Law wrote on Jul 14, 2008 6:34 PM:Now lets force Congress to act and open the off shore drilling sites.
As for the “it won’t help us for 5 years crowd” think about this.
(1) it will put pressure on the Saudis to lower their cost to us if they feel they will loose their biggest customers, which then will remove the need to open the off shore wells.
(2) And if the above does not materialize, at least we will have more oil in five years.
In the time being, push for tax breaks into battery research technology to replace gas.
Removing our own oil will put this country out of business before a solution is developed.
We need to keep the economy going until we get ourselves out of this mess utilizing new technology, whatever that technology will be.
Don’t shoot yourselves and the country economically just win the save the world argument.

aDAMANT wrote on Jul 14, 2008 7:15 PM:It's about time! We should have done this a long time ago. It's the lame enviromentalists that are keeping us from drilling in our own country. This will lower gass prices a bit and we don't have to rely on foreign oil too much. We have lots of oil in this country that we should be using in the first place. Goooooo Bush!

Law wrote on Jul 14, 2008 8:10 PM:Oops, should read "Don’t shoot yourselves and the country economically just to win the save the world argument."

Bush knows Obama wrote on Jul 14, 2008 8:46 PM:will be blamed when offshore drilling turns out not to have much of an affect on gas prices.

So Bush will get the credit and Obama will get the blame. That's a pretty good partisan strategy.

to the ignorant crowd wrote on Jul 14, 2008 9:20 PM:are you guys kidding me? There are 1000's of acres of unexplored oil fields in the US. The oil ... have had access to these fields long time ago. Why don't Bush and his oil partners explore these fields before the go and blame the Democrats for the high gas prices?

People it's time to wake up!

Nick wrote on Jul 15, 2008 12:41 AM:Idiots! We need offshore drilling like we need $18.00 a gallon for gasoline right now. Everyone blames the the Middle East for our oil problems when it starts right here at home. Bush has let his rich frineds toy with the price of oil by allowing speculations to run wild. This practice needs to be outlawed and those who profit by it should be prosecuted. Offshore drilling WILL NOT lower gas prices. Nothing will do that now that the greedy A holes have had a taste of what they can bleed from us. Offshore drilling wil only destroy our coastline. Wake up!

Burt wrote on Jul 15, 2008 6:16 AM:So let's drill some holes in the fault lines and see if what happens is good or bad.

Meanwhile, the Saudi's won't exactly shake in their sandals from the pressure when we explain how in several years we'll be contributing to our oil addiction, er supply, by a gigantic margin of maybe 1 percent. But look at the bright side: We will get to gaze every day for the rest of our lives as the sun sets behind this pathetic symbol of our obstinance avoiding development of real long term, clean, and sustainable solutions to our energy needs. Goooooo Big Oil!

Faux Chuckles wrote on Jul 15, 2008 8:38 AM:We are being played by master grifters from both sides of the spectrum. Republicans love the high oil prices because it allows their oil company cronies to make huge profits and their huge financial investor cronies to profit from by using the Enron Loophole to corner the oil futures market. Democrats love the high price because it allows them to push their Global Warming scare tactics, alternative fuel agenda, and their life long ambitions of telling us all how we should live our lives. So now the American standard of living is being reduced to third world status so the left can profit politically and the right can profit financially. Think about it, by buying into these party lines and not thinking independently we have given them permsission to rip us off. Time for a revolution.

To Nick wrote on Jul 15, 2008 8:49 AM:The speculators are not Bush's buddies. A lot of them are the pension funds, trying desperately to make up their staggering losses in the mortgage market, so that they can meet their payment obligations to the retirees. The largest pension funds in the country are the public (government) employees unions' funds, and they are all trading commodities now. Also, it's not the 60's or 70's anymore - drilling technology has vastly improved. Offshore drilling will not destroy our coastline, but the lack of oil, and the accompanying astronomical prices will certainly destroy our economy. It would be nice if all the people like you would stop being so incredibly selfish, and think of the greater good for our country.

Democrat Robert wrote on Jul 15, 2008 9:07 AM:To ignorant guy... 1000's of acres are not provable reserves, if they were they would have drilled years ago. This is not a time for spectulative wild cat wells!!! This is a time for drilling known and provable reserves at any location. As a coastal community we must understand if we dont drill our shores, other countries will.. better the rigs be ours!!! Drill NOW!!

Rasta Man wrote on Jul 15, 2008 9:56 AM:The future is monorails running down main street and the parking lots filled with solar panels to supply the energy. Oil how archaic. GE the largest corp. in the world is so deversified in alternative CLEAN energy, I wonder why?

A Thought wrote on Jul 15, 2008 10:01 AM:Is this what happened to Japan in the late 30's and 40's?
Middle East= US
US= Japan
Iraq= China
Wow, how history is detined to repeat itself, should have read a book "W"

To Nick wrote on Jul 15, 2008 10:02 AM:See your comments is why you are not in a poltical office, you can't see the oil for the ocean.

Drill Drill wrote on Jul 15, 2008 10:17 AM:Talk about idiots. Not one US coast line in the Gulf of Mexico has been hurt from oil. Even though some of the largest hurricanes in history have hit them. Wake up folks, new technology prevails. Oil drilling 50 miles off our coast will not hurt anything. They won't even be seen like your solution, giant attractive wind mills and bright shiny solar panels. We need oil to exist for the next several years. Keep kidding yourselves that there are other solutions as this country becomes a third world country and China, India and Russia surpass us because of people like you and the environuts constant obsruction to progress.

Oil Drops wrote on Jul 15, 2008 10:22 AM:$10 today just by Bush lifting the executive order. If Congress would open up the drilling it could drop another $20 to $50 without a drill in the water. The thought of more supply causes this folks. Don't believe the approval of drilling won't lower prices. I suggest you go take a class in Economics if you believe otherwise.

To Oil Drops wrote on Jul 15, 2008 10:54 AM:Wow someone else actually gets it, a glimmer of hope prevails.
It's a poker game, does any one else get it!!!!!
More supply, less the price.
Law

Wondering wrote on Jul 15, 2008 2:14 PM:Wondering how and why it is that the oil companies are thought of as Republican. If you have mutual funds, you are most likely invested in oil companies. If you have a retirement plan that invest in mutual funds, I think you get my point. If you drive a car, you are invested in oil companies. You libs make me laugh loud and long.

A Thought wrote on Jul 15, 2008 2:42 PM:The oil supplies in the US should be a Nationaly owed corporation just like in the middle east. for bid contracts to mine and a no profit price to citizens because after all the "Natural Recourses" belong to the citizens. Unless of course the corporations run the place. This is another "Bushwack" brought to you by the GOP. you supply and demand folks are drinking the kool-aid again.Reaganomics ring a bell?

Gusher wrote on Jul 15, 2008 2:47 PM:Drill, drill, drill!!! What a thrill. Can't wait for the US to put the screws to the Arabs. Wouldn't it be great if we could put them out of business. The US has to be self sufficient. National security and the economy (stupid) depends on it. Oh by the way, Pelosi must resign and Chuckie Shumer(I never met a camera I didn't like) should be sued for the run on the bank caused by the run of his mouth.

arnys army wrote on Jul 15, 2008 3:33 PM:Pelosi is a threat to any dishonest activities, I can see why she would be of concern to the Repukelicans. I laugh at the moral neo-cons from the book of Rove. Only, just because you don't beleive in hell, dose'nt mean you will be exempt from it's fire, Karl.

Bo wrote on Jul 15, 2008 5:15 PM:Of course he did, he will make big money on drilling in the ANWR and offshore after he gets out of office! It looks as if government ethics ends before the White House. Cheney makes big money on war through Haliburton, Bush is greasing the wheels to make big money on oil.

Burt wrote on Jul 15, 2008 6:06 PM:"Putting the screws to the Arabs" and taking away our energy business from them is a great idea, but I doubt if it will be by out-oil-producing them.

And what makes us think that if the price of crude drops today because of the "threat" of our drilling, that it will stay down? And find its way to our pump prices? Do we think 'they' can't read the paper and find out what the projected volume and availability will be? If we produced our own oil, what makes you think we the public could get it for less than the world market value, anyway? We're not going to produce enough to really change the supply by a significant margin (like 20-30%) to drive the cost way down. My guess is that US oil drilled by US companies would still go to the highest bidder. What? Did someone say China?
We need to start thinking about how to solve the long term dependency on oil.

Richard wrote on Jul 16, 2008 7:44 PM:Bush accuses the "Democrat Congress", as though it's somehow unAmerican and wants to destroy the country, for high gas prices!!! In Europe gas has been 6.00 a gallon for 20 years now. Do we blame Canadians for our high lumber prices because they refuse to clearcut their forests up there to meet our demands? Absurd. If this were a real emergency I'd have sympathy if he were to politely ask if California could please drill. But that's not what GWB ever does, where he simply orders CA to drill and demands that Congress act quickly, as on all other issues he tells them to do because the Constitution isn't good enough for us. It's always the Dems fault for any bad, even though it's GWB himself who singlehandedly ordered the invasion of Iraq, a nation with full rights to defend itself from forces outside who they didn't understand. GWB can demand all he wants, it doesn't mean I have to agree with it. Geologists published that Texas and New Orleans have sunk so many feet because of sucking so much oil out from underneath the region for so long and this allowed levees to break all the easier from Katrina. Heat from the earth's center never stops seeping to the surface, and removing oil is like removing a thermal blanket from a furnace. The 10 degrees warming in the Gulf over the past several decades climatologists know cause larger hurricanes. Bush I cannot support because he doesn't attempt to understand conservation. Canada I hope continues to manage forests, where cutting equals yearly new growth. If oil sucking were equal to the newly formed oil from peat, then of course I'd get behind it, but not so with someone who never asks a single question of anyone at any news conference, but is instead only there to tell you what to think and how to act and what to do and of course to oppose the Democrat Congress and to snub it no matter what information they need from you to get to the bottom of something because executive privledge above all must be maintained. I support Governor Schwarzenegger who opposes Bush's demand to drill because he understands little about it. Go Governator. And I support synthetic oil and use only it in all my vehicles and also encourage those companies to fight oil companies by making synthetic gasoline as well. Go solar roof panels at all gas stations, because electric cars are rechargeable now.