[Southack]

Drilling here now creates high-paying jobs today that must go on for at least ten years, per the liberals, since it takes that long to get the oil...

[bray]

Every $ we keep here is one less for our enemies.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Conspiracy Guy]

I tell high school seniors to forget about college. It will take 4 years or more and cost them money.

It is therefore a waste of time.

[xcamel]

Biggest lie in the book...

“US announces open drilling and exploration in continental and Alaskan ranges including offshore reserves”

2 days later...

“OPEC announces 1M bbl a day increase in production - oil drops $50/BBL...”

[o_zarkman44]

We have heard the same tired arguement about new domestic supply being unavailable for 10 years...... 10 and 20 years ago.

Nothing has changed because the government don’t want it to change. The opinion of the people don’t count.
So I say vote the bums out! Every last one of them!

[river rat]

Oil supplies and the effect of more oil, will come a hell of a lot quicker and cheaper that ANY other alternative energy source.

[milky]

Is everyone at FR like-minded on this issue? How may people here know the FACTS?

I’m wondering why, with 33 million acres of offshore already leased to oil and gas companies, are they not drilling THERE, already? They are only drilling some 17% of it, currently. There are a reported 25 billion barrels available, and they are not drilling A SINGLE BARREL OF IT.

Why do they want to drill in ANWR and offshore where there is a moritorium? They do not WANT to drill in ANWR - or anywhere else, OBVIOUSLY. What they DO want to do is consolidate assets and continue to hold these leases and limit the amount of drilling on them in order to both control and increase the price of oil for their own profits and purposes. Over the last eight years, drilling leases issued for development of public lands in the USA increased by more than 350%. Ask yourself - whose assets will increase more if domestic oil is NOT DRILLED in the USA? OPEC’s, or the “Seven Sisters’s”

[Elle Bee]

I heard someone say that by this liberal logic you should stop at the nearest kindergarten and tell the kids to drop out because what they're doing today will have no effect on their employment potential for well over ten years

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[Jeff Head]

If we seriously announced, and then started drilling in ANWR, off the Gulf Coast, off the Paicifc Coast, and going for the Oil Shales...and did so by Executive Order so everything was expedited and the severe environmental holdups could be expedited...watch what OPEC would do.

It would help now because OPEC would be forced to try and get out in front of this and make it economically unfeasable for us to do so.

They owuld do that by slashing prices drastically and immediatyely.

If we did this...if we as a people would put politicians in place who had the will...our will...to do this, I predict that within six months we would see prices at the pump below $2 per gallon.

But we have to defeat the charlatain Obama who is telling us that 4 and 6 dollar a gallon fuel is actually good for us...if it would only happen a little slower. That we canot drive our SUVs, that we cannot keep thermostats at 72 degrees, etc., etc.

His way is the way of abject governmental controls...and that is not surprising because the man is an abject marxist.

THE GREAT SEAL OF OBAMANATION

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[bolobaby]

Here is the answer to the “drilling won’t lower the price of oil” argument:

Digging for diamonds won’t lower the price of diamonds so - despite the fact to you have diamonds on your property - you shouldn’t dig for them. Especially when diamonds are at an all time high value. Whatever you do, don’t mine those diamonds out of your ground and enrich yourself, your community, and your country. That would be stupid.

Instead, here’s what you do: let those diamonds rot. Send all of your current diamond money to South Africa. Spend billions on developing new technology that will make diamonds worthless so that the diamonds you have in your ground will be worth nothing. This will take decades, but you can just keep shipping billions of dollars to South Africa to the point where they start buying up treasured U.S. landmarks like the Chrysler Building. Or worse, they buy the bank that owns the mortgage on your house and land (say, Citigroup) so that they really end up owning those diamonds anyway.

Brilliant.

[LOC1]

It will not take ten years, but if it did, it would be ten years from now, or ten years from tomorrow, or ten years from whenever we start. The amount of time it takes is the same, only the delay in starting varies.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Tatze]

http://www.cafepress.com/drillnow

http://www.AmericanSolutions.com

1,215,278 signatures so far!!

[sloop]

10 years, 5 years, 1 year, 1 day - whatever

a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

since the democrats have no other solution, they need to shut up and let the adults try *something*

let exxon take those ‘obscene profits’ they earned and place it at risk by drilling where the oil is known to be - not on the ‘68 million acres’ where there is no oil

the democrats are preventing us from getting the oil and lowering prices - and taking a gamble that the voters are not smart enough to understand that - what scares me is that the gamble might pay off for them

[fanfan]

Answering the "won't help now" response

Planting crops, won't feed us now.
Repairing the roof on a sunny day will not help you now.
Paying to go to Harvard will not help you now.
Buying the groceries for tomorrows dinner will not help you now.

As soon as the world sees that America is working to achieve energy independence, the prices will start to fall.

Morons.

[MortMan]

To anyone who believes the “won’t help now” garbage...

Why, then, do you have health insurance? Auto insurance? A savings account?

Heck, why do you even have more than one set of clothes?