11 Responses to “Offshore Drilling Lowdown”

1. uk immigration says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 3:27 am

   Bush and his oil friends won’t be happy until they’ve destroyed every pristine piece of wilderness in and around the US in their quest for greater personal wealth.

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2. JoeC says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 5:24 am

   You said it, UK. I’ve never seen an administration so blatantly loot the country. I like this quote:

   “To hear George Bush and John McCain say it, you’d think gasoline is going to run straight out of the ground and right into your car,” said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). “This is not a relief plan for American families, it’s a relief plan for oil companies.”

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3. pelmo says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 6:43 am

   If we just eliminated the waste here we wouldn’t have to worry about all of these problems.

   The rest of the world seems to get along really well on a fraction of the oil that we consume. But then again we would have to get along without gas guzzlers, live in normal sized houses and bring our own shopping bags to bring home our purchases.

   Many a country’s economies run on the amount we waste.

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4. JoeC says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 9:15 am

   Pelmo: that’s the good thing about high gas prices…I’m guessing we’ll see the return of the local mom and pop grocery, and a slow down in the huge Wal-Mart super centers popping up 20 miles away on the outskirts of town. Not that a few Wal-Marts are bad, but when everybody’s making 40 mile trips for their groceries, and those groceries and goods are all trucked in from China and South America…we could definitely use a culture change as far as our shopping is concerned. Maybe high gas will also spark a return of local manufacturing.

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5. Dusty says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 8:02 pm

   I would like to add to this that the direct correlation to lowering the price at the pump is so fucking minimal..its ridiculous. We are talking friggin pennies. Also..its market speculators that are jacking the price..its not a shortage of oil causing these ‘prices’ per barrel.

   TomPaine.com has a good post up about this bullshittery:

   http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/offshore-drilling-comes-empty

   I did enjoy this post Joe..bless you sir! ;)

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6. Dusty says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 8:07 pm

   Oops..I forgot to add..I was a resident of the Santa Barbara area during that meltdown, I was a junior in highschool. You have not lived until you have walked a black oil-slick beach and watched living things dying whilst covered in that ‘black gold’. And there is little if anything you can do to save them or end their misery other than killing them.

   It changed me forever. Even more than watching the Bank in Isla Vista burn down.

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7. JoeC says:

   Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 10:19 pm

   No matter how safe oil companies are, odds are there would be at least one environmental disaster while extracting oil from the banned offshore exploratory region. But Bush and the gang are big gamblers, and we’ve let them gamble away our most prized possessions (life and liberty) time and again, so why stop now. Bet the farm, Bushie! Oh, yeah…I guess the farm has already been taken back by the bank…

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8. Lynne says:

   Friday, June 20, 2008 at 6:12 am

   Interesting article here:
   http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389&Itemid=1

   Regardless, I believe we have the technology to get away from oil altogether. What we lack is the will to move in that direction.

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9. JoeC says:

   Friday, June 20, 2008 at 11:13 am

   Thanks for the link, Lynne. Rahall really lays it out in black and white, doesn’t he? Seems like we should see a lot more of this attitude from Congress towards Corporations, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Executive Branch; give them a little bit, and make them use that wisely before giving them anything else. Even with financing the war, we should have locked down the money after 9 billion disappeared unaccounted for. If accused of not supporting the troops, then Congress should tell the Pentagon that their lack of accounting is hurting the troops and their lack of innitiative to fixing that problem is hurting the troops…yeah, we could all go on and on. Back to the link to the bill you sent…it’ll be interesting to see how it fares, and what excuses will be used by Big Oil-friendly Congress critters to derail it…

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10. Xman says:

    Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 11:05 am

    I don’t think the price of gas is high enough.
    I’m in Salt Lake City and the cars race around me race at 65 - 75 on the freeway. They could save 30% if they drove 55. That is over a dollar a gallon.

    I’m saying, a huge % of our population has not REALLY felt the effects of gas prices yet. Until they have that awareness, they won’t say much about it. Hopefully, when they do gain awareness, they will also apply that new tool to other problems that seem as out of control.

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11. libhomo says:

    Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Here’s a fact that Bush and “Keating Five” McCain don’t want people to think about.

    Ending the Iraq war would do far more to cut oil prices than offshore drilling.

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