Even if will take take 10 years to get the offshore oil dont you have to start sometime?

if people said i wont go to medical school because i wont be a doctor for 6 to 10 years we wouldnt have any doctors and people would tell you your crazy you have to do now to get later you have to prepare for the future and he is very into alternate energy wouldnt that take more then 10 years to be usableEven if will take take 10 years to get the offshore oil dont you have to start sometime?
First of all the government reports said 2 decades. Second of all Bush completely ignored the energy issue. So we have wasted almost 8 years of not drilling along with not doing enough with regard to research for alternative energy. So, what is now at least a 20 year could have been a 12 year wait. Bush has been so focused on ';terror'; and ';Iraq'; that he can't put focus where he needs it, in America. McCain will do the same. Obama will put his focus on America first. It's about damn time!





Furthermore, drilling is not going to solve this. We need to put our focus on alternative energy. Drilling is a ';psychologically friendly'; way of appeasing Americans.Even if will take take 10 years to get the offshore oil dont you have to start sometime?
There were reasons that offshore drilling was stopped in the 1st place One of them is the enviromental impacts caused by it. We also have oil wells that are located on shore that have been capped It makes a lot more sense to use wels that we already have that are sitting idle than to start drilling new welss offshore. We would see results immediately by useing the wells we already have that are sitting idle and capped If we start drilling off shore there is no gaurntee the well being drilled will even produce 1 drop of oil. Not all wells drilled come in some are nothing but dry holes. The wells we already sitting idle and capped are already capable of produceing oil
Agreed. But resistance comes from a large, but shrinking segment of a society that has been conditioned to expect instant gratification--';I want it NOW, dammit!';. Recent polls show increasing percentages of Americans are in favor of drilling for oil offshore and in Alaska. Even though it will take years, and will be only a partial solution to dependence on foreign oil-producing nations, it a necessary start, one of several things we need to be working on. If we fail to do this, can you imagine the noise we are going to hear several years down the road when people (voters) demand an explanation as to why Congress let this opportunity pass by?





Considering what is at stake, improvements in oil-drilling technology that have greatly reduced the chance of environmental damage, and the rising global demand for oil, I predict that political heads will roll if Congress fails to act on this.
10 years to fulfill 1 or 2% of our total needs. It's pointless.





While laws and tax breaks promoting conservation could easily cut use 25%......that's a cut from what we are using now, compared with the huge annual increase we are seeing every year since the 80's.





Look at it this way.....there is ONE answer to this problem: CUT THE ADDICTION





Finding every last scrape of the drug does nothing but prolong the pain.





What you are confused by is big oil (and the politicians that supports them) fighting for their goals.....The reason the oil companies LOVE these local deposits is because the profit from them is huge. They don't have to ship it far and it's cheap to process.





It also offers another fake solution to the problem.....when anyone with common sense can look at it and see that the quantity available is insignificant in the grander scheme.
Yes. And for some reason Bush has latched onto this term about an ';addiction'; to oil. We have established a ';dependence'; on oil. The majority of our economy depends on oil based products in one form or another. Addiction is something that is beyond voluntary control. We have proven by cutting back on our driving that we can voluntarily control it, but so much of our economy is based on it that we are unable to continue functioning without it. Do we have an addiction to water?
We are going to be on a crash course with dwindling oil and we use 20 million barrels a day in the USA. The price increase has temporarily slowed consumption by people but its ripple effect has not been fully felt yet. You need to be aware that Bush is from Texas and many people that he associates with come from oil and what better way then to award contracts for decades to come and Alaska is still in his vision. In the early 1900s NYC had trolley tracks that ran through the city but as the automobile was introduced the auto industry influenced the removal of all of the track making way for automobiles. We have technology to greatly reduce our need for oil but those from the automotive and oil industries will block that for as long as they can. Oil is getting old and we need to move away from it. It is time to give the middleast back there lands and let them live.





Vote for Pedro!
But it won't. Much of the shelf off of the West Coast has already been surveyed and in some cases platforms built. If Congress lifts its moratorium, it is expected they could have oil pumping in 3 years or less. And it has billions of barrels.





Democrats and liberals might want to inform themselves as to just who is being hurt most by the failure to increase supply - the poor.





So while the Dems and left-wingers harp about how much they feel for the poor, their actual policies are harming the poor. I guess their good intentions are worth more than actually helping the poor, eh?
Exactly! But it won't even take that long! Experts say closer to the shore it will only take 2 years for barrels of oil, 3-4 years a bit further out and only 6 years even further out. If we drill on the shale it will take 10 years, and we need to START NOW! Saudi has alot less OIL than we do! What are we waiting for? By the time we use up the oil we have we would already be set up using alternatives! For some reason this the majority Democrats in Congress want our country to FAIL!
yes it will lower prices the anti-oil freaks are crazy,. When I was in College in 1986 a teacher told me and my class if the entire world was oil 100% we'd be out by 2000, well he was wrong and there are still huge reserves.





I suppose in the long run the oil mess will just thin the herd up and people will freeze to death in their homes and then prices will go down so the old, sick, young and weak are whats to pay for the oil.
The oil companies already lease SIXTY EIGHT MILLION ACRES in the gulf of Mexico. They aren't drilling THAT! they aren't building refineries, notwithstanding the 10's of billions of dollars profits. To do so would mean they couldn't sell that oil on the world market. (all oil on U.S. offshore can't be exported) The oil would therefore be plentiful in the U.S. and they couldn't steal the billions of dollars out of our pockets
Don't you get it?





For argument sake, let's say the oil is drilled, ten years have passed, and all is well.......right now.





In a few years, we'll still be faced with the same problem we have now.





Drilling is not the answer. We really do need to find energy alternatives.





And by the way, why is it that the oil companies don't drill on the 68 million acres that they already have?
If Clinton had not vetoed the bill in the 90's we would have the oil already





and we need the oil even if we switch to a new form of energy





it will take decades to phase out oil.





zach, it was proposed and the bill passed in 1995, clinton vetoed it.
Obama will take the advice that is given by some of the leading Democratic congressmen who are already caving





on this measure..drilling and nuclear power is something Obama is against but he will cave in on them before very long





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Y鈥?/a>
Yes they should start, but we must continue to research and create sources for alternative energy.





There are also wells all over the US that have been drilled, then capped..........who is behind that and what can be done to get them producing?
Yes you do.





I disagree with the ten year assessment; but you have to start to get there.





You don't harvest a garden till the end of summer; yet somehow still feel the need to plant in spring.
we still need oil, and will for at least the next 100 years, even if we go to electric cars and invent absolutely clean power. Oil is needed for plastics, many necessary chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
YES! Not to mention that in financial speculation, perception is reality





so if we tell the world, ';we're going to drill and drill now'; it could have a real time affect on the prices today
Bush started already offshore drilling, he says gas prices will start decreasing in months!
Let's get started right now. The oil drillers will be in your neighborhood at 2 p.m. sharp.
OH yeah.....offshore drilling will Totally help us kick our addiction to oil.
amen, they should have started 3 years ago when it was first suggested
How about finding something else instead