2007-05-08 09:31:32 · 30 answers · asked by Mark 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, it's time to speed up on our method to make us less dependent on oil. Ethanol which a cleaner burning fuel will help lessen our dependency on oil and force us not to have to drill in more places.
We can keep drilling but when that resource runs out, we are stuck back at square one.
2007-05-08 09:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We have it and lets use it. The Saudi's , Iranians and the Russian's have been producing and pumping Oil for years and they still have enough reserve to go on for a long time to come. We can drill more in Alaska , Coast of California and be self suffiecent. At least the money we spend on drilling and producing and marketing would stay in the Good Old USA. Alernative fuel would be a good idea, look at the corn, but how expensive that would be in the future? Other fuel alternative woutd not be as cheap as most think. Then we are back to square one, too expensive. America, lets drill, dig for more oil which is plenty is this land of the free and lets not rely on the Ragheads and its Oil company puppets. The Oil in this counrty is for the people and it should be used and envionmetalist just Gore away ...
2007-05-08 11:35:46 · answer #2 · answered by BuzzRus 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The time came long ago. Everyone uses oil products or petroleum based products. Even with alternatives we will be dependent on oil for years to come. If our vehicles got 100mpg, we still need oil. Plastic's are petroleum based as is just about everything you will touch today. I watched on the news last month where China is planning or is slant drilling to our off shore deposits.
2007-05-08 09:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it time we all drive electric cars or at least make the auto industry raise the mpg standards so that we won't NEED to drill for more oil in the first place?
It's not like the technology isn't there, it's the motivation that is lacking and greed which it runs by.
2007-05-08 09:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. However many of our friends on the democratic party will not allow it. I believe that Clinton froze drilling off the coasts, we cannot drill in ANWAR because it may hurt the carabu or some other environmental reason.
Mexico has found lots of oil right off their coasts in the gulf. So has Cuba. We are 90 miles from Cuba. So its time to take back the streets from the environmental wackos and take control of our own destinity.
2007-05-08 09:48:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not really.
The U.S. has almost no oil. We have less than 3% of the world's reserves. Even if we drill it all, it won't bring down prices, which are set on a world market. It doesn't matter where the oil comes from, it will cost the same. And once we drill it, it's gone, and we can't use it in a national emergency when we're cut off from our foreign suppliers.
We consume 26% of the world's supply. That's where we need to work on it - cutting our consumption by becoming more efficient and switching to alternative fuels.
2007-05-08 09:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
FROM WHAT I READ THE OIL RESERVES WE CAN DRILL FOR HERE IS IN ALASKA AND IT IS IN A WILDERNESS THEY WOULD HAVE TO BUILD ROADS TO GET THERE AND PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE AND WORK THERE. ITS NOT THAT EASY. WHERE WE ALREADY PUMP OUT OIL WE ARE ALMOST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. DID YOU NOT READ ABOUT "PEAK OIL" ? RUSSIA I BELIEVE IS OR IS GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST OIL PRODUCING COUNTRY. THE WORLD NEEDS ALTERNATIVES TO OIL. THERE HAVE BEEN SYNTHETICS FOR A WHILE GERMANY USED SYNTHETIC OIL MADE FROM COAL IN WW2. I THINK SOMEONE HAS THE ANSWER BUT THEY ARE WAITING FOR OIL TO DEPLETE.
2007-05-08 09:45:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
people really do not know how many oil wells are here in united states that are idle, because the government chose to pay the owners NOT to PRODUCE any OIL. there are thousands of oil rigs sitting and wasting away, because the government do not want them producing, it takes away from their personal investments. i belive opec has a hand in this as well.
2007-05-08 09:41:23 · answer #8 · answered by waljac6108 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about investing the money in alternative energy instead of trying to make the oil companies richer?
2007-05-08 10:09:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if we want to control our own destiny. But then folks would have to find someone else to blame for their lot in life other than the Oil Companies...
Tough choice......................
I mean it's pretty easy to complain about getting oil out of the Middle East, then not let our own country produce enough.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
2007-05-08 09:36:48 · answer #10 · answered by Ken C 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋