Should we start drilling our own oil?

Brooke, The Mayor of Alaska has been asking the Federal Government to allow us to built refineries that convert coal into gasoline. Why? Because we have three times as much coal in Alaska as Saudi Arabia has oil.


People are crying about polar bears dying off but that is a lie. In 1964 there were 2000 polar bears. In 2007 there were 25,000 plus.


We have oil. We have Coal. We still need to find cleaner fuel. but do we really need to pay so much for things that we don't need to? Comn people write your Congress we can make the difference.Should we start drilling our own oil?
Actually, we should have been drilling in the gulf and up in Anwar for many years already, except these politicians keep being bought off by the enviromental wackos, that only give a crap about their own selfish agenda regardless of the drain put on the American economy.


We have refused to allow drilling in the gulf, in international waters for years, and now China is drilling where we wouldn't.


Just what kind of sense does that make?


They are also negotiaing oil leases not two hundred miles from Anwar with Canada, so we are getting screwed by our own government, again.





To: Keonaona:


Alaska has a ';mayor'; ? or just a typo?Should we start drilling our own oil?
There is no ';we'; who would be drilling the oil - it's not like it would belong to the United States. Only in countries with state-run petroleum industries (like Venezuela or Saudi Arabia) does the government control the oil. Private companies would drill for the oil and sell it on the global market; so long as the price is demand-driven, more supply has only a marginal effect on price.
I have no problem with drilling for oil but they did a study on CNN and calculated oil drilled in the Anwar would take 10 years to get to the market and there isn't enough there to significantly alter anything.





However drilling offshore seems reasonable.I have a feeling we just don't have a lot of oil.





But sure why not.I think there is sufficient technology to make it safe.





So I'll say yes but that's just a delaying tactic.We have to work hard at alternative energy sources and quit being afraid of nuclear power.
Oil is not an endless resource . . . we should put more energy into developing alternate fuels and energy sources . . . solar, nuclear whatever . . . at some point the world economys will start fighting wars over oil . . .





There should be a national program to develop different fuels that are clean and aren't harmful to the environment.
Ya think?





Let's analogize - if ANWR is Gillette Stadium, the part of it that they'd drill on is the size of a postage stamp.





Now let's be clear, the weak dollar, which results from Bush's spending, is the main reason for the spike in oil prices.





But drilling our own oil wouldn't hurt.
Yes.





Congress should stop being in the environmental lobbyist pockets and start looking after the American people, the ones who voted for them and appointed them to look after our best interests.





It's past time to hold them accountable for their actions and inaction.
There's NO SUCH thing as American oil... it's companies that are drilling on your soil -- profits aren't going to YOU and there's NO nationalism as in Arabia vs. USA.. etc. etc. -- it's all a 'Shell' game. When I was a kid, there were cars that got 70mph and 53mph with EASE -- and I'm telling you, no one even TALKS ABOUT THESE Japanese etc. cars anymore like the Datsun B210 and many others... in the 70s that launched the Japanese auto industry -- which by the way is part OWNED by USA companies, which is why they lowered the gas performance... live and learn.





We HAVE been drilling our own oil -- from Wyoming, to Texas and from the Gulf to Alaska... one of the big issues with Big Oil right now, is that they're ARTIFICIALLY raising the Cost because they're FORCING people to re-think what they want.. as a solution... (just drill more).





It's so simple, and yet so mindless. That the very same people that are bigger than the Mideast, than Nations from USA and China and GB (overbearing multinational oil companies that are super-powerful) -- are simply TAKING BLOOD FOR ONE LAST HUGE SUMMER OF RECORD PROFITS and using Puppet Bush and Puppet Cheney (notice he's been in hiding again, that means he's doing plenty of things, behind the scenes!)... and they're playing the media/conservatives against each other and against the Liberal Ecologists.. (as if there was NO good reason why NOT to drill from the 1960s and 70s, remember the Gas Crisis?!?) but right now, right before they can really rip off the country/world before Bush leaves (he cares less about his legacy, anyways then he does about making money from Big Oil AFTER he's finished in office).





NO. We drill a lot of oil already -- there's 3,000 rigs in the Gulf alone, not counting on land and off shore off California etc etc etc... this is BS.





We should have an ENERGY POLICY and realize that it's BOTH the GOP and the DEMS that don't want new Nuclear power, etc. solar etc. because they are BOUGHT ALREADY by the multinational BIG OIL LOBBY.
Yes. We need to make attempts to obtain our own resources if possible. While we will still be somewhat dependent on other countries, it's definitely a good idea to lower that level of dependence.
Yes and build new nuclear power plants we should of started seeking alternative energy 15 yrs ago wind power, ocean current turbines making electricity
President Clinton should have started this 10 years ago. We would not be in this big of a mess if he had. Dilling for windfall taxes in oil companies is a fail fail solution
Ask Congress, they are the ones who won't let us do it. Catering to the environmentalist





Vote them all out of office, teach them a lesson
Yes unless we want to continue to be at the mercy of the Middle East who hates us.
there are small oil rigs u can have in your yard if u live in the country....one guy pumps 300 gallons of oil a day with his pump
yes so we wont have to mooch off of others
I think so but I really don't think it would matter. The oil companies create shortages at their will.
Or find out some other way to bring the cost down.





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