How can people not support offshore drilling for oil?

Question

It's been perfected and it's a clean process. Sure, oil may be a thing of the past, but that's a ways away (as for as us). Not to mention, we can always turn around and sell it when we're too "electric" to need it.

Please, let's pull away from Middle East oil.

Answer 1

Any new benefit from drilling now is five years away.How about hemp oil at six months away.It is clean and does not get you high.

Answer 2

I am for drilling wherever we can!!  We need to ween ourselves off of Middle East oil for d**n sure.  Israel performs military operations off of their own coast and "somehow" the price of oil increases because they were "practicing" an attack on Iran.  That's c**p.

Answer 3

It is the only path that makes any sense...while it will take awhile to get these rigs up and running, it's worth it in the long run!

Answer 4

The point is that fossil fuels are finite. Even if we drill for every possible source of oil in every possible location in the entire world, the wells will all run dry eventually. Why wait till that happens to move towards renewable energy sources? It show extreme lack of foresight to not see that the move to alternative sources must be made now. You want to wait till there is no more oil and you are in a bind? That is just stupidity.

The days of $2 per gallon gas are gone and people need to come to grips with that. Drilling for oil in the US will do NOTHING to bring down the price of gas for one simple reason: oil is finite and by the law of supply and demand for any finite commodity, the price will ony continue to increase as supplies decrease worldwide.  The only rememdy is to decrease demand.

I wish the price of gas were higher because if people were paying $10 per gallon, do you know how fast the switch to alternative sources would be?? It would be almost overnight. GM has already responded to the higher gas prices by moving away from manufacturing big SUVs and the trend will only continue because consumers will demand so.

In addition, there is no such thing as clean oil.

Even if oil extraction were 100% environmentally safe, the burning of fossil fuels contributes to global warming.

If you are upset about the price of oil, instead of demanding more drilling, which will not lower the prices now or in the future, be a savy consumer and start making more energy-concsious decisions in your life.

Answer 5

Im all for it...lets drill anywhere there is oil

Answer 6

As long as the Commodities Futures Modernization Act goes unchanged nothing anyone does will matter. You can drill your little hearts out and completely destroy the environment, but nothing will change as long as speculators are allowed to run amok.

Simply adding the words "and energy" to the Commodities Futures Modernization Act would bring gas prices down overnight.

80% of all known oil off the continental shelf of the United States have already been granted permits to drill, but those that would do the drilling are sitting on those permits.  Ask yourself why.

Answer 7

The Chinese have set up makeshift rigs just 50 miles away from Florida because the U.S. doesn't drill there.

Thank the tree huggers for the higher prices and heavier pollution.

Answer 8

As long as the price of oil is high on the commodity market, the price of gas is going to be high.  Is the answer drilling for oil here?  It's going to take a while to get enough oil out to offset the import from the middle east.. However a barrel of oil is a barrel of oil... It doesn't matter where it comes from

Answer 9

It,s not the general public don't want drilling, it's big oil co. behind it. We should of been drilling there years ago,I know for a fact that gas co. would rather dump gas in the desert ,from tankers, then lower prices! That's as bad as PAYING farmers NOT to grow certain crops, then turn around and buy that crop from foreign country's.

Answer 10

I agree.  Most of the new oil resources are only reachable offshore, and the Norwegians have proven it can be tapped profitably and safely, in a hostile environment such as the North Sea, no less.