Is This The Answer???
Filed under: PolitikGeorge W. Bush announced Monday that he will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling in the U.S.
But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts to remove their ban as well.
Thoughts????
Posted: July 14, 2008 at 11:43 am
I just wish his time in office was up. I wonder how that man sleeps at night do the ghosts of all those young men and women come to visit him? Stop the war.
Its long past time for the liberals in congress to get their heads out of their asses. The Mantra that it will take 10 years to get any benefit out of it is stupid. Its going to take time for anything to be done, most likely 8-10 years.
Thanks Pres. Bush, for at least TRYING to help.
You think this oil will be flowing into the US market?????
Guess again children!
Alaska's oil goes to China and India. Where do you think our other resources end up?
So naive! We are talking Bush here. He isn't about bringing our prices down or relieving the supply to US citizens - he's making his friends richer by using our stupidity.
Wake up!
Sounds like a great start. If we were able to start drilling today we could utilize that fuel in a year. In the meantime we could also look into alternative uses for fuel. Why not do both?
If being used the way most white people use it to define black people "WOWO"
is the first person to use N!GGER correctly to define George W Bush.
Maybe if more people called ALL ignorant people "N!GGERS" America would stop using the word for good.
…it's the big PAY BACK to his oil company buddy lobbyists and the ones who helped get him into the White Housr to begin with! His sorry as would never have made it in to the 50%+ "popular" vote without them. So, let's recap: The Religious Right and the Oil companies got this moron in as President ..and this is what it came to. Sad. I live in Texas and everyone who has been here a while knows all about this clown. He was (is) a wayward fuck-up who wanted to show Daddy he could do something since he ruined everything he got his drunken hands on previously. The Bush family never was one that played by the rules and oddly enough Poppa Bush is the only one of the lot that has any sense and was something of a statesman. He never embarrassed us like Jr. has. Ma Bush is mostly to blame. She is a dragon. No soul whatsoever.
Glad to get rid of the lot of them!….Enjoy your retirementr in Dallas, Bushie. That's the only place that will still "love" you, sorry to say. I live in Hosuton and we are glad he's going to live out his later years in a city that deserves him. OBAMA!OBAMA! Change! NOW! Adios, you numbnuts!
Unfortunately, Brazen Hussy, that would make you a N!GGER times infinity because you are the epitome of IGNORANCE and have taken great effort to provide proof. I guess you only hate HALF of Obama because the other half is WHITE and WHITE IS ALRIGHT…right?!!
Poor things (GOP)…y'all just don't know what to do with him…but you're damn sure aren't backing MCCAIN's geriatric ass. It's pure heaven to watch KARMA slap the shit out of racists…you're damned if you do and damned if you don't!!!! Carry on!
I am so sick of puring money into the middle east!!! Why are we making our enemies rich? IT IS TIME TO BE ENERGY INDEPENDENT! It is safe, and smart, of course we should drill offshore!
Re: team –
you know i lost several friends in the war you think can just be stopped. my brothers roommate, my classmate… may they all rest in peace. and even those who come back fight their own demons… may my brother not have to go back over seas.
think about what those people are fighting for. us. they are fighting for our country and you and me. and you are being ungrateful. talking about them as though the only thing they are good for is to haunt someone. and i dont want to hear that you respect the troops, because with comments like that you don't.
hate the war, support the troops.
Idiot Republicans, answer me this: Why would the oil companies spend billions of dollars to lower the price of gas when they are making record profits???? You're hurting at the pump, stupid not Exxon
Brazen Hussy you and wowo are naive ignorant bigots. i can't believe you make it through the day alive.
It's one step in the many steps it will take to help get us out of this mess. All this back-and-forth about what's the best thing to do isn't accomplishing anything. What do we need to do to solve our dependence on foreign oil? Everything! Alternate fuel sources, off-shore drilling, nuclear power plants and on and on and on… Nothing's going to fix it overnight, but doing nothing will fix nothing.
Congress won't act, because it would decrease their power.
If Clinton (Bill) had agreed to domestic drilling back in 1995 we wouldn't be in the mess we are in right now. But the Democrats never sem to want o actually help the people if it lessens their grip on us.
Drill Drill Drill!!!!!!
Should have gotten started 10 years ago in ANWR!!!!
Offshore drilling goes on all over the world!!!
Re: NIGNA –
you are just as naive as wowo is arent you… if he was doing that to set a point it would be one thing, but that is clearly not it
guess we can add yet another ignorant person to the list. take off the rose colored glasses!!
YOU LIBERALS KILL me!!!! YOU CRY ABOUT GAS PRICES, you cry that we do not help every other country out there, you cry that we are killing the eco system you want to give money to every one who is not willing to work, WELFARE and you COMPLAIN that we have high taxes, you complain that we are in a war..DAMN this website is supposed to be about CELEBRITY gossip…I COME HERE to get away from POLITICS..Please stop posting politics on here. B/C most of ALL you PEREZ do not know anything about running this country. You have NO IDEA what the real issues are.
Congress better get behind him 100% (as if that's even remotely possible) — the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida for oil as the Democrats sit on their hands and pontificate about developing alternatives for gasoline — what a pathetic bunch. In case they haven't noticed, the cars we're driving NOW only run on gasoline — and we can't all afford to buy new hybrids at the present moment.
We already pump oil. Heard of ANWAR? We sell our oil to the highest bidder on the global market. Those in charge are from oil families. They do not care if the poor are getting poorer. More drilling=more money for them, not help for us. Don't be duped into letting them drill our coasts.
Everyone who's against Bush's drilling plan PLEASE write to your congress person!
OMFG I just read through the comments here…all you liberals who think domestic drilling will "kill wildlife" and "destroy oceans"…. Do you have ANY intelligence AT ALL?? If you would actually use your brains and research, you'd find domestic drilling has LESS RISKS because of no shipping…. what, it's ok for foreign countries to drill and ship it overseas? Dumbasses!!!!!! Meanwhile people this winter are in deep shit because you asshats keep refusing to do anything about he oil crisis. Here in NE so many elderly people are in DEEP SHIT because they can't pay for oil… so it is okay for them to FREEZE to death as long as your precious seal babies live?? Why people think liberals care about their fellow human beings is beyond me. DO SOME RESEARCH ON THIS ISSUE!!!!! SEE THE TRUTH instead of what liberal powermongers want you to believe!
I wish this idea were helpful but it's simply not. It's not a short term OR a long term answer. We need to be focusing on reducing our dependence on oil period. We need to focus on creating new energy sources. America should be leading the world on a renewable energy movement.
the best thing that americans can do is insist that the bush administation is ousted. we should never agree to either one of the two "popular" candidates either as they are two pockets of the same suit and the suit is very ugly. pandering liars who will do anything and say anything to get elected. we need to take the country back from the corrupt government and realize that we can NOT rely on the mainstream media for the truth as they are working for the very people who are trying to keep the truth of what we need to know about this country and our future from us.
I think this is a smart move by the President to help out the normal American. I hope Congress smacks Pelosi in the face and removes their ban as well. We need that oil, but we also need to keep investigating other possible resources!!! I love America, and I know we can do this!
Good!! It is about time! Go W!
He's a fucking idiot. If he was to drop dead he'd be better off remembered.
Re: Sandy – Hey dumbass….Oil destroys beaches when it is being shipped in from foreign countries over seas and spills oil. Drill in the US and guess what…that threat is eliminated… do your homework
ANYWAY u lppk at it most of our OIL comes FROM CANADA, so CANADA looks pretty good to me if OBAMA becomes PRESIDENT!
Yeah, #15 said it better. I likey my water sports.
Wouldn't it be much smarter to put our money and energy into alternatives to oil!!??
But, then…smart and George Bush never did go together.
Was driving on the GW Parkway in DC last week and got a giggle at the CIA headquarters…its really labeled the "George Bush Center for Intelligence"…HA! Now, I know that was for Daddy…but still,…amusing.
Counting the hours til Barack Obama is in the White House and I can sleep soundly again…….
Very Happy! We've should done this 14 years ago when they first tried to.
why should we drill if its just going to turn into pollution doesnt anyone realize that we should start using more clean technology
This will do nothing for the price of oil. Nothing. And no, I am not a granola, hippie…I'm just not an idiot.
There is no such thing as Congress, they have no control over anything ask the Rockerfellers ..we are just fucked
WOWWWWW some of you are so dumb. Here are the FACTS (which not many of you seem to know, yet enjoy having a fervent opinion about, scary). IF we drill, we are talking about very small oil reserves that will take YEARS (more than the 10 you all are talking about). 2012 before ppl get permits to drill, 2018 before they are drilling, and longer before we see even that trickly of oil. Drilling would produce about 200,000 barrels of oil/day. Do you know how much oil the US is predicted to need DAILY at that time? 21 MILLION BARRELS!!!!! Drilling WILL NOT help. Idiots. I feel bad for the poor people suffering at the pump, but as people have said before, Bush, and many others in Congress haven't done what is best for the country or the world or our future, because there was too much profit in it for them to keep the oil companies happy. Even if you hate the environment and don't care, at least know the facts on how LAME a solution drilling is to our energy crisis, and realize it will cost too much and not save you any money, and hate it on that principal.
I used to be against off shore drilling. Now, I believe we must drill, use nuclear energy and every option on the table. We need short and LONG time relief. Just think if we would have started this 10 years ago!
It is funny. Greedy american fools give their kids cars, so now every person over 16 is driving and using gasoline. Kids take cars to college. COME ON!!! NO wonder they are all fat, fat little girls with muffin-top cause mommy and daddy sent them to college with a car. Really, colleges should not permit cars on campus. These kids should stay on campus or in the college town. It is amazing to go to PENN STATE and see the suburban sprawl. The college kids are too spoiled and leave campus to spend their parents money, and go shopping and eat at applebees. Then they cry about student loans, and their parents cry about gas prices. IN a country where 20 year old kids have SUVs and Flat Panel tvs gas shouldn't be a problem. Greedy, spoiled, selfish, whiners. I mean, I see teenagers getting manicures and pedicures! People spend thousands of dollars on PETS! Yet, god forbid they have to pay a co-pay for their medication! People spend more out of pocket on their animals than their damn kids medical bills! It is crazy!
Yeah… but who are we going to out source the refining of all this extra oil too? We refine at capacity now. There go the Republicans playing the stupid card again. I hope to god by the time we actually get the oil in 10+ years that we are no longer dependent on oil as a method of energy production. There are tons of other viable options that need to be persued. Oil is a non-renewable resource… so if we are thinking in the long term than we should start thinking about it running out too… your friendly neighborhood economist
OF COURSE HE SUPPORTS DRILLING NO MATTER WHERE IT IS….THE MOTHER EFFER HAS LOADS OF SHARES IN HALIBURTON
1. Yes, we do need to build more refineries, however, the government makes this very difficult. There are many expansions undergoing construction and in the process to build currently.
2. Bush does not determine the prices of oil. Market Traders and Supply and Demand (Economics 101 should have taught you that).
3. Alternative fuels: yes we need them. When will it happen? When oil companies are ready. They are the ones with the massive bank accounts with funding for this.
4. Drilling offshore will allow us to
a. create more jobs in the US
b. stop importing 70% of our oil
c. allow us to get the oil from the gulf… which is much easier than the canadian sand minds which is where O&G companies are looking at getting their sources next. Because it is so difficult to get gas from these reservoirs, price goes up.
5. Actually, you are wrong COMMO… there are not more barrels of oil being produced everyday. Instead of making gasoline with their crude oil (which is probably what you meant to say), oil companies are making asphalt and other biproducts of crude because it makes them more money. The prices of oil are not hitting the gas stations as fast as they actually are increasing.
6. If you think we should have more regulation, move to Europe.
7. If we used all the corn in Nebraska that would still not make up for 10% of our energy usage.
The latest poll shows Congress has
a nine percent approval rating, the lowest
in history for a Congress.
(Bush's approval rating is twenty six percent.)
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The richest woman in Congress, Nancy Pelosi
and her Democratic cohorts will not approve
off shore drilling or even allow it to come to
a vote.
Nancy wants gas prices to remain sky high
because she and the Democrats think it will
help their party in the elections because
many people think the President sets gas prices.
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Your food and gas prices are madly high and
you can thank the Democratic Congress and Nancy
for not allowing America to drill for oil.
Rash Manly
RE: BIFF read comment 37. Also the price of gas in Mexico ie Tiajuana is $2.50. The dont speculate on oil there. So if Mexico with all of its glorious industrialization and corruption can be $ 2.50 so can we.
Stop trying to be political. Stick to gossip.
It has to be better than our entire economy depending on imports for unstable regions in the world. If we want affordable energy, where going to have to ugly up our topography a bit. Sucks, but it was self rightous for us to think otherwise for as long as we did.
When America demands off shore drilling,
the Democrats responds saying
"It will be ten years before we would
even get any oil from offshore drilling."
.
Ten years ago, Bill Clinton did not
allow off shore drilling because he said
it would be ten years ago before we
got any oil from it.
Now the ten years have passed.
.
The actual figure is more like three years,
using the latest drilling methods.
.
Democrats want a poor American public
so we will have to depend on government
programs and handouts to survive.
This ensures they will never be voted out
of office and have lifetime political jobs.
I'm not the hugest fan of Bush, but at least he's doing something, right? I mean its not like he can force congress to remove their ban… at this point all he can do is pressure…. good boy Georgie…
the patriot act gives the president executive right to overpower congress and do whatever the hell he wants SO FUCK YOU AMERICA!!! THE LAST REAL ACT CONGRESS MADE WAS THE PATRIOT ACT WHICH IS THE MOST NON-PATRIOTIC ACT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!! THE CONSTITUTION IS NOW A DENNY'S PLACEMAT THAT YOU CAN COLOR IN WITH CRAYONS!!! GWB IS A WMD!!! SENATOR DENNIS KUCINICH IS SEEKING TO IMPEACH BUSH!!! BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!! DO A GOOGLE SEARCH…INFORM YOURSELF AMERICA!!! BEING STUPID IS NOT SEXY!!!
It's about damn time!!!
So Perez with over 50% of the gas price being due to specualtors on both side of the party line. Reduce the cost of a barrel by half and we pay $2.00$2.50
Why dont you do a little research and post the facts on your forum. Its ok to be political as long as you are not biased. Do your readers a service.
smart move! Should have done this ten years ago. If it were being portrayed as the solution to our energy problem than i would disagree but we will be dependent on oil for some time. Unless Obama promises we won't need oil in ten years this is a must. Why allow millions of dollars to fall into terrorist hands and into the hands of people who run radical schools which brainwash muslim children.
Liberals won't get serious about global warming thats a fact. If they were they'd embrace nuclear energy. A must if we want to drastically cut Co2 emissions and not go back to living in log houses.
Finally! But Congress won't pass it. There is no such thing a unity when it comes to the Republicans & Democrats!
Gasoline in Mexico is cheap
for the people because their government
pays part of the cost to keep price low
for their people to keep them from revolting
and wanting a change in their government.
By the way, they are going to quit that program soon
and their gas prices are going up also.
SPECULATION IN THE ENERGY RESOURCES MUST BE PROHIBITED AND RENEWABLE ENERGIES MUST BE DEVELOPPED AND INTERNATIONALLY IMPOSED TO PRESERVE OUR PLANET AND ITS BIODIVERSITY.
Yeah. Let's not drill and let China have all the oil 50 miles off Florida's coast, courtesy of Cuba. Good move!
Someone's going to drill. It might as well be us.
Re: wowo – ahahahhahhahah
honestly- it's a start and way better than doing nothing. the US is in crisis mode and it's a relief to see G-dub take some form of action against the rising gas pricies. all in all i dont think it'll help but at least he's thinking- who knows next he'll actually consider alternative fuel for America
Anwar is 19 million acres
and America needs 2000 acres
to drill on for oil.
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TWO THOUSAND ACRES
OUT OF NINETEEN MILLION ACRES!!!
Its about fucking time! Also, lets get in on the oil shale, too. 2 decades of oil there. That should give us plenty o' time to think up alternate energies AND make them available. The Dems are KILLING us right now!
ITS BETTER THAN LETTING OTHER COUNTRIES DRILL FOR OIL. THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE UPSET OVER OUR REEFS AND WHATNOT OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA… BUT IF THE US DRILLS IT WILL TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS NOT TO HURT OUR WATERS. OTHER COUNTRIES? THEY WOULDN'T GIVE A SHIT. "OOPS, SORRY!" YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE DEVIL YOU KNOW NOT THE DEVIL YOU DON'T. IT WONT MAKE AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT BUT YEARS DOWN THE ROAD YOU WILL SEE HOW IT WILL MAKE THINGS A BIT BETTER!
Start building more nuclear power plants, drill for oil here in the US and devise new methods for alternative energy. We CAN do it all. And we can do it FOR OUR COUNTRY, the greatest country ever!!! Borders, language and culture! Don't forget it.
Re: Oil – It's good…for China, the country who most of the oil will be sold to. Yeah for corporate greed!
Whats the point? By the time we find it and build new refineries it will be 10 to 20 years before we see that oil anywayl Lets take that time and money and put it into cheaper renewable energy sources.
Oh my god. He's so stupid. That money should be put into ways to help us become independant of oil. OIL IS NOT RENEWABLE! The demand is always going to be higher than the supply if this continues. He's such an idiot.
MAYBE if more money was put into electric cars we wouldn't have to worry about oil at all. But noooo.. stupid Bush…
If fuckface thinks it's a good idea, odds are VERY good that it is not.
notice how the people who don't know what this s talkeing about are thew ones with insults?
Way to show how stupid liberals are!!
Re: Oil – oil, blow it out your dripping asshole.
Yes, this is the short term answer. What other choices do we have?
Speaker Pelosi blamed the GOP two years ago, and what has she done to help the American gas consumer? NADA!
HE'S GONNA RUIN THE BEAUTY OF ALASKA….
Idiots Republicans, anwer this: if Bill Clinton is to blame for not drilling 10 years ago (when gas was dirt cheaper) than how come Dumbya supported the ban on off-shore drilling for the last 7 years. How come you stupid hero or the Republican Congress didn't drill earlier???
Re: Rash – rash-get your facts straight; it was president george herbert walker bush who signed the executive order banning off shore drilling. what a fucking idiot you are. i'll bet you have to have somebody dress you in the morning.
I live on the West Coast of Florida and this would completley ruin our tourist industry.
I just hope congress sticks to its guns & voting habits and continues to vote against drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. If they dont & approve drilling there, it would a complete disaster! Our tourist industry would be shot to hell. Our beautiful beaches would be completley destroyed.
THERE WOULD BE NO IMMEDIATE RESULTS from drilling!
It would take years for the oil to be converted and be used for the public.
How stupid is this president?!!? January 2009 needs to get here like yesterday!
Drill here!
Drill now!
Save lives and money.
and i bet you wanted an all democrat congress perez. see what good it is doing now? THE ALL TIME WORST AND USELESS CONGRESS EVER!!! LOWEST RATED - EVEN MORE SO THAN BUSH! man, our politics in this country suck. i don't think we have anyone good ANYWHERE!
About damn time! If they had listened to Bush the first time he proposed this 6 years ago, we wouldn't have the gas crisis we have now!
WRONG WRONG WRONG. DUDE, what about the animals? Fucking Bush is a stupid motherfucker. This ban life is terrible.
People get stupider every fucking day… excuse me, HOUR.
It is the best answer, especially for long term. We also still need to find other alternatives. Plus-look at all the energy it takes for shipping the oil to the U.S. It is another step towards becoming environmentally friendly!
I wonder how many of the hippies here still have mommy and daddy pay for their gas? Cheap energy made this country great and gives us the luxury of saving animals and the environment. When our society is in the crapper after oil cost spiral out of control, people are going to kill California condors or any other endangered animal just to survive — just like they do in Africa. Do the vegans here realize that the plastic they use instead of leather comes from oil? Idiots.
Re: Sandy –
wow - you sound really educated - did you get your information from the Huffington Post - fucking idiot -
Nope, won't mean anything until the dumb ass Democrats get off their ass and allow drilling. The Dems are ruining this country and blaming it on GWB. That's what they do best.
Re: Jana – Totally agree Jana! We are totally screwed if Obama is elected for President.
people, don't buy into the idea that exploration will do the least bit to change the current cost of gasoline. that's a myth. furthermore, blaming the congress is lame and a tactic used for the past two years by the criminal executive branch to distract the voter from the real issues. Bush doesn't give a damn what Congress thinks anyhow. there are current leases already owned by the US atop HUGE reserves. they could have been extracting oil from sites that were drilled decades ago if they wanted to. look into why not. for starters, limiting the amount of oil production makes the cost of gas go up, and who benefits from that? they have twisted this into a partisan affair to win the upcoming election. don't be dumb. do your research. after all, the cost of gas has quadrupled since bush has been in office and the oil companies continue to make record profits (the profit margin keeps growing). why do you think that is?
Apocalypse now!
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But seriously, can't we mandate some laws to have everyone start using hydrogen cars, or at least hybrids? Seriously….
Re: Cynth –
"Well thank god SOMETHINGS finally being done. Baby steps to a better tomorrow (more cost efficent to I hope)!"
Idiot like you are the reason why Bush was voted for a 2nd term.
Ever since the Dems got into congress,… our economy has gone to hell and gas has gone up as well as everything else.
I say DRILL!!!
You have to think of this in terms of what message this sends to the Middle East.
We have options and we will pusue them.
I agree with some of the previous posts. We need to drill for more oil, and we need to research alternative energy sources. Unfortunately, most alternative fuel sources that could supply energy in the amounts we need are fairly controversial right now, too. What no one seems to realize is that this has been a problem for some time. Most of us remember low gas prices within our lifetime. They've been rising for some time because of demand. We need to offset that demand with more supply. Also, no one who has done a modicum of research into the matter can produce factual evidence of coastal oil platforms hurting the environment, oceanic or otherwise. Stop your fear-mongering, and face facts. We need more oil, and this is what we need to do to get it, and reduce our dependency on other countries to get it for us.
Re: wowww –
Thanks to the intelligent posters for injecting some sanity into this forum. Its absolutely true that this is not even a "quick" fix; it will take forever to drill and refine, it will do nothing to stop rising gas prices now.
Alternative energy IS being researched and implemented in India and China (who also uses offshore drilling), for the xenophobes trying to scapegoat other countries for their own countries obsession with consumption.
Bush and his oil buddies are making a ton of money off his terms, as you saw through his wars. They won't make it cheaper for you unless you start to demand investments in renewable energy instead of fighting more wars. Bush's "victories" in Iraq and Afghanistan have fucked us over for years to come.
Bush is an idiot. Offshore drilling is not the answer to our energy problems. He needs to get his head out of the oil industries ass & find other "non oil" solutions. How about hemp? Oh wait, that's to fucking logical for Bush to consider.
Re: Laure –
"You have to think of this in terms of what message this sends to the Middle East.
We have options and we will pusue them."
Or perhaps, "maybe we should gouge the hell out of you now since you will be less dependent later."
It's not the Middle East raising prices, it's the insane price speculation in America to make the rich richer.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Our family needs this. Just the threat of us drilling will bring down the price of gas. We need to drill for oil locally, work on building more efficient/smaller cars, and expand public transportation. This is a move in the right direction! For once I agree with what our President is doing……it should have been sooner.
The democratic congress will sit by and do nothing just to screw over the republicans who are trying to help this country. They are a bunch of self serving asses who will hurt the rest of us just to paint republicans as bad when in actuality - they are the reason gas prices are $5 a gallon. In the words of Glenn Beck, "Screw the Caribou, drill Alaska." We have thousands of years of oil in several states and the ability to get 100 million barrels of oil a day if we were to drill in Alaska. But oh no, heaven forbid we relocate the caribou!
It is remarkable how wrong most of these comments are. Drilling doesn't pollute the environment, oil companies get 12 cents of every dollar for themselves, the rest is tax, drilling would create more jobs and bolster the economy, Bush DOES NOT control supply and demand of oil and therefore can in NO WAY affect the price of it, oil companies have explored ALL of the leased land they own, just can't build more refineries or ways to get at the oil, and supplying more oil into the system will ABSOLUTELY lower the prices. Estimates and guesswork mean nothing right now. Concrete fact only, and no one can find any evidence to prove me otherwise wrong. Well, credible evidence……
you democrats are dumbfucks
This is absolutely the answer. The ANWR is uninhabitable, and by drilling on .01% of it, we'd get billions of barrels of oil. That's not an exaggeration.
The answer to lower gas prices is oil. It's a simple as the answer to hunger is food.
tembo, you are such a fucktard
Re: Joe – Not true Joe, Congress were the ones who advised Bush to enter into the war with Iraq and when a Senator leaked information to the Press he used his Excutive Powers to keep information classified. But as always, Bush could not go to War without approval of Congress, get your facts right before you say things that aren't presently or historically true. And study you political science for pete's sake.
There are a reported 62 million acres currently under lease to the oil companies that are not being drilled. Why do they need more if they are not using what they have?
there isn't a need for offshore drilling ffs. this is a move to appease the idiots that think that's why our oil prices have jumped. it's not! great, now we can just finish off the animals & environment in those places. idiots.
drilling isn't the answer. why can't you people screaming for oil, not scream for alternative reusable resources! ugh. some of you people are so dumb it makes me want to cry. you are killing our economy & our environment.
Re: Jana –
Yes, let's deplete all of our natural resources until there is nothing left! Our Planet can take it- who cares about 20 years from now?!
i hope that monkey's ass drowns in a vat of oil