Drilling extends dependence on oil

marman wrote:

Why does the sunpaper keep printing this liberal garbage. These damn people are nuts.

Now you're getting smarter!

The whole problem is very simple. Radioactive fuel will still burn just fine in my Expedition!

hypocrit wrote:

The whole problem is very simple. Radioactive fuel will still burn just fine in my Expedition!

My Hummer is a hybrid. It runs on both leaded and unleaded gas.

mememine69 wrote:

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My Hummer is a hybrid. It runs on both leaded and unleaded gas.

Where do you buy leaded gasoline anymore? Or is is the same a diesel?

Working Man wrote:

Drilling increases supply and supply puts downward pressure on price. Liberals like David care more about global warming theory than the cost for the working man to get to work and the cost fuel has on food etc. Liberals like David also block coal, gas, nuclear, and other forms of available energy and they block more refineries. They want the Arabs and Chavez to drill more but not us and which makes us more dependent on foreign oil. We need to stand up to the liberal obstructionist Democrats in Congress on this issue. The liberal Obama agrees with David. It is fine to promote alternatives but we have no substitute for oil for the foreseeable future and the problem will only get worse. We need an "all in-strategy" and should not listen to this type of obstrucionist nonsense.

Mr Working man. Yes any rational person cares more about the world than the cost of living for the working man. Your life on this planet will be measured in decades while our collective impact will be measured in centuries. What about your kids? What about theirs?

Why is it always about me me me. Sorry to break the news to you, but the environment and future of this country is far more important than you....sorry that's just the way the world works buddy.

gnulnx wrote:

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Mr Working man. Yes any rational person cares more about the world than the cost of living for the working man. Your life on this planet will be measured in decades while our collective impact will be measured in centuries. What about your kids? What about theirs?
Why is it always about me me me. Sorry to break the news to you, but the environment and future of this country is far more important than you....sorry that's just the way the world works buddy.

Ah so you are the one going around telling our kids that they don't have a future. Nice.
In the states 70% of it’s citizens own or mortgage a home. 97% of Americans are NOT homeless. We have an abundance of safe, plentiful and cheap food in our spacious stores and there is no other period in history that even you would want to live in.
I’m not sure what kind a mind it takes to always jump on the panic button and spread needless fear to everyone. Sure oil is bad for world peace but back in 1900 they wondered what to do with all of the horses needed by the year 2000. Have faith in progress at least.
Protect the environment. Preserve the environment. And most of all respect the environment instead of trying save and rescue it from a non-existent crisis with needles public agony and fear.

Fresh fish spoils in three days without refrigeration and spoils in two days when wrapped in the Baltimore Sun!

When the paper's subscriber numbers decidedly decrease, perhaps the owners will clean house and restore some balance to this newspaper's liberal leanings!

mememine69 wrote:

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Ah so you are the one going around telling our kids that they don't have a future. Nice.
In the states 70% of it’s citizens own or mortgage a home. 97% of Americans are NOT homeless. We have an abundance of safe, plentiful and cheap food in our spacious stores and there is no other period in history that even you would want to live in.
I’m not sure what kind a mind it takes to always jump on the panic button and spread needless fear to everyone. Sure oil is bad for world peace but back in 1900 they wondered what to do with all of the horses needed by the year 2000. Have faith in progress at least.
Protect the environment. Preserve the environment. And most of all respect the environment instead of trying save and rescue it from a non-existent crisis with needles public agony and fear.

Well said.

sure are some short sighted naaasty people out there!
no worries david, you are on the right track!
in the time it will take to get any oil from new rigs we can start to invent our way out of this dead dinosaur mess! some people are just natural born whiners and others have been foxwashed!

Wonder how many of these experts throwing around time to market have any direct experience with the oil industry?

Not to enviro wackos: You can bring a well on line from drilling to pumping within 90-180 days. Not ten years. Been there done that.

What a tool. Screw everyone to further your agenda.

There is an extremely dangerous game being played by the White House, Congress, and certain activist organizations that is placing the economy and the security of America at great risk. As a matter of national security and as a significant boost to the American economy, it makes no sense to not assure and achieve hydrocarbons energy independence.

America faces a very dark future as rapidly-increasing energy costs threaten to bankrupt the entire economy, bringing about a depression with no end.

Dr. Roy Cordato from the conservative think tank John Locke Foundation said. "This is a government driven scarcity," Dr. Cordato added. "It's driven by laws that has kept the United States off the exploration market."

With the exception of waters off Alaska and every Gulf Coast state but Florida, most of the nation's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is off-limits to energy exploration up to 200 miles offshore, thanks to a moratorium that Congress has inserted into an appropriations bill every year since 1982. Drilling has developed to the point that there is little danger of spillage or contamination. There is no reason to prevent drilling on our continental shelf.

The other major source of energy is the shale oil deposits out west. It has been estimated that the shale deposits contain more oil than all the reserves in the Middle East.

We need a "Manhattan Project" of energy development. We're crazy not to be using our own resources. Much has changed since the 1982 offshore drilling moratorium was enacted. Drilling technology has advanced over the past quarter-century. Oil companies can drill more efficiently in deeper water with significantly less risk to the environment. "Compared to worldwide tanker spill rates, outer continental shelf operations are more than five times safer,'' according to the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service. Domestic drilling would also create a huge economic boost to America.

Both US political parties cling to long-standing positions on energy - then blame their colleagues across the aisle for blocking their efforts.

See; http://www.strategicnine.com/STERLING-AMERICA...

Drilling in the oceans destroys the delicate ocean ecosystems in the immediate area of the drilling, and sometimes for up to a mile all around it because drilling releases heat, attracts different kinds of ocean life, and completely changes how a particular area 'works'. Drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge in the manner they want to do it involves completely destroying at least half if not more of it and killing the animals that make their home in this habitat. Before we DRILL in new places, how about we get the Oil companies to utilize the drilling rights they've been leasing from the government for 50 years or so? How about we look at those possibilities of oil from places it was found, but determined too expensive to 'harvest' at the time? And what is destroying our natural areas going to do for us now, when we won't see the benefits for 5-10 years. It isn't like drilling off the coast of Florida will lower gas prices this week, or next week, or next month, or even next year! Stop screaming about 'liberals' I'm a realist.

Glock wrote:

Earth to David H. Smith
We are now and will be into the forseeable future very dependent on Oil for our economy. I am tired of the fallacy put forth over and over again that some magic bullet will appear and relieve us of our oil dependence if we only stop drilling the stuff. Wake up!!!

The "magic bullet" in reality is 25-35 years away....So we better get to drilling.......

Surf52 wrote:

Wonder how many of these experts throwing around time to market have any direct experience with the oil industry?
Not to enviro wackos: You can bring a well on line from drilling to pumping within 90-180 days. Not ten years. Been there done that.

True.....I'm just getting ready to gear one up in a couple weeks....The paperwork takes longer than drilling and pumping......

To those of you who think we need to "drill & drill now". I completely Disagree with you! Even Texan Oil man Pickens said, "I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." --(Texas Oilman, T. Boone Pickens)

The donkeys in Congress do not want to drill for oil because they do not want to give Bush a "win". It's as simple as that!

And we will be just as simple if we reelect these clowns!

Teri wrote:

To those of you who think we need to "drill & drill now". I completely Disagree with you! Even Texan Oil man Pickens said, "I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." --(Texas Oilman, T. Boone Pickens)

Yeah, if oil prices go down, he'll actually have to do something to make his obscene profits. Anyway, T. Boone Pickens is better known as a corporate raider. It's best to take everything he says with a healthy dose of skepticism.