Comments on: Reality Check On Offshore Drilling

Most Americans Support Lifting The Ban, But Experts Say Gas Prices Wouldn't Change

[promaclaura]

Drilling is a bunch of BS and everyone with any intelligence knows it. People say drill because they assume that the price will drop sharply right away and save them a lot, when exactly the opposite is true.
Posted by melchg

Wrong, I don''t know anyone who believes that prices will drop sharply when more drilling commences. Most want to do "everything" possible in our goal of energy independence. Every little bit will help and different energy sources can only compliment each other. We need oil production to support our military, if WW3 starts and the oil chain across the ocean is disrupted what will our military run on? Wind and Solar? We could be cut off and then where do we look, a system here in the U.S. that is defunct and shot down because it wouldn''t effect gas prices immediately. I want to be ready for the future and everything it brings, ignoring domestic oil supplies is stupid. Everyone else in the world is doing it, do we make a big bubble over the U.S. to protect our environment from those who are willing to drill and use oil? I guess we should just cough from the pollution created by China and India in our atmosphere and bend over and take it from the Middle East, all the while patting ourselves on the back for our superiority on environmental concerns.

[omega39-2009]

Where im from under-regulated oil and gas has caused some of the worst environmental disasters in the state. (the Macksville, Panning, Hutchinson sinkholes, the Burrton Special water quality area, the city of Wichita is having to spend hundreds of millions to protect their drinking water wells from Oilfield pollution) etc etc etc...

Posted by fedupwithit1

Another reason I cringe at the thought of more nuclear reactors. I have seen a propensity over the last 8 years of industry friendly lobbyists to be appointed to "regulate" the industry resulting in little or no oversight.

[georga999]

Do you really, Really, REALLY believe President George W. Bush?

If he was REALLY concerned about the AmerICAN people, he would do what NIXON did & put a CAP on Oil/Gas increases (NOT: HE IS AN OIL MAN). He would stop OIL Speculation (NOT: similar to the way he stopped his friends at ENRON''s|Energy Speculations-SCAMs..SEC). HE would RESTRICT U.S. OIL for AmerICAN USE ONLY (NOT: it''s going to the WORLD Market). He would start using our OIL Reserves (NOT: CONGRESS might find WHAT''s Really THERE). He would have urged CONGRESS to chg the Bill/LAW on new Cars from 35 MPG to 60 MPG by 2020 (NOT: SUV''s & Hummer''s). He would THANK AmerICANs for reducing their OIL/Gas Consumption last year by 5Mil Barrels & Challenge AmerICANs to get to 10Mil Barrels this year (HMMM: I think we are doing that without him asking us. But where did that oil go & why aren''t WE seeing any $avings at the pump?).

OIL is a Business for PROFIT! A Business to give Leasing Rights of U.S. RESOURCES to CORPorations! Take back the Leases from the 80+M acres and the 17Bill we GAVE them to drill Mr. Bush, before opening up an Leasing off any Coa$t. But I wouldn''t recommend putting anything there Mr. President, if GLOBAL Climate Chg (NOT: occurring, any Coastal platforms would be AT RISK Sir.

Can''t We The People just GET OFF THIS GRAVY Train & IMPEACH!

[promaclaura]

I don''t understand a group that can argue about issues based on a majority view for one issue then turn around and say a majority view on another issue is to be ignored. I understand the anger toward the Bush Administration and polls showing a majority are unhappy with Iraq, they want to see results and claim a majority is being ignored. So are we to ignore a majority in drilling domestically as well. Is a majority view only right when it supports your side or should it be across the board? The majority for drilling here represents Democrat''s and Republican''s, so the Bush oilmen are out to get us mentality is a non-issue from people who can''t set aside seeing red whenever "Bush" is mentioned.

[wellhell3]

The price of oil will probably never go down to $2.00 again. It''s getting expensive to get what''s there, and the world seems to need more. I don''t think we''re nearly OUT of oil like some lead us to believe, but oil is not finite.

And frankly I''d rather we be drilling and producing our own oil rather than supporting the sheiks in the Middle East.

Don''t let anybody bull ***** you! We can drill our own oil and loose this independence on foreigners. AND in the meantime be creating and developing the alternatives we''re eventually going to need.

And this tax the rich is the most ridiculous political scheme out there! If you tax the rich they will just have some other loophole created, or hide their money! Then who are you going to get to invest in all this new technology that we absolutely need! It''s cutting off your nose to spite your face!

[wellhell3]

The price of oil will probably never go down to $2.00 again. It''s getting expensive to get what''s there, and the world seems to need more. I don''t think we''re nearly OUT of oil like some lead us to believe, but oil is not finite.

And frankly I''d rather we be drilling and producing our own oil rather than supporting the sheiks in the Middle East.

Don''t let anybody bull ***** you! We can drill our own oil and loose this independence on foreigners. AND in the meantime be creating and developing the alternatives we''re eventually going to need.

And this tax the rich is the most ridiculous political scheme out there! If you tax the rich they will just have some other loophole created, or hide their money! Then who are you going to get to invest in all this new technology that we absolutely need! It''s cutting off your nose to spite your face!

[wellhell3]

Posted by bckrd1 at 09:29 AM : Jul 31, 2008

Please stop lying to yourself! The manipulating is going on by both sides! This is politics, open your eyes. It''s not kindergarten *** for tat...it''s the power brokers doing what they do best.

If you think one side or the other is lying to you more than the other, please turn in your voting card.

[micma-2009]

getoffmine



Supply and demand do go hand in hand but this will simply not increase world supply enough to lower the price. World supply, however, is only part of this problem. The price of oil would be betwen 80 and 100 dollars based on supply and demand alone. The weak dollar and speculators are the reason why oil has become so expensive. The weak dollar is caused by our record deficits and reckless speculation was opened up by something called the "Enron Loophole". Both of these things have been given to us by Republicans.

[kazoodan]

Posted by getoffmine at 09:21 AM : Jul 31, 2008

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Just because an oil company holds a lease, it doesn''t mean they actually have to drill. They can hold it just to make sure nobody else has access to it. Why wouldn''t they want to drill? If oil is $180 now and drops to, say, $130 after new drilling then that''s a $50 per barrel l0ss. Do they really want to make less per barrel after spending money on new rigs and refinerys?

[bckrd1]

psy_war is exactly right. The Repulsicans are manipulating people with more lies which is what they do best. People need to smarten up and realize they are being played for fools. This is exactly the end result Cheney''s Energy Meetings were looking for. Before they get out of Office they want offshore drilling on the table and passed so they and their cronies can get even wealthier. Don''t do it and don''t believe it.
The media needs to do a better job but it is no longer independent and they just tell people what the owner of the paper wants you to believe because they have their own agenda.