Breitbart, “Bush pushes Congress to allow oil drilling”
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has prodded Congress to allow oil drilling in offshore waters and in the Alaskan wildlife refuge, citing “tough economic times” for the American people.
Bush went to the Energy Department Friday, where he met with his senior economic advisers to discuss soaring prices for gasoline and crude oil. Bush said one answer is to increase supply in this country by tapping “the vast potential” of crude oil reserves on offshore lands and in Alaska as well as oil shale.
He said Congress must address this issue before it goes home.
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how about no its just a bad idea… there isn’t enough there to get us out from under opec and pretending there is is just silly
ohhhh great answer, let’s not accept a temporary solution because its ‘temporary’
the permanent solution is going to take a lot of research and development, what do you suppose we use do for oil until then - would you be up to starting some more wars?
the amount of harm and cost it would incur outweighs the supposed benefits. adding a few months a years worth of oil is going to get us nowhere.
me, a war monger? now thats a bloody good laugh; i think i have better shot to be pope. besides, we see how well that worked with the war you once supported.
You think i like paying out the nose for gas, i don’t. it’s devouring my paycheck, especially with the bastard who’s been sneaking around our parking lot siphoning gas. (little does he know of my cunning plan to scare the pants off him next he goes to violate my gas tank muhaha)
You think i like the u.s. government paying homage to opec, i don’t. i never have. i oppose the regimes and governmental forms of most all the opec nations. (do you even know the opec nations?) half of them violate basic human rights like a cheap, desperate hooker at a drunken bachelor party on new years eve. fuck opec.
You think there’s nothing to do to cut consumption in the meantime while they “develop new fuels”? firstly, they aren’t. half the shit they’ve come out with is impractical, overly expensive, ineffective or creates as much waste as it supposedly saves via production (corn fuel is a load of BS atm) and the interest isn’t there to improve it outside of an academic spectrum. would it kill them to make public transportation, would it kill them to even add a side walk or make the damn shoulders wide enough so you can walk and not die in the process? you want them to push more alternative fuels? go bitch to the lobbyists for the oil industry. they can’t afford to loose what they have. it’s what you might call a sweet gig.
if you’re nuts enough, you can always look into running off of used cooking oil from fast food and chinese type restaurants.
bottom line, a few more holes in the crust, a little more oil isn’t the magic cure all you want it to be. it can’t going to end opec as a crutch. the sooner everyone stops pretending it can, the better.
what damage are you talking about? when we can replace oil or don’t need it anymore we will remove the pumps
anwr has 10.4 billion barrels of crude and at 876,000/barrels a day (which estimates show will increase domestic production by 20% by 2025) and the US Dept Interior estimates 19 billion barrels in offshore reserves (that are already divided, leased, and waiting to be drilled if only congress would cooperate)
while it may not be a huge difference with the vast amounts of oil consumed, we need to do everything we can to become self sufficient, that also includes researching better technology and conserving/using energy more efficiently at the lowest level
because the wells, pumping systems and infrastructure supporting will leave zilch mark on their environment… srsly…
come on now, all the structures can be removed - plus the rigs and pumping stations create more habitat for undersea wildlife
everything humans do potentially leaves a mark on the environment, the drilling equipment isn’t exactly smokestacks and aerosol cans
indeed.
truth be told, my main opposition to this isnt a general opposition to drilling or my support for wildlife/environmental issues… its more fromt he fact that many are billing this idea, this one location as the holy grail save all for breaking with opec and quite frankly it cant do that. it’s just a bad idea to pretend it can. besides, they’re finding more oil in the gulf than they thought, why not stick where the wells already are?
im not sure i’ve heard anyone in the media or on tv say that it is THE answer, but it’s the first step towards energy independence - i won’t pretend that it will make us independent of OPEC, but its the kind of thing we need to do for the process
the oil offshore is particularly useful because it has already been designated and contracted out, everyone is just waiting for permission from congress - the final obstacle