Drill here, drill now: Answering the "won't help now" response

TigerHawk ^ | 6/29/2008

[bray]

Its called Energy Planning. Something America hasn't had in 30 years since it has been run by Baby Boomers. If we all ride bicycles and Choo Choo Trains while we heat our houses w/Windmills and Sugarplum Fairies all will be well. Maybe its time for the Baby to grow up?
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress

Pray for W and Our Troops

[wildbill]

Nothing is going to help next week or even next year.

The Congress has waffled on an energy policy since 1970s.

You have to start sometime to build a reasonable policy that will produce results. So far, most alternative energy technologies are pie-in-the-sky hopes without feasible results.

[river rat]

If the cost of oil can be brought down to it’s “justifiable” cost in the range of $20/40 bbl — I frankly don’t care where it comes from.....

I would like to think that our history of having developed oil fields and equipment “nationalized” by foreign thugs - has taught us a lesson to apply OUR TECHNOLOGY to OUR resources....

With no end in sight to the level of blackmail that OPEC can ask — it’s insane to not pursue all national resources of oil/coal until the “greenies” can come up with their alternative source in about 20 years.

The Communist “Greenies” in the U.S. and the DNC are partners in forcing this artificial shortage and price climb — to SERVE THEIR OWN POLITICAL POWER goal..

NOTHING the nation needs to address this problem will be approved by a Democrat controlled congress while a Republican President is in the White House.

[oyez]

I believe that to be correct.

I'm tired of this country acting like an invalid.

My late father used to quote, “Once this country sets it mind, there is nothing it can't do.” I believe him to be right, however, “Setting the mind” has become the most impossible part of that statement.

[Flycatcher]

So far, most alternative energy technologies are pie-in-the-sky hopes without feasible results.

And yet the Democrats in power seem to be willing to wait half a century for these technologies to become more feasible, yet they can't bring themselves to wait 3-10 years to have new offshore and ANWR oil leases pumped, produced, and distributed.

Their patience comes and goes, doesn't it?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Alabama has no waiting period just the background check. Usually your in and out in minutes.

[Clint Lippo]

milky-6/19/08

[Current Occupant]

I would like to think that our history of having developed oil fields and equipment “nationalized” by foreign thugs - has taught us a lesson to apply OUR TECHNOLOGY to OUR resources....

Exactly, Aramco comes to mind.

[buckalfa]

I tend to agree with you— however I think the ability to be “Fortress America” has been sold down the river by both political parties and global corporate interests.

One cannot argue with the wealth that free trade and globilizaton has brought our nation. However that largess comes with a price: the ability to act unilaterally.

[Gumdrop]

An even simpler concept is to apply it to education of children. After all, why spend so much money and time on educating a child when the payoff will not be for 15-20 years? So, why start it? It’s a good one to throw at liberals since they are so beholden to the education mafia.

Democrats only understand infrastructure as it applies to highways, bridges and schools. The concept of building infrastructure in military, energy, and even maintaining a healthy birthrate, is foreign to them.

It’s so easy to see how idiotic the liberal position is - keep aborting the babies, and eventually we’ll have no schools, no taxpayers, no nothing. Same with military - no military and out goes our freedoms; likewise, no energy, and we all go bankrupt as the economy collapses.

[Mogollon]

Drilling now puts a damper on speculators and long-term futures. Prices should come down almost immediately if the moratorium on drilling the OCS, ANWR, etc., was lifted.

Also, one of the Oil Company experts mentioned to Sean Hannity that they could get oil to the markets in 1 year if the drilling ban was lifted.

[2harddrive]

It won’t take 10 years, but so what if it did? I remember them using that SAME sick argument 10 yeras sgo, in 1998! And before that, in 1988, after the oil tanker wars. And even in 1978, when Carter wanted to shut the Christmas lights off.

[2harddrive]

3-D seismic shows the fields where they have not yet drilled don’t contain formations large enough to justify the cost. Now you know someone in the industry.

[RSmithOpt]

In the meantime, our government works to slip in legislation or department find a reason for ‘a study’ to thwart all domestic production increases of oil, natural gas, refinery capacity, and renewable resources other than burning our food.

[CyberAnt]

O’Reilly had some guy on his program last night who said that some oil rigs are already in place in some of the areas where there is oil .. and they could be up and pumping in LESS THAN A YEAR.

Hmmmm ..?? The dumocrats would lie about it taking 5-10 years - would they ..?? Why would they want to keep us poor, ill informed, out of work, 3rd world-like ..????

The democrats/liberals remind me of a husband who keeps his wife barefoot and pregnant - in order to maintain total control of her. I don’t think most women are buying that kind of control anymore .. and neither is the American public.

[RSmithOpt]

Exactly...they will use the excuse of higher fuel and food costs to justify them raising taxes to create more bloat and useless programs.

[Red_Devil 232]

You are right. Typically the oil companies will bid on thousands of Federal lease acreage, win the bid and pay the price, and if they are lucky a few of those acres will show promise after very expensive 3-D seismic exploration. Off shore exploration of Federal leases is expensive but easier to access. Federal leased lands on shore are very expensive and much more complicated to explore seismically.

[DPMD]

Passing an $845 billion “Global Poverty Act” tax increase won’t fix poverty RIGHT NOW.

Raising $43 trillion for the UN won’t cure global warming RIGHT NOW. (nor will it end UN corruption right now.)

Ending the “Bush tax cuts” won’t give us good government RIGHT NOW.

Cutting the Department of Defense budget, and retreating from Iraq won’t give us world peace RIGHT NOW.

Passing McCain-Feingold won’t give us campaign finance reform and honest government RIGHT NOW.

Never mind, we know.

[kcvl]

I’m wondering why, with 33 million acres of offshore already leased to oil and gas companies, are they not drilling THERE, already?

Because there is not oil on all 33 million acres! You don't just go drill a hole anywhere and find oil!

How Stuff Works:

Finding Oil

The task of finding oil is assigned to geologists, whether employed directly by an oil company or under contract from a private firm. Their task is to find the right conditions for an oil trap -- the right source rock, reservoir rock and entrapment. Many years ago, geologists interpreted surface features, surface rock and soil types, and perhaps some small core samples obtained by shallow drilling. Modern oil geologists also examine surface rocks and terrain, with the additional help of satellite images. However, they also use a variety of other methods to find oil. They can use sensitive gravity meters to measure tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational field that could indicate flowing oil, as well as sensitive magnetometers to measure tiny changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by flowing oil. They can detect the smell of hydrocarbons using sensitive electronic noses called sniffers. Finally, and most commonly, they use seismology, creating shock waves that pass through hidden rock layers and interpreting the waves that are reflected back to the surface.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-drilling1.htm

[Tatze]

http://www.cafepress.com/drillnow

http://www.AmericanSolutions.com

1,215,278 signatures so far!!