How many of you are against or for offshore drilling?
Norway is a beautiful country and they are enviormentally sound people and they are self-sufficient. And they also export. Why can't we. France runs almost all of its power on nuclear power and they store it underground. And we don't.? And for those of those who think that offshore drilling won't decrease gas and fuel prices. You're wrong. Keeping money out of foreign hand makes the dollar stronger. And since it's close to good old Uncle Sam artificial marketing wouldn't be a global thing. And also if it was a mistake to not start drilling years ago we need to start now. Yeah and I here there's no oil on that land. Correct me if I'm wrong...but that's just my understanding. Yeah but not like Norway. We aren't self-sufficient either. Yeah but not like Norway. We aren't self-sufficient either.
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I am against it.
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I'm for it.
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For offshore, onshore, and anywhere else we can get it!
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what makes you think oil compines will drill if they can off the coast?they've already have 68 million acres leased that they haven't drilled.infact congress is trying to force them to drill there we're the 3'rd largest producer of oil in the world
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We export. Remember Love Canal? Three Mile Island? In our country we don't have good environmental track record by companies that aren't regulated.
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We have offshore oil drilling the big oil companies are just pushing for more government handouts
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If we don't, other countries will. Actually, they already are. So, the choice is, drill ourselves, with OUR environmental regulations & get the crude for ourselves, or allow other countries to do it, screw up our coastline with their more lax regulations, and then buy the oil from them at a higher price anyway? Hmmmm... let me think hard about this one.... Drill, baby, drill! I'm still for conservation & alternative energy R&D and all that, but for right now, lets face it.. we need the black gold.
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Absolutely necessary and it is all the more damaging to the U.S. and its sovereignty to continue to put off drilling and the building of refining capacity, while we continue to search for alternative fuels (and it sure is not ethanol you idiots in D.C.). Typical political BS and far too little, too late. Dems are fools to embrace emotional and misguided greens. The will of the people (the few reasonable ones) never seems sway the politicians who know very little about what America needs to remain a great country and a constantly developing world power. The majority of our current politicians are useless appendages who do little more than hasten the downfall of this great country.
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Definitely FOR it. (edit - I'm with you lasvegaspasses) I have heard that it is possible that $60 worth of each barrel of oil is speculation cost (investors betting that it will go even higher in price). If we started to provide more of our own oil for energy from our own land, no matter how or where we did it - the cost of oil would go down. Investors would bail out - making it go down even further. And best of all, foreign oil producers would lower their prices to compete in the market, just as they have before - lowering prices even more! I also support balance, however. Get the oil. Protect the environment. Always search for ways to improve our efficiency, reduce pollution, and discover / develop new forms of energy for us to grow and prosper. Protect our country and our people. We CAN have it all. God bless the United States of America, and the people that make it the U.S.A.!
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Im for it! Sarah Palin Govenor of Alaska explains it all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jnbiHAMuY
