Comments on: Drill Me, Baby

By: Offshore Drilling Jobs

Offshore Drilling Jobs — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:20:45 +0000

Hi, you have a great blog here and you really are very talented and deserve an honest compliment. Thank you

By: rick

rick — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:11:47 +0000

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.

By: Mike Honcho

Mike Honcho — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:11:35 +0000

#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: How about long term solutions people

How about long term solutions people — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:12:15 +0000

#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: Cindy Lou

Cindy Lou — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:40:57 +0000

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: Clay Pit Crew

Clay Pit Crew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:17:57 +0000

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: Mike Honcho

Mike Honcho — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:20:58 +0000

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: drilling offshore is not the solution

drilling offshore is not the solution — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:22:27 +0000

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: offshore drilling aint the long term solution folks

offshore drilling aint the long term solution folks — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:06:02 +0000

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: rick

rick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:38:16 +0000

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.