Since drilling for oil in america will take several years, should we start now? ?

or should we leave it for the next generation to do it.


Since drilling for oil in america will take several years, should we start now? ?
We should start now but the House kinda slammed the door on that on Tuesday with a very deceptive bill that Pelosi pushed through..Since drilling for oil in america will take several years, should we start now? ?
It's a red herring.





Point Thompson (immediately adjacent to ANWR) was leased (for 3 dollars an acre per year) to oil companies like Exxon, Phillips, and BP way back in 1977, and to this date not a single production well is operating on those millions of acres. If there was any rush to drill in those kind of areas, then those acres would be in production.





It's just another attempt to exploit a crisis to sell off (or lease) public assets for far below their value, and the oil companies won't drill there because if they were going to drill, they would drill someplace where it can be done more cheaply... which is what they are doing.





They'd be more than happy to add some more 99 year leases at 3 bucks an acre to their list of assets, but they won't drill.





So why would anybody want to lease it to them without contracts that require drilling? Because they are ideologues who do not believe anything should be owned by the state, and they also do not believe in minimum wage, social security, and they don't think the Government should be concerned about things like employment, and they want to privatize just about everything and reduce the role of the state to an organization that takes our tax dollars and hands them out to preferred corporate contractors like the ones that did a bang-up job in Iraq and in New Orleans before and after Katrina.





So they cut programs to sustain bridges, highways, maintain levees, and fire the people with experience in all this downsizing and then award contracts to companies who we are told will do a much better job, and if you want to see proof of what kind of job they really would do, you can go to New Orleans or you can go to Bhagdad.





Let me save you a little wasted time asking pointless questions: in the future when some crisis happens, the answer from Friedmanites and neoconservative think tanks is going to be ';cut taxes, privatize public assets, and remove regulations';, and it won't matter what the crisis is, and you shouldn't think too hard about it or how deregulation in the Bush Administration's ownership society precipitated the largest banking crisis in half a century and how they then wanted to solve it by auctioning off quasi public assets like Fannie Mae even though it was their policies that created the climate that made the crisis possible.
Drilling anywhere just gets put in the big bundle of oil from all over the world, so drilling in the US isn't going to make it cheaper, because the owners will be Exxon/Mobile, BP, Shell and they'll sell it worldwide. Globalism has weakened the nation state. It's one of the reasons that we invaded Iraq and attacked Panama and any number of places that were using their resources for the good of their country.
Were you just born yesterday or do you just not ever read anything? Oil drilling in the US has been going on for 100 years. The US is the 3rd largest oil PRODUCER in the world. Active rigs in the US are up 38% over last year, work over rigs up over 50%, drilling permits on federal land up over 300%.
Drilling would solve nothing. The oil companies do not want more oil on the market. It would lower prices.
We've been trying to drill for the past decade, if the Democrats would have let us back then we would have the oil now.
Neither, we should aggressively develop alternative sources of energy and fix the problem once and for all.
Better start living green.
now.


Since we can't eat the vegetables we plant in Spring until the Fall... should we even plant them?
No, we need to invent floating cars powered on good intentions. Ask Barrack.