Do you approve of drilling for oil in Alaska in order to lower gas prices?

Question

Do you approve of drilling for oil in Alaska in order to lower gas prices?

Answer 1

Yes and Off Californis and Nj and Florida and next to Old Faithfull as well s***w the environmentalists!   thay are always wrong anyway

Answer 2

Honestly, I dont care. I go to the pumps and pay whatever price it says because otherwise I can't drive to school or to work or go to the grocery store. It's really sad. I mean, a lot of the high price is due to speculation by the banks that are able to trade energy. A part of it is our dependency on foreign oil. A part of it is the fact that demand is so high. A part of it is that nobody lives in the city anymore, everyone lives 40 miles away from work because they cannot afford to live closer.

If we cannot fix this oil problem, I'd rather walk to school and walk to the grocery store and I wouldn't mind living in a city. It's just that Americans got way too comfortable. I think also a lot of rich people made Americans move out of the cities too because they bought the houses for cheap and then turned it into a business area.  

I just wish that America would recompensate for this and start to move things closer together.

Answer 3

No.

Maintain the environment.

Answer 4

Yes I do.  Also, if I was running for President, I would be proposing that old stripper wells that were abandoned be reopened and those operating them have their tax rates reduced by half.  

There are 10's of thousands of those old wells in the United States.  Every barrel of oil they produce still reduces our trade deficit by $130 plus.  It is estimated that reopening those old wells would make 20,000,000 barrels of additional oil available annually.  That is a small amound (about one days consumption in the United States) but it still helps.

Next, we need to start refining gasoline from coal.  If the Germans could do it during World War II while being bombed 24/7 by the allies, we sure as h**l can do it.

Get oil from shale operating.  It is estimated that there are 1.2 trillion barrels of oil locked up in the Green River shale formation.

Drill off the coast of Florida and California.  Drill for natural gas off the coast of Massachusetts.

Answer 5

drilling for oil in Alaska is not an overnight thing, you are talking 8-10 yrs before seeing a drop of oil, so for lowering prices at the pump tomorrow.....no...but could stabilize prices in future...and cut dependence on foreign supplies until alternative means become more readily available

Answer 6

No, not right now. Go with coal and nuclear and battery. Leave the baby animals alone.

Answer 7

We should go with all of them some of these ppl say it would take 10 years well if Bill Clinton did not turn the bill down we would be get a 100 million barrel a week ,we should go after at our resources..not just in Alaska,Fla ,Utah ,Montana,Wyoming,GULF Mexico,

Answer 8

I won't live that long.

I'm 60.

It won't lower gas prices either.  Its very hard to get that oil to market.

We seriously need to look elsewhere for synthetic oil that's the only thing that has the ability to lower the price.

One hundred and ten years ago oil was just a messy bit of stuff that made it hard to farm.  I'd like to see it go back to that.

In the meantime more nuclear power, more geothermic for home heating, more solar for water and home heat will all help.

Isn't funny, that one of the few pristine places on earth, and some of the most hostile to man, is where they want to run

pipes and pollutants?

They would be much better off drilling off California and Florida in the Gulf.

Maybe they could even expend some of their enormous profits developing ecologically safer rigs.

We already drill for oil in Alaska now, remember the Exxon Valdez?  The fishermen never really recovered.  Is it any wonder the governors of both Florida and Alaska aren't anxious to see more rigs in their states.  Even if both the governors are Republicans.

Answer 9

Yes!

There is no reason not to. The people hare that are worried about the "little animals" don't know what they are talking about. The animals have reproduced better where the pipeline is. We are the country in the world at extracting oil with out hurting the environment. Exxon Valdese was a ship transporting oil not drilling for oil. More spills occur while importing oil.

Most other countries like China have poor records when it comes to the environment and we see them slant drilling 50 miles off our shores. Probably drilling into our reserves. Why can't we drill in our own territory?

It would reduce the price immediately because OPEC would see the handwriting on the wall. It's happened before in the 90's when our companies were going after shale oil. OPEC upped their production and made the price of oil drop from the $40's a barrel to $12.00 a barrel to keep us from getting the oil. Oil needs to at around $30 to $40 a barrel to be profitable.

We should be drilling where ever there is oil, just like Canada, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and the rest of the world. We are the ONLY country in the world that won't use our own resources.

Not to mention the boost it would give the sinking dollar. It has fallen about 40% in the last few years causing massive inflation of all goods.

Answer 10

i support finding new alternative energy resources and improving existing ones. this is longer term. drilling in alaska will endanger hundreds of species and the environment and it will last only a few years, especially at this rate of consumption.

Answer 11

I approve of it whether it lowers prices or not.  The more of our own oil we drill, the better.

Love Jack

Answer 12

yes true the u.s. has an unbelievable amount of oil stocked up but america is not gonna do that, instead they will save it use up most of the middle east and other regions etc.. and once its running out sell at an extremely high rate..

to answer ur question about alaska no i do not agree other sources should be used other than oil

Answer 13

Yes and off the coast in California and Florida as well, there should be an annoucement that we are building three more refineries in addtion.

Answer 14

approve drilling

don't expect it to change prices much though