Republican sleepover

Andrew, I would think that for all the bad things you list, you should be more angry that the Democrats did not feel they had to have a sleep over to get this done.

I agree on the Schiavo thing. They should have stayed out of it.

But Drilling our own oil in the near future is essential, or this county is screwed...........

There is NO quick fix. The goverment, dems and republicans, have sat on this problem and done NOTHING too long. The auto industry as not really until recent years made any real effort to find an alternative to GAS. Hybrids, a token fix. You still need gas. Electric cars, maybe, but they won't let us build more nuclear power plants, coal is abondant but not the best solution.

So young andrew.....what would the all knowing Hammy do???

Here Anderw choke on this

Who says experience means nothing?

The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate who caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.

After much back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota. There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties.

At the end of the first day, John Mc. returned to the starting line and he had ten fish. Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.

At the end of the 2nd day John Mc. came in with 20 fish and Obama came in again with none.

That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said, 'Obama, I think John Mc. is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-bitch. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.'

The next night (after John Mc. returns with 50 fish), Harry said to Obama, 'Well, tell me how is John Mc. cheating?' Obama replied, 'Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice.'

"Our own government says that "drilling here, now" won't have any effect on the price of gasoline until the year 2030 and it will only impact it by 1% or so."

The government states it will take ten years, and the oil companies state oil will be flowing within one year and max capacity will be reached in 3-5 years, and 1% is a vast understatement.
Now, would you let an accountant repair your car? Then why listen to a bureaucrat about how long it will take to drill for oil? Now hammett, why would you listen to the government when it comes to how long it will take to drill for oil rather than listening to the oil companies who actually drill for oil for a living? Oh yea, becasue the false facts about oil put froward by the Democraps support your biased position on the energy and "filthy oil" issue....At least the Republipukes are trying to do something rather than
running away from the issues to sell their flop of a book.....

Again Andrew, children should be seen and not heard.....Come back when you have a clue.

I don't speak for all liberals, but this is why I do not support this plan. It isn't going to help. We just aren't oil laden enough to bother. I give you the report of the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Government.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

You see ending the federal ban on offshore drilling would probably add only another 8 billion barrels, one fifth of what was opened for drilling offshore two years ago with the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act. Yes, prevail, we already drill in the most oil rich portion now.

Also you are assuming that we as a nation get that oil, as if we owned it. No one is proposing nationalizing the oil companies. Whatever oil they did find would be sold on the world market.

Like every other issue, this one is so much more complicated than people realize. The only reason that I might think it could work is that it could pump up those Mercantile Exchange folks and affect the futures speculation. I might go along with it a bit if that was the case, but in 2006 when much more shoreline was opened, there was little to no affect. See here:
GAO-05-1047T Energy Markets: Gasoline Price Trends

Duh Prevail! The answer about why liberals oppose drilling is as obvious as the nose on your face. "Liberals" by their nature are put here in this earth to annoy "Conservatives" like yourself. And speaking of annoying, it's about time for Rush Limbaugh and the EIB on WAIM. Enjoy today's program, but remember: like the Rick Driver show, listening to Rush destroys brain cells. Ta Ta For Now.

Huzzah Huzzah to Stringcheese for my favorite post of the week. It references both the great things about higher gas prices and the word Astroglide. Nicely played.

We really are rather oil rich off shore. Can anyone recall when the last oil spill from an off shore drilling rig happened? Even during the last hurricane season, the rigs were damaged but I don't recall any huge oil spills.

From what has been put out there on oil studies the Virginia and Carolina's coastline have significant deposits.

Of course alternative energies need to be fully explored as well. I wish we had incentive programs for solar powering your homes. With the drought, we wouldn't need hydro-electric if we all had solar power.