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National Review Online: But Neither Presidential Candidate Gets It
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- I may be wrong about this but I was under the impression that oil was traded on the world market. If that is true it wouldn''t make any difference how much oil was produced in the US and off shore. It would be sold on the world market and would probably end up in Japan or some other country that has no oil. As for lowering prices, it wouldn''t because if there is an increase in supply it will cause an increase in demand so why all the fuss about drilling here? The NRO is just doing what they always do. Trying to make the republicans look like heros and the democrats look like the devil himself. Their articles are so slanted they almost slide off the page.
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- What is needed is a sensible approach to alternative energy supplies NOT more drilling
Posted by p-syrus at 04:04 PM : Jun 10, 2008
The United States consumes about 400 million gallons (1.51 billion litres) of gasoline every day. That does not include other oil and oil products. If we are going to rely on alternative fuels only, we will have to come up with a massive progam to replace oil. - Reply to this comment
- Fatuous Republican Corporate Toadies.
What is needed is a sensible approach to alternative energy supplies NOT more drilling. The cure for addiction is not more of the drug. - Reply to this comment
- NRO
YOU DONT GET IT!
TAKE YOUR PUBLICATION BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST LOBBIEST WHO FUND IT ROLL IT UP IN A BALL AND STUFF IT!
AMERICA IS TIRED OF YOU AND YOUR LOBBIEST! - Reply to this comment
- They''re not drilling because there isn''t enough oil most places to pay back drilling costs.
Same reason you don''t look for gold in Florida.
And if they drilled everyplace, when that''s gone, the crunch is going to be that much worse.
Typical $hit from the Nether Repugniscum Orif*ce! - Reply to this comment
- Screw gas! I''m building an Electric car.
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- This article would have made more sense if the author had defined what ''cap and trade'' is. I''ve never heard the term.
Also, there''s an awful lot of empty space in Montana and N. Dakota that is not a wilderness area. Why are these off-limits to drilling? All I ever hear about is ANWR, ANWR, ANWR.
Why no mention of the oil in Montana, North Dakota and up in Canada. You''d think the local landowners (or whomever owns the mineral rights) would be falling all over themselves to start the drilling at $120 a barrel. - Reply to this comment
- Time to send the activists packing, they are an insignificant voting block and do not speak for the majority, Drill that oil and build nuclear power plants.
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- If it''s really all about getting off oil and saving the environment, then $4 gasoline is the perfect solution. People can''t afford it and they will look to alternative fuels. Why haven''t we switched before now? Because oil/gasoline is the most economical fuel available. Unless you do something to change that, people will use it and won''t care about putting money into alternative fuels. Liberals want people to stop using gas, but keep gas at a cheap price. It won''t work, because as long as gasoline is cheap, people will continue to use it. Big oil is making record profits, but they are selling the most used product in the world. Their profit margins are far less than most companies. If other companies made sales of their products in similar numbers they would make far more than big oil.
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- More oil isn''t the answer. Moving off dependence on oil is the answer. Most intelligent, reasonable people understand that.
Not the NRO. They continue to pull the republican party line - STAY THE COURSE.
Biggest bunch of lemmings I ever saw. And we''re all in midair AFTER the cliff.
Time for Obama. Time for a change. - Reply to this comment
- Excuse me,
It''s the oil companies that are making the gross profits today. These are the same companies who will drill and make even greater profits from a resource that truly belongs to every citizen in the US and not just the Alaskans that have been getting subsidized from oil profits generated in their state.
Do not let the oil companies let you think that allowing them to drill will alleviate oil prices. The price of oil is unsubstantiated today, this is something Saudi Arabia has stated and is looking into.
Perhaps now is the time to socialize domestic oil production. Oil is more important than the US mail. - Reply to this comment
- You have to be kidding...
It is all about GETTING OFF OIL, not drilling for more.
Take the $Billions of profit & tax cuts for big oil and invest it in alternative fuels.
Then we can get out of Iraq because we will not need their oil anymore.
The cantidate that gets this message will be the best president ever... - Reply to this comment
