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View Poll Results: SHOULD WE AGGRESSIVELY START DRILLING DOMESTICALLY NOW?
YES 32 71.11%
no 13 28.89%
Voters: 45. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-21-2008, 08:04 PM
 
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Simple question, should our government remove all roadblock's and ban's and open up Drilling domestically Immediately?
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Old 06-21-2008, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC (in my mind)
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Yes, our lives depend on it. I am for alternative energy in the long run, but unless we find a short term solution, we wont make it long enough to transition beyond oil.
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Old 06-21-2008, 08:30 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Yes, our lives depend on it. I am for alternative energy in the long run, but unless we find a short term solution, we wont make it long enough to transition beyond oil.
I agree..I do not think we have a choice
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Old 06-21-2008, 08:36 PM
 
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I am a very pro enviromentalist and always have been. However, there are times when enviromentalism becomes very near sighted and the movement fails to really look at the issues- we only react.

I think we need to seriously consider drilling in the US as well as small nuclear plants that have proven thus far to be effective and safe and other things we hold as taboo.
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Old 06-21-2008, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Washington state
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I am a very pro enviromentalist and always have been. However, there are times when enviromentalism becomes very near sighted and the movement fails to really look at the issues- we only react.

I think we need to seriously consider drilling in the US as well as small nuclear plants that have proven thus far to be effective and safe and other things we hold as taboo.
I actually have nothing against nuclear plants as long as the problem of the waste can be at least partially addressed. I do have a problem with giving Exxon Mobil and it's cohorts carte blanche to go about raping the environment. Big Oil has never been trustworthy before, why should we trust them now?
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Old 06-21-2008, 09:47 PM
 
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Big Oil has never been trustworthy before, why should we trust them now?
Trustworthy to do what? do you have any examples to back up this absurd suggestion?
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Old 06-21-2008, 10:19 PM
 
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Simple question, should our government remove all roadblock's and ban's and open up Drilling domestically Immediately?
If we had done it in the 1970s at the first gas crisis, we would not be in the problem we are now. Instead, the ecofreaks wormed their way into govt. agencies.... put everything they could on endangered lists so now we can't drill. If people had not realized development of nuclear, geothermal and hydroelctric and clean coal were useful, we would be much better off. Again, the ecofreaks were against it.

Let's lose the ecofreaks.
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Old 06-22-2008, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Washington state
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Trustworthy to do what? do you have any examples to back up this absurd suggestion?
Does the name Exxon Valdez ring a bell?

Here are some examples of what Big Oil is doing to the former pristine wilderness in the tar sands of Alberta Canada.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm72/Upton52/oil_sands_open_pit_miningthumbnail.jpg (broken link) (broken link)

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm72/Upton52/tar-sands-collage.jpg (broken link) (broken link)
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Old 06-22-2008, 08:02 AM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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I'd rather we make the oil companies use the 60something billion barrels of oil they have drilled, with the wells capped in Alaska.

More drilling isn't going to affect the price at all - make them use what they already have!
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Old 06-22-2008, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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Simple question, should our government remove all roadblock's and ban's and open up Drilling domestically Immediately?
Yes. Yes. And, YES!!!!!
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