Push for Offshore Drilling; It Won’t Lower Prices at the Pump
The Bush administration urged Congress today to lift the 27 year ban on offshore oil drilling. No one is surprised. It probably won’t pass, especially during an election year. I can’t believe McCain endorsed the idea knowing full well the price of gas will not go down for years from any drilling that takes place now. Crist a McCain pick for VP, also changed his tune toward oil. Somebody got greased or rather oiled. One article stated we wouldn’t be touching any of that offshore oil for at least 3 years. So using gas prices as an excuse is a pretty lame. That and the fact that oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres of FEDERAL lands that they’ve already leased and haven’t drilled.
Besides we don’t have enough refineries, and building new is not looking to a future free of fossil fuel. Considering we’ve got whole TV channels dedicated to showing people all the new green innovation out there, how long will it be before we catch on that we’re being lied to about a lot of it? We can get off the fossil-fuel-a-coaster but we need new management. Think of the environment this election year and put an end to the oilarchy before Mother Nature puts an end to us.
I’m sure people that have lost everything to fires, tornadoes, and floods believe the weather is getting worse and we need to do something about it. President Bush admitted in 2002 that our use of oil and coal do have an impact on the environment. But he still pushes to lift a ban on offshore drilling during a year when the middle of our country is under water, and so many tornadoes have already hit the midsection, while fires rage in N. California. The common sense here is to have some reverence for Mother Nature before we all end up to our necks in either water, wind, or fire, and without food and fresh water, but we just keep stalling.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/18/bush.offshore/?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alQzmBT3sqbs&refer=home