Do Liberals Believe That Drilling For Oil Causes Global Warming?

There was a democrat on FOX today that had a excuse not to drill here for oil cause it causes Global Warming. Is this what all liberals think? If so can a liberal explain to me exactly how it would cause Global Warming? Last I checked the temperature has only changed 1 degree in the last 100-200 years.Do Liberals Believe That Drilling For Oil Causes Global Warming?
I don't think they believe it causes global warming, but I think they believe we'll destroy the environment if we drill.





However, the discussion now is opening up drilling on the continental shelf. There are already rigs off California and all over the Gulf Coast which have safely been drilling for many years now. I see no reason why we wouldn't open up the eastern Atlantic coast to do the same thing. Then when a big hurricane (aka Ike) hits the gulf, we'll still have all that capability on the easten shores and gas prices won't shoot up 40 cents overnight.





A lot of democrats think opening up drilling means ANWAR is immediately under attack, which is simply not true. It's a wildlife preservation and would require approval to drill there. I'm undecided on drilling in ANWAR but with today's environmental safety concerns usually being at the top of everyone's list, I think it would and could be done extremely safely for wildlife... but nothing is fool proof.Do Liberals Believe That Drilling For Oil Causes Global Warming?
First of all, if you want un-opinionated news, Fox is the wrong place for it. Because we've been ignoring the effect of fossil fuel use on the environment, the warming has been accelerated. It now causes a 2 degree rise in 50 years. Compare that to the 1 degree rise in the last 100-200 years. A 2 degree rise in 100 years is catastrophic. Petroleum as a fuel is ';very dirty'; and if we don't wake up and stop using it, your grandchildren will be living in the new coastal city of Pittsburgh. Liberal or Conservative, the catastrophic results of continuing to use dirty fuels are the same. Oil conservation is always cheaper than producing more.
1. Drilling for oil can expedite global warming. A lot of the oil supplies underground include large pockets of methane gas. These pockets could either rise into the air (they cause more damage and are more permanent than CO2), or they could combust, causing damage to anything in the area and wasting massive amounts of money through consumed oil, which would release a large amount of CO2 into the air. Drills can also lead to this combustion due to other gasses in these underground caverns filled with oil.


But hey, let's assume he's entirely wrong about the global warming problem.


2. The major problem is that drilling costs a lot of money to start up. That money would come from drivers' pockets, because oil companies would have to raise prices to make the new drills and set them out. Oil prices would then not go down for at least a decade. In that same period of time, we could be mastering the use of alternative energies.


3. 90% of current offshore drilling is still not in use. We have the drills up, but they aren't in use. Why? Because oil companies see the obvious benefit in controlling massive amounts of oil, but not adding it into the market - they get to make it look like oil supplies are low and increase costs at any point. When we allow them to grab hold of every offshore supply of oil, they'll do exactly the same thing, except this time we wont have something else to go to beyond what's already under their control.


Those 2 are more powerful, and they don't involve global warming.
According to Liberals, everything causes global warming.





Drilling for oil, will lead to increased supply, which will lead to lower fuel prices, which will lead to more people driving big SUVs which will of course destroy the planet in 10 years.





So the answer to all our problems is to stop working, stay at home with our air conditioners turned off and not using any electricity!





I've even heard them go as far as saying that not driving will increase global warming. People will have to walk more, which will cause them to eat more (to restore the lost calories from the increased exercise) and the energy required to produce the food would have a greater carbon foot print than driving to the store.





You can't win with Liberals!
I don't know. Why don't you call Bush and McCain? They have both stated that global warming is real.
It's not the drilling that causes global warming, it's the use of hydrocarbons as fuel that pollute our atmosphere and cause a greenhouse effect when the level of CO2 becomes inordinately high. That is why we need to push for alternative fuel sources that don't increase the carbon footprint. It's just another good reason to end our dependence on oil as a main source of energy.





You probably won't watch AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH because Al Gore is a Democrat, but you should. He explains it very well if you really want to know more.
What's a ';Liberal'; to you?





Do you really think there's this big group of people out there called the ';Liberals'; and they all believe the same thing?





Wake up.





And by the way, 1 degree of change over 1-200 years is a rather significant amount.





You don't think the globe is getting warmer? So, you just happen to miss the news about large pieces of ice the size of Manhattan or larger falling off of the ice shelves in both the Arctic and Antarctica?





It sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder about something. Did someone hurt your feelings today?
No, but burning fossil fuels do. It increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the amount of carbon being cycled in the environment, causing climates to shift and change. Over the course of our history, we've burned billions of tons of fossil fuels. Perhaps, we should consider what adding that much carbon to the environment might do before we continue. Researching alternative fuels, like bio-diesel, would help mitigate the effect of climate change since it pulls carbon from the environment. I think it's prudent to consider this before authorizing offshore drilling, so we might head off undesirable climate change before it's too late.
Probably you didn't listen closely. Drilling for the oil isn't going to make more greenhouse gasses, BURNING the oil in the form of gasoline, heating oil, and creating plastics WILL harm the air. It is very simple, really. If you are smart, you must be a liberal because you will take the time to get more than one source of information in order to make up your own mind. Conservative is a polite term for stupid. Which are you?
I'm liberal and I do not think that. i think that you may want to focus your question towards those that advocate against the effects of global warming rather than assuming its a liberal issue because it really is not.
OPEC decreased oil production yesterday due to over-supply. So clearly drilling for more oil will solve the high gas prices problem. I hope you don't construe my comment as sexist.
Most of these radical liberals live in mansions and are very wealthy like Al Gore, so the gas price won麓t affect them one iota. They are not in touch with real Americans.
They think life or human life does and soon as we shrink the numbers of the over populated humans the better.
Oil use causes global warming not drilling. Fox news twisted it to sound that way, no doubt. and you bought it.
Way to lump all liberals together.





Also, you watch fox news? lol
no burring the oil, haven't you been paying attention, wait did you say FOX, never mind your hopeless...
Their ignorant.





Point proved by post above.
Liberal like to drill....it makes more voters! Cheers!
i think they were instructing john mccain what to do with his vp choice. ';the flower of alaska.';
Global Warming was made up by man to make money, Hey it's working. The money part that is!
your 10th grade education prevents you from grasping reality
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY HAVE NOT BEEN DRILLING IN THE US
It will f*ck up our enviroment... if not Global Warming, then pollution.