Do you think this will lower the price of gas?

[Seattle Sam]

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Your congress & senate our the ones SCREWING us. Vote them OUT.

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How is that?

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Congress is preventing any serious domestic exploration which could lead to increased availability of oil. They claim it will take ten years to get it out so it's not a solution. Guess what? If we had started ten years ago we would have a very different situation today.

And don't get me started on ANWR. The environmental activists have effectively brainwashed Congress (and most of the media) on this one...

[Kim_Howie]

Congress & Senate passed a law we can't drill for oil anymore. That's SCREWING us.

[442w30]

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Congress & Senate passed a law we can't drill for oil anymore. That's SCREWING us.

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In 1990, an executive order was signed by the president that banned offshore drilling. The president is not part of the legislative branch, is he?

Drilling is not the solution. Long-term energy policy is; drilling is mutually exclusive. To panic in lean times and make demands that won't pay off for a few years is not the way we need to behave as a country. The world is much more competitive than it was before, so what can we do for ourselves to come out ahead instead of using short-sighted solutions?

Certainly your view is not unique in Internet-land, but just because many people are saying the same thing doesn't mean it's what should be.

[68 Vert]

IMO, I'm not convinced it's because they (oil companies) can't drill, it's that they didn't want to. Again, it was easier/cheaper for them to buy foreign oil and refine than to explore for new reserves.
It has been reported that it costs the oil companies about $60 per barrel for US oil and up until a year or so ago, foreign oil was less than that.

Now that oil is $1xx a barrel, it's now more lucrative to explore and refine US reserves. We'll see what happens...

Mike

[Mr70]

The large 4WD SUV persona is what really amazes me today.
Every dealer lot around here is filled with them,even with 1/2 off sticker and looking to go the way of the DoDo.
Once part of every familes DNA for the last 15 years.So much so that the Govt.threatened to step in & pull the reins back on SUV production in the mid 1990's,wanting automakers to offer more of a balance of fuel efficient vehicles in each of their line ups.
The automakers lobbied hard against that and won,basically telling the Govt. this is America so mind their own business and let the American consumer tell them what to do.
Well we have & literally overnight,with SUV sales/production at an all time low and factories retooling as I type.
I swear I saw the salesman who sold me mine flipping burgers yesterday.

[442w30]

Once there were wagons. Then there were minivans. Then there were SUVs. Then they started having SUVs based on car platforms. And now these crossovers are evolving even more.

I still lament the loss of station wagons in our culture, but while it's true Detroit built what the market demanded, a great number of consumers wanted utility and Detroit gave them SUVs due to their profit margins. Detroit has no one to blame but themselves for their short-sightedness, but it isn't like there hasn't been any precedent.

[wwchevy]

"In 1990, an executive order was signed by the president that banned offshore drilling. The president is not part of the legislative branch, is he?

Drilling is not the solution. Long-term energy policy is; "

President lifted the drilling ban, but it has no meaning because of the Congressional ban. It did however wake up the oil suppliers of the world because gas prices immediately started going down after the ban lift. Apparently they are afraid of us drilling for oil here- so I'm for it.

Drilling is a very important part of what our energy policy should be.
Conserve, drill in the US, Nuclear power, Coal and alternative energy. I didn't fill my truck up with alternative energy today- it uses gas like everyone elses vehicle. Windmills, solar panels and french fry grease are great unless you want to get to work tomorrow.

[Mr70]

"It did however wake up the oil suppliers of the world because gas prices immediately started going down after the ban lift. Apparently they are afraid of us drilling for oil here- so I'm for it."

I was surpised by that too and agree,they must see us as a much bigger threat then even we thought we were.

[Xplantdad]

Who was the dude who put the ban on offshore drilling anyways?

It seems like all the other countries in the world can drill off of our shores...just not us...

[Kim_Howie]

The ban has been enforce 27 years. I don't who started but your speaker of the house & head leader our for it. Nancy Pelose & "good old boy" Harry Reid.