It's time to do what is over needed to get money back into our pockets. This will also give the state government some "royalties" that can be used in schools, police, fire or others services that are REALLY needed.
Can I get the yoyo's that vote NO to pay for my gas? Are they also under the impression that we should tax the oil companies on there profits? aka McCain, Obama & Congress - You all need to wake up, get your heads out of your collective orafices and face reality.
We have oil in the ground off our coast (any of them) and in Alaska and we should have been getting it years ago. We didn't because of people like you that are more concerned with protecting some animals. What are they going to do for you when there is no oil to be had? Maybe not in your life time but future generations will suffer because we let the environazis rule what, where and how we get our oil.
According to reports I've seen, the Alaska reserves are more than the Saudi and all other Middle East reserves combined. Why isn't that being considered, instead of Coastal off-shore drilling that will only add 2% to our production capabilities?
By the time any drilling produces car fuel, drivers will have the choice of operating vehicles for less than 10 cents a mile. Plug in hybrids and pure electrics are coming in 2010. They will be 10-15% more expensive to buy, but much cheaper to drive and maintain. Don't worry about the costs of generating the electricity or the need to expand capacity. PG&E and others have clear evidence that electric vehicles have much less total environmental impact and can be charged at night when demand is much lower. It feels great to be free of the oil addiction.
I voted yes because I think it is one of the things we should do. We should diversify our energy strategy while keeping an eye on our environment; after all we do live here. We should conserve more. We could walk, bicycle, use public transportation and drive more appropriate vehicles. We could rent a truck or van when we need it. We could move closer to work. We all can’t do everything but we each could do what we can.
I’d like to see more community involvement in this and other issues. I would like to see us stop praying to the “TV Gods”, in the isolation of our homes, and spend that time getting to know each other. I believe some of our problems stem from out public representatives who have a two year field of view. If we set some good long term goals and work together I’m sure we can overcome this obstacle
What we need is learn to create a new source of energy to run cars on. The Ethanol doesn't
seem to be very good since its driving the cost of food. We need to find out cheap sources and we can be giving our universities financial incentives to create such fuel.
Having an oil rig that I can see from the coast is just not what we need.
We also must force the auto industry to create automobiles that get a minimum of
35 mpg in town.
Again one of the problems is that all the oil that is being drilled around and in the US
does not stay in the US and it goes on the open world market. California alone has
enough well to take of California but portions of the barrels are shipped outside of the US.
The problem I have with creating a new source of energy is that it may take a while or longer to invent or discover something viable that we can survive off of.
In the meantime while the research goes on, we're paying more and more at the pump, and the overlords of the congress arent budging on giving us, the voters, quick relief. The longer the politicians hold out, the more the economy will tank and we see the effects everywhere.
DRILL, DRILL, DRILL, build NUCLEAR POWER stations, erect WINDMILLS, use SOLAR POWER everywhere!!! Not just to lower gas and energy prices, but to once more render us independent!
Lots of great ideas here. Seems like most folks support both offshore drilling AND developing alternative sources of fuel. Let's hope our leaders are listening!
Our elected officials have failed us. They have essentially left us with no leverage to render any control over the price of oil we pay. Our oil producing "friends" can charge us anything they want and there is nothing we can do about it while our Billions of dollars fly out of this country ruining our economy. We should have been exploiting our vast resources of oil many years ago, but our arrogance and lack of vision have led us down the wrong path.
Yes,yes,yes we need to develop alternative energy sources. But that has been a given for at least the last four presidential terms. Any serious breakthroughs and conversions to use the new technologies is probably decades away. In the meantime, we must face the fact that our economy is primarily based on oil as our main energy source. We have an urgent need to get with it and open the areas that we know have recoverable oil so that drilling and production can get started as soon as possible. It is not true that we can develop alternative sources for immediate use as fast as we can produce oil once we get started. We need to get started now.
We need to do everything we can get our own energy and be independent of the Middle East. We should drill for our own oil, build refineries and nuclear facilities. America should go back to being a "Can Do" country, and quit saying that we can't get our own oil for 10 years. Environmentalists dragging their feet has caused people to lose their jobs and struggle to make ends meet. We sent men to the moon. We can do this. There is nothing that America can't do if we set our mind to it.
Many of the comments say that drilling won't change prices overnight and they are right. I say suspend taxes on increased production of old existing wells. For example, if new technology and improved pumps are used to extract more oil from an existing field, then it would be pure profit for the drillers and flood the US with domestic supply. Price of gasoline will go down. Very little impact on the environment.
There are presently 68 million acres of coastal oil leases already held by big oil, the vast majority of which are not being used. But instead of taking advantage of this, they want our precious and pristine coasts, as well as the unique and protected Alaskan wilderness area, too (ANWR). ANWR reserves would not provide more than six months of oil supply, and then not for another 10 to 20 years.
No, when you are in a hole, the answer is not to keep drilling yourself in deeper.
V. P. Dick Cheney was quoted in 2001 as saying that CONSERVATION is a mere personal virtue, and not a sound energy policy. This from a guy who claims to be a CONSERVATIVE. What part of CONSERVATION do such so-called CONSERVATIVES not understand?
Had our national leaders heeded the obvious lessons from the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, we would have had a CONSERVATIVE policy of CONSERVING our precious natural resources a lot more carefully by now, instead of a race to build the biggest gas-guzzlers in the world (well they're not selling too well these days, either, are they?), and wasteful energy policies now proving to be both morally and fiscally bankrupt. But no, big oil, and big auto and other heavy campaign contribution hitters got their way, and serious conservation efforts have been quashed for several decades, by both major parties.
Both major political parties, of course, are beholden to the same masters, and that's not you or I or the rest of the voters. Instead, too many voters swallow the silly razzle-dazzle exemplified by this latest campaign to drill even more of our spectacular coasts, as well as ANWR, while blaming environmentalists for our current pickle. That's like a drunk coming home and blaming the wife for blowing money on silly stuff like rent and food, so there's no money left for more booze.
It's time we had some real leadership on conservation. The Western world, and Americans in particular, are extraordinarily wasteful, and its about 35 years past the time when we should be aquiring the skills and developing our technology to conserve our resources and live more sustainably. Our profligate ways have gotten us into an awful jam, and its going to get worse before it gets better.
We can expect oil intensive food production to drive up other prices too, so the idea that we can improve our lives by ever-greater consumption is a tragic fallacy. Even more drilling off our coasts and in ANWR is just another page from a book of fables, telling us that we can succeed by ever-greater consumption, and that the chickens will never come home to roost. It's time we faced the facts, and turned our attention to seriously reducing the waste that we all take for granted every day.
I voted yes because Im broke, and it makes sense what everyone is saying. This gas [bleep] is stupid. 4$+a gallon?? Good thing I have a Ford Focus! But i feel bad for people with Vans and Trucks!!
I voted yes because Im broke, and it makes sense what everyone is saying. This gas [bleep] is stupid. 4$+a gallon?? Good thing I have a Ford Focus! But i feel bad for people with Vans and Trucks!!
YES, DRILL not just off the coast, but everywhere where is indication for oil reserves. And go nuclear like the french and others, develop and use solar and wind power, mine and use coal without polluting the atmosphere, develop and use energy efficient transportation, and the list goes on. WE MUST BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! Otherwise in the not so distant future drilling off the shores of California or anything else will not be our decision any more.
Yes, drill but put in place state of the art spill response on big oil's dime. Have you ever seen how pulverized styrofoam works on oil spills? It immediately binds the oil into a solid that won't break down. There's a lot of oil to be found. Search on Bakken. Look into the Canadian tar sands. Hit Anwar. We also need a government effort to find an oil replacement, like oil from Algae. Yes, it's time to build high mpg cars. We need to reduce emissions.
Not drilling and leaving crude oil in the ground is the same thing as leaving a crop un-harvested or allowing food to rot. Yes, a car that gets 50+miles per gal. is a nice thought, but do we have to walk untll one is produced? Solar energy is one source just like hydro power, atomic energy and wind but we have a society that was designed around the ability to commute to work and live away from the city. There are those who say use public transportation and I am still waiting to watch our elected officials and the "enlightened few" take advantage of a bus. There are oil fields in the mountains and in upper midwest, and in the ocean off of our coast, so lets produce these resources as well as searching for the "Magic Carpet."
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
We are aware that this subprime finance mess moved our country and the world into a recessonary time, but we are all so worried about that we forget about gas prices at $4.00 + a gallon. That is what pushed us into one of the most devastaing recessions we have experienced.
Our country should take EVERY step it needs to pump up the supply of gas/diesel it can. Reports are that there has not been a refinery built in this country in decades. So we depend on a system of supply that is unstable if even one refinery goes down for what ever reason. So our whole economy is dependent on oil to keep it going. So ...... while more supply is necessary, that is an immediate situation, a NOW situation. There is no way that drilling off the coast or in ANWR will be in time to pump enough oil into the system.
All the alternative energy ideas are in the same same bubble of time needed for development. Right now our whole economy is dependent on oil and will be till enough alternative energy technologies are deveolped, marketed and put into use. But that alt energy development is going to bit a bit longer than drilling for more oil we know we have, whether off the coast or ANWR.
In fact our whole society will never get off the useof oil/oil products. While we may in the USA get ahead with this, but the rest of the Countries of the world will have to do thier part as well. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to reexamine their thoughts.
I have read a number of post herein, but not drilling and pumping now will exacerbate the economic woes we are experiencing now. In a nutshell, this recession will end as all economic cycles do but certainly will last longer than needed if we don't add to our domestic supply!
So drill/pump now and put industry on notice to develop the alternative methods that are needed. Industry is not doing enough to produce alternatives to outpace the demand for oil!!!! When you scoff at my remarks here .... remember this ... EVERYTHING we obtain at our stores is delivered by trucks using gas or deisel. That market will take a long time to change and get off the oil addiction!!!!
Posted on Monday, 6/09/2008 - 5:35 p.m. PDT — by cmyers
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It's time to do what is over needed to get money back into our pockets. This will also give the state government some "royalties" that can be used in schools, police, fire or others services that are REALLY needed.
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Can I get the yoyo's that vote NO to pay for my gas? Are they also under the impression that we should tax the oil companies on there profits? aka McCain, Obama & Congress - You all need to wake up, get your heads out of your collective orafices and face reality.
We have oil in the ground off our coast (any of them) and in Alaska and we should have been getting it years ago. We didn't because of people like you that are more concerned with protecting some animals. What are they going to do for you when there is no oil to be had? Maybe not in your life time but future generations will suffer because we let the environazis rule what, where and how we get our oil.
Enough is Enough! - START DRILLING
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According to reports I've seen, the Alaska reserves are more than the Saudi and all other Middle East reserves combined. Why isn't that being considered, instead of Coastal off-shore drilling that will only add 2% to our production capabilities?
Roy Gursky http://gurskyranch.com
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By the time any drilling produces car fuel, drivers will have the choice of operating vehicles for less than 10 cents a mile. Plug in hybrids and pure electrics are coming in 2010. They will be 10-15% more expensive to buy, but much cheaper to drive and maintain. Don't worry about the costs of generating the electricity or the need to expand capacity. PG&E and others have clear evidence that electric vehicles have much less total environmental impact and can be charged at night when demand is much lower. It feels great to be free of the oil addiction.
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I voted yes because I think it is one of the things we should do. We should diversify our energy strategy while keeping an eye on our environment; after all we do live here. We should conserve more. We could walk, bicycle, use public transportation and drive more appropriate vehicles. We could rent a truck or van when we need it. We could move closer to work. We all can’t do everything but we each could do what we can.
I’d like to see more community involvement in this and other issues. I would like to see us stop praying to the “TV Gods”, in the isolation of our homes, and spend that time getting to know each other. I believe some of our problems stem from out public representatives who have a two year field of view. If we set some good long term goals and work together I’m sure we can overcome this obstacle
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Absolutely not!!
What we need is learn to create a new source of energy to run cars on. The Ethanol doesn't
seem to be very good since its driving the cost of food. We need to find out cheap sources and we can be giving our universities financial incentives to create such fuel.
Having an oil rig that I can see from the coast is just not what we need.
We also must force the auto industry to create automobiles that get a minimum of
35 mpg in town.
Again one of the problems is that all the oil that is being drilled around and in the US
does not stay in the US and it goes on the open world market. California alone has
enough well to take of California but portions of the barrels are shipped outside of the US.
Joined: Dec 2005
Current Posts: 304
The problem I have with creating a new source of energy is that it may take a while or longer to invent or discover something viable that we can survive off of.
In the meantime while the research goes on, we're paying more and more at the pump, and the overlords of the congress arent budging on giving us, the voters, quick relief. The longer the politicians hold out, the more the economy will tank and we see the effects everywhere.
Joined: Jul 2008
Current Posts: 2
YES and MORE!
DRILL, DRILL, DRILL, build NUCLEAR POWER stations, erect WINDMILLS, use SOLAR POWER everywhere!!! Not just to lower gas and energy prices, but to once more render us independent!
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Amen Julie,
Preeeeeaaach it sister!!!
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Lots of great ideas here. Seems like most folks support both offshore drilling AND developing alternative sources of fuel. Let's hope our leaders are listening!
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What ever happen to Rancho Seco southwest of Sacramento?
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Our elected officials have failed us. They have essentially left us with no leverage to render any control over the price of oil we pay. Our oil producing "friends" can charge us anything they want and there is nothing we can do about it while our Billions of dollars fly out of this country ruining our economy. We should have been exploiting our vast resources of oil many years ago, but our arrogance and lack of vision have led us down the wrong path.
Yes,yes,yes we need to develop alternative energy sources. But that has been a given for at least the last four presidential terms. Any serious breakthroughs and conversions to use the new technologies is probably decades away. In the meantime, we must face the fact that our economy is primarily based on oil as our main energy source. We have an urgent need to get with it and open the areas that we know have recoverable oil so that drilling and production can get started as soon as possible. It is not true that we can develop alternative sources for immediate use as fast as we can produce oil once we get started. We need to get started now.
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We need to do everything we can get our own energy and be independent of the Middle East. We should drill for our own oil, build refineries and nuclear facilities. America should go back to being a "Can Do" country, and quit saying that we can't get our own oil for 10 years. Environmentalists dragging their feet has caused people to lose their jobs and struggle to make ends meet. We sent men to the moon. We can do this. There is nothing that America can't do if we set our mind to it.
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Drill here, Drill now, Pay Less
Many of the comments say that drilling won't change prices overnight and they are right. I say suspend taxes on increased production of old existing wells. For example, if new technology and improved pumps are used to extract more oil from an existing field, then it would be pure profit for the drillers and flood the US with domestic supply. Price of gasoline will go down. Very little impact on the environment.
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I voted yes because Im broke, and it makes sense what everyone is saying. This gas [bleep] is stupid. 4$+a gallon?? Good thing I have a Ford Focus! But i feel bad for people with Vans and Trucks!!
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I voted yes because Im broke, and it makes sense what everyone is saying. This gas [bleep] is stupid. 4$+a gallon?? Good thing I have a Ford Focus! But i feel bad for people with Vans and Trucks!!
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YES, DRILL not just off the coast, but everywhere where is indication for oil reserves. And go nuclear like the french and others, develop and use solar and wind power, mine and use coal without polluting the atmosphere, develop and use energy efficient transportation, and the list goes on. WE MUST BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! Otherwise in the not so distant future drilling off the shores of California or anything else will not be our decision any more.
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Yes, drill but put in place state of the art spill response on big oil's dime. Have you ever seen how pulverized styrofoam works on oil spills? It immediately binds the oil into a solid that won't break down. There's a lot of oil to be found. Search on Bakken. Look into the Canadian tar sands. Hit Anwar. We also need a government effort to find an oil replacement, like oil from Algae. Yes, it's time to build high mpg cars. We need to reduce emissions.
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Not drilling and leaving crude oil in the ground is the same thing as leaving a crop un-harvested or allowing food to rot. Yes, a car that gets 50+miles per gal. is a nice thought, but do we have to walk untll one is produced? Solar energy is one source just like hydro power, atomic energy and wind but we have a society that was designed around the ability to commute to work and live away from the city. There are those who say use public transportation and I am still waiting to watch our elected officials and the "enlightened few" take advantage of a bus. There are oil fields in the mountains and in upper midwest, and in the ocean off of our coast, so lets produce these resources as well as searching for the "Magic Carpet."
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We need to look at the big picture instead of looking at our own pocket books. We cannot risk sacrificing the coastal marine environment for the sake of lower oil prices. The marine environment is vital to the ecosystem (we are part of it) and we cannot risk harming it at any cost. Obtaining more oil from any source reduces the incentive for developing alternative energy sources.
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We are aware that this subprime finance mess moved our country and the world into a recessonary time, but we are all so worried about that we forget about gas prices at $4.00 + a gallon. That is what pushed us into one of the most devastaing recessions we have experienced.
Our country should take EVERY step it needs to pump up the supply of gas/diesel it can. Reports are that there has not been a refinery built in this country in decades. So we depend on a system of supply that is unstable if even one refinery goes down for what ever reason. So our whole economy is dependent on oil to keep it going. So ...... while more supply is necessary, that is an immediate situation, a NOW situation. There is no way that drilling off the coast or in ANWR will be in time to pump enough oil into the system.
All the alternative energy ideas are in the same same bubble of time needed for development. Right now our whole economy is dependent on oil and will be till enough alternative energy technologies are deveolped, marketed and put into use. But that alt energy development is going to bit a bit longer than drilling for more oil we know we have, whether off the coast or ANWR.
In fact our whole society will never get off the useof oil/oil products. While we may in the USA get ahead with this, but the rest of the Countries of the world will have to do thier part as well. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to reexamine their thoughts.
I have read a number of post herein, but not drilling and pumping now will exacerbate the economic woes we are experiencing now. In a nutshell, this recession will end as all economic cycles do but certainly will last longer than needed if we don't add to our domestic supply!
So drill/pump now and put industry on notice to develop the alternative methods that are needed. Industry is not doing enough to produce alternatives to outpace the demand for oil!!!! When you scoff at my remarks here .... remember this ... EVERYTHING we obtain at our stores is delivered by trucks using gas or deisel. That market will take a long time to change and get off the oil addiction!!!!