Re: DEMOCRATS AGAIN PREVENTING AMERICA FROM DRILLING FOR OIL!!

On Jun 25, 10:02 pm, "Bob Eld" <nsmontas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Yup.........The Disgusting Democrats are Trying To KILL
> > America........Donchaknow..........
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> > "House fails to move gas bill
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> > Wed Jun 25, 2008
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> > WA****NGTON (AP) - House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill
> > to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block
> > Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling, an idea gaining in
> > popularity amid $4-a-gallon gas prices.
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> > Action on legislation that would assure continuation of the ban on oil
> > and natural gas drilling in most of the country's coastal waters was
> > put off until later this summer after it became increasingly clear
> > that Republican lawmakers may have the votes to lift the drilling
> > moratorium.
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> > Republicans charged that they were being blocked from getting a vote
> > on whether to end the ban on offshore oil and gas drilling."
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> Total bull ****. Most oil company leases are UNDRILLED. Let them drill
> what's on their plate first before opening more regions for drilling.

Sorry, thats just a red herring. Just because an oil company leased a
parcel doesn't mean there is enough oil to be worth setting up
production. Under the best cir***stances only a fraction of the area
leased will be worth producing.  Do think oil companies are so stupid
as to not bother drilling a huge find of oil that they already have
leased?  Oil companies surely do exploratory drilling on the their
leased parcel and then decide whether there is enough oil there
justify the enormous expense of setting up a production platform.  If
we want more domestic oil we have to open up more of our offshore for
them to explore.
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> Secondly there's no way in hell they are going to drill in California or
> Florida because the people in those states don't want it.

We should let the states decide that, not the feds.  Sounds like
Florida might have change of heart.  After all the Chinese are already
drilling off their shore,  why not let the Americans?
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> Thirdly, no amount of drilling will end the current situation. At best
it
> gives a couple of more years against the inevitable, the end of oil.

The difference is that if we keep finding more oil, we buy ourselves
more time.  Right now alternative sources are not ready to fill in the
gap.  Having our economy implode because of a scarcity of energy is
going to disrupt everything, including the development of alternative
technologies.
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> Now is the time to quit jacking off and begin the inevitable switch to
> alternatives. Sooner or later we HAVE to do it anyway, it might as well
be
> now!

We don't have the technology yet.  Shutting down the oil spigot right
now will be disastrous.  Even now, American industry is struggling to
adjust to the massive increase in oil and gas prices.  Our assembly
lines are pumping out huge gas guzzling trucks and SUVs and you can't
just snap your fingers and change that output to subcompacts.  It
takes years to retool.  Ford and GM are screwed and they will need a
miracle to survive the next few years.  What we are talking about is
the difference between a controlled transition and a crash.  Not
opening up new sources of oil to compensate for the ones being used up
will be asking for a crash, and that will benefit no one.