Do you agree with BUSH, that we should drill more oil offshore in the gulf?

We are sitting on more combined oil in this country then all the middle eastern countries combined...oil in Alaska, shale oil in the mid west..oil off our continental coast, and in the gulf of Mexico...we could become oil independent..next step would be to REWARD individuals or companies to develop alternative fuels...REWARD!!!..not PUNISH WITH HIGH TAXES....and we need the next president to step up in JFK fashion and to give the challenge like JFK did when he said we would put a man on the moon in a decade...we need our next president to say we will be independent of OIL in the next decade...and then REWARD those who step up to the plate, use their good ol American ingenuity, and develops this new fuel...and it has to be a NATIONAL GOAL!!!!....NOT A UN DEMAND!!!!....Do you agree with BUSH, that we should drill more oil offshore in the gulf?
...We should explore and drill wherever we can. Like it or not, this country and society depends on oil. I believe alternate sources of energy can and should be used if cost-effective and they do not adversely effect other necessities, like the the food supply.


These alternate-source vehicles should not be forced on the public or the states, if nobody wants them.


...Those who would halt drilling would be your green, environmental extremists - the tree-hugging crowd who are anti-United States - liberal, leftover hippies


who wish to send the US into a downward spiral, and they want to live a stone-age existence.Do you agree with BUSH, that we should drill more oil offshore in the gulf?
Absolutely. We should do both. Drill more, but also continue to look to alternative sources. Even just ALLOWING more off shore drilling would immediately relieve the prices of Oil from an investors and speculators stand point. It's not going to get better unless WE do something about it. Higher oil and gas prices will continue to push everything higher. Food, services, etc.
The way you state the question makes it obvious that you are looking at this politically as opposed to scientifically or environmentally, which makes me hesitant to answer. I'll answer anyways-


what we need to do is allow more oil refineries to be opened, as well as allowing more locations to be drilled for oil. Opposed to most views, I haven't seen any major environmental impact made by drilling for oil aside from the occasional oil spill. Most spills in Alaska are cause, ironically enough, by ENVIRONMENTALISTS vandalizing the pipeline.


Seeing as the media is now pushing for more fuel efficient vehicles, this aside a newly opened refinery and more oil will make gas prices drop drastically. As more and more people move to hybrid cars, our consumption rate of oil will drop well below our production rate, allowing companies to export more oil and will give an incentive for them to research alternative fuel sources.





Ultimately, drilling for oil alone will not solve anything, but I do support it. The media draws excess attention to the rare oil spills that occur, and overstates their impact.
Not as a solution to the current oil crisis - it will take YEARS and billions to see any result. We would be better off investing that time and money in alternative sources of energy.





BTW Cheney has admitted he lied about the China off-shore drilling:


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3662…
Yes, I think we should drill offshore and also in various parts of this country, Alaska, Colorado, etc. We need to make this country independent of foreign energy. We also need to build nuclear power plants, hydrogen cars etc.
NO


oil is not the answer to all out problems


how bout investing in something that will make our world a better place to live in...like veggitizing our vehicles


or even hempitizing


there is so much more that can b fuel besides oil





BUT....if we must continue to destroy the earth w our oil drilling...then yea..we should keep it home
yes, we should grab all the oil before everyone else gets it....





it is stupid sit back and watch Mexico and other countries drill it and then sell it too us??????? because we refuse to drill there for environmental reasons..... what do we do...boycott offshore oil to make a conscientious statement???
Yes before China steals it all, and off the West Coast and ANWAR as well. At the same time charge forward with Hybrid vehicles and stop Food based ethynol. Build more refineries, build new Nuc Power Plants, remove ban on shale oil(2.5T barrels).
The oil can is mightier than the sword.”
Yes. I most differently agree, why pay others for something we have and can do ourselves?
Yes I agree, along with dozens of other countries that are also drilling off our coasts that are also laughing at us as we sit here on our butts doing NOTHING.
Yes





and the east and west coasts





and ';anwar';





and in our swamplands and anywhere else we can find it.
Absolutely we should be drilling offshore.
we should of started drilling back in the 1970s when the big oil embargo happened i remember it well
While we continue to develop new fuel technology, yes. The answer isn't A or B it is all of the above.
I agree with jeff smoker you have to do both. What I cant understand is why people are so one sided on this
Yes we should.