Who here supports drilling our own oil?

From the looks of things if Democrat Congress stays lazy and does not vote the ban will be lifted on the 30th. Everyone cross your fingers!Who here supports drilling our own oil?
I do, it will lower gas prices tremendously, and take a little business away from the picnic table-cloth heads we have to buy it from now.





We need to stop doing business with those savages.Who here supports drilling our own oil?
I support the drilling of our own oil as long as at the same time we are looking to create, revamp, and renew some of our other energy sources that we have the potential to use... We have way more oil in our ground then the media and politicians are telling us (I have asked Petroleum engineers and Petroleum geologists at OKU when I was going to school there and working in the Geology library)...





We also need to tell congress to mandate that our auto manufacturers release cars that can get 70 mpg (and that would be without it being a hybrid) engines out there... GM has had this technology since the 1970's (My grandfather used to work for GM and he told us a story once about a guy that had custom made his own conversion van through the assembly line and they had accidentally put in a prototype engine in his van and then told him if he didn't give it back they would fire him)..





The problem is is that oil companies have holdings and mineral rights but the environmental rights activists have the companies so caught up in litigation's and red tape that the oil companies keep the holds but gave up on trying to drill... and people also don't realize that these companies also have the technology to drill with minimal to no negative environmental impact...
There is no ban on drilling for oil in the U.S. Oils companies have chosen not to drill domestically for about thirty years now. There are thousands of untapped, but approved drilling sites. The ban is on offshore drilling and drilling in sensitive areas such as wildlife refuges.
We should have been doing this years ago. We are an oil rich nation and have as much shale and heavy crude oil as Saudi Arabia. They just have leaders smart enough to drill their own assets. Is oil the end all answer -- no. But we need more energy while alternative energy sources are developed. Importing 70% of our energy requirements is shameful
Well, that is a really dumb thing to do. I'm not American, so I'm playing devil's advocate here. If you do drill, it's good for the whole world except the USA, if you don't drill, it's good to the USA and to nobody else.


This logic may seem weird to you, but if you do drill for oil it won't be any cheaper than it already is, the Saudis have increased production continuously, and the price didn't go down. So why would it go down if the US increased production? Just because it's in American land you think that it will automatically be cheap? The oil that you drill from Texas is at exactly the same price than the Oil you buy from the Saudis. The only difference is foreign dependency, but guess who will be dependent on who, when all the worlds oil is spent except American Oil? On the other hand, why don't you drill on the thousands of locations that you still have? Why go to deep sea drilling, when you have so many resources on land?


You are being played for political reasons, and oil drilling is just an excuse to blind you.


That's my take on the situation.
ME !!!!!





I'm all for research into alternatives, but today we need OIL!





For all the Libs who argue that it would take 10 years to get the oil. Just looks at ANWAR. Bill Clinton banned drilling in ANWAR over 10 years ago with the same argument. If we started drilling then we would have that oil NOW!
I don't think we should be drilling any oil. We are wasting it away, and we may actually need it some day.





There are many other sources of fuel and energy.
It won't solve our problems with energy. It's an overnight solution but we should find alternate renewable sources to energy other than oil!