Let's drill the watermelon outta everything <redux>

[sprattjack]

17- Threads started devoid of commentary will not be allowed (i.e. links, cut-n-pastes, clicky, read this...)

[Chalenge]

1:  It will do nothing for today's or tomorrow's pump prices.

Doing nothing will do nothing. Doing something is a step in the right direction. The important thing to me is not gas prices but paying for oil from overseas. The prices will drop TOMORROW when the people that sell us oil realize we have a fix coming.

2: It endangers some of America's most treasured environments.

Popycock! Drilling today is safer then ever. Who treasures those murky depths anyway? I look from the coast of Florida and I cant possibly see the spot they will drill at anyway. The coastal beaches are constantly destroyed and rebuilt by nature (ever hear of hurricanes?).

3: Californians and Floridians detest the plan -- or should.

Should? The same liberal in Republican clothing (Crist) that this rag (RealClearPolitics) helped push on Floridians wrote and passed a bill that exceeds the States Constitutional rights for establishment of coastal treaties. Florida has not got the right to stop the drilling where it is planned to begin. Tourists and Real Estate magnates will come to Florida anyway. We have this place called Disney (so does Kommiefornia) that people love to visit for some reason. The golf courses here attract more people then the beaches (something to do with HURRICANES the press made sure everyone knew about SHARK attacks that are broadcast all the way to Jacarta and RED TIDE that scares visiting Canadians into a frenzy! and then theres the jellyfish so make sure you check the beach warning FLAGS).

4: The embrace of new oil drilling ignores the threat of global warming.

I pretty much ignore global warming too. I cant stop the sun and neither will not drilling for oil. Again (for those slow to learn) one good volcanic eruption (the explosive kind not the smoke fizzle poof kind) does more for global warming then 5000 years of automobiles (even figuring in escalating numbers on the worlds highways and roads). The real cause of global warming as indicated by all those temperature stations is the position of the stations and the sun.

p.s. If a volcanologist dies you know it was the explosive kind.

5: The drive to drill feeds into the public's delusions.

Its this rag (RealClearPolitics) that is delusional. Its time we stopped paying exorbitant prices to pirates for oil and its time we started to ignore environmentalists.

[Getback]

Follow the money. Nancy Pelosi receives graff from Oil speculators. It has nothing to do with nothing else.

[Donzo]

It's a bad idea, mkay.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/offshore_drilling_candidates_c.html

That all you got?

[john9001]

"the press made sure everyone knew about SHARK attacks that are broadcast all the way to Jacarta and RED TIDE that scares visiting Canadians into a frenzy! and then theres the jellyfish so make sure you check the beach warning FLAGS"

you forgot the stingrays and sand spurs.

[rabbidrabbit]

you forgot the stingrays and sand spurs.

And the fat americans who fart a lot on the beach.  OH the hugemanatee!  errr  humanity!!

[Tango]

I find it funny how these guys say it will be 20 years before any of that oil will be brought up. Maybe they should look and see how long it takes to set up an oil rig because they haven't got a clue.

[Hungry]

Did anyone read the comments attached to the article, this Froma person got ripped apart.  Hehe

[john9001]

just because you have a drilling lease it does not mean you can drill, i have stock in a small oil company that had leases in state lands off Florida, every time they tried to drill the environuts with the help of the state would file another law suit and drag it out for another 12-18 months in the courts, this went on for more that 25 years.

Finally the state was ordered by the courts to let them drill or buy back the leases, the state used taxpayer money ( what else) to buy back the leases.

[sprattjack]

I challenge chalenge for a volcanic source.

[Hangtime]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6635776/

[sprattjack]

Those emissions are so high that if the volcano were a new factory, it probably couldn't get a permit, Clint Bowman, an atmospheric physicist for the Washington Department of Ecology, told The Seattle Times.

Italicized for indifference.

[RedTop]

Sprat....

Lets hear YOUR take on drilling and why it's a bad idea....mkay? Not some leaning political paper....your reason...why YOU don't think it's a good idea.

Wanna try?

[sprattjack]

Spratt....

Lets hear YOUR take on drilling and why it's a bad idea....mkay? Not some leaning political paper....your reason...why YOU don't think it's a good idea.

Wanna try?

Synapses. 

[Sandman]

Here's a good read: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834888,00.html