Offshore drilling is good for the environment.

[LordBrownTrout]

There isn't enough there to matter. And it isn't just a matter of saving a few species. It's a matter of saving the economy of a state. How many states do you want to ruin for oil?

Ruin? Not sure what you mean. There's a new reserve in the gulf that Conoco Phillips has discovered. There are over a trillion reserves in the Wyoming shales. Utah has some in their metamorphic rock also. Prudhoe Bay in Alaska also. This can be extracted now with environmental regs in place.

 

[Annie]

So he'd get re-elected. Almost everyone in Florida is against offshore drilling.

Yep, totally a NIMBY attitude, but one that the government needs to get past. The state of our economy, as a country and as individuals is at stake. If salaries should rise to cover the cost of going to work, then prices will follow. Hyperinflation is the word.

 

[Jeepers]

Maybe bush could lean on our opec friends to increase production.. every other president in the past has had that power.... why not now... either bush is an impotant prick or he is an unwilling prick [makin friends in texass]... either way he is still a prick...

 

[Dr Grump]

You do a disservice to pricks everywhere..

 

[SpidermanTuba]

What about all the waste oil and waste products that gets dumped off of oil rigs into the Gulf?

 

[Ravi]

Yep, totally a NIMBY attitude, but one that the government needs to get past. The state of our economy, as a country and as individuals is at stake. If salaries should rise to cover the cost of going to work, then prices will follow. Hyperinflation is the word.

So you are against state's rights?

 

[Jeepers]

The oil is there. Drill it. I'm not saying we should destroy the coral reefs but we do need to be realistic. I'd rather have people being able to afford a way to pay for gas so they can go to work versus saving a few species. And while we're doing this, push for new technologies.

Oil companies hold hundreds of leases on land that they dont drill... These companies give two shits about drilling the oil for some reason... its the leases that they want apparently... untill they tap the resources that they currently have, I see no reason to give them any new leases on federal land..

 

[glockmail]

If the nimby's cared about the environment they would insist we drill in the US under US environmental laws that prevent pollution, instead of in OPEC countries where such regulations don't exist. Also, since a lot of natural gas is expelled as part of the crude production process, that too can be used, instead of simply flared off as is done in areas where it is not cost effective to collect and transport.