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Offshore Drilling-Energy Supply

Madam Speaker- The prez has finally shown some "initiative" and lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling; why don't you show a little of the same initiative and, at the same time. allow oil producers to "re-open" wells they were forced to cap off years ago? Those wells were producing and still will, which would offer more near term relief to the gas "price crunch" we are currently dealing with; it will not take years to "have an effect" as you blindly suggest. At the same time, you and your democratic "conspirators" should approve offshore drilling and drilling in the ANWAR- - -that might get some of you re-elected next time around. Otherwise, I would say "you'll be out of politics" by "popular vote"!!

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Submitted by madmemere1 4 years ago

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  1. dominick

    Ms. Pelosi and the rest of you in Congress, this is one of those rare times when you are listening to the people and saying NO to opening Drilling, especially on our coasts. We have been telling Mr. Bush and Congress, NO, since his silly notion has begun, that this will help our economy. The only people who will benift will be be the oil companies!

    4 years ago
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  2. libthink

    Just in case you happened to think that this is a viable option, let me remind you that oil is a world-wide commodity and any additional production here cannot affect the price unless it is in the billions of barrels a day category. Re-opening a few wells won't do the trick.

    As to opening ANWAR or the drilling off shore, that would simply suggest you are throwing up your hands because you have no long-term strategy. At our current rates of production, we will be out of domestic oil in about ten years. Drilling in these areas might push that timeframe back by maybe a dozen years at the most. In either case, we will be out of domestic oil in our lifetimes (and I'm not particularly young). We can't afford to burn that oil and dump the resulting carbon into the atmosphere and oceans anyway, unless we want to destroy life on earth. So, let's just move to a sensible plan. Let's take the subsidies we give to the oil industry, and let's move them to the alternative fuels industry.

    And, so here's my question: Why did the government let the tax credits for solar expire?

    4 years ago
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  3. t.spradlin

    More drilling only insures more oil consumption. The good side to high oil prices is that people will be forced to use less. They'll buy more efficient cars that cost less and pollute less. The car manufacturers will work hard to build cleaner cars like hybrid, electric, air, natural gas, hydrogen, and water powered cars. The sad thing is that this didn't happen sooner. Even if we drill today, and created more supply in 3-10 years, by then, the developing countries consumption will have cought up to the increased demand and the pollution problem will have become worse. The technology that already exists is the next big business to produce more jobs and improve our economy. Why not lead the world in globalization of all the new energy concepts. Wind and wave power can power our homes and businesses. Let's work to be done with coal and oil. They are dirty pollutants. Lets' give credits to those who develope and use new energy sources.

    4 years ago
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