We have both coal and natural gas too.
How stupid can congress be to stop people here from drilling for oil and creating jobs? When have plenty places to dig.
America has to live and we shouldn’t have to depend on other nations for energy when we won’t even support ourselves.
We have all kind of oil in Alaska. Why did they stop the coal mine in West Virginia?
John D? It is intellectually irresponsible to portray lies as fact and use misleading statistics.
Nationbuilder is correctly not taking into account a gargantuine oil field that radical environmentalists and liberal pols will not let the oil companies access. There is enough oil in Alaska alone to make us energy independent for over 30 years. Nationbuilder is also not including the vast offshore areas that the environmentalists and liberal politicians refuse to let the oil companies drill on. There are TRILLIONS of barrels of untapped oil in Alaska, oil shale, the tar sands of NM, UT, AZ, and CO, another huge oild field in of all places Iows that rivals the magnitude ofthe Alaskan oil field, huge reserves of natural gas, etc. We have oil fields in the gulf that are documented. We know they are there and we have a good idea of the billions of barrels they will produce, but we cannot touch them because the gov offshore land lease does not give the oil companies rights to those areas
John D? You, liberal pols, and environmentalists would have us believe that America has no oil and no choice but to either keep sending nearly 800 billion to foreign countries that want to destroy us for our energy needs. That is simply untrue and I challenge any independent thinking conservative to call people like John D to the carpet when they see such moronic, liberal, rhetoric on this site!!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Yes.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
We should develop renewable energy sources which will get us off of oil, coal, gas. It will open up tons of jobs.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
i agree that we should, but I’m not under any illusion that it will lower oil prices or make us less energy dependent.
Oil is a worldwide commodity and oil companies will sell the oil on the world market to get the best prices.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm
You seem to think that we have vast untapped crude oil reserves. We have a small fraction of what is under Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, and far less than Russia, Venezuela, Kuwait, and even Kazakhstan. We’re #14 in the world, with 22.5 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia has 262 billion barrels.
We can’t drill our way to energy independence.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_res-energy-oil-reserves
We use about 7.5 billion barrels a year. We have enough of our own oil to last us 2 or 3 years, and then it’s all gone. We would then be 100% dependent on foreign oil, at a cost of about $570 billion a year at current prices. Do you think we should get more serious about alternative sources of energy?
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It’s a curious thing that facts get so many thumbs-down. Do me a favor – if you thumbs-down this answer, email me with evidence that I’m wrong. (Uninformed opinions don’t count).
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Yes we do without the government involved in it.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
12 years of rep controlled congress until 2006 so whoo do YOU blame? and how much do you think it will help?………… if the middle east runs out and we still have it(reserves). and other renewable resources when they do, would we not have an advantage in the world?
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"john D" is correct…….AND HEMP IS A 100 PERCENT ANNUALLY RENEWABLE CROP!
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
let us use up everyone else oil before we explore ours, its smart economics.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Many I want it all and I want it now to hell with future generations. Pro-life?
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
yes we could drop the price back to 1$a gallon .but opec wouldnt like that
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
President Obama is opening them up.
It was pres. G.H. Bush who issued the first executive order prohibiting offshore U.S. Oil drilling.
Pres. G.W. Bush could have issued an executive order allowing offshore drilling but did not.
In Sen. McCain’s offical senate voting record he voted against all off shore drilling.
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Congress can not overturn the executive order from Pres. bush, only Pres. Obama can.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:01 am
I agree 100 %. Start taking better crude oil out of the Bakken Oil Range in North Dakota. The oil is better and greater then Saudi Arabia. Let Foreign oil go to hell.
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Yes, Oil wells need to be opened, but not as bad as Brain Cells need to be opened in DC !!
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Actually, I think it depends on whether we will make the choice to become self-sufficient or continue to buy from others.
The United States is blessed, in that we can produce every resource we want to from home. However, if we do start drilling here we should do it ONLY after we decide not to drill elsewhere. Actually we already DO drill here, and ironically- we spend MORE for domestic resources than we do foreign resources.
In Texas, they have Chevron refineries, yet the Chevron gas stations are more expensive than the foreign oil companies gas stations. Being that shipping doesnt cost as much, you would think they would be cheaper- right!?
I honestly believe that the reasoning behind NOT using our own resources as much is to make sure when everyone elses runs out- we still have some. I could be wrong.
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Can we meet somewhere in the middle?
http://alarmclock.proboards.com/index.cgi
December 4th, 2009 at 1:00 am
I have no problem drilling here in the U.S. as long as we are working towards efficiency in other areas as well. There is no reason to continue to rely strictly on oil, when we have so many other sources of energy, right at our finger tips.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:26 am
The Democrats like Pelosi say "We need to get off our dependency on foreign oil". The only way to do that is with domestic oil.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Gull+Island+oil+reserves&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701
Perhaps Al Gore could open up his wells. When he was V.P. he engineered the sale of our Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserves to Occidental Petroleum. Occidental just happens to be the company his family sat on the board of and it increased the value of their stock by millions.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Al+Gore+and+elk+hill+naval+oil+reserves&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Forever we’ve been using everyone elses while conserving ours, when the rest runs out we’ll still have ours. It would help with jobs but hurt us over the long run to deplete our reserves.
I don’t understand why the world still depends on the combustion engine, haven’t we evolved enough technically in a hundred years to come up with something better.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Sounds political which means it won’t happen any time soon.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:10 am
They’re Digging in the Hills of East Tennessee
One would think Ms. Palin would already be drilling in her State
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:25 am
its alllll about money. people are holding the oil rich land until oil starts to run out and they have the only oil left. then they can charge people any amount they want. basically they are monopolizing oil.
but get this, part of obama’s stimulus package allowed off shore drilling in brazil. he invested over 2 billion dollars in it. but one of his main campaign supporters, george soros has millions of shares in the oil company. bit of coincidence?
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:46 am
I agree, but it has to be done with conservation in mind.
If held unchecked the oil companies will avoid all safety standards for not only the environment but also for the workers.
They would be the biggest rapers and robbers the US has ever seen.
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:30 am
I think you are referring to the oil on public land that is prohibited. Most of the US Oil is Oil Shale. It is very expensive and complex to extract and that is largely why it has not been. When fuel starts reaching over $3/ gallon the business proposition becomes much more attractive. However, technology is improving and there are newer methods to economically extract the oil from shale.
Estimated U.S. oil shale reserves total an astonishing 1.5 trillion barrels of oil – or more than five times the
stated reserves of Saudi Arabia. This energy bounty is simply too large to ignore any longer, assuming that the reserves are economically viable. And yet, oil shale lies far from the radar screen of most investors.
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http://dailyreckoning.com/oil-shale-reserves/
December 4th, 2009 at 4:00 am
John D? It is intellectually irresponsible to portray lies as fact and use misleading statistics.
Nationbuilder is correctly not taking into account a gargantuine oil field that radical environmentalists and liberal pols will not let the oil companies access. There is enough oil in Alaska alone to make us energy independent for over 30 years. Nationbuilder is also not including the vast offshore areas that the environmentalists and liberal politicians refuse to let the oil companies drill on. There are TRILLIONS of barrels of untapped oil in Alaska, oil shale, the tar sands of NM, UT, AZ, and CO, another huge oild field in of all places Iows that rivals the magnitude ofthe Alaskan oil field, huge reserves of natural gas, etc. We have oil fields in the gulf that are documented. We know they are there and we have a good idea of the billions of barrels they will produce, but we cannot touch them because the gov offshore land lease does not give the oil companies rights to those areas
John D? You, liberal pols, and environmentalists would have us believe that America has no oil and no choice but to either keep sending nearly 800 billion to foreign countries that want to destroy us for our energy needs. That is simply untrue and I challenge any independent thinking conservative to call people like John D to the carpet when they see such moronic, liberal, rhetoric on this site!!!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Once we use up our oil, we are going to get even more dependent on the Middle East. It’s much better to save what little domestic oil we have for true emergencies.
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I think that developing renewable energy sources would create more jobs and be cheaper for us in the long run.
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December 4th, 2009 at 5:34 am
We need to look ahead to future generations and if we drill for oil and use up all of our non renewable resources that means the next generation will be totally reliable on foreign supplies.
A much better plan is to be develping alternative sources of energy and getting them into the mainstream America.
I am not totally against drilling but I am against not having a back-up plan.
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