Drill Me, Baby
MOTHER EARTH LIKES IT WHEN YOU GIVE IT TO HER LIKE THAT
FITSNews - July 15, 2008 - President George W. Bush has removed a long-standing Executive Branch ban on offshore drilling, meaning that if the U.S. Congress follows suit, we could see oil rigs dotting our national coastlines in the near future. Of course, Congress probably won’t follow suit seeing as the Democratic leadership put out a statement today saying that Bush should tap the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead of drilling.
Hmmm … drilling … tapping … sure seems like both sides are getting a little kinky with this whole petroleum debate. Now if we can just get somebody to use the term “raw dogging …”
Anyway, as much as we hate having to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline, we’d prefer to keep our oceans clean. If for no other reason than a clean Atlantic Ocean keeps Sic Willie out of the office for a whole week each year, which is something you really can’t put a price tag on.
Besides, as we’ve said all along, the solution to our nation’s energy problem isn’t drilling offshore, tapping our reserves or raw-dogging … err, reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
It’s bombing the ever-living shit out of the people who have the oil … and then taking it from them.
Comments
By rick on July 15th, 2008 at 7:38 am
You may be right, nuc em’ we have the technology to drill thru glass….now seriously, When is someone with 2 brain cells to rub together going to figure out that a whole hog approach is the only answer. Nuclear power, drilling, and refining while at the same time the profits from these businesses are used to power research and development on solar, geothermal,wind. Just priced a solar hot water tank…$7,000 installed. While I understand the reluctance with off shore drilling, with the penalties of leaks on companies, well, the gulf didn’t during Katrina. The idea that drilling wouldn’t help with the rising costs, well the idea that eating wouldn’t solve the issue of hungry is about equal in stupidity. Increase the supply and you decrease the cost….always has, always will as long as demand remains equal. With the increase of demand, production must increase to keep the price steady. Think about it. The talking heads have their agenda’s, and you’re pain means little until their job is on the line. Right now, its all about the election in November and the Dems holding onto power, after November if Obama’s elected, then the strings will come untied and the oil will flow or Obama will be a one trick pony.
By offshore drilling aint the long term solution folks on July 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
From what I understand, all this drilling off our coasts would only result in approx. 2 years of U.S. demand for oil.
If this is the best alternative the bozos in Washington D.C. can come up with, we need to vote in some new bozos .
By drilling offshore is not the solution on July 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
This is off the news wire showing the relative unimportance of drilling offshore- although it sure sounds good to the ill-informed don”t it?
Experts agree that it would take at least seven and probably 10 years before any benefits from overturning the ban would become evident.
Annual American oil production is about 1.8 billion barrels, and the Interior Department estimates that as much as 19 billion barrels remain untapped in coastal areas that now are off limits to drillers.
If all 19 billion barrels were available, which is highly unlikely, the United States would have another 920 days, or 2.5 years, of supplies at current consumption rates.
By Mike Honcho on July 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
3&4 - it may not be a fix-all, but it is certainly a step in the right direction. By you logic, a terminally ill patient should refuse drugs that may stave off death, if only temporarily, with the hopes that a cure will emerge in the interim. We must do everything we can to ease the pain at the pump. A substitute for the internal combustion engine is NOT going to emerge any time soon. Why put Americans in more pain than necessary when there is help available? DRILL DRILL DRILL.
Fits - best caption yet. keep up the good work.
By Clay Pit Crew on July 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
So you leftist experts think that we won’t have $10 gasoline in 7 to 10 years? How far do you have to stick your heads into your a”"” before you see the sunlight? The fact is that we need to drill now. If we don’t start now, we’ll be at $10 gas and still have NO ANSWER.
By Cindy Lou on July 15th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
There’s a little thing called “speculation” that drives the price as well. If the offshore drilling happens, then the speculators will do their thing and the price will come down. It’s not all about the amount of oil they get with the drilling, it’s about the “speculation” of the amount of oil they are “going” to get. Yea, I know, it’s hard for some folks to understand.
By How about long term solutions people on July 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
#5
You have the logic of a coke addict- if you can find another couple of grams then you have scored the big one and have solved your problem for today and tomorrow. That is all you care about in your short term addicted mind . What you are proposing is not problem solving - it is simply feeding an unsustainable addiction.
Offshore drilling is a red herring designed to change the debate so the voters do not focus on serious long term solutions .
We need massive conservation efforts - mandated 50 mpg cars in the U.S. asap and a lot of other serious efforts to curb our addiction.
I can picture you 150 hundred years ago out trying to harpoon the last whale in the ocean so you could keep your candles burning one more week.
By Mike Honcho on July 16th, 2008 at 6:11 am
#8 - classic liberal. Oil is viewed as some kind of drug and amercians are on some sort of bender. I’m not driving my car around for sh*ts and giggles. I drive to work and the grocery store, and right now it costs me an arm and a leg. You want me to pay another arm and a leg to purchase a “green” car right now, which I can’t afford. The worst part is that you want to force me to buy a green car by limiting the supply of oil. And for what? Because you think you know best. Well, screw you and Obama, and all the rest of you do-good know-nothing asswipes.
By rick on July 16th, 2008 at 7:11 am
The information coming from all sources is being distorted to reflect each point of view. Whether or not we like it or not, our economy runs on oil and it’s dirivatives. This isn’t going to change just because we all sit around the fire and do a ooooom session. The reality for all of us is Obuma is already looking for $12.00 a gallon oil. Waiting for another 10 years to begin the process of drilling and processing will put this nation solidly on the path to 3rd world status. I watched during the 70’s and 80’s when natural gas prices spiked and glass manufacturing facilities went out of business. The same will happen to manufacturing of byproducts of the oil market. Until we realize there is no one solution, that all options must be recognized, will we begin to deal with this issue in a constructive way. Right now, it’s all smoke and mirrors with all sides trying to win the argument and to hell with their opponents view. Not good for America, not good for the low wage worker. The ball is in the Congresses court, they have the opportunity to set the course and all I hear is “no we can’t”. Dems had better get the lead out before the majority of America realizes whats going on and they pay the piper.
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