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!!!!