Americans favor offshore drilling (69% want drilling)

CNN Money ^ | 7/30/08 | Ben Rooney

[LdSentinal]

Poll finds most people think drilling for oil and natural gas off the nation's coast lines is a good idea.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As the nation struggles to meet its energy needs, a majority of Americans think drilling for oil and natural gas in offshore waters is a good idea, according to according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday.

The poll, which surveyed more than 500 adult Americans by phone in July, found that 69% of respondents support the idea of offshore drilling, while 30% opposed it. In June, 73% were in favor of offshore drilling.

[djsherin]

They’re just figuring this out?

[lormand]

The other 21% are space aliens.

[Ronin]

People are such sillies...

How many times does Nanny Nancy have to say it?

No means NO!

The grubby little people really should not be sticking their nose into things they don’t understand.

[oyez]

Pilosi & Co. have determined that 69% of the public is too stupid for their own good.

[b4its2late]

I have never been polled for a damn thing! Could it be because I’m on the do not call registry like most other smart conservatives?

[scooby321]

let Oil stay High. 4-day school week, High Power bills, Winter contracts for heating oil to be added soon. GOP will control both Houses and Senate and the Presidency. Let Chucky Shumer be the face of High Gas prices.

[Long Island Pete]

The other 21% are space aliens.

What happened to the other 10%

[STONEWALLS]

...Of course the American people want drilling!...Pelosi/Reid can not let it come to a vote in Congress however....they know Obama would vote AGAINST such a measure and that McCain would vote FOR it....how’s that gonna look to the voters in Nov.?

[mountainlion]

The demorats have ripped off the economy by $700 billion directly and more billions indirectly. The country could be in the black by collecting gains of selling oil world wide. We would still have hundreds of billions of dollars to do research in alternative energy. The Automotive industry would be healthy. Transportation would be cheap. We could have had a good vacation this year and still afford to keep Bennigans afloat. THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD!

[AbeKrieger]

The other 31% are 99% of the problem.

[hermgem]

Al Gore went to Norway to get his Nobel.
A proud Al returned, yet those Norwegians are huge offshore oil drillers, it's basically their economy.
Why is it that Norway is environmentally friendly while the U.S. is the outcast for environmentalists?

[DaveArk]

CO₂ is not a pollutant.

[tobyhill]

Reid and Pelosi could have whatever “Bash Big Oil and Speculators” legislation they want if they will just open up the OCS and ANWR.

[RC2]

Congress doesn’t care what the people want. They rule this country the way they want, not the way the people want. Shut them down.

[mouse1]

Nazi Pelosi email

AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

[TheDon]

Good point. This is the deciding issue of the 2008 election cycle. McCain and the Pubs must speak often and loudly of their support for removing gov’t obstacles to oil drilling and nuclear power plants. So far, Nancy and Reid are making their position loud and clear. If both sides keep it up until Nov., the Rats will go down in flames.

[smokingfrog]

Drilling for oil would actually

improve

the environment

• Chronic release from natural and anthropogenic sources (e.g., natural seeps and run-off from land-based sources) are responsible for the majority of petroleum hydrocarbon input to both North American waters and the world’s oceans.
• The inputs from land-based sources are poorly understood, and therefore estimates of these inputs have a high degree of uncertainty.
• Spillage from vessels in U.S. waters during the 1990s declined significantly as compared to the prior decade, and now represents less than 2 percent of the petroleum discharges into U.S. waters.
• Operational discharges from vessels in general and tankers in particular have substantially declined over the last 25 years.
• Only 1 percent of the oil discharges in North American waters is related to the extraction of petroleum.
• Although large quantities of VOC (volatile organic compounds) are emitted from tankers and production platforms, these consist of mostly lighter compounds and only small amounts deposit to the sea surface.
• Older two-stroke engines utilized in a significant number of recreational marine vessels have high operational discharges due to inherent design inefficiencies, and are responsible for about 2 percent of the petroleum hydrocarbons introduced into North American waters each year.

  Read about Natural Oil Seeps

[jmaroneps37]

The slight difference is because the working people are out, well working and the erh “adults” who hang around watching Oprah are answering the phone. Does anyone doubt the pollsters know exactly whom to call at what time of day, to get pretty much what they want in a poll? That's why the poll showing McCain is an outliner. Not that it is wrong, it probably under counts his support, but it was an outliner because it got published.

[STONEWALLS]

“This [drilling]is the deciding issue of the 2008 election cycle. McCain and the Pubs must speak often and loudly...”

....exactly....McCain and the RNC must get forceful on this....the Dems have given them a sledgehammer....if they will only pick it up and use it!!