Comments on: Voters Say "Drill"

National Review Online: But Neither Presidential Candidate Gets It

[juliemd]

These guys with the NRO...scary, scary s o b s...let the reader beware. Lies are the new "facts".

[joyous88]

one more propaganda hit piece from the NRO,

they will do and say anything to support big oil and the fascist party of the republicons,

so what if we drill, we will not run out of oil soon enough?

Lets try to think outside the box for once, and this is precisely what is wrong with the republicon party,

only the statu quo works for them never anything new

[jon2012-2009]

The NRO does a good job representing conservative views but sadly it has no track record of representing the facts fairly. True, there is oil in the ground here in the U.S. The important question is the amount that is available and still accessible. This article makes no reference as to how much more oil we can pump out of the ground and for how long to meet how much of current demand. My information is that it will boost a short-term spike in supply lasting less than a year but it will not erase the huge monthly oil bill we face from oil-producing countries. And the higher cost associated with extracting this oil will be compounded by more serious environmental damage. We need to see these numbers.

Would this guarantee relief at the pump? Good question. But it would sure make more money for special interests who are pulling out all stops. Next, what happens after this new oil is tapped out? We''ll be back where we were before but with worse problems with pollution and climate change. We might as well get started seriously restructuring the economy and changing our consumption. If the prospect of additional oil is going to hurt our ability to make those hard decisions, I''d say it''s not worth it.

[homjett]

We can do all the things mentioned in most of these post. But not to drill along with finding other resources for energy is a being out of touch with the rest of the world. Wind is good for electric, solar is good for heating, but without oil there are so many products that cannot be made. We need to throw out these rich folk in Congress an get folks in that understand we need to drill an save our economy, which we can do without hurting the enviorment.

[aldon61]

This article is so slanted and biased as to be ridiculous. We need to break our dependence from foreign oil and start producing alternative evergy sources. The technologies are already here, but to date, no one is stepping up with a viable, mass produced product. I guess too many people are invested in EXXON, etal and don''t want to rock the boat; what a shame!

[drivelphobe]

What the voters want means nothing to the politicians. They feel ordained with special knowledge about what is necessary. Somehow they know about oil, borders, windfall profits, entitlements for illegals, sanctuary city status, and the gifting of huge amounts of money to foreign countries, like the $1.6 billion to Mexico. We, the People, are only important during the election cycle. After that, we are nothing but a taxable mass with no ability to make any decisions about anything. We need t make more phone calls and shut their system down again. It is disgusting how these people perceive reality. Why shouldn''t we drill here? If there''s oil here then let''s get it. Let''s cut off relations with the primitive, inhuman hordes of middle-easterners. Where''s our nuclear program?

[shingles1]

The National Review''s figures of "400 billion barrels of oil" for the Bakken Fields are pure junk.

The US Geological Service (part of the Dept. of the Interior) just this year estimated that up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from these fields.

4.3 billion is nothing to laugh at, but tossing out the 400 billion number is completely dishonest.

And by the ways I''m in favor of BOTH drilling here in US while at the same time funding a high priority search for alternative sources of energy.

[consciousnes]

WHEN ARE PEOPLE, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WORLD GOING TO REALIZE THAT THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ABILITY TO WEAN THE WORLD OFF OIL IS "HERE NOW"
NOT NEXT YEAR, NOT THE NEXT DECADE, NOT THE NEXT CENTURY, BUT "NOW".
Quit *** around with the BS about oil and start working on the change that "NEEDS" to be done "NOW".
How many times do you have to hit an idiot in the head with a 2 x 4 to wake them up to the fact that oil if finite and we "NEED" to work on other forms of energy?
Water is the most plentiful resource on earth and can also be an extremely powerful energy source. The sun keeps the earth alive and can be used to produce water energy.
Lets go world, wake up and start NOW ! ! ! ! ! ! !!

[ljb6599]

There is not enough oil in this country to make a difference in oil prices.People are foolish and uninformed to believe that drilling could make a difference.The only thing that will help at this time is to decrease consumption and drive more fuel efficient cars.We had an opportunity to do something about this 20 years ago and we chose to do nothing.Now we all need to suffer the consequences!!

[messiahx4eve]

The GOP is on a suicidal run and wants to take the whole planet with them, ALL life. The COST: Us, the taxpayers, Them, all profits and windfalls. Does this sound like a fair exchange, to the GOP and the oil companies, its a WINNER!!!!

[brianbwb-2009]

"Almost 60% of China''''s oil comes from the Middle East. It will increase to 70% by 2015. If we don''''t buy gas at $4 a gallon, China will be happy to take up the slack. Not to drill for oil in America is pure stupidity. Congress needs to remove its head from its rear ASAP."
Posted by andylance1

So why shouldn''t we as a people, reap the benefits of selling oil to the Chinese, why should the money go to a few private corporations?

If we drill, then the oil comes from American soil should be the property of the American people, not some unpatriotic private companies.

Nationalize all American oilfields, then the proceeds from the sale of oil will go to the US treasury.

[andylance1]

People forget that China is the second largest oil consumer, behind America. With the number of cars growing at 19% a year, projections show that China need for energy will increase 150 percent by 2020.

Almost 60% of China''s oil comes from the Middle East. It will increase to 70% by 2015. If we don''t buy gas at $4 a gallon, China will be happy to take up the slack.

Not to drill for oil in America is pure stupidity. Congress needs to remove its head from its rear ASAP.

[brianbwb-2009]

"More oil, more jobs, better wages, and low inflation. That%u2019s a winning GOP message this fall."

The problem is that everyone knows it is a GOP lie. An oil glut will not lower prices, the only new jobs will be at a few new McDonald''s restaurants that open up, the GOP will never vote for anything that helps increase wages, (labor costs), and low inflation would be achieved by increasing poverty.

Try pushing those lies to the voter, and the GOP will be lucky to get any more than 10% of the vote.

[brianbwb-2009]

"which is shrinking consumer paychecks and damaging corporate profits."

Again more neocon BS. Shrinking paychecks are the direct result of layoffs, union busting, and manufacturing relocation to slave labor states.

Corporate profits are down because of the decimation of the middle class, a direct result of neocon-derthal policies.

[brianbwb-2009]

"Sen. McCain has a great pro-growth plan to slash corporate tax rates, a move that would be a strong tonic for jobs and wages."

He must be keeping it to himself, because no one else has heard of the "great pro-growth plan", and everything we have heard so far is just more failed "trickle down" BS.

[brianbwb-2009]

"Voters Say "Drill" National Review Online: But Neither Presidential Candidate Gets It"

Probably because the voters who say "drill" have been brainwashed by the neocon-derthals, with the aid of a compliant and complicit media, into believing that drilling will solve problems that are not related to the supply.

America''s stockpiles are full, the reserves are at 98% capacity, but the price of oil is the result of monopolistic collusion to force US oil prices into line with the rest of the world.

Big oil''s profits are the highest in history, and they simply will not allow the price to drop, no matter how many barrels they suck from the ground.

Anyone believing otherwise deserves the a*nal reaming they are getting from Bush''s friends.

[variant_530]

C''mon people is a melding of all ideas called "distributed energy" contributing to a common grid. We''ll need this when all you "now" hippies plug in your hybrids. The coal fired power plants will be burning at their peak then. Go Long Coal.....

[samthetvcat]

What a strange argument to make . . . all the articles I''ve been able to find on the effect drilling in ANWAR would have on the price of gas say it wouldn''t even be possible for at least 9 years, and that after 20 it''d still only lower the price of a barrel of oil somewhere from 30 cents to $1.44 in today''s current prices based on oil''s current market price of around $140 (USNews, ''Arctic Drilling Wouldn''t Cool High Oil Prices'')

Contrast this with the observation made by the former chief of the New York Federal Reserve''s Industrial Economies Division that the weakened dollar has accounted for as much as $40 of the price increase in the cost of a barrel of oil. FORTY DOLLARS! (Wall Street Journal, ''Oil Is Up Because the Dollar Is Down'')

So if the assessments are true, the GOPigs are saying that they caused the price of a barrel of oil to rise around $40 a barrel, and we Dems are the bad guys because we won''t let the greedy GOP make restitutions for $1 of that $40 screw up which would involve destroying the homes of the Alaskan moose and bears.

GOP suck!

[irliberal]

Oop, below should have read "in congress will take power."

[irliberal]

The Republicans block all other strategies - their strategy is to force anwar drilling, and they don''t care if they force everyone to pay $10/gallon to do it.

I have news for all selfish, nasty Republicans: Soon, very soon, a Democratic president along with a filibuster proof Democratic majority in congress

You will not touch Anwar. The Arctic National Wildlife refuge will remain pristine, despite your worst efforts.

The solution is energy renewable energy alternatives everyone knows this. And that is what will happen. I am confident that two terms of GW Bush have taught the majority of the American public a harsh lesson they will not soon forget.