redgreenandblue.org — ... Warns of a ‘World of Hurt’ if We Don’t Drill -- “Our nation is at a crossroads also. We'd either better be making decisions to allow this American supply of energy to be tapped or we're going to become more and more beholden to these foreign regimes."
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allegedSep 3, 2008
About the only thing missing here is the topless photos - I'm sure those exest and we'll see them very soon. Good grief, what an awful choice for VP.
ieatpizzaSep 4, 2008
YEAH BUT WHERE ARE THE COOKIES
soaringfalcon1Sep 4, 2008
I think the Republicans are going to kill themselves with the drill, drill, drill campaign. We need to get off the oil NOW!
txchicaSep 4, 2008
Great sentiment, however it's not realistic right now. We don't have the alternatives to take the place of oil and petroleum products at this time. So we need to drill, but we also need to invest in alternative energy so we can be energy independent, but that will take time.
keigwynSep 4, 2008
I just don't understand the willingness of people to allow the oil companies to hold them over the barrel, as it were. Here's some statistics that tell you what drilling really means, and why it won't do anything but make oil companies more powerful and degrade an already marginal ecosystem, speeding up extinction and environmental disaster in Alaska.1) The United States Geological Survey estimate 9.3 billion, yes BILLION, barrels of "technically recoverable, undiscovered oil" in the National Petroleum Reserve, in Alaska. This are is already set aside for drilling, and wouldn't risk the already fragile ecosystem set aside in ANWR.2) As many have said, 68 million acres of on and off-shore areas are set aside for exploration and drilling that are not currently being used! Why aren't the oil companies exercising the leases they already have? Because their profits come from limiting the supply of oil and manipulating it at will. The year oil supply peaked was 1970. Not 2007. Regardless of the amount of drilling that has been done since, mostly in Alaska and in the 1980s, oil companies aren't going to produce more oil. Opting for more leases just gives them increased power to control more supply and keep us tied to oil as our primary energy source. This is exactly what we don't need.3) Over 53,000 new sites were drilled in the U.S. in 2007. Did we see a decrease in oil prices? No. Even the U.S. Department of Energy says that no impact on oil prices will occur for at least 8-10 years. In 10 years, with the right incentives, investments, and willing consumers who learn to change their behavior, we can get off foreign oil and change our energy structure entirely. 4) We import 62% of our oil from other countries, mostly Canada, Russia and Nigeria. Most of the oil we drill in the US just goes to the world market. No matter how much we drill in the U.S. we will NEVER get off of the foreign supply as long as we consume oil in the quantities that we currently do.We need to put our money and energy into developing alternative sources of fuel and energy supply, not in meaningless exercises to provide oil companies with more profits and more power over us while we look the other way. McCain and Palin are on the side of oil companies, no matter how much you argue that they are mavericks, no matter what Palin did as governor regarding taxes. They support more drilling, which means they support the monopoly of oil over our economy and our lives. The time is NOW to change things, and Obama is the best candidate to bring that change.
cheesegypsySep 5, 2008
Perhaps she owns a lot of Alaskan coastline and is counting on global warming to help her build the new Palm Beach.