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Posts: 3442 · Posted: May 21, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: Drilling in America good or bad?

When it comes to oil drilling, energy usage, and global warming, why is the United States mainly, if not solely blamed? I read in an article this morning that the United States is the number one green free market country out there. However, Japan, China, European Nations, and Russia hardly share the burn. They too use an excess of energy, but they are no where as clean and green as the United States. We clean up our oil spills and maintain things in the oil companies with regulations more than any other country on this planet.

I often ask myself, "If we are the cleanest and greenest country, why dont we drill in our own country?" After all there is not just the benefits of cleaner drilling, but it would also get us off foreign oils and lower gas prices. Drilling in the united states will also help us stop consuming other countries energy resources and help our debts. I only suggest this as a temporary solution, because we NEED to find another fuel resource. But helping our economy will help us fund scientist to find a new resource which ultamately will help us end global warming.

Right now in the United States there is a shelf of oil that could fuel our rigs alone for 160 years alone. Without any oil from any other nation. This shelf could be a big break for America.
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Posts: 3884 · Posted: May 21, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

Considering those presented arguements, drilling in America is not a bad idea.

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I say bad, one reason being that drilling in Alaska’s arctic region poses a major threat to the already fragile ecosystem there. The hundreds of millions of dollars are being offered for rights to drill up there, and that amount of money should be used to invest in clean energy that will last and create new jobs.

Drilling in Alaska is only a temporary solution, much like a piece of gum to patch a hole in a dam. The consequences could be devastating and irreversible. We need long term solutions.

Posts: 26976 · Posted: May 21, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

I'd rather find alternative resources altogether.
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Posts: 3442 · Posted: May 21, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

have you heard of liquid fuel from coal? congress denied us that energy source and its way more effective and way more clean than oil. the air force is using it... they just tested to see what it does breaking hte sound barrier... good stuff needs to be put in our cars.
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Part of me says no to drilling in Alaska, because I'm a wildlife biologist and there are ecosystem concerns. I suppose I could be ok with it if the proper research was done and it was undertaken as safely as possible.
But, as has been said, it's still only temporary. My worry would be that if did decide to drill there it would lull us into a false sense of security in some ways. We'd suddenly have this new fuel supply and might stop looking for alternatives, which is probably where the more important work lies at this point.
Coal would be an ok idea, but in the long run coal is still a non-renewable resource. It'll get tapped out at some point too.
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Posts: 9371 · Posted: May 22, 2008 5:57 am Post subject:

we will never have another fuel source approved because america is run by companies not the people.

there is too much money to be made my using oil.

i read an article at the dr's office saying that the corn oil fuel is whats making the food prices increase so drastically.

when i was in school (1992-6) they spoke of having all the cars go to solar panels to charge the electric batteries. nothing has come of that.

and what of this hydro engine thats rumored? theres no money to be made by the sun or the ample amounts of water.. so it will never happen.
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Posts: 5294 · Posted: May 22, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

Regardless, the will of most people is governed by "How much money will we make?" and "How much will people pay for it?"

In America, there is no such thing as conservation of resources because so few people do it, mainly because of the mindset we have with the economic industries.
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Posts: 3442 · Posted: May 22, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

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I would agree to drilling in Alaska. Not the mainland of US tho.
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Posts: 3884 · Posted: May 26, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't it be better to rely on our own US drilling for oil than relying on another country for oil anyways?

Posts: 26976 · Posted: May 26, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

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I remember talking about it in school. Some comments were...
"Alaska is way to beautiful to rip up and it might kill /mess up there environment."
"Some reasons people don't dig in Texas is because of peoples homes and we don't want to waste our oil, so instead, we buy foreigners oil."
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Posts: 3442 · Posted: May 27, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject:

well whatever on those things. what pisses me off is that china right now is drilling off the shore of the us. oil we could be drilling. but does anyone care? nope. its fine bc its not americans doing it, so there for it cant be harmful or bad to the inviroment. (what im saying if you dont get my sarcasticness, is that americans see america drilling as a bad thing. yet they dont care that ohter nations are just off our shores to drill. and yeah we dont get a drop of that oil.)
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What shore ? I never herd of this...

Then again..

I don't watch T.V. Shocked

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Posts: 7 · Joined: May 30, 2008 Posts: 7

china and cuba are drilling off the coast of cuba. at least they are working on it. we need to drill, but we have a bunch of Anti-American/capitalists who love to see gas prices high and to see our economy suffer. they are a bunch of whack environmentalist who should all be tried for treason.

Gryffindork, i'm sorry but you are truly ignorant in your post. you really should be more objectable and stop being fed ignorance.

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