritus-080731-68.html
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Posted By: Twhit1007 @ 08/04/2008 1:43:55 AM
Don't forget that extra 1/10 of a penny they make for every gallon that is pumped! It sure does add up.
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Posted By: primo92705 @ 08/03/2008 3:00:37 PM
75% of Americans Agree
Congress is Not Doing Their Job.
When is a 25% job performance rating acceptable?
NEVER??????.unless you???re elected to the United States Congress. DrillNow.net was established on May 21, 2008 so that citizens could contact their representatives about the nation???s substandard energy policy. Since that time, visitors to this site (YOU) have voiced approval for domestic oil exploration through letters to elected representatives and signatures on the petition. So, what has Congress been doing in response to your concerns? Here???s a taste of active legislation Congress is working to make law???.you know???.to show they care:
House 1260 ???National Internet Safety Month???
House 4461 ???Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2007???
House 1312 ???Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Space Foundation???
House 5741 ???Shark Conservation Act???
House 4174 ???Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2007???
Notice that none include provisions to release YOU from dependence on foreign oil, unless you fuel your car with corn, wind, plant material, or sunlight.
Is Congress just waiting you out? Does Congress believe that you will become accustomed to paying $4.00/gallon today, as you agreed to pay $2.50/gallon one year ago? Since history always repeats itself, how will you feel when fuel costs reach $7.00/gallon this time next year? Are you willing to exchange your mortgage payment will your monthly gas bill?
This Will happen if Congress does not enact legislation to allow Domestic Oil Exploration Off-Shore and in ANWR. Don???t let Congress fool you. They each have a BlackBerry and could remove the moratorium on domestic drilling in 4 hours.
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Posted By: primo92705 @ 08/03/2008 2:51:52 PM
Dear nancy please resign from your position at this point your not doing your job as the people of calif hired you to do for you,I have no idea what are you are talking about, why do we have to give 700 billion for oil,when in turn do it for areself and be self effient and would produce alot more higher paying job's,at this point we need to hire the fbi to check your backround beause your are being paid off by somebody,and by the way you talk green on friday when you left the floor you jump on you private jet back to calif from the good paying people and you talk about being green shame on you and shame with your party,what the proplem why are you holding back the greatest counrty in the world!!!!!!
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/03/2008 5:13:28 PM
Majority means that there are more Dems than Reps, the American people voted that way. Pelosi is doing her job, standing up for the majority of Americans, who when asked without corporate oil induced bias questions, choose 76%-19% to fund alternative energy and efficiency over opening protected areas to drilling. http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/BRS ... and http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080728/poll-truth-c ... . She is listening to expert testimony: http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/052008Master ... that claim there are other reasons for the high price of oil, also defended by the Republicans this week in blocked votes. She is seeing the same thing we are seeing, blatantly false information (lies) being spread to take advantage of Americans in crisis, a crisis caused by the very action they are trying to get you to continue. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/clima ... .
Ask the oil companies if they will give up their subsidies, tax incentives and loopholes, grants and other public funding, ask them to use the leases they have or give them up, ask them to provide their country and the people that have made them what they are today with gas at cost in order to help us out of crisis (the post production price of gasoline, including delivery per gallon, is and has remained below three cents a gallon {Roughly $00.88-$1.49 a barrel. That is 89 cents to one dollar and 49 cents a BARREL} FOR years. http://www.opednews.com/Poll/Poll--Should-The-USA- ... They won't consider any of this for you, why would you think that their asking you to allow them to drill would benefit you, or anyone but BigBloodOil.-
Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/03/2008 5:27:41 PM
sorry, those links broke. here they are in order of appearance:
http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/BRS-Omnibus-Poll_07-22-08.pdf
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080728/poll-truth-clean-energy-solutions-topple-drilling
http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/052008Masters.pdf
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/climate-research-media-focus-whiplash/
opednews.com/Poll/Poll--Should-The-USA-Natio-by-Professor-Emeritus-080731-68.html
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Posted By: primo92705 @ 08/03/2008 2:51:36 PM
Dear nancy please resign from your position at this point your not doing your job as the people of calif hired you to do for you,I have no idea what are you are talking about, why do we have to give 700 billion for oil,when in turn do it for areself and be self effient and would produce alot more higher paying job's,at this point we need to hire the fbi to check your backround beause your are being paid off by somebody,and by the way you talk green on friday when you left the floor you jump on you private jet back to calif from the good paying people and you talk about being green shame on you and shame with your party,what the proplem why are you holding back the greatest counrty in the world!!!!!!
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Posted By: qpidkcid @ 08/03/2008 8:39:48 AM
It actually would take around 10-15 years of offshore drilling to see any results. What's being discused and approved (FINALLY) by the state of Florida is to drill outside the Tampa Bay area, inside the Gulf of Mexico. But it's been said by the people that do this is that they haven't done surveys of the area or anything for over 30+ years. So now stuff in the ground has moved and they have to survey it all again and build the pipes, etc . Still, 10+ years? I don't see why people are favoring the offshore drilling NOW when it could've happened a long time ago. People want the prices to go down NOW and in reality, it's not going to help NOW. We're also going to be taxed on building the rigs, etc. People are thinking it's a great idea because they don't know all the facts and any politician is using this as a weapon.
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Posted By: Jack999 @ 08/03/2008 4:47:05 AM
Republican reporter can't help resort to this comments on John McCain ...I'M TOTALLY AGREED WITH HIS MOTHER to said publicly that indeed that JOHN McCain is plain Stupid.
"For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician,erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid."-
Posted By: m0405 @ 08/03/2008 4:31:37 PM
You are saying nothing but the same copied/pasted, tired and old remark. Go elsewhere. Did you not get the subject matter - OIL DRILLING - not McCain's IQ test results and/or family issues.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/03/2008 5:18:44 PM
We wouldn't be having this dilemma if McCain weren't willing to take a knee for BloodOil. If he stood with 76% of Americans, behind AE, efficiency and conservation, the the other major candidate wouldn't take a knee either. The subsidies and tax support would go where the majority of Americans want it to go, and oil could get on with making it's money AND it wouldn't be the villain AND someone would become an American Hero. I wonder who it will be.
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Posted By: m0405 @ 08/03/2008 4:30:34 PM
You are saying nothing but the same copied/pasted, tired and old remark. Go elsewhere. Did you not get the subject matter - OIL DRILLING - not McCain's IQ test results and/or family issues.
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Posted By: Geophys55 @ 08/02/2008 10:13:19 PM
California,
Choose:
A. Foreign oil in tankers (much more likely to spill) to your many refineries. No jobs, no lease fees, no royalties no tax revenues.
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B. Oil from your own offshore in much safer pipelines, many jobs, royalties and taxes totaling 40%, and lease fees in the billions.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 10:32:59 PM
If they were going to drill here, they would have done it by now. It's still cheaper to get it from other countries, and offering them new leases to 'Start' researching now is useless.
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Posted By: Geophys55 @ 08/03/2008 12:02:29 AM
Morgan Mghee,
With all due respect, sir, you don't know what you are talking about!
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/03/2008 5:23:54 PM
Actually, I do. Imports have increased, and local production has decreased. It makes sense that transportation would make local production easier, but even that extra cost doesn't make up for the lower cost of obtaining oil in other countries cheaper than it is here. We have regulations to keep us safe here, and those mean higher production costs. Most of the leases held by the oil barons now aren't being drilled because the profit after regulations doesn't meet the profit they could get from bringing oil in from other countries. They are looking out for their own best interests, and have admitted and defended this practice to congress. They are not promising lower gas prices, they are certainly not guaranteeing them, there is no reason to believe anything but profit, by their own admission, is behind this push to drill in protected areas.
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Posted By: TimJoFred @ 08/02/2008 9:18:13 PM
John McCain:
He was against religious intolerance until he needed endorsements from fundamentalists and was for it;
He was against torture until he voted for it;
He was against tax cuts for the rich until he needed their money and then voted for them;
He was for campaign reform when he tried to borrow against public financing and then against it after he got more private money;
He was against lobbyists until he let his corporate buddies and pals run his campaign for him;
He was for gay marriage before he was against it;
He was against earmarks until his pals contributed to his campaign and the "Reform" Institute and then made "requests" before his Commerce Committee;
He was for American businesses until some of his campaign managers and contributors went to work for Airbus;
John McCain: Change for America and Change and Change and Change...
New drilling will benefit one group of Americans and one group only: the stockholders of the oil companies. It will take 10-15 years before any results will flow from new drilling. By then the demand for petro-fuel will render the price so high that only John McCains friends will be able to afford it. We need alternatives now, NOT new drilling! -
Posted By: ForeverAFan @ 08/02/2008 8:53:47 PM
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12834398/
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Posted By: CCryder @ 08/02/2008 8:27:30 PM
"We need to develop our own oil resources, right here in America!" Sounds good doesn't it? The only problem is that the oil in American really isn't ours--it's owned by the oil companies. And they will sell it to the highest bidder in the world oil market.
"But increasing America's oil production will lower the price of oil!" Think so? The USA currently produces about 6% of total world production. Do you think that increasing that a little bit is going to have any significant effect on oil prices? It won't, but we could spoil a lot of pristine areas trying.
Bottom line, anyone who tells you that increased domestic drilling will help, is either uninformed or a liar in the pocket of big oil. The only solution is alternative energy, and we need to be putting way more resources in it than we are now.
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Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 08/02/2008 7:23:06 PM
The fuel prices and availability are the toughest challenge to the country and the President and Obama's answer is: "nothing can fix it for ten years!"
O.K. So he says it very well! He IS the Obritney ! Rap Star! And his own Party has just adjourned and ran off before committing to a vote on this matter. Run! Hide! Duck! Smokescreen! And repeat the same messages over and over.
There's no leadership or integrity here. Only a trip to Europe, an emblem, and dodging wounded soldiers who just weren't as Rock Star Rockey, Rap Star Rappey, Porn Star Porney enough to match Obritneys own celebrity whenever the press is around, so Obritney couldn't do a thing for the wounded soldiers.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 10:08:57 PM
I'm not sure who you are trying to fool with that rant. It didn't get passed, and the Dems walked away, because as usual the Reps tried attaching something ludicrous to the bill they knew would stop it in it's tracks. Endless tactics, record breaking political tactics both from the floor and the house by the Reps since they lost the majority. No, no one is fooled, the stalling and 'do nothing' sessions since '07 when they lost the house ALL caused by the Reps.
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Posted By: Twhit1007 @ 08/04/2008 1:37:54 AM
I completely agree with you except for the fact that unfortunately too many people are being fooled right now. People are so freaked out by high gas prices that they will go along with any plan that may SEEM to lower prices, but this isn't the one. There are many, many alternatives to spending so much on gas prices. Right now we are having a huge supply problem. What needs to happen is that we as Americans must change the way we work individually to lower our demand. I've owned a hybrid for 2 years and I bike to work almost everyday. 2 years ago my wife and I commuted a total of 3 1/2 hours to work in a Jeep. Back then we were paying over $500 a month in gas and that was 2 years ago. I couldn't imagine what it would cost us now. People want to keep their lifestyles the way they arfe and they are too lazy and ignorant to change. Some friends of mine like the idea of drilling and they complain about having to pay in excess of $800 a month in gas while they drive their large pick-ups and go to the mountains every weekend. It makes me sick to think that our shores will be filled with oil rigs just so people can keep the lifestyle they are used to. I'm not trying to say I'm better than anyone else, but Americans need to change. Do what it takes. Move closer to work, work closer to home, get off your lazy ass and bike, buy a scooter or a hybrid. Something, anything, but leave our shores alone. Oil companies have our citizens by the nads and they know it.
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Posted By: 12405 @ 08/02/2008 6:34:42 PM
The bottom line truth of this matter is that if you started drilling today not a drop of that oil would hit a tank for at least seven to ten years. In that length of time I hope we will have alternatives to oil. Opening up wilderness to the oil companies does not mean that they will drill there right away. The oil companies have millions of acres of leased land and they have done no exploration of that land which they CAN drill on. This is just devise politices people and will do zip to help the cost go down today. The true solution we can institute now, CONSERVATION. In fact, we are doing that and it is working!
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Posted By: opinioned-1 @ 08/02/2008 5:31:35 PM
Who`s the liar- Bush claimed gas prices were going up because we didn`t have enough refining capacity. Now McCain claims they are up because we need to drill. Me thinks they are both idiots and liars when big oil is raping us with BILLION in quarterly profits.
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Posted By: txcntrygrl_2000 @ 08/02/2008 4:03:35 PM
China is currently drilling off our shores in international waters and using diagonal drilling to reach the reserves that are under areas of the ocean floor that are considered American waters. Then China is using that oil for their own purposes, including selling some of it to back to the US. So.....for all the unhappiness about the off-shore drilling, it is already occuring....whether we like it or not. Considering that it is taking place in international waters, there is nothing we can do about it either.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 10:16:12 PM
Nope, they are not. And that little tidbit of Republican oilman propaganda was disproven within days of Cheney, then McCain having said it.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/13/cheney-admits-oil-lie/
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/07/10/eric_bolling_explains_why_he_repeated_dick_cheneys_chinadrillingoffcuba_lie_three_times.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxgs-OxsCgA
So, either your peeps are stupid and you need to find new ones, or they are liars and cheats for spreading propaganda for personal profit and you still need to find new ones.
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Posted By: tiredoflies @ 08/02/2008 3:18:50 PM
About drilling for more oil:
REPUBLICANS want more leases for drilling off shore to get more oil. DEMOCRATS want to use existing leases. The market would see and effect in ten years or so.
DEMOCRATS want to release some oil now from the Stretegic Oil Reserve. The REPUBLICANS do NOT. The market would see an effect now.
QUESTION: If the REPUBLICANS feel so strongly about doing something NOW about gas prices, why do they OPPOSE the immediate release of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve? Why do they NOT support more drilling in existing leases?
ANSWER: Because the REPUBLICANS really do NOT give a d*mn about you the consumer or gas prices. They want to KEEP THIS AS AN ISSUE in this election. PERIOD -
Posted By: tiredoflies @ 08/02/2008 3:15:20 PM
About drilling for more oil:
Republicans want more leases for drilling off shore to get more oil. Democrats want to use existing leases. The market would see and effect in ten years or so.
DEMOCRATS want to release some oil now from the Strategic Oil Reserve. The market would see an effect now. The republicans do NOT.
Question: If the republicans feel so strongly about doing something NOW about gas prices, why do they oppose the immediate release of oil? Why do they NOT support more drilling in existing leases.
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Posted By: Jack999 @ 08/02/2008 1:25:12 PM
John McCain you're disgrace to many Americans.In Academy You're 5th from last. You only last only 20 hrs of flying in Vietnam.The rest of good Pilot last till the war end in fighting. you spending total war period as Pow .Returning home you abandoned your cripple wife,You Let Ross Perot paid all her Medical expenses.Yet You're well known as Hardcore Gambler to stand at Casino Table for 14 hrs.John McCain you're dangerous for Americans to gamble thier lives.
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Posted By: ben nevis @ 08/02/2008 5:35:13 PM
Jack, you're a JERK and a LIAR. Learn to write a coherently.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 10:22:09 PM
I see, because Jack is not a native english speaker, that makes him a jerk? Or maybe because he writes the truth and you don't like it? Because as far as I can tell, he made no personal attack, like name calling. And stated facts as they are available to anyone. Putting them all together like that is a little startling, but facts they are and if you are startled it is because of McCains actions, not Jack writing about them, fool.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 08/02/2008 12:16:05 PM
This Oil will go to Market and Bring Back, whatever the market Bares and we'll still have High Prices to Contend with...Simple and Plain
Thats what the Big Oil Corporations and the Mass Media are Withholding from All of You.
Anyway this offshore Oil Drilling is a Farce....
Big Oil Corporations have 38 Million Offshore Oil Land Leases and they hav'nt begun to Drill on these Already Aquired Lands and Big Oil also has 68 Million Land leases to Drill for Oil....
Yet the Money Hungry Whores want More Land....
What next, an Oil Field in Every Shore, City and State....
If Big Oil Gets its way, Imminent Domain will be in "Full Effect"
Your Neighborhood will be Next !!!
Drill all You want, the Oil is Going to Market and it will Bring, what the Market Bares and America will in all liklihood, will See no Any Substantial Decrease at the Pump.
Most of our Oil Comes from (Canada) the Upper North...
Not Saudia Arabia !!
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Posted By: Omaar @ 08/02/2008 12:15:18 PM
Question: Who Voted Against More Offshore Oil Drilling, When then President Jimmy Carter Wanted... More Oil Drilling in the 70's..Hmmm
Answer: Most of the Senators and Congressmen & Women of Carter's Presidency.
Who Voted Against Drilling in ANWR in the 80's ?
Answer: John McCain and Other Senators and Congressmen & Women
Which Past President(s) Voted Against Drilling in ANWR and more Offshore Lands ?
Answer: Reagan, Bush Sr and Bill Clinton, along with the Senate and the Congress of their Times and guess What Senator Voted Against Oil Drilling as well, during that Time....
Senator John McCain....
McCain Has such a Great Track Record on Oil Independence..Huh
McCain's 25 Year Senate Record will be EXPOSED in this Offshore Oil Debate....
McCain was Not Pro Offshore and ANWR Drilling, until...
NOW in an Election Year !!!
When he KNOWS that this Oil Drilling Scam and Gas Tax Holiday is a Farce for the Gullible and Simple Minded.
Prices Will NOT Go DOWN, if this Ban is lifted...They will STILL continue to...CLIMB
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/02/2008 12:11:38 PM
The energy crisis is a direct result of Cheney???s often stated policy of leaving it to market forces.
In the Rove/Cheney drive to build a GOP political machine the quid pro quo has been GOP protection from competition in exchange for financial support from oil companies, allowing the oil companies to maximize profits and minimize competition. .
T. Boone Pickens (Republican, Texas oil man) says that we cannot drill our way out of this mess. It will take 10 years to receive benefits from off shore drilling and even then it will be a limited and temporary solution to our energy problem. But it makes great politics in the short term.
The problem that we face is that it will take hundreds of billions invested in alternative energy sources to solve our dependence on foreign oil problem, and the private sector is reluctant to take the risk when the oil companies and countries can cut prices at any time, driving the private investors out of business. It is betting against a stacked deck for the investors. We need a MAJOR government commitment to protect private investment against manipulation and speculation.
Cheney and the oil companies understand this and will fight to continue a market driven philosophy that will keep the oil companies effectively in control of our energy policy. It is a philosophy that may destroy this country (a suicide mission in military terms), but they will have the pleasure of going out on top with little concern that they are taking the rest of us with them. -
Posted By: Omaar @ 08/02/2008 12:07:51 PM
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This Oil will go to Market and Bring Back, whatever the market Bares and we'll still have High Prices to Contend with...Simple and Plain
Thats what the Big Oil Corporations and the Mass Media are Withholding from All of You.
Anyway this offshore Oil Drilling is a Farce....
Big Oil Corporations have 38 Million Offshore Oil Land Leases and they hav'nt begun to Drill on these Already Aquired Lands and Big Oil also has 68 Million Land leases to Drill for Oil....
Yet the Money Hungry Whores want More Land....
What next, an Oil Field in Every Shore, City and State....
If Big Oil Gets its way, Imminent Domain will be in "Full Effect"
Your Neighborhood will be Next !!!
Drill all You want, the Oil is Going to Market and it will Bring, what the Market Bares and America will in all liklihood, will See no Any Substantial Decrease at the Pump.
Most of our Oil Comes from (Canada) the Upper North...
Not Saudia Arabia !!
Sorry, but Facts are Facts
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Posted By: primo92705 @ 08/03/2008 2:57:34 PM
spoken like a true demo,drilling would create more jobs and we would spend less to import oil,lets see let's try 700 billion let's in turn and bring back are own tax dollars back to the tax payer's and of course drill in a safe manner.
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Posted By: Omaar @ 08/02/2008 12:06:35 PM
Question: Who Voted Against More Offshore Oil Drilling, When then President Jimmy Carter Wanted... More Oil Drilling in the 70's..Hmmm
Answer: Most of the Senators and Congressmen & Women.
Who Voted Against Drilling in ANWR in the 80's ?
Answer: John McCain and Other Senators and Congressmen & Women
Which Past President(s) Voted Against Drilling in ANWR and more Offshore Lands ?
Answer: Reagan, Bush Sr and Bill Clinton, along with the Senate and the Congress of their Times and guess What Senator Voted Against Oil Drilling as well, during that Time....
Senator John McCain....
McCain Has such a Great Track Record on Oil Independence..Huh
McCain's 25 Year Senate Record will be EXPOSED in this Offshore Oil Debate....
McCain was Not Pro Offshore and ANWR Drilling, until...
NOW in an Election Year !!!
When he KNOWS that this Oil Drilling Scam and Gas Tax Holiday is a Farce for the Gullible and Simple Minded.
Prices Will NOT Go DOWN, if this Ban is lifted...They will STILL continue to...CLIMB
Because the Oil will go to Oil Market and Bare what the Oil Market Demands.
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Posted By: jflash97 @ 08/02/2008 10:59:18 AM
What seems to get lost in this debate too often is that the Energy Information Administration themselves have projected that increased offshore drilling will not have a significant impact on gas prices until 2030. Too many people seem to be buying into this perception that it's going to provide relief in the near future-a perception that John McCain seems more than happy to perpetuate. And don't even get me started on Obama flipping when it's McCain himself who's done a complete 180 on this issue.
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Posted By: Jack999 @ 08/02/2008 9:59:38 AM
This all Just Political "GIMMICKS AND LIES " suited the Gas Price Increase for Voters...You can Give Permission to all Oil Company to DRILL anywhere in USA offshore- I CAN BET HARDLY ANY TAKERSjust like our Congress Permission of 68 million hectres.
Cost of OFFSHORE Drilling - minimum USD $200,000 a DAY.That come with NO guarantee of Any Oil. -
Posted By: miltongalfas @ 08/02/2008 8:48:26 AM
They just want to drill in the south. That's because they are wanting votes from the northeast. If there is to be drilling then it must be across the country and then see if it would ever pass. Why would Florida or Louisiana or Texas want to destroy their beaches and the greater tourism dollar? Texas is already ruined and LA is following. Drilling off the coast of Florida or Georgia or the Carolinas would be a devestating blow to their economies and would hold down the economic growth that is rampant.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 10:28:13 PM
There are more than 4000 rigs in the gulf of mexico, you can see their lights at night from space.
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Posted By: cowen123456 @ 08/02/2008 8:30:55 AM
Mccain's got the urgency needed for this energy crisis. His proposal is "all of the above" proposal which promotes domestic productiion and alternative energy development of all sources. This leave no stone unturned solution is necessary to tacklet this crisis. We all know, that oil, coal, wind, solar..ect...alone can not get this country to energy independent. We need to do it all, make progress on all fronts and allow each little step to transitition and build that bridge that will take us from A (energy dependency) to B (energy independent). Mccain's solution is a comprehensive, rational and balance approach with urgency needed to fastrack this solution.
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Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 2:58:11 AM
Shame on pollsters for asking such biased questions, and mores the shame on the media that continues to cite it! If you ask if people want to drill to lower the price of gas they say yes. What they are not told in this scenario is that all experts and their own government and the campaign advisors to the REP campaign have said that it will not in fact bring down gas prices. It's called propaganda, and it's usually used against an enemy. The leaders you trust are using enemy fighting tactics against you to benefit oil companies. When people are asked differently, the answers are strikingly different.
Q2. Looking to the future, which one of the following do you think should be a more important priority for government: Investing in new energy technology including renewable fuels and more efficient automobiles; or expanding exploration and drilling for more oil?
INVEST IN NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY-76%
EXPAND EXPLORATION AND DRILLING-19
DK/REF-5
http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/BRS-Omnibus-Poll_07-22-08.pdf
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080728/poll-truth-clean-energy-solutions-topple-drilling
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/power-struggle-series-industry.html
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/climate-research-media-focus-whiplash/ -
Posted By: Morgan Mghee @ 08/02/2008 2:46:18 AM
Shame on all of the media outlets that continue citing this BIASED poll data. Ask the correct questions and you get quite different answers. http://wilderness.org/Library/Documents/upload/BRS-Omnibus-Poll_07-22-08.pdf
Q2. Looking to the future, which one of the following do you think should be a more important priority for government: Investing in new energy technology including renewable fuels and more efficient automobiles; or expanding exploration and drilling for more oil?
INVEST IN NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY-76%
EXPAND EXPLORATION AND DRILLING-19
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Posted By: TheVigil @ 08/02/2008 12:40:15 AM
YES.
Obama is exactly where I want a leader to be on this!
Just yesterday I was telling a family member, "You know, I would support domestic drilling IF it came as part of an agreement to develop a renewable energy plan down the line. If I were a Congressman, I would say, 'Yes, I will back your five-year domestic drilling plan - in stone - if you will back my twenty-year solar energy plan."
I was against domestic drilling too - but I would support it now IF it's not a permanent measure. We NEED a sustainable energy plan. If we could get one in place for the long-term - and drill in the short term - we could get out of our energy crisis and leave a wonderful world for our children.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/02/2008 8:29:10 AM
Happy to see somebody understands the problem.
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Posted By: seti2008 @ 08/02/2008 12:08:54 AM
...and luckylarry, you don't have to figure out McCain? A year ago, he was for legalizing all illegal immigrants, against offshore drilling, basically voted with the democrats on most issues. Now he's a conservative? Doubtful.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/02/2008 12:15:51 AM
Yeah, I think we all wish McCain were a little more conservative -- he's just a little too soft on that waterboarding thing, don't you think?
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Posted By: CJ66 @ 08/01/2008 11:51:47 PM
What Obama stands for is a reasoned approach to the problems we face. If we want a dictator, we would stick with Bush. Bush had none of the answers. Things need to be thought through. I believe what Obama is saying is that we need to gather all the facts and reach some kind of consensus on how to solve our problems globally. Science, and climate change, doesn't stop at national boundaries .
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Posted By: CJ66 @ 08/01/2008 11:40:37 PM
Oil isn't the answer to our energy problems. Turn out the lights. What is needed is true conservation efforts. We need to cut back in our use of energy, not produce more, which, in the process, produces more pollution. We have reached the limits of tolerance in the environment. One last call to face it, and if we don't, the disasters will take care of the whole problem.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 11:38:49 PM
I will not vote for Obama for the very reason that he stands for everything and he stands for nothing. One should not have to figure out a presidential candidate. He has beautiful speeches and must have a very talented writing staff, unfortunately speeches do not improve the economy. If he does not come clean and state his position on several key issues I just do see him getting elected. Its okay to change your position on something but do not keep doing so, find your spot and stick to it.
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Posted By: CCryder @ 08/02/2008 8:40:09 PM
Have you figured out John McCain, yet? In 2000, he was a moderate, but now he is a conservative, having changed his position on numerous issues. Of course he had to change to get the Republican nomination, but how would he govern? I have no idea.
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Posted By: valadezaj @ 08/02/2008 12:44:19 AM
My feelings exactly! I heard someone before say that the American can take bad news but what they can't take is lies. I don't if Obama has things worked out and unwilling to his positions or if that's inexperienced that he doesn't know. What I do know however is that he needs to take a more solid position on issues or he's going to be seen as a candidate who simply blows with the wind.
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Posted By: TheVigil @ 08/02/2008 12:42:32 AM
You know, the prudent leader constantly revises his policies according to the situation.
I could never understand the hostility to "flip-flopping" in this country. To me, it seems better to have someone who can adapt to changing situations, not stick to one plan which may become inappropriate to the situation - and this is not the same as saying or doing anything to get elected and having no backbone. Not in the slightest.
Trees that bend in the wind don't break...
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 11:28:26 PM
No, I don't like the idea of drilling anywhere actually, but I do see the expediency of it. It's a necessary evil and we need to quit arguing about it in Congress, bite the bullet and then move on to correct our course. We need leadership at this time and some good fresh ideas to get the country moving. Yes, I'm all for the gas guzzler license fee. Bottom line, we've got to get moving and we need to hear something from our potential leaders too.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 11:28:19 PM
No, I don't like the idea of drilling anywhere actually, but I do see the expediency of it. It's a necessary evil and we need to quit arguing about it in Congress, bite the bullet and then move on to correct our course. We need leadership at this time and some good fresh ideas to get the country moving. Yes, I'm all for the gas guzzler license fee. Bottom line, we've got to get moving and we need to hear something from our potential leaders too.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 11:23:49 PM
When you cannot afford the gas to go to work or harvest crops you have to try to relieve the truama many families are facing. Simple economics is more supply and less demand equals lower prices. This is a proven fact. To just shug and say tough crap is neither responsible nor humane. All sides are going to have to compromise and work toward a common goal. Drilling our resources is not a luxury, it is a neccesity. We must force Congress to address this issue now. I like the idea of basing license plate fees for vehicles on the amount of mpg they get.
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Posted By: valadezaj @ 08/01/2008 11:28:32 PM
I agree there is a supply problem. But the issue everyone seems to be skipping over is that the industry is gouging as well. All of the major gas companies have made record profits. Which proves that the price doesn't need to be as hight as it is. Until the gouging issue is addressed we could have as much as oil as we want and still be paying high prices. The propaganda is that it's a supply issue alone - which it is not.
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Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/01/2008 11:21:27 PM
Of course Drilling is gaining acceptance, now that Obama flipped on the issue trying to pander for votes.
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Posted By: jm1673 @ 08/01/2008 11:08:37 PM
Yes, it's gaining acceptance. Even Obama has flip-flopped (again) and is now accepting it for political expediency.
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Posted By: valadezaj @ 08/01/2008 11:16:57 PM
Yeah I'm disappointed in Obama. Everytime I think of sucking it up and voting for him he compromises yet again. I know winning the election is more important but it would be nice to see him take some kind of stand on principles. So far he's been willing to compromise on everything. I just have such a hard time figuring this guy out. All he never seems to stand for is whatever is popular at the moment. McCain on the other hand has been quite a flip flopper too. Do we really have to choose between these guys?
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 11:19:35 PM
I think we need to be electing an energy czar, maybe someone would then tell us what their plan is because neither of the candidates are giving us any substance on this issue.
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Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/01/2008 11:26:28 PM
McCain's Energy plan is laid out look up Lexington Project. It's a broad spec plan that include everything under the sun; wind, biofuels, solar, nuclear, clean coal, drilling.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/02/2008 12:06:21 AM
It's reassuring that McCain has a plan all laid out in black and white somewhere, what he needs to do is talk about it, throw it out to the public, pose his contentions to Obama, prove his theories -- in other words, make it a discussion. I have always respected McCain, but I need to hear "stuff" not fluff from the condidates. Our lives are too tenuous right now, people losing homes, businesses closing - this is not the time to be coy.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 11:06:32 PM
I do recall reading that the Shell Oil Company evacuated a platform due to Huricane Dolly approaching and it survived just fine and the reason is the much improved technology and safeguards put in place. I also think the development of coal as an energy resource is a must, but I don't think I can talk the wife into being the fireman and shoveling coal into the hopper so we can generate enough steam to go visit her mother. As we allow the oil companies leases to drill we can require them to place in escrow some of the profits for alternative energy research to be awarded back to them or given to those who do. This then would save our present economy and move torward the future.
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Posted By: valadezaj @ 08/01/2008 11:02:12 PM
Even limited offshore drilling isn't going to help. The propaganda is that it's going to lower prices - which is crap. The fact is oil prices are up because the industry wants them to be up. This whole issue is a red herring so the oil companies can get more oil and put us right back in the position we are now. Alternative energy is the only solution. Sadly though people always end up thinking in the short term.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 11:05:11 PM
You are 100 percent right. And as for short term memory, I am ashamed to say I lived through the 70s, bought a Pinto (stop laughing), and I am now driving a worthless gas guzzling SUV. Let's hope people today are smarter than my generation and get it.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 10:50:56 PM
We don't have 20 years to figure this out. Farmers in our area are not planting crops because they can't afford to harvest them. Yes, we have had a long love affair with oil, but we have simply run out of time. Even if we began drilling here, there and everywhere it will not bring down oil prices. I just watched a program on a huge oil reserve that was just found down in South America, the problem is extracting that oil is so costly that it's hardly feasible.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/01/2008 10:48:30 PM
In a nutshell, the Cheney/Bush administration turned management of the energy issue over to the oil companies (the secret meetings?). Cheney was quoted as saying "leave it to market forces". And he did just that.
This is consistent with their practice of turning a significant portion of the management of governmet over to lobbyists/special interests, in exchange for political and financial support. One of those disasters was the privatization of Walter Reed which ended up as a ripoff of our wounded troops.
The oil companies acted to maximize profits for their shareholders and to restrict competition - which would be alternative energy sources.
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Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/01/2008 11:24:15 PM
Yet Obama voted for the Cheney/Enron Energy Bill in 2005.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/02/2008 8:37:34 AM
So help me here. There are 100 articles on the web about Obama fighting to close the Enron loophole. Can;'t seem to find the one you are referencing.
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Posted By: sundrips @ 08/01/2008 10:46:09 PM
I'm concerned about drilling platforms in our oceans. I've been on a few of them and I wonder what happens to spilling oil when a platform is taken our by a huricane. Also, if one is distroyed whay about the one next to it.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 10:43:51 PM
The technology for drilling has greatly improved over the last 40 years and is much safer for the enviroment today. Now please do not misunderstand me as I live in a very green enviroment with beautiful natural resources and wild life and would be upset if anything were to harm them. Until someone can bring alternatives to an affordable means it is our governments duty to act in the best interest of the people. It will take a transition of at least twenty years to convert, so let them get the oil now and begin the transition without starving people into desperation.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/01/2008 10:56:55 PM
There will never be any meaningful alternative energy sources until our government understands that you cannot develop a program with costs running into the hundres of billions of dollars through private enterprise when the oil industry has the ability to drop prices overnight and put any developing alternative energy sources out of busness.
No rational businessman is going to take that risk - betting against a stacked deck.
If Cheney had suggested that we fight WWII using market forces, they would have thrown him off the nearest bridge, or we would all be speaking a mix of German and Japanese.
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Posted By: getinvolved @ 08/01/2008 10:42:42 PM
NEVER happen with Democrats in control.
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Posted By: getinvolved @ 08/01/2008 10:41:37 PM
Offshore drilling will NEVER happen with a Democratic controlled Congress.
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Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/01/2008 11:24:32 PM
Then why does Obama now support it?
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Posted By: the powman @ 08/01/2008 10:34:51 PM
We should drill for oil every where we can.We have to think for the next 25 30 years and our national security.can't fight a war with out reseves in place.We should build a bigger reseve.While all of this is happening-we will be working on all different kinds of energy source and saving energy.There is allot of serious things going on in this world.So we need to have as much oil availbe as we can have.Too much tension between countries and terrorism..Drill every where and all the research we can-coal research,we have plenty of coal.Use all the enegry rersources we have and all the research possible.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 10:44:42 PM
All the more reason for the U.S. to get out of the oil game -- causes too many wars, right? What's going to happen when India and China demand their full share of oil, peace? I think not.
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Posted By: Shirlee @ 08/01/2008 10:28:55 PM
Has it been so long that we have forgotten whatnit was like in the early 70's in Los Angelas with the oil dykes offshore. I was there for the last oil spill and helping to try to save the birds and mop up the mess! It was a disaster and the buissnesses Tourisim, local citizans, and the ocean all suffered. We need to move on to find new resources to satisfiy our oil greed. Let the oil companies use the existing leases they have, enhance the knowledge we already have with vehicles that can run without gas to make it afforable for all. Let us show the world we can over come our oil dependencies and end Opec and big oil 's hold on us. Repulbican, Democrat does not matter, it hurts us all and in the end there will be no oil left or wors no mankind.
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Posted By: profound37 @ 08/01/2008 10:28:50 PM
Well all the bug lovers will hate this idea. I think it is great, I wish I good put the drill on one of those endangered bug, fish, wildlife, or whatever you want to call it.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 10:34:37 PM
Would you carry that bug killing drill around in your Hummer?
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 10:27:50 PM
Love him or hate him, In all fairness George Bush and gang have kept us from being attacked again by terrorist for 7-1/2 years. Yes give this man a round of applause and hope that the man replacing him can do the same. Mighty big shoes to fill indeed.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/01/2008 10:31:16 PM
Comment: The CIAs basic focus is national security.
Oil is probably our number one or two national securiy issue.
Or at least it will be if we run out without any alternatives.
The CIA puts a significant portion of their $40 billion + dollar annual budget into analyzing oil as a national security issue.
Since none of the oilmen in the White Hosue appear to have any knowledge of these reports, this must be anoher one of those "we didn't have the time to read those report" excuses. Or, my dog ate my homework. Sounds more believable, if you have a dog.
Or maybe they just slept through those briefings.
Or maybe they were all on vacation, at least mentally, for 7 1/2 years.
On the plus side, it makes the planning for the invasion of Iraq look like a work of genius.
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Posted By: janilu2 @ 08/01/2008 10:21:49 PM
There are politcal action committees, lobbyists, etc., who form powerful coalitions in Washington -- hey, there are more of us, how about we form our own mandate and demand the candidates spell out their complete, factual, do or die energy policy right here, right now before anybody casts a vote? I'm tired of hearing about Paris Hilton and Brittney and the banter back and forth. Give us some substance. We deserve it.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 10:15:17 PM
The reason they are not drilling these is because these leases hold slim chances of producing any signicant oil. Using the Ice cream philosphy one could say eat your small dish of vanilla but do not touch that double banana split across the table. As for thinking, we have wasted to much time doing just that, we need action before time starts running out on the most endangered species: The American Family.
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Posted By: klebrun @ 08/01/2008 10:28:31 PM
The CIAs basic focus is national security.
Oil is probably our number one or two national securiy issue.
Or at least it will be if we run out without any alternatives.
The CIA puts a significant portion of their $40 billion + dollar annual budget into analyzing oil as a national security issue.
Since none of the oilmen in the White Hosue appear to have any knowledge of these reports, this must be anoher one of those "we didn't have the time to read those report" excuses. Or, my dog ate my homework. Sounds more believable, if you have a dog.
Or maybe they just slept through those briefings.
Or maybe they were all on vacation, at least mentally, for 7 1/2 years.
On the plus side, it makes the planning for the invasion of Iraq look like a work of genius.
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Posted By: Heartlight3 @ 08/01/2008 10:05:09 PM
We have always known, yet been in denial, that oil is a finite resource. I have been begging my congresspeople for years to come up with an alternate plan because sooner or later there will be no more oil. Putting our heads in the sand has not changed the fact that there is not enough oil on the planet to provide oil for everyone who wants it. If we put our ingenuity into alternatives, by the time 10 years is up we will probably have some sustainable source of energy. As far as drilling offshore I don't think it should even be considered until the existing leases have been investigated and drilled if that is workable. Why should the oil companies get more leases before they have used the ones they have? That's like giving a kid more ice cram when he hasn't finished the ice cream he already has. Try thinking things through before you insist on acting.
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Posted By: luckylarry @ 08/01/2008 10:04:04 PM
Everyone has 20/20 vision looking back and as all these do nothing Democrats just keep on pointing fingers and passing blame like spoiled little kids. Lets move forward and make a plan to get out of this mess. No more finger pointing! Roll up the sleeves and get to work. How can anyone think that adding oil to the supply side would not help? As I said earlier, we could use this as an incentive for these companies to develop alternatives or else they lose their leases. We need to move forward, good old fashioned positive attitude and get something done. With todays action in the House led by Nancy Pelosi I would be ashamed to admit I was a Democrat.
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