Here\'s why we need to drill...
You mentioned getting oil from Saudi Arabia, why do that? Do you want to fund their terrorists?! If we drill from America WE will be the ones receiving the money from customers, not Osama Bin Laden.
I never said we should drill for oil off shore, I suggest we drill in Alaska and states out west where there are many un-tapped resources.
You say oil is a fossil fuel, we all knew that. Of course it will be gone some day, most of us learned that in 1st grade. There are tons of scientists and graduate students working on a new/better solution to our needs. In the mean time, WE NEED OIL!
You say that oil will become cheaper as the "renewable resource industry grows"..... I doubt it. We have "corn oil" now and all gas has done is rise in price. The more options people have to choose from, the less people that will choose oil. Therefore companies will need to raise their prices to stay in business. The OPPOSITE of what you suggested!
We will not be trashing the Earth by drilling for oil. Littering will cause more problems then drilling. I had a discussion with an elmer a few weeks ago and he said that there would be few problems if any (because of drilling for oil).
You talk about oil being a fossil fuel (non renewable)..... then you say that we can\'t use all the oil up or else our children\'s future will be harsh.... Wake up and smell the bacon Duncan, oil will be gone someday. It IS a fossil fuel. As for the environment, it\'s already screwed up. How do you think Al Gore made billions off of Global Warming.
Don\'t fund the terrorists by supporting simply importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other third world countries. Support America!
So what do you call asking Saudi Arabia to increase drilling? Is that not ALREADY "funding terrorism"? Cal, with your logic, we\'ve been funding terrorism all along, especially under the "house that Reagan built".
You say that oil will become cheaper as the "renewable resource industry grows"..... I doubt it. We have "corn oil" now and all gas has done is rise in price. The more options people have to choose from, the less people that will choose oil. Therefore companies will need to raise their prices to stay in business. The OPPOSITE of what you suggested!
Why is gas so expensive? Speculators know we will be consuming record amounts. If the usefulness of oil goes down, people won\'t be rushing to buy oil commodities, and speculators won\'t be saying it\'s going to be more and more expensive every day. The main income for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is oil. We take away the appeal to buy oil from them, move away from oil, they have to reduce prices to compete with our FREE energy from the sun and wind. Drilling off our shores won\'t do that, why? Because as we grow, that won\'t provide enough. We will stilly be relying on the middle east for oil because all our energy infrastructure will be based around.
We will not be trashing the Earth by drilling for oil. Littering will cause more problems then drilling. I had a discussion with an elmer a few weeks ago and he said that there would be few problems if any (because of drilling for oil).
Then you are not very familiar with the process of drilling, refining, and storing oil.
A) Drilling for oil, when you dig deep into the earth, where oil is, there is also ground water there. That water no matter where you are, has an extremely high sodium content, and a high PH level. As you bring the oil to the top, the water comes with it, and escapes. Instead of being confined to little "caverns" where oil is, it is then released into the environment, because companies do little to nothing to control that run off. So the water kills of plants, and enters aquifers which many plants get underground moisture from, and it also enters our wells. Next time I\'m at my grandparents farm, I\'ll take some pictures of the area surrounding a oil well, there is NO vegetation within 100 yards of there, and studies my Emporia State University show that PH levels in underground water within 500 yards of there are extremely high.
B) Refining, when you refine oil you are separating any of that water that is left, and again it enters the atmosphere. The other part of refining, includes reducing the sulfur levels in the oil, that release toxic gases which we can\'t control. Any runoff from the water also contains high levels of sulfur.
C) Storing, crude or refined is often stored in batteries, not energy batteries but big tanks. Those are often A) Not sealed properly or B) Corrode quickly again releasing all of that.
Not to mention how you have to tear up surrounding landscape to get in and out, and the damage to wildlife. The environmental damage done by oil is tremendous, and it is even worse than coal.
You talk about oil being a fossil fuel (non renewable)..... then you say that we can\'t use all the oil up or else our children\'s future will be harsh.... Wake up and smell the bacon Duncan, oil will be gone someday. It IS a fossil fuel. As for the environment, it\'s already screwed up. How do you think Al Gore made billions off of Global Warming.
That is what I said Cal, oil is a fossil fuel and won\'t always be around. However you distorted it a bit, I said oil is a fossil fuel which we WILL use up. That is inevitable, whether we should use it up, or not is regardless, it\'s not going to last. However we can make it last longer, which will help in the long run while we wean ourselves off of a bad habit. You can\'t just go cold turkey with energy policies.
So because it\'s already screwed up, do you think it\'s justifiable to make it even worse? Or should we try and improve it?
You are losing a baseball game, should you just give up or try and make a comeback, and at least make it a close game?
Don\'t fund the terrorists by supporting simply importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other third world countries. Support America!
Too late for that, the Republicans in Washington keep pushing for more oil from there. Drilling in America is not the same as supporting America on several levels. A) It DOES tear up the environment, if it didn\'t then there wouldn\'t be restrictions on it.
B) Using more oil doesn\'t support America, we wouldn\'t see a price drop for at least a decade, and even then due to growth, we would still need more and it would be a marginal drop
and C) Using up our non-renewable sources before we have developed enough technology for total switch or mass change of energy would mean ball game, we lose.