How can demorcats complain about HIGH gas prices, then oppose offshore drilling!!?

Question

you cant have one without the other!

Answer 1

Because the oil companies already have 65 million acres of offshore property that they can use, but aren't!

Answer 2

I live in Canada, a place where one has the RIGHT to complain.

Answer 3

Because they can...

Answer 4

We need to get rid of the gas guzzlers! NOT drill and s***w up the environment to gain two weeks worth of fuel! ;-(=

Answer 5

Because democrats are retards. They only want your votes and they oppose anything that makes you less dependant on them. Including guns.

Answer 6

Because the high prices have nothing to do with gas shortages.  It has to do with "speculation"   Stock marketeers are "betting on what people will pay" and that affects the price of the fluid.

Answer 7

Because, offshore drilling is only a temporary solution.

Answer 8

Most experts I have heard say that we won't even begin to experience the 'good' effects of offshore drilling for at least 6-7 years.

So anyone expecting gas to go down to $2 a gallon will be sorrily disappointed. There may be a temporary drop but it will go back up.

Answer 9

There is still plenty of oil. The price of oil is not because we are running short its because they produced less to make prices go up and because investors are making big bucks.

Bushes request to get off shore drilling going again is politically driven and the dems response is also politically driven. The solution is secondary to party BSing.

Sorry but gas was $1 a gallon 5 years ago…..the price is not a reflection of the quantity. It is a  reflection of politics and speculators.

In 2 years when you all sell you SUVs and own broken electric cars and oil is back down your car will be worth zip. In addition the emission required to dispose of your old vehicle and make a completly new one is more than would be produced driving it for 5 years.

Answer 10

I'm not complaining.  Yeah, it'd be great if it only cost $20 to fill my car again, but I'm glad that all the fools who bought SUV's are having to unload them because they can't afford them anymore.  People are paying the price for being gluttons, that's all.

And what if we do start drilling offshore?  Then we'll have the same problem in twenty years.

Answer 11

Wow, this thread is full of folks who don't believe in supply and demand.  There is much more than a few weeks, or a couple of years, supply of available fuels in offshore locations.

Answer 12

What they(and everyone else) are worried about are the oil speculators whom have made a real bad situation worse by using oil as an inflation hedge. The answer ought to be a cleaner fuel subistute,not more polluting oil.

Answer 13

I'm an independent, but I think it's dumb to try to fix a problem by delaying it, not solving it.

Answer 14

or how people complain about gas prices but then buy bottled water which would otherwise be free but when bottled is more per fl. oz. than gas.

Answer 15

Well you know off shore drilling has a considerable cost too. Whose gonna pay for the drilling if it actually happens? Probably us, the people through taxes. And then how long is it gonna take for that drilling to actually start working efficiently? Probably about 5 years to be able to actually have a good effect on gas prices. By then people will no longer be so dependent on gasoline as we are today. Also the supply isn't exactly endless, i heard we have about 2 years of supply. Well when that runs dry, what happens? We're even worse off then we were in the beginning. Its a temporary fix. We'll pay less for gas for a bit, then the supply will run dry and we can't even drill off shore and we'll have to rely on foreign oil again.

Answer 16

Offshore drilling would do nothing to reduce gas prices.  All it would do is line the pockets of the oil companies, who are already making enough money as it is.