The "Oil Prices" thread.

[Joe]

@JayS

Yes, and that’s the same bullshit excuse the anti-drilling group was using in 1970. Besides that, most of the stuff I’ve seen says 10 years, not 30.

Anyway, it’s funny how you won’t get behind new drilling because we won’t see results for 10 years but you love Obama’s new energy research which won’t do anything to help us for that long or longer.

There is no silver bullet to this problem. We need conservation, we need more domestic oil, we really need to end this out of control speculation, and we definitely need research into non-oil sources of energy.

Continuing this partisan bullshit of “I’m a democrat so I can’t support drilling” or “I’m a republican so I can’t support conservation” isn’t going to help anyone.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration did a full analysis of offshore drilling and report. their conclusion:

"The projections in the OCS access case indicate that access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030. "

I wasnt saying I was for or against it. I was just saying its not going to fix the CURRENT price spike.
I think the states should decide in this current case. It makes more sense in some areas than others. Either way, offshore drilling is using a garden hose on a forest fire.