Do you agree with Democrats blocking a bill for oil coastal oil drilling?

I'm a Democrat...and disagree with this.





If worldwide demand increases and supply is low...then when not drill for more oil?





Fellow Democrats...let's not be afraid to rise against our own leaders who have done nothing but thwart progress...Do you agree with Democrats blocking a bill for oil coastal oil drilling?
Drilling is not the answer. Leading the world in research,development and innovation of alternative energies is what we should be concentrating on. From recent posts I've read from you. I am beginning to think your claim of being a Dem. is false.Do you agree with Democrats blocking a bill for oil coastal oil drilling?
This is your government: Department of Energy :





Samuel Wright Bodman was sworn in as the Secretary of Energy on February 1, 2005. He leads the Department of Energy with a budget in excess of $23 billion and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.





He also served the Bush Administration as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce beginning in 2001.





Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, CEO, and a Director.





Fidelity?








A Pioneer in Venture Capital


With over $1.5billion invested in over 100 companies, Fidelity鈥檚 presence in venture capital spans back to the very beginnings of the industry 鈥?nearly 40 years ago.





have offices in Boston, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong





Fidelity Management %26amp; Research serves more than 23 million investors through individual and institutional accounts, with more than 400 different funds, and is the largest US mutual fund company with $1.57 trillion of assets under management as of September 2007. FIL manages $280 billion of international assets





The Cabot Corporation? The company started by focusing on certain metalloids and pharmaceuticals in the 20th century and continued into the 21st century by creating small electronic devices.
I'm all for ';responsible'; coastal drilling in the Gulf or Continental U.S. (where we can keep an eye on them).





Anwar is out. It is not worth destroying for the meager amount of oil there. Plus, it too hard to monitor the drilling.





Off shore drilling is no longer considered that risky as long as it is done properly.





If it is being done where there are people living along nearby beaches, we can be pretty sure that the oil companies are not going to cut corners to save production costs, only to pay out astronomical liabilities if/when something goes wrong.





In Anwar...all we will hear is OOPS... and then they will claim to have it all cleaned up. The TV cameras will do an expose to show they don't. They will make excuses and pretend to clean up some more. And...this will go on for years until the damage is permanent anyway.
I do agree with them. Why, why, why do we persist in our addiction to oil when viable alternative energy sources have supposedly been under development for the past 40 years? The time has come! If people had listened to the hippies 40 years ago, we wouldn't be in the spot we're in now. More drilling will only be a band aid that enables us to continue in our addiction.
Actually, yes. If we opened up the coasts for drilling tomorrow, it would be at least ten years before the oil actually hit our markets.





It would do nothing to help us in the present, and in my mind it would decrease the chances of us actually weaning ourselves off oil, which is after all a finite resource.
Um, it was President Bush who signed a moratorium prohibiting oil drilling off the coast of Florida, to help his brother Jeb win re-election. Jeb was getting heat from the REAL ESTATE market (not environmentalists), because nobody wants to buy a $1 million beach house overlooking an oil rig.
Yes, I agree with it. Oil is the past, we shouldn't be prolonging our use of it, we should be developing alternative fuels and the technology and infrastructure that will fuel the US and our economic might into the future. The longer we wait to get off of oil, the weaker the US will be.
If you disagree with drilling for domestic oil, you are a complete moron...plain and simple. There is no logical explanation for refusing to drill for our own oil (which China is already drilling for, by the way.)
Damn! Looks like ';pip'; has got your number. That's alright though, you got to ';muddy the watter'; a little, and there will be plenty of folks that will just blindly believe your assertions and never read that far down.
The Democrats campaigned in 2006 for lowering gas prices, and then they blocked this? It just proves how Democrats will lie to get any vote they can.
NO, they're very shortsighted.
Hell NO!


We need to start drilling NOW.
Well, it certainly keeps the price of oil high. I guess that's good for their friends in Big Oil.
Just let the chinese get it.