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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
To Drill or Not to Drill (Offshore Oil Drilling).I think we should allow domestic offshore oil drilling.Here's why: Why should we have to pay foreigners for all our oil when we have some right under our noses? Even scriptures tell us that God created all those resources for us to use. He put all the oil, gold, minerals and other resources there for us to use and help us out. If we are careful stewards of these possessions, I don't see the problem. So yes, President Bush should lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling that his father initiated 18 years ago. Circumstances do change. Yet, I don't think that will lower the prices, because there are just too many greedy people who want more or take advantage of these situations. But, we should use the resources given to us to use. That's MY opinion, now, tell me your opinion!
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Posted August 01, 2008
EelKat says:
If there was a way to ensure that they don't harm the animals while they do it, than I'd say go for it.
The gas prices are gone crazy, but it isn't the gas prices themselves that are the big problem. The price of gas has caused everything else to skyrocket.
I mean something really has to be done. Last December I was paying $7.89 for 50lbs of corn for my chickens, and last week I paid $16.39 for 50lbs. Last summer milk was under $3 a gallon. This summer I stopped buying milk after it went over $5.50 a gallon. Last sumer oranges were 10 fr a dollar, this summer they are $1.25 per orange! Pomergrants were .99c last year, they are $3.99 this year. Why? Because of the trucking shortage. Truckers can't afford gas to ship food to the stores, stores are raising prices because their shelves are not being restocked.
Did you know that in December it cost me $30 a month to buy cat, and now just 6 months later it cost me $90 per month for the same amount of catfood! That's triple the about in less than 6 months!
It was on the news last night that the food prices have gone up so much that people can no longer afford to pay their daily bills. They said there are home for closers at a rate of 8,000 per day, as a result, and they expect that number to rise over the next 2 months.... that's more for closers per day than we saw in the 1920's, which says to me that if something isn't done, and done soon, we are going to be hit with a second great depression and it'll make the last one look like a pleasant daydream.
I do question however, the fact that Texas and Alaska are already drilling enough oil for the country and yet we are not using it, because we are sending it overseas. Seems to me like it'd save a lot of money and bring gas prices back down under $2 a gallon.
Another thing, Canada produces just as much oil as Iraq... why don't we buy it from Canada?
Another thing... did you know that 78% of the money we pay for gas prices if tax? It is not the actual oil price that is cause the gas prices to go up as much as it is the sky rocketing taxes that the gov is adding on top of the base price of oil. There should be a cap on how much taxes they can charge for gas. I am so sick of the government lately.
The gov needs to start using the oil from our own country instead of buying overseas, AND they need to cut the gas tax.
Posted July 31, 2008
No way, Monkeybrain!
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Hurricane Affecting Oil Prices
The hurricane center said Gustav could grow to a Category 3 storm, with winds above 111 mph, by the time it hits the U.S. Gulf coast next week. Gustav could strike anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to Texas, but forecasters said there is a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed by at least tropical-storm-force winds.As much as 80 percent of the Gulf of Mexico's oil and gas production could be shut down as a precaution if Gustav enters as a major storm, weather research firm Planalytics predicted. Oil companies have already evacuated hundreds of workers from offshore platforms.
Retail gas prices rose Friday for the first time in 43 days as analysts warned that a direct hit on Gulf energy infrastructure could send pump prices hurtling toward $5 a gallon. Crude oil prices ended slightly lower in a volatile session as some traders feared supply disruptions and others bet the U.S. government will release supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
What Opponents Say
Opponents of offshore drilling say it would harm aquatic ecosystems by eroding wetlands, contaminating the water with chemicals, polluting the air, killing fish and dumping waste. We can do it without these problems if we are careful, although accidents do happen sometimes. Coastal Alert
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Ecosystems and Offshore Oil Drilling
US oil exploration could threaten ecosystems - 18 Jun 08
With fuel prices out of control, Americans are feeling the pinch at the pumps. And most are blaming the White House for not doing enough to ease their pain. Under fire, the US President has come up with a new energy plan. George Bush wants to increase the domestic production of gasoline in a controversial manner. He has asked Congress to lift a ban on offshore drilling for oil. If that happens, it would repeal an executive order signed by his father, President Herbert Walker Bush, in 1990, and open up environmentally-fragile areas to oil companies. Al Jazeera's Rosalind Jordan reports.
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White House Estimates
The White House estimates that there are 18 billion barrels of oil offshore that have not been exploited because of state bans, 10 billion to 12 billion in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the Green River Basin.Congressional Democrats introduced a bill last week to compel oil companies to begin utilizing federal land they already lease.
"Oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres they have already leased from the American people for the purpose of oil and natural gas production," said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey.
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# John McCain on Wednesday continues his pitch for offshore oil drilling
# GOP stands for Gas and Oil Party, Democratic congressman says
# President asks for end to legal ban on exploration in coastal waters
Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling.
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to prevent gridlock over energy.
Republican rival John McCain, who earlier dropped his opposition to offshore drilling, has been criticizing Obama on the stump and in broadcast ads for clinging to his opposition as gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon. Polls indicate these attacks have helped McCain gain ground on Obama.
"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.
"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage - I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."
Asked about Obama's comment, McCain said, "We need oil drilling and we need it now offshore. He has consistently opposed it. He has opposed nuclear power. He has opposed reprocessing. He has opposed storage." The GOP candidate said Obama doesn't have a plan equal to the nation's energy challenges.
In Congress, both parties have fought bitterly over energy policy for weeks, with Republicans pressing for more domestic oil drilling and Democrats railing about oil company profits. Despite hundreds of hours of House and Senate floor debate, lawmakers will leave Washington for their five-week summer hiatus this week with an empty tank.
"The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling," Obama said in the Post interview. "And so we don't want gridlock. We want to get something done."
Later, Obama issued a written statement warmly welcoming a proposal sent to Senate leaders Friday by 10 senators - five from each party. Their proposal seeks to break the impasse over offshore oil development and is expected to be examined more closely in September after Congress returns from its summer recess.
The so-called Gang of 10 plan would lift drilling bans in the eastern Gulf of Mexico within 50 miles of Florida's beaches and in the South Atlantic off Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, but only if a state agrees to the oil and gas development along its coast. The states would share in revenues from oil and gas development.
Drilling bans along the Pacific coast and the Northeast would remain in place under this compromise.
The plan also includes energy initiatives Obama has endorsed. "It would repeal tax breaks for oil companies so that we can invest billions in fuel-efficient cars, help our automakers re-tool, and make a genuine commitment to renewable sources of energy like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of clean, affordable biofuels," Obama noted.
"Like all compromises, it also includes steps that I haven't always supported," Obama conceded. "I remain skeptical that new offshore drilling will bring down gas prices in the short-term or significantly reduce our oil dependence in the long-term, though I do welcome the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact."
Nevertheless, Obama said the plan, put forward by mostly moderates and conservatives led by Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., "represents a good faith effort at a new bipartisan beginning."
Earlier in the day, Obama pushed for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to McCain's call for more offshore drilling.
The pitch for putting some of the economic burden of $4-a-gallon gasoline on the oil industry served a dual purpose for Obama: It allowed him to talk up an economic issue, seen by many as a strength for Democrats and a weakness for Republicans, and at the same time respond to criticism from McCain that Obama's opposition to offshore drilling leads to higher prices at the pump.
In linking McCain to the unpopular President Bush, Obama struck a theme from Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 campaign against President Jimmy Carter by asking a town-hall audience in St. Petersburg: "Do you think you are better off than you were four years ago or eight years ago? If you aren't better off, can you afford another four years?"
Obama primed the crowd by noting new government figures showing 51,000 jobs lost last month and citing 460,000 jobs lost over the last seven months. He tied other bad economic news from the Bush administration to McCain and offered his energy program as one route to relief.
"This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months," Obama said during a two-day campaign swing in Florida. "It will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills, or even to pay down your own debt."
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