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Obama flip flops, NO new drilling in Gulf

Do you agree w/Obama?

  • Yes, drilling in the gulf might provide us w/some oil but isn't worth destroying our beaches

    Votes: 3 33.3%

  • Drill baby drill, we should be creating American jobs and reducing our dependence on the middle east

    Votes: 6 66.7%
  • Total voters
    9
Anytime a politician pulls his/her head out of their *** and decides that drilling for oil is a bad idea is a win for the world.

The future is NOT in oil. The country that figures that **** out first will be the next super power. Unfortunately, it won't be the fat lazy Americans.
 
TroutBum said:
Anytime a politician pulls his/her head out of their *** and decides that drilling for oil is a bad idea is a win for the world.

The future is NOT in oil. The country that figures that **** out first will be the next super power. Unfortunately, it won't be the fat lazy Americans.
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When you come up with a realistic alternate source of energy then you can join the party. Don't tell me I should ride my bike 30 miles everyday to work tree hugger.
 
don't particularly like the options given in the poll, at least not the way they're worded, but I definitely think it's a good idea to slow down the expansion of new drilling offshore

there are definitely ways to cut back our energy consumption without having a major negative impact on our lifestyle

(yes, choosing to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles is one way, choosing to walk or ride a bike for those short errands is another, building more walkable communities and patronizing local shops rather than big-box retailers in faraway malls - yeah, not everybody has those options, but many do)

/soapbox
 
TroutBum said:
Anytime a politician pulls his/her head out of their *** and decides that drilling for oil is a bad idea is a win for the world.

The future is NOT in oil. The country that figures that **** out first will be the next super power. Unfortunately, it won't be the fat lazy Americans.
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I have no doubt that oil is not the future but in the mean time you advocate suspending all oil exploration? The US should rely strictly on other countries to meet our energy needs until a new energy source is discovered and refined for use? Brilliant plan Sherlock.
 
TroutBum said:
Anytime a politician pulls his/her head out of their *** and decides that drilling for oil is a bad idea is a win for the world.

The future is NOT in oil. The country that figures that **** out first will be the next super power. Unfortunately, it won't be the fat lazy Americans.
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The laws of thermodynamics implore the need for oil.
 
Marcus said:
I have no doubt that oil is not the future but in the mean time you advocate suspending all oil exploration? The US should rely strictly on other countries to meet our energy needs until a new energy source is discovered and refined for use?
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I'm a beleiver in the power of the free market to qucikly make alternative energy more accessible and affordable, and alternative lifestyles less dependent on petroleum manageable, when there is sufficient financial incentive. I suppose a person with little faith in the free market would see this as a problem.
 
One Brow said:
I'm a beleiver in the power of the free market to qucikly make alternative energy more accessible and affordable, and alternative lifestyles less dependent on petroleum manageable, when there is sufficient financial incentive. I suppose a person with little faith in the free market would see this as a problem.
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The problem with your free market solutions in this case is that the oil and car companies(in bed with each other) go out and buy every possible alternative source of energy patent and store it away because oil is obviously right now their cash cow. Why introduce new forms of energy into the fray when you know you can make a killing off of oil. Do we really believe they are incapable of making a car that can't get 60 MPG or more? Of course they can, they just don't want to.
 
TheMulletMutilator said:
The problem with your free market solutions in this case is that the oil and car companies(in bed with each other) go out and buy every possible alternative source of energy patent and store it away because oil is obviously right now their cash cow. Why introduce new forms of energy into the fray when you know you can make a killing off of oil. Do we really believe they are incapable of making a car that can't get 60 MPG or more? Of course they can, they just don't want to.
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When oil becomes so expensive that people start finding ways not to drive, you can bet they will start pulling those patents out of the closet.
 
FYI, from yesterday's Wall Street Journal:

The oil industry has said the Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophe was a unique event, the result of an unprecedented series of missteps that are unlikely to be repeated. The recent history of offshore drilling suggests otherwise.

In the months before and after the rig exploded and sank, killing 11 and spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the industry was hit with several serious spills and alarming near-misses, some of them strikingly similar to what happened aboard the Deepwater Horizon.

A blowout off the coast of Australia left oil flowing into the Timor Sea for weeks. An out-of-control well in the Gulf of Mexico dislodged a 4,000-pound piece of equipment on the deck of the Lorris Bouzigard drilling rig as workers scurried to safety. A gas leak in the North Sea aboard a production platform came within a rogue spark of a Deepwater Horizon-scale disaster off the coast of Norway.

Data from regulators around the world suggest that after years of improvement, the offshore-drilling industry's safety record declined over the past two years....
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https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989004575652714091006550.html
 
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