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What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?[/QUOTE
Do you deny that the gulf oil drilling ban has had no effect on prices?
Yeah...Obama and his pie in the sky ideas about solar and wind energy and his idiotic drilling bans.What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?
Jimmy Carter put in place a plan that would by now have made us at least competitive with Germany in its development of solar technology which presently supplies over 25% of their electrical energy. Because we import only 20% of our energy (oil) from the Middle East we would by now be totally independent of that source.Yeah...Obama and his pie in the sky ideas about solar and wind energy and his idiotic drilling bans.What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?
Clinton and his seizing of lands under which there are billions of barrels of unharvested oil and natural gas.
To respond to both posts..Bush created much of the problems that drove the oil prices up with his incompetant and idiotic adventures in the Mideast. Today, the problems are created by the people in the Mideast that wish to have a say in their own government.
In both cases, there is also the background fact of rising demand and declining production.
What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?[/QUOTE
Do you deny that the gulf oil drilling ban has had no effect on prices?
i just find it interesting that the same people who were blaming bush for the high gas prices three years ago are steadily mum over the current rapid increase. If it was bush's fault then, is it not obama's fault now?
What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?[/QUOTE
Do you deny that the gulf oil drilling ban has had no effect on prices?
It's about state rights. Here in Florida for example we should have the right to either allow, or deny oil drilling off of our shores. The constitution doesn't grant the federal government-or any body to either allow, or restrict oil drilling. Therefore it's up to the states individually.
We don't want drilling because it'll greatly hinder our economy. Our tourism would get hit really hard-let alone if something like the BP spill happened again, which would then hit our fishing, boating, ports, etc.. We have too much to risk just to slightly lower gas prices for the nation as a whole. Floridians shouldn't be subjected to unconstitutional risks to our economy just for people in the other 49 states (talk about big government).
The majority of Floridians are against off-shore drilling here. It's against our state law not to drill here. If you can point out an area of the US constitution that states the federal government has the right to overstep that law-by all means show it. If you can't (which you can't)-too bad, so sad-get over it.
Bush created much of the problems that drove the oil prices up with his incompetant and idiotic adventures in the Mideast. Today, the problems are created by the people in the Mideast that wish to have a say in their own government.
In both cases, there is also the background fact of rising demand and declining production.
Jimmy Carter put in place a plan that would by now have made us at least competitive with Germany in its development of solar technology which presently supplies over 25% of their electrical energy. Because we import only 20% of our energy (oil) from the Middle East we would by now be totally independent of that source.
But Ronald Reagan scrapped Carter's solar energy plan and he removed the solar panels that Carter had installed on the White House roof.
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It's about state rights. Here in Florida for example we should have the right to either allow, or deny oil drilling off of our shores. The constitution doesn't grant the federal government-or any body to either allow, or restrict oil drilling. Therefore it's up to the states individually.
We don't want drilling because it'll greatly hinder our economy. Our tourism would get hit really hard-let alone if something like the BP spill happened again, which would then hit our fishing, boating, ports, etc.. We have too much to risk just to slightly lower gas prices for the nation as a whole. Floridians shouldn't be subjected to unconstitutional risks to our economy just for people in the other 49 states (talk about big government).
The majority of Floridians are against off-shore drilling here. It's against our state law not to drill here. If you can point out an area of the US constitution that states the federal government has the right to overstep that law-by all means show it. If you can't (which you can't)-too bad, so sad-get over it.
The majority of Floridians aren't even Floridians. They live half the year in New York or New Jersey.
You go ahead and keep buying into the enviro-nazi propaganda. If there were oil rigs off the FL coast, you would not have a clue their presence. The entire story behind FL's off shore ban was based on the California spills of the 1970's. Oil production technology is far more advanced. The BP explosion was an accident.
If anything, FL taxpayers would benefit from off shore oil production in the form of royalties from said production.
Look, it's either we here in the US start realizing that with economic freedom comes a little risk or we remain under the thumb of people who don't like us very much.
BTW, to a certain distance off the shoreline ,yes the State has jurisdiction. Beyond that , I believe it is three miles, offshore waters come under federal jurisdiction. It is through cooperation between the federal government and states that offshore drilling is limted.
However, if push came to shove and the country needed the oil, we'd get it. and of course the respective state would receive ample compensation.
This is not about "slightly lower gas prices"..This is about doing the right thing and harvesting our own natural resources. You complain about risk. You mention fisheries and tourism twice. Sounds like you have an agenda. an agenda that is somewhat self centered.
Newsflash...we're all in this together. Last time I checked Florida was still part of the United States of America.
This is about economic independence and economic security. Do not ever forget that.
We don't get to that point without a little risk.
If we used your theory about avoiding risk, there would be no air travel and no cars.
The States Rights clause in the Constitution does not apply here.
$8/gallon is the goal. That is the point of success for the Obama regime.Obama's plan to get us off the use of oil is to get the price of gas up to $7 per gallon. He's well on his way to achieving that goal.
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What makes anyone think that Obama, or any other President, has sway over world oil pricing?[/QUOTE
Do you deny that the gulf oil drilling ban has had no effect on prices?
It didn't even when the disaster was taking place. You DO know, I hope, that all oil drilled in the United States doesn't stay in the United States. That, and the deep sea drilling moratorium was lifted last October. You might begin by keeping current, then move to any one of hundreds of articles that will tell you that oil is a speculative commodity, it's price depending on betting how high it will go.
