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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:33 PM
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We should drill more.
Even if it doesn't bring down gas prices, it'll put people to work and further shit on the warped Republican world view.

Plus, we'll be able to say that we tried their way of doing things.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:33 PM
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1. Where do you propose we drill?
You can stay out of MY fucking backyard, tyvm.
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Hutzpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:58 PM
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11. Are you in favor of high gas price then? n/t
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:23 PM
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17. Do you have guarantees that the destruction of OUR country
for oil will result in oil for our country?

There is no doubt that ANY domestic oil would be put on the international market and would NOT deter the price gouging of the oil companies.
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Hutzpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:26 PM
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18. Do you know how many drilling is being done on the Gulf of Mexico?
n/t
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:33 PM
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2. NO!
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:36 PM
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3. oh, it'll "shit on," all right. On the earth.
n/t
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:36 PM
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4. Drill, Baby, Drill!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:38 PM
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5. We've been trying the republican way since Reagan. So no. Nt
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:40 PM
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6. Well, you won't be drilling off the California Central Coast..
We won't allow it...beauty and clean and all...

Tikki
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jdlh8894 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:40 PM
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19. Won't allow it?
Drive from Big Sur to Monterey! You can see at least 30 wells from the PCH.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 03:58 PM
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20. ain't any new.....
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 04:01 PM by Tikki
Ya know....won't be either.:)


Tikki
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sadbear Donating Member (799 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:41 PM
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7. Domestic drilling only makes sense if we nationalize the oil industry
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:48 PM
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8. Tell that to the adversely affected people, shrimping, crabbing, and tourist businesses of the Gulf.
The problem with not taking a strong stand against the prevailing Republican point of view in regards to energy/environmental/economic policy particularly after such an overwhelming, concrete and tragic incident as the GOG is the confusion created by blurring distinctions between the people's major political choices.

This can only serve to aid the Republicans in their endeavor to take our nation even further down this dead end, suicidal path.

Thanks for the thread, LLStarks.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:50 PM
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9. Good idea. Give us your address, and we'll put a drilling rig in your yard.
Thank you.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:57 PM
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10. We'll start in your front yard, okay?
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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:00 PM
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12. I agree but we have to regulate for a change ...
We let BP which had a history of unsafe operations to run amok without oversight.


BP's Dismal Safety Record
BP Has One of the Worst Safety Records of Any Oil Company Operating in the U.S.
May 27, 2010

As the nation comes to grips with the worst oil disaster in its history, there is evidence BP has one of the worst safety track records of any major oil company operating in the United States.

***snip***

In the last five years, investigators found, BP has admitted to breaking U.S. environmental and safety laws and committing outright fraud. BP paid $373 million in fines to avoid prosecution.

BP's safety violations far outstrip its fellow oil companies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the "egregious, willful" violations handed out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

***snip***

OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bps-dismal-safety-record/story?id=10763042


If you let the fox sleep in the chicken coop, you shouldn't be surprised to discover dead chickens.

Of course this drilling should be primarily a short term solution as we ramp up more environmentally friendly methods of producing energy.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:03 PM
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13. I agree...If and only if we kick out the private companies and end trading of our oil on commodities
markets.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:07 PM
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14. Yeah. And if Obama also agrees to revoke Federal public employee union rights....
the Republicans will have that issue removed from their quiver too.

"Look, we killed our Federal public employee unions, and the deficit still went up."

Good idea.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:10 PM
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15. I agree...If and only if we kick out the private companies and end trading of our oil on commodities
markets.

Also don't forget, jobs would be created by clean energy sources as well.

Relaxing certain legislation so desirable and affordable fuel efficient cars would be available in the US just as they are in every other country on the Globe except for canada.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:13 PM
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16. I'm all for that as well... and keep in mind...
Obama is stirring the shit when it comes to subsidizing oil companies. Let them drill on their own dime.

Pubbies are so stupid... the oil companies can drill all they want and it doesn't mean jack shit to our oil prices. The oil companies aren't loyal to the American people by any stretch.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 04:08 PM
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21. We should put some derricks on the Pentagon.

40% of US oil consumption right there.

Instead the US bombs, murders and steals that our capitalists might yield more profit. Crazy, huh?

But you would increase the causes of climate change for political consideration. That's just plain stupid.
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