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One thing that I almost never hear is that crude oil itself is part of the earth and was and I believe still is manufactured by the earth. It and its use is so insanely villianized. It brought us the great industrial revolution and is used to produce a countless number of our products, plastics, rubber, our roads, and on and on. There is absolutely nothing that has been said to be a possible alternative that is a remote possibility of replacing oil in our present or future. You can then say without a doubt that it was meant to be....SO DRILL,DRILL, DRILL!!
Richard @ 2:27 PM PDT, Aug 22, 2008
Hey, dig your backyard for oil!
badon @ 10:09 AM PDT, Aug 21, 2008
People who want offshore drilling usually live far away from the ocean. I'm two blocks away from the SF Bay, so obviously, I'm against offshore drilling. Combustion engines are so 20th century. Can't we think of something new? Or are we going to end up buying the technology from some other country?
Shelly @ 9:31 AM PDT, Aug 21, 2008
the oil driling is the only way to dropped the world oil market and not to defend the oil in the midle east.
mauro cruz @ 11:29 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
global warming THE LIBERAL LIE ! that is the truth , and the crap the democrats are promoting is crap they want every one to ride bikes as they fly in jets an live like kings telling the rest of us folk to do this or do that ! get real and go to helll
peter not @ 7:39 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
"Alternative" sources are not complete substitutes for oil. The idea that we can just put more money into researching other forms and magically speed up the process is sheer stupidity. Yes, the day will come when oil is a small part of our energy industry, but most of us on this board are unlikely to live long enough to see it. The only solution is to extract more oil while becoming more efficient and using other existing technologies...wind, solar, nuclear, etc. We have to get past this political bulls*** and move along without falling for "magic" pie-in-the-sky solutions.
Robert @ 6:57 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
Investing capital in any oil infrastructure is like taking a 20 year old car with 250K miles on it which will fail inspection in 6 months due to unrepairable frame rust and installing a brand new $4000.00 engine in it. Investment in a newer car would be better. Humans spill this stuff all over the place. There should be enough evidence of this for everyone to admit that. Efficiency! Devices like this http://home.comcast.net/~bigvid/mydhe.html would save 34 billion KWH/year AND 371 billion FT3 of natural gas. This would charge a lot of electric cars and allow diversion of the saved gas to run vehicles or replace oil somewhere else.
Brian @ 1:38 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
Do you think the only oil we use is in our cars? Plastics, carpets ... are made from oil. We will always use oil, get over it. Of course we need to explore ways to cut uses, but we will always need it and drilling insure the price of all goods are lower helping the wealth of the nation who does drill. Not drilling is like having Gold on the ground and not willing to pick it up. 300 Million people in the U.S. are capable of doing more than one thing at a time. Lets find ways to cut oil consumption and drill at the same time or is that just too hard for the greatest nation on earth?
David B. @ 12:48 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
I think this American debate on energy security is very politicized. Some people do not want to drill offshore. Which country of the world would have some oil reserve offshore and would not drill for it? It is only the US with its stupid bickering. I am for both drilling and alternative energy. Have you ever asked yourself why nobody is implementing the alternative energy. Because it has not been proven economic. It may or may not be proven economic. Nobody is preventing anybody from manufacturing alternative energy. So why have no company come out with one that is competitive with oil? Why? Because there is no answer as of now.
okpanikov @ 12:18 PM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
Neither side addresses the real problem: the total amount of energy used. Rather, these views are just a version of doing the same thing. Few Americans realize that we use more than 20.5 million bbls of petroleum per day and that roughly 13.5 million bbls per day are imported. So, a question for both sides of the argument is: how does one replace the imported oil with "domestic sources" larger than the greatest output ever achieved in the US in it's entire oil production history? All options proposed are merely doing something to be doing something without ever asking the question "should we be doing things this way at all?"
gsaun039 @ 9:02 AM PDT, Aug 20, 2008
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