Comments on: Offshore Drilling Ban Opens Discussion for Other Domestic Oil Options

By: Joseph P Hussey

Joseph P Hussey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:20:00 +0000

People are screaming for Oil Independence,AKA domestic drilling,because of the current price's.Production and demand have little to do with today's prices its the speculation on Wall St that has the price so high. We need to drill,conserve & find alternatives all of which will achieve real independence.Doing something about Wall St. wouldn't be a bad idea either.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:33:30 +0000

Saying that that some oil from ANWR or offshore may be exported or it wont lower gas prices is a very stupid reason for not drilling there! Take an class in economics. If we export a million barrels from ANWR and import a million barrels from somewhere else, it costs us nothing. If we import a million barrels and export none it costs us 140 million dollars! Research and development of alternative energy sources is great and we should do that, but as long as we are useing more oil than we are producing we need to drill as much as possible. If we end up with more oil than we need we can sell it to China to pay for all our imported lead painted toys!

Democrats say drilling would not help because we wont get the oil for 10 years, a great argument they have been making for a decade – jay Leno

By: Timothy B. Hurst

Timothy B. Hurst — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:36:52 +0000

@Gerald:

We ARE a democracy. But we are not a direct democracy. As a populace we do not exactly get to participate in daily policymaking – although it would be neat, wouldn't it?

By: gerald stidham

gerald stidham — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:43:22 +0000

President Bush must use his Constitutonal powers

and as of Monday AM call a special session to force an up or down vote on a drilling/energy bill.

The last I heard we are still a democracy, and with 70% of Americans urging us to drill now it is imperitive the Our President take perhaps his last inititive and follow through for the hurting American

people.

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By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:13:47 +0000

Anon e mous: Thank you for your comments and interest in this topic.

"This does not mean we have to deplete our resources, however, with good stewardship we can use what is ours. Acquiring our own oil is something that should be realistically explored from all fronts instead of continually shut down. Energy Independence will benefit all Americans and it will take the use of our own traditional resources such as oil, in addition to a passionate pursuit of alternative energy sources to accomplish this goal."

A balanced approach is necessary in order to decrease our oil consumption and transition to using alternative energy sources as a nation.

By: anon e mous

anon e mous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:43:26 +0000

Well. Alrighty then. I suppose the spectacle of conservatives scampering after the green, algae slimed coattails of high-minded (or just high) liberals has proven too odious or comical to attract any attention at all to this here blog. The vacuum is a little disappointing; I was rarin' for a flame or two.

Ok, I did want to clarify a few things about my spittle flecked remarks above: 1. We're not literally running out of oil. To wit, as our intrepid columnist has pointed out, Bakken shale (though I doubt very much the Bakken formation qualifies as a new discovery, as seems to be implied above); or, the Green River shales, which may contain upwards of a trillion barrels of oil, theoretically at least.

You see, there's the rub, that 'theoretically.' Because, tho' we'll not likely run out of oil before it runs out of us, the superabundance of oil left in the ground is serving, in the mouth of Ms. Suydam, to obfuscate our dilemma, which is: energy. The easy cheap stuff, which does mostly come in the form of oil — just not the stuff in the Bakken or around Green River — is what we're at the end of. And that's really, really big news for a species that has sprung from 1 billion to 6 billion by suckling black sunlight. All of the oil in all of the tar sands and all of the oil shales in world cannot save us from this dilemma.