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- Gas prices will not get much lower than they are now because it is not cost effective to keep drilling below a certain price. So don't expect your gas bills to plummet any time soon. The only way the industry will make money is to export overseas where they will pay more for their product. This is not about energy independence, it is about profit-making pure and simple. The industry has one of the worst safety records compared to any similar fossil fuel process. It's a dangerous business and they know there is a risk. But they are willing to risk human life for profits. The oil and gas industry will not protect you.
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- Rich or poor, Democrat or Republican, Christian or Atheist, we all need a healthy planet, with healthy oceans, fresh water, and soil to be healthy, ourselves. Stop name calling, stop whining and help do something about it, but certainly don't allow it to go on, unchecked. Just make 'em fix it. (Through jail time and fines, like other law breakers) THAT would make them a little more 'thoughtful' of what they do (or don't do)
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- STOP HAVING SO MANY KIDS!! LESS KIDS-LESS PETROLEUM NEEDS-PUT IT CORK ON IT FOLKS!!! MANDATORY STERILIZATION OF HUMANS!!
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- I would like to have more drilling. I want a natural gas line near my home. I also would like to see gas prices go down so DRILL BABY DRILL! DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!!
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- Indeed. It's risky business trying to keep up with us greedy Americans' consumption of oil, and this is what happens.
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- So...if we shut down all of the oil wells, parked the cars and rode horses, we'd have piles of horse manure all over the place, infestations by disease-carrying flies and methane pollution everywhere.
If we have nuclear power, we will all glow in the dark someday.
We won't have hydrogen power on a meaningful nationwide scale for 30-40 years...at best.
Most Americans can't ride bicycles anymore.
Back to oil...and fires, spills and explosions.
Works for me. Now get the environmentalists the hell out of the way and drill baby drill so we can afford the price of oil! - Reply to this comment
- You all are going to trust a news site that doesn't even know that it's called Alaska and not Arkansas?? lol...
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- This was an excellent, eye opening report. I watched it on the evening news Tuesday. It again emphasizes the need for a strong EPA and strong government regulations to protect the people, the environment, and wildlife from polluters and big money oil and gas companies. Cutting funding to the EPA is a colossal blunder, especially in lieu of the BP oil spill and the more recent nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan.
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- The problem is that the oil, coal, and gas industries have too much power over our government. Their lobbyists fight everything that could cost them any bit of profit. We need to diversify of energy sources - we need to develop every type of energy production that exists and then invent some more. And that means oil, gas, and coal, nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, biomass, ..everything. But its got to be done safely, with minimum damage to the environment - which is entirely possible. It wouldn't take that much to improve oil well and pipeline safety - we need better more reliable valves that would allow leaks to be stopped, better monitoring of pipelines, better and more inspections .... but the oil lobby won't allow it, because it cuts into their profits. If they had half the government control imposed on nuclear plants (which have an excellent safety record), none of this would be any issue. They also fight research and development of alternative energy sources - why is Germany and China leading us in solar? In Florida, they're going to give control of the solar industry to the big power companies - what's up with that? Why are we fighting in the Mideast? There's really only one reason - its because that's where the oil is - but we wouldn't need it that much if we diversified our energy sources
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- drill more gas lines please!!! I would love to have a gas line near my home so I can enjoy affordable energy!
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