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Our lives revolve around oil. Oil brings food to our stores, comprises the fibers in our carpets and makes the plastic in our DVDs. With demand so high it’s no wonder attention has turned to supply, with some advocating the U.S. lift the ban against drilling for oil off its coasts. Is offshore oil drilling a golden opportunity, or would it only create a tidal wave of disaster?
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Drill where the oil is, not just because you the lease
Are you joking?
Democrats submitted a reasonable bill giving oil companies more leases 50 miles off shore if the states want it (states rights), use American made equipment and labor, end oil tax subsidies and invest in alternative energies (funny, oil company advertisements say they are doing just that). Republicans don't like it and Bush might have to veto it. So much for the emergency Congress was supposed to stay and work on. I say we are throwing the bums out.
- tjhawknest33
September 23, 2008 7:31PM
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Throw all the bums out, Dems and Repubs
The dems have controlled congress for the last few years and are only just now doing anything. I say, vote out all incumbents and make the special interests buy off a whole new batch. Then throw them out in two more years. Rinse and Repeat.
- joelinda September 23, 2008 9:31PM
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You are partly right...
Dems have been in "control" for 2 years with the most fillabusters in history carried out in those two years. Trent Lott was quite up-front about thier intentions when he said they were going to roadblock everything and then run against the do-nothing Congress. Rinsing and repeating is wasting too much shampoo when we could buy the good stuff at the salon and go to publicly funded campaign finance. This would gain us a seat at the table. Right now we can't afford the wood. If you aren't living in a cave you are seeing on the TV and internets that the lobbyists and corporations are about to pull off the biggest heist in history. That 3 page document was an equivelent to a stick-up.
- tjhawknest33
September 25, 2008 8:51PM
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Good points, but I still believe we need to drill more here.
The lobbyists get their power from contributing to the re-election campaigns of incumbents. If we change the culture of US voters to one of voting out the incumbent, then the lobbyists would lose much of their leverage. Lobbying in its current form is the real evil of US politics.
Meanwhile, drill more in the US. Build nuclear, coal, and wind farm power plants. Find ways to make ethanol and bio-diesel from non-food materials like algae, weeds, and wood. Also, convert fleets to natural gas. Just a serious threat of backing for any of these initiatives, will have an immediate impact on the futures and spot markets for oil.
- joelinda September 28, 2008 4:11PM
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