More domestic Oil drilling ?

Question

I think we should drill as many wells everywhere we can as fast as we can and flood the world market with enough oil to break the OPEC. We could get oil down to about $20 a barrel and start pumping the strategic reserves too. Then we could use tax dollars to subsidize the refineries and get fuel down to 20 cents a gallon. That would stop the money flow out of the country and our dependence on Mid East interests. Meanwhile we would buy time like T Boone Pickens says to develop alternative fuels to replace gasoline with. What about it ?

Answer 1

Do you actually naively believe that ANY oil company extracting oil in the U.S.A. will drop it's price to $20.00 a barrel.... That's a great plan to further rape every American.

Have you no clue?  

Why hasn't G. W. Bush done anything about alternate fuels in the past 8 years, while he had control of the ship?  

It's a little late for the Republicans and McCant to stand-up now and say that they'll do something about a problem they've ignored for the past 8 years...

Why will putting these two idiots in place be any different?   Maverick? Beauty Queen?  WTF?

I don't think I can take 4 more months of these idiots.

Answer 2

I dissent, politely. Good consumers that we are, driven by the corporate state to pour national wealth into roads and highways infrastructure, primarily for the continued corporate profits in the personal transportation sector, instead of mass transportation and freight. If we had stayed with light rail and trolley models, and people were taught to plan ahead. If we lived within walking distance from our work, schools.

No, the disaster in the atmosphere and oceans is primarily due to the use of the internal combustion engine, and failed attempts to control the economic consequences of sustainable ecosystems. Say, petroleum based fertilizers, GMO crops, factory farms, huge chemical based substitutes for real food.

I think we should retire the internal combustion engine, and force the public good issue to become rail based infrastructure using the UK model.

Californians (36M) used more gasoline in one year than the Chinese (1.6B), according to NPR today. All that smog and soot floats into the wind, and 10-12 % air pollution is imported on the currents.

Answer 3

sounds good, but so does a fairytale

breaking our strategic reserves however may have an environmental effect and thus hurt some of the eco system. nonetheless by getting rid of our leash on OPEC is a great idea.