Comments on: Why More Drilling Is Not The Solution We Need.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:35:57 +0000

I agree that drilling aint the answer, but I don’t think it’s the question either. Get people off using carbon and the drilling issue solves itself.

I think this is important because, when McCain & Palin are elected (as is looking likely from where I sit), it’s far more important that you cheer like mad when they do something progressive than you boo and complain when they allow more drilling.

The Green movement in the US needs to start making friends with Republicans!

By: rocketc

rocketc — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:48:22 +0000

Most of the 64 million acres does not have oil under it . . .

I think you missed my point about reading, slavery, et al. I was simply saying that the fact that something might take a long time is not a reason to not attempt it.

I agree that oil is on it’s way out, so why not use it up?

It is also naive to believe that there are groups of people who don’t hate us. Our way of life was hated long before the Bush administration. Our world is governed by the aggressive use of force. No amount of love or diplomacy will talk a madman/dictator the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Chavez, Castro, Mao, Tojo, Mussolini, or Akmadinijad out of his desire to destroy, kill and control. Islamic fundamentalism, will only be stopped through the use of force.

By: david

david — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:42:08 +0000

And if you read my article, I didn’t say we should stop drilling today, as of course that would not happen – “The oil and gas industry still has over 64 million acres of land that has been granted to them to explore on – which they have not even started using.” So why do we need to open more land to drilling if they have 64 million acres still to explore?

By: David

David — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:37:41 +0000

There are alternatives to oil that we can use; there are not alternatives to reading and slavery; I fail to see any correlation in that argument. I will never understand why anyone is pro-drilling when we have alternatives that work just as well, are much cleaner, still create jobs, and still create income for those who invest in them. Oil is on it’s way out; lets work towards the future rather than depending on the past.

As for countries who hate us – that is such a childish gunslinger reaction to the world around us; is it any wonder countries don’t like us when we act like a 5 year old in a schoolyard?