Off Shore Oil Drilling

[flatbottom]

Ban is lifted by President Bush. He asked the Democratic Congress to lift their ban on off shore drilling earlier in his days in office, but the democrats did nothing. So the ball is in the Democratic court.

The president listened to you guys and gals. Now lets see if the dems give a shit if we pay 7.00 dollars a gallon, or not, at the pumps.

[Reelscreamer]

Being in the military I am not supposed to have a political view and I don't give a sh$t one way or the other but hopefully someone listens and makes the gas prices go down and maybe this country could be a little bit more self reliant.

JMO

Jeremy

[Boston Whaler]

Ban is lifted by President Bush. He asked the Democratic Congress to lift their ban on off shore drilling earlier in his days in office, but the democrats did nothing. So the ball is in the Democratic court.

The president listened to you guys and gals. Now lets see if the dems give a shit if we pay 7.00 dollars a gallon, or not, at the pumps.

Not so sure we should be drilling off shore. If there is a catastrophe, the damage to our beaches, tourism, fishing and wildlife would be incomprehensible.(can anyone name the lighthouse?)

However drilling on Alaskan coastal plains which is almost totally devoid of humans and any other living thing makes much more sense.

[flatbottom]

I would take my chances off shore rather than pay 5.00 dollars a gallon for diesel that I am paying right now. No one wants a catastrophe to take place. I want to live the back side of 50 with reduced fuel prices. Where and what they drill for 40 years from now is not on my concern list. Sorry that sounds so harsh. The dollar is stretched thin for me when I leave the pumps in 2008

[High Temp]

Not so sure we should be drilling off shore. If there is a catastrophe, the damage to our beaches, tourism, fishing and wildlife would be incomprehensible.(can anyone name the lighthouse?)
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However drilling on Alaskan coastal plains which is almost totally devoid of humans and any other living thing makes much more sense.

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I don't post here very often, but this thread caught my eye.
I work, albeit indirectly, in the oil business. Our company makes high temperature, miniaturized electronic modules used for instrumentation tools that explore, gather data and optimize oil production in oil wells. I do business with companies such as Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and even the evil Halliburton. Technology has improved so much that the chance of a major catastrophic oil spill due to drilling is almost non existent now. Case in point. Hurricane Katrina tore many rigs from their moorings in the gulf. Did we have a disaster? No. They have remotely controlled valves that automatically shut off the well in case of power loss. That is but one example. We need to do something and letting China expoit our resources off the Florida coast should not be an option we Americans will tolerate. My 2 cents.

[Satans_Chariot]

I don't post here very often, but this thread caught my eye.
I work, albeit indirectly, in the oil business. Our company makes high temperature, miniaturized electronic modules used for instrumentation tools that explore, gather data and optimize oil production in oil wells. I do business with companies such as Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and even the evil Halliburton. Technology has improved so much that the chance of a major catastrophic oil spill due to drilling is almost non existent now. Case in point. Hurricane Katrina tore many rigs from their moorings in the gulf. Did we have a disaster? No. They have remotely controlled valves that automatically shut off the well in case of power loss. That is but one example. We need to do something and letting China expoit our resources off the Florida coast should not be an option we Americans will tolerate. My 2 cents.

I second everything he said. There is so much in place to help prevent us from having an unplanned release of oil its amazing. Look back on the Union Oil disaster over in Santa Barbara in 1969. The differences in the industry between now and then are amazing.

[bigeasy]

Drill, drill, drill

[Avenger]

Not so sure we should be drilling off shore. If there is a catastrophe, the damage to our beaches, tourism, fishing and wildlife would be incomprehensible.

As others have pointed out, things have changed. Even some of the bunny-huggers (at least the rational ones) are starting to get it.

WSJ article:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1215...googlenews_wsj

We need to get the reserves on line and start working on alternatives. Here's a piece that shows how bio-diesel can fill ALL of the U.S.'s demand without cutting down the rain forests or making the price of food skyrocket like ethanol does:

http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html

Since diesel is the fuel of commerce, and the biggest slice of the petroluem pie, we could do the bio-diesel thing and divert that petroleum to gasoline production. Just think, cheap and independent energy in five years.

Only if we can inject some reality and get the political pandering out of the process.

P.S. One downside will be the loss of gov't revenue from fines for fuel spills since it's bio-degradable.

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Not so sure we should be drilling off shore. If there is a catastrophe, the damage to our beaches, tourism, fishing and wildlife would be incomprehensible.(can anyone name the lighthouse?)
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However drilling on Alaskan coastal plains which is almost totally devoid of humans and any other living thing makes much more sense.

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Like all the catastrophes they have had in the GULF? Let em drill we need to be independent from foreign oil. Hell it would help sea life to flourish any way.

[clt_capt]

I seem to be missing something here - Best I can recall, it was a drunk tanker Capitan that caused the worst damage - Not the offshore drilling.

I think the recent history in the Gulf is a good indication of how safe offshore drilling can be - even in the face of hurricanes.

My personal belief is that we should be exploring all options and whether we take a single barrel out or not - We have to be prepared to.

Do you really believe Saudi Arabia made 800,000 more barrels a day available out of the goodness of their hearts?

Hell NO - the ragheads are afraid that the price has climbed so much that we are willing to explore other alternatives.

I say lets be self sufficient - that means Chavez too. If they want to sell us oil cheaply - Fine, we can stockpile , if not we should just pump our own.