Last week Congress voted down a bill that would allow for oil drilling in the US.What do you think about this?

It seems to me that while we are developing alternative energies, we could become less dependant on foreign oil quicker if we opened a few sites for our own drilling. What is so wrong with that? And why is it mostly only the Democrats who oppose becoming oil independant?Last week Congress voted down a bill that would allow for oil drilling in the US.What do you think about this?
The Right wants to drill and pump while the Left wants green alternative power and in the final analysis of this argument; we the people get nothing. When you sum it up, I mean an honest summary, it鈥檚 a matter of who can push their agenda down the throats of the American people and how many times they can get on television so their names can be recognized and possibly be remembered by those voters who go to the ballot box, draw a blank or ignorantly vote for the name they recognize. And in all fairness we do understand there is sincere environmentalist, however, they hardly measure up to the will of the majority of the people鈥?They are lobbyist!





How dare our government treat us as if the Snail Darter is more important than we the people, how dare our government place us in this kind of jeopardy, and how dare they do this with our tax dollar! I say what pro-green individual wants to pay five dollars for a gallon of gas and continue to worry that it will rise to ten? We have foreign governments drilling off our shores for oil they will eventually sell to us, we have governments that hate the United States, and will rejoice in the moment they get to pull the oil plug on us, and we have governments that are so unstable that an accidental slip of the tongue could ruin their entire economy or destroy their state causing crude to sky rocket or stop!





What鈥檚 wrong with us? If you look for the logic in this argument, any fool with the sense God gave them would say something like: It seems to me that we ought to start drilling for our own oil. Following with; and then create huge incentives that would convince American entrepreneurs to successfully work towards alternative power. I know the second phase of the argument will be how long it will take to get our own crude out of the ground and then what about the refineries? So it will take ten years! We should have started ten years ago, we made that mistake! But two wrongs don鈥檛鈥?make a logical right. If we allow this oil inflation driven market to control us we are setting ourselves up for far worse trouble down the road. At this moment we are seeing prices inflate in other areas simply because we are too stupid to drill for our own oil. Could it be, we鈥檙e still not looking down that ten year road.





Yes we want to leave a clean world for our children, but we need to remember that this life of ours is short. Our children will survive (probably a lot better than us), but this is now and the argument is no longer valid, even if we want to think it is, it isn鈥檛. How do we know someone won鈥檛 come up with a clean way to use crude? Why doesn鈥檛 our own government use alternative fuels now? I would feel a lot better about filling up my tank at five dollars a gallon knowing it wasn鈥檛 going to be ten dollars a gallon next year. So I say drill Anwar, drill off shore, drill the North Shore. Make those pipelines and build those refineries! We need them now!





Some have been laughing at Reverend Lindsey Williams for being an alarmist for decades, although he won鈥檛, he could have the last laugh.Last week Congress voted down a bill that would allow for oil drilling in the US.What do you think about this?
The amount of oil available to drill in the US is minuscule and would have almost no impact on gas prices (do the math, don't take my word for it). It is better to save it for a true emergency like an embargo. During the last OPEC embargo, we had a lot more domestic reserves, now we don't. Drilling in the US isn't going to make us oil-independent, it's going to make us more dependent because the less oil we have left of our own, the more pricing power foreign countries have over us. Republicans simply want to open up these fields so they can hand out lucrative contracts to their buddies in industry.
The amount of oil in the ANWAR region of Alaska is equivalent to 30 years of US imports from Saudi Arabia. Drilling would ONLY take up 2000 acres of the 17.5 million acre region.





Dems oppose US oil independence because they thrive on government dependence of the population.
Because the Congress is controlled by the dimmocraps and the dimmocraps have their heads buried up their nether regions, where the sun don't shine, as usual.
we need new people in congress and the senate we should retire all the old B@stards