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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 11:51 AM link Brandon M. | Washington, PA
Stop destroying our country. We are tired of it. Let us drill for our own resources. You are killing our country and our livelihood with terrible policies aimed at keeping your own greedy power. It has nothing to do with big oil companies controlling prices, you are the ones keeping the prices high. It is called supply and demand and we have the ability to fix it if you would let us. Drill drill drill. You will never get a vote from me or anyone I know.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 11:22 AM link Carl F. | Ann Arbor, MI
If you want my vote in the future you had better start working for me and interests instead of every worthless little special interest group. Exxon and the other oil execs should call the government to task for all the oil money that you are stuffing in your pockets in DC. All the while you are pointing an accusatory finger at them for their $0.32/gallon profit you conveniently forget to mention the $0.32 going to the IRS, the $0.18 federal excise tax, the $0.18 state excise tax, the $0.24 state sales tax, the superfund cleanup tax, etc. The various government agencies are making THREE TIMES what the oil companies make on a gallon. If anyone has an interest in keeping oil prices high, it is The Government!!You people are working in your own best interests not mine. Either start working for the people or GO HOME!! "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more"
Carl in Michigan
p.s.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. -- William J. H. Boetcker
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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 10:59 AM link Vickey F. | Indianapolis, IN
To Whom it may concern,I agree that we should be drilling in our own country and using OUR own resorces for oil. Honestly what are we waiting for. It will keep us from dependency on forgien oil and create more jobs state side, which in turn will help the economy. Get us away from dependency on forgien oil.
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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 10:50 AM link Troy G. | Pittsburgh, PA
There is nothing wrong with drilling in ANWR a pipe line wont hurt any animals and if one or two animals parish so what they are animals not people. ANWR is a big voting issue for meThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 10:49 AM link Troy G. | Pittsburgh, PA
There is nothing wrong with drilling in ANWR a pipe line wont hurt any animals and if one or two animals parish so what they are animals not people. ANWR is a big issue for meThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 10:47 AM link Troy G. | Pittsburgh, PA
If its there why not use it ?This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 10:25 AM link Timothy D. | Avon, NY
By forcing Americans to buy fuel through OPEC and/or Venezuela, you are making it likely that we are helping to buy the bullets and bombs that are killing our very greatest treasure. You should be more than ashamed. Disgusting and vile come to mind!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 9:55 AM link Michael B. | Industry, PA
Please Drill for your security and independence. The new Technology is here. Please free the American spirit and allow us to carve our own destiny.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 9:52 AM link charlene m. | Saltsburg, PA
Put the people of this country first for a change. Energy independence should start NOW, not with Caps and Trade policies, but tangible energy. We have clean coal deposits, natural gas and we know how to drill for oil safely better than the countries who are drilling just off our borders..Get started letting us use our God-given gifts of this country. Drill in ANWR and take off the chains on other energy sources.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 9:19 AM link Frank C. | Green Valley, AZ
Dear fine Senators and Representatives,Please allow our great country to to be rid of this infernal dependence on foreign oil. We are great because of our spirit of self reliance. I get sick when I see our politicians begging with hat in hand for oil when we have what we need within our own territory. Allow Alaska to fullfil it's obligation under law to provide access to it's wealth of natural resources. It is a mystery to us common folk why you all consistently deny the building of refineries and drilling offshore and in Anwar. The United States should not be a slave to any master. Isn't that the sentiment that drove the American Revolution? The technology is present that will allow drilling without disturbing the balance of nature. So what is holding you back? I believe most Americans would stand up and cheer if you did this. The pioneer spirit is alive and well in our country so please don't kill it.
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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 8:27 AM link Jerry R. | Sandpoint, ID
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 7:42 AM link Travis T. | UNIT 42532, CA
The Middle eastern people have us by the balls when it comes to oil prices and it dont take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Everytime an election rolls around the prices rise because they want Democrats in and US forces out of the Middle East, as do Democrats. Im 19 years old serving my country in the Marine Corp, I love to serve another country the opportunity to have freedom and Democracy but we have got to rely on ourselfs when in a perdicament like this. It affects our daily lives on the micro level and the macro level.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 7:17 AM link AMEDEO C. | Apollo, PA
I believe that our policy of not using our own resources to the fullest extent is a form of national economic suicide. I'm tired of congress caving the radical environmentalist. DO YOUR JOB AND SERVE THE PEOPLE.....NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WITH THE BIG MOUTHS!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 6:38 AM link DONNA S. | CLARKSVILLE, IN
When are you going to put America(ns) first. I worry about politicians who can't stand up to the environmentalists, much less our enemies. Start doing what we can here first, while coming up with new technologies that will make oil a thing of the past. Let American companies be part of the solution. We have the best and brightest minds (apparently not in Congress), and given the freedom, Americans can achieve anything.You are United States Congressman and Senators. I believe it is your CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to put America above party or your favorite lobbyists.
Respectively
Donna Schiller
Clarksville, IN
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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 6:13 AM link Karen S. | Export, PA
The "pain at the pumps" is caused by no other reason than Americans having been prohibited for years from building refineries and drilling for our own oil, a natural commodity for which we have an abundance. You can bring the oil company executives before Congress how ever many times that you wish, but the real problem here is your obligation to your special interest groups, and their agenda along with yours is to stall the American economy. What better way to do that (along with the bogus carbon credit and global warming scam) than to prevent America from using one of it's richly abundant assets, our own fossil fuel.I need to let you know, most of the more conservative voters out here are watching closely as to how our elected officials are voting on these issues. If it was not for the massive voter fraud that occurs at every major election, you would not hold as many seats as you do. The liberal elected official's time is coming to and end, a long over due end.
God Bless our Troops and God Bless America
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Wed., Jun. 4, 2008 2:36 AM link Kenneth O. | Logan, UT
I want our country to drill for our own fossil fuels. Yes, I believe in researching alternative energy sources but it's ridiculous to not take care of our current energy needs. Please vote to drill in ANWR.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 11:02 PM link Thomas M. | Irwin, PA
Let's not commit economic suicide. While we continue to bow down to the extreme environmentalist notion that drilling will ruin the planet, all of the other industrial countries continue to drill for their oil. With today's technology oil can be removed from the earth with minimal disturbance to the surrounding area. We sit idly by while China drills in the Carribbean. What fools we must be! Thank you Democrats for possibly ruining this countrys future economic health regarding energy. You will go down in history as the most naive, obstructionist and ill informed people in US history.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 8:48 PM link Gregory S. | Akron, OH
Dear Congress,Until an alternative form of energy is developed that is both competitive and efficient as oil, I urge you to allow our country to drill for its own oil. There seems to be no good reason not to allow it (oil drilling can even be environmentally friendly). In fact, if Congress does not allow it, it would seem that their policies would be hastening a recession and/or a full depression. With so many industries using oil, I wonder how many businesses would remain viable if oil does in fact reach the $200 per barrel (I've even read as high as $400 per barrel!) level. Can America afford not to drill any more? And should there be a recession or depression, can Congress afford the loss of tax revenue?
I urge Congress to act now and open the oil reserves in this county and I ask them to stand for what is right and good for America.
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 7:48 PM link Matthew B. | Pittsburgh, PA
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 7:13 PM link darren e. | Uniontown, PA
drill drill drill drill drill you dont have any problem drilling your hands in the american folks pocket every time you set down and dream up some scam tax increace!!!!! globle warming man you guys are idiots if you used half your efforts on energy independence as you do on this crap you might get something done in washington but hey boys thats alright just keep up the good workkeep on gouging the working people pretty soon we are going to be out of money then what the hell you gona do then hummm ????? ps maybe you can sue opec or better yet tax the polar bear !!!! you lousy jercks
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 6:49 PM link Ted M. | Weirton, WV
What is so difficult to understand about our current energy situation. You say we should become energy independent, but everything Congress does is counter to the objective of energy independence.Let me explain. It is easy to understand. My grandchildren understand. I think you all do too. You simply have an ulterior motive. Energy independence means that we depend less on foreign sources for energy i.e. oil. That means we should import less foreign oil. In order to replace the foreign oil, we start drilling more domestically. I repeat, DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW! Now how difficult was that to understand. Let me say it again, we reduce oil imports and replace the reduction with domestic sources.
The Russians, of all people, are providing their oil companies with tax incentives to find new sources while we insist on punishing ours. What is wrong with that logic gentlemen? I don't for a minute believe you don't understand but instead are in pocket of corporate and environmental lobbyists at the peril of our country. I include Archer Daniels Midland in this group which benefits from gasohol subsidies. Have you noticed the unintended consequences on food prices?
As for the environmentalists, can you tell the American people how much shoreline has been destroyed worldwide in 2007 by oil spills? Or for that matter, in the last 10 years. I thought so.
What about nuclear power? It seems the rest of the world is smarter than you folks in DC on this subject as well. Europe generates 80% of their electricity from nuclear energy while we only generate 20% of our electricity needs with nuclear energy.
I could go on and on. Unfortunately, I don't expect you to start listening now. Maybe it is time we march on Washington with torches and pitch forks.
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 6:10 PM link Mark S. | South Park, PA
I support the responsible developement of natural resources in ANWR, including oil and gas exploration and recovery. The harvesting of this country's natural resource would benefit both the local economy of Alaska as well as the nation as a whole.With this additional supply of oil available, our nation would have the ability to be more self sufficient and relient for our energy needs.
This removal of dependence of oil from the middle east would remove the control (whether intentional or not) they have on each of our lives felt every day in the form of gas prices.
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 5:08 PM link Greg B. | Mt Pleasant, PA
Let me guess, alternative energy, alternative energy. I'm for alternative energy too, but until some PRIVATE individual or company comes up with it, we need petroleum. The best thing the government can do is get out of the way so they don't turn this into one of the ever so successful programs you have provided us. This ought to be good next winter with $5.00 a gallon heating oil.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 4:25 PM link James S. | Aliquippa, PA
It is absolutely absurd that we are prevented from drilling for our own oil. DO IT! NOW! Not just in ANWR, but in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado and offshore! Build refineries. It IS the will of the vast majority!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 3:44 PM link Bridget V. | Coraopolis, PA
I am contacting your office in regards to the gasoline market. I am aware of the basics of supply and demand, so the price is not a shock to me. More demand equals higher prices. So the answer, lower the demand, by drilling our own oil, or even refining our own oil. This is not a hard concept I was taught Supply and Demand in 9th grade.......... Come on!!!!I know that many poor decisions were made in the past (i.e. B. Clinton not signing the bill to drill in ANWR) but now we need to act, before terrorist realize how dependent we are on OPEC for survival.
Thank you
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 2:41 PM link John J. | Kent, OH
The democrates are for the little people....at least this is the line of B.S. you idiots constantly feed the American people. We call your offices and e-mail you and we get a form letter saying we must find a "alternate energy" source. In the meantime our standard of living is falling so rapidly because of high energy cost that pretty soon you will have the "rich (includes members of congress) and the poor looking for government handouts. Use our own resources NOW....not tomorrow, not the day after....but NOW. Right now we have the Chinese towing their drilling platforms into the Strait of Florida to drill for oil which belongs to the U.S. and you idiots are allowing this. You bring the oil excecutives to capitol hill to answer questions on the high price of oil, but we the people know the real reason.......the reason and the problem lies with the enviromental weenie congressmen and women on capitol hill. You say you are doing it to "save the planet" but actually what is happening is you are getting lobby money from the enviromental groups to "secure" your vote. Save the planet some other time when people can afford your battle against those windmills. Every last one of you idiots should be required to work a real job for once in your life.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 2:04 PM link Joseph K. | Middletown, RI
I have heard arguments against drilling more of our own U.S. crude oil since the gasoline crisis in the early 1970s. The main argument against drilling in U.S. territories was that it would take 8 to 10 years to make a significant difference in pricing. That argument is empty and fallow, at this point, given that American companies combine for less than 5% of the total production of crude oil worldwide. The other argument about bringing alternative energies online to make up the difference is also trite, as next to nothing seems to have been accomplished thus far in my lifetime w.r.t. alternative energy sources. Drill now and do the right thing by the American people.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 1:50 PM link allen b. | lincoln, RI
We must drill here, drill now! Congress is to blame for the mess were in with the price of oil today! Build refineriers cut the red tape for permits! Use coal for power plants and yes we need nuclear power. If you truly want to cut are dependence on foreign oil you must do the above!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 1:08 PM link Jason L. | Coraopolis, PA
We need a real solution to the oil problem in this country, not a tax that pretends to have the environment in its best interest and raise the prices more.Either the science, nor the facts, are there to back the type of global warming claims resulting in the Boxer-Warner-Lieberman bill or any attempts to tip toe around the fact that we're sitting on the solution (figuratively and literally). Why should the people of this country, including yourselves, pay upwards in the trillions through taxes when a fraction of that could be invested into environmentally safe drilling procedures, regulations, and operations.
The world has been around for billions of years, people only thousands, and heavy-industry a couple of hundred - if that.
About half of the oil in the world is located here, in our country, on federally owned and regulated land - yet somehow we are still dependent on foreign oil and you cant look anywhere and not see a story about this "crisis" or "problem," and nothing in government is being done about it.
Drill here.
Invest our money in our country.
Invest our money in the technologies that will advance our economy and our people.
Create jobs, create wealth, and stimulate the economy.
The more money the people save, the more they spend.
The fact is, the world is dependent on energy and we need to be competitive in that market. If we use our own resources, foreign oil supplies will be forced to lower their prices and stay competitive with us. Thats basic business stategy.
It's common sense. And its discouraging to think that my letter wont even matter, or make a difference... or probably even be read.
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 12:58 PM link Jason L. | Coraopolis, PA
We need a real solution to the oil problem in this country, not a tax that pretends to have the environment in its best interest and raise the prices more.Either the science, nor the facts, are there to back the type of global warming claims resulting in the Boxer-Warner-Lieberman bill or any attempts to tip toe around the fact that we're sitting on the solution (figuratively and literally). Why should the people of this country, including yourselves, pay upwards in the trillions through taxes when a fraction of that could be invested into environmentally safe drilling procedures, regulations, and operations.
The world has been around for billions of years, people only thousands, and heavy-industry a couple of hundred - if that.
Over half of the oil in the world is located here, in our country, on federally owned and regulated land - yet somehow we are still dependent on foreign oil?
Invest our money in our country.
Invest our money in the technologies that will advance our economy and our people.
The fact is, the world is dependent on energy and we need to be competitive in that market. If we use our own resources, foreign oil supplies will be forced to lower their prices and stay competitive with us. That basic business stategy.
It's common sense. And its discouraging to think that my letter wont even matter, or make a difference... or probably even be read.
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 12:42 PM link Jason L. | Coraopolis, PA
We need a real solution to the oil problem in this country, not a slick tax that pretends to have the environment in its best interest.The science, nor the facts, are not there to back the global warming claims resulting in the Boxer-Warner-Lieberman bill or any attempts to tip toe around the fact that we're sitting on the solution (figureatively and litteraly). Why should the people of this country pay upwards in the trillions through taxes when a fraction of that could be invested into environmentally safe drilling procedures, regulations, and operations.
The world has been around for billions of years, people only thousands, and heavy-industry a couple of hundred - if that. Common sense.
Over half of the oil in the world is located here, in our country, on federally owned and regulated land - yet somehow we are still dependent on foreign oil??? Invest our money in our country. Invest our money in the technologies that will advance our economy and our people.
The fact is, the world is dependent on engery and we need to be competitive. If we use our own resources, foreign oil supplies will be forced to lower prices and stay competitive. Once they start losing their money, they'll be forced to sell cheaper, and cheaper, and so on...
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 12:39 PM link Rob T. | South Park, PA
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 12:01 PM link JP K. | Stephenville, TX
This is a definite must! We have to get our law makers to STOP making us dependant! Drilling along with research into alternative fuels and power sources needs to start ASAP! Continuing to rely on foreign sources in not the answer! We are only making ourselves weaker by the day!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 11:43 AM link Joseph K. | Ashland, OH
I think it is about time our elected officials better start listening to the will of the people who put them in office ! I am sick and tired of Congress doing what they want and not caring about what the people want. We keep telling Congress and the president what we want as a majority and Congress keeps doing what they want or what the small minority intrest groups wants. It is high time congress starts doing the job they were elected to do !!!!!Start drilling and erecting more refineries, I am tired of being dependant on other countries for our resourses. I am not dependant on any one else for my family. The U.S. shouldn't be either !!!
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 7:48 AM link paul m. | new brighton, PA
Drill here drill now!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 7:25 AM link Mark F. H. | Henrietta, NY
As far as I am concerned our law makers should just resign and let The Three Stooges take over.Moe was a leader. As a Truck Driver I am outraged that China is DRILLING in our Gulf and these
MORONS don't get it....IT's like there STUCK ON STUPID !!!!!!
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Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 6:59 AM link Sylvia B. | Monroeville, PA
This is URGENT and needs to be done NOW!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 5:01 AM link John M. | Pittsburgh, PA
Tue., Jun. 3, 2008 2:16 AM link Eileen F. | Hyde Park, NY
Far too much time has passed on taking this logical action. Drill offshore and drill in ANWR now. It makes no sense at all not to. What is the real reason behind this legislative wall of resistance? Environmentalist? Too pat an answer. There's got to be more to it than that. I hope the American public eventually gets the truthful answer.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 9:08 PM link Amy Jo M. | Fredericktown, PA
I find it strange that you our congressman and senators are raping our income by refusing to drill in the United States. All based onthe theory of global warming. I say theory because there is no hard proof evidence that global warming is having an adverse affect on the environment. I am a school teacher and I leave in a small rural town in Pennsylvania. I have to get in my car and go at least 15 minutes to the closest grocery store. I mention about being a school teacher because I am familiar with a book in the Little House series called the long winter. In that book Laura Ingalls Wilder describe the conditions of a winter in South Dakota that lasted from October to May. In this day and age we would say that this is a product of global warming. However, in the time that this event occured there were no cars, no electricity, no carbon emmisions, and the population was the world was much smaller. So my question to you is this. What caused this long winter? Pehaps it was just weather patterns. Hmmmmm. That is interesting. As a senator and congressman you have been elected to office to serve the will of the people and to so what is best for the United States. However, by refusing to drill on our soil, create jobs, and stop our dependence on forgien oil; you have bent to the will of a few environmental radicals in order to pad you election campaign and pocket.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:49 PM link Brian C. | Greensburg, PA
I average 2500 miles per month. My car averages 23MPG. 2500/23=108 gallons of fuel. That means that the increase in fuel prices cost me 108 times the increase per month. That isn't including my van, which I need to transport the kids (especially since they need to be in car seats). With the increase in groceries our grocery budget has increased by 25%. This coupled with other economic factors have caused us to cancel our vacation travel plans.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:56 PM link Steven K. | Warren, MI
Dear Voted Representative,I demand that Anwr be opened to drilling for our own energy. We are at a point where delays 10-15 years ago are rearing its ugly head. Mr. Clinton originally vetoed the drilling in Anwr and we are now paying for it. Please do your job as an elected official and represent the will of the people.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:39 PM link Cameron S. | Scranton, NC
Please help us get our country back from Middle Eastern countries and the enviromentalists in our own. We have countries drilling off our coast that could care less for the enviroment that we live in. They only care about the oil. Atleast with our companies drilling it would be in ours and the enviroments best interest. Please do something, be the party to lead the way.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:30 PM link Daniel S. | Atwater, OH
Please allow the drilling in ANWR and off the coast of the US. We need to become more self reliant on our own oil and not that of the rest of the world. We need to also start loking for other means for energy but new technoligies will take awhile to become usable so in the mean time we need to start drilling now untill the other energy sorcies become available.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 4:18 PM link James G. | BelleVernon, PA
Our nation of citizens is being crippled by the escalation of gasoline prices. Where are the principles our country was founded on? We are depending on our enemies to supply the precious oil we desprately need for our thriving economy. We are being squeezed by OPEC while our country sits on more oil than we will ever need in Anwr, North Dakota and off shore where China is drilling.Government for the people is not one that sits by and lets the minority dictate the restrictions on our vital needs.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 3:45 PM link Jeanne F. | Purgitsville, WV
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 3:25 PM link Eric M. | Allison Park, PA
America needs to focus on ensuring that we are destroying our own economy being depending on unfriendly countries. We need the technologies in place to gain access to our own oil and than worry about cleaning up the world after we can make it work properly!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 11:47 AM link Brandon M. | gibsonia, PA
As a lifelong resident of the great state of Pennsylvania, I ask that you all push for more drilling in the United States of America (in ANWR specifically) to decrease our foreign dependency on oil until more viable and proven means of energy production are established (i.e. renewable resources).This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 11:18 AM link Paul P. | Ben Avon, PA
Don't let the tree huging, global warming alarmists control our destiny!Please support oil recovery efforts in ANWR AND the GULF.
Do you think China / India / Cuba / etc are going to do a cleaner job extracting this oil than we will do?
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 10:32 AM link David C. | Rochester, NY
For our future and that of our children, we need a comprehensive energy plan of action. Not only to establish a plan but to start it, now. The Executive Office must take action; Congress takes too long by talking everything to death. We need Anwr and the offshore sites in the gulf and the continental shelf to be open for exploration.In the Bible, “God gave man dominion over the land and the beasts of the field, the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air”. Who are we saving this oil for? We have dominion. We must take what has been given to us to use and still allowing for reasonable environmental concerns.
U.S. oil production would help the balance of trade, aid the economy and show the world that America is not impudent. A condition brought on by zealots environmentalists. We need new oil refineries to replace old and to increase production capacities.
We can use poor unproductive lands to grow switch grass, sorghum etc., for bio-fuels, saving corn for food and fodder. We need facilities built to process this bio-fuel.
Existing coal-fired power plants need cheap low sulfur fuel. To that end, we need the coal deposits located within the Grand Staircase Escalante, not another park which now we can‘t afford to drive to.
We need to encourage small low volume hydroelectric plants and wind turbines where possible.
In the future autos may be powered by electric; this would put a strain on the existing power grid. More hydro and nuclear plants and microwave energy beamed from solar collectors in orbit or a moon base, as proposed by Dr. David Criswell and Dr. Robert Waldron in 1984. We need action to be taken on proposed long-term nuclear waste facilities like Yucca Mountain.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 10:05 AM link Barbara C. | Green Valley, AZ
I think it is an outrage that for years we have neglected drilling refineries here in the U.S.We are forced to get our oil from terrorists at ridiculous prices, when we can be self sufficient.
We NEED to start the drilling now, that should have happen many years ago.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 9:50 AM link Sharon L. | Bolivar, OH
Dear Senator,In light of the high gas prices I feel compelled to remind you of a couple of items.
1. You were elected to protect the interests of your constituents not that of special interest groups (ie the environmental lobby).
2. To protect our interests we must become energy independent.
3. We currently have the resources available to provide fossil fuel energy. Once the current horrible economic pressure is off we will be free to develop alternative energies.
4. Mankind is part of the environment too. We need to protect ourselves along with the other animals. Who do you think would be better equipped to safely drill in ANWAR or off shore, US or China?!!
I am a TRUE ENVIRONMENTALIST. I believe in protecting our world so that our children have a clean earth to inherit however to do this we as a nation need to survive. The lack of energy will kill our economy and turn the once proud United States into a third world country that is unable to protect our own resources. The United States cares about the environment. Does the rest of the world?
Please look at the big picture and save our country, our environment and our world.
DRILL FOR OIL!!!
Sharon L. Long
Environmentalist
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:58 AM link Richard K. | Export, PA
Dear Senators Spector and Casey and Congressman Murphy, I am tired of these outrageous gas and food prices, actually what I'm tired of is the inaction of our Congress to do anything about this. It is time Sirs to start drilling for our own oil. There is nothing on the immediate horizon that is going to solve these outrageous prices. Ethanol is not the answer, all that does is give us higher food prices and food shortages. Yes, it will take some years to get this oil on line, but I bet you just speculation of us drilling for oil will bring oil prices down, a lot of these high oil prices are due to speculation. We need to open up ANWAR and start drilling off the coast and in I believe we just found reserves in Colorado. Start drilling, and watch prices come down and watch the ECONOMY grow.Global warming is a FARCE!!! I just read in the paper just yesterday(June 1st 2008) the earth's temperature hasn't risen in ten years. There is no FACTUAL proof that green house gases are even causing global warming. It is proven that the Earths temperature runs in cycles, it gets warmer and it gets cooler, it has nothing to do with greenhouses gases. My votes in the future will be determined by who wants to drill for oil. Guess what, thats not John McCain. You better convince this man that, him not wanting to drill for oil is losing votes, believe me im not alone. Sirs, I deliver for Fedex, when I get into discussions with my customers about global warming the majority( I woukd say 80%) agree with me, they think that global warming is not true.
Sirs, Please get legislation started to start drilling, the American people want this, Republicans and Democrats alike. Everybody I've talked to from both parties think we need to start drilling. People are upset and disgusted with these high prices, this is a major discussion on the streets today, people are fed up with the inaction of not drilling. I'm not saying that we just drop other alternatives, but there is nothing out there that is going to drop prices faster than drilling for are own oil.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:29 AM link Stan C. | Bristol, RI
A society cannot long survive if it depends on others for its sustenance. Oil is the life blood of modern civilization. There is no way around that fact. While "alternative" energy is wonderful and science and industry will eventually get there, at this point, they are simply not realistic options.Washington politicians are too beholden to a small group of radical environmentalists, who, quite frankly, are the leftover detritis of the communist era. They are out and out Marxists, who seek to destroy free market capitalism. The sooner professional politicians of both parties realize that fact, cut ties to these groups and craft a realistic energy policy that draws on our own inherent and abundant energy resources, the better. If not, We the People will do it for you.
Do not for a second believe that we are not paying attention. At $4 a gallon, we are paying attention.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:25 AM link Richard S. | Slippery Rock, PA
We need to stop the petty BICKERING, and DRILL for and produce our own OIL! We have plenty of or own OIL, so we need to drill for it, before someone finds a way to get it out from under us.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:24 AM link Reinhard S. | Clearwater, FL
The economy is like a train. In order to make it go in the right direction and succeed you have to set the course right.If you don't it will ultimately derail.
Our freedom depends on the economy. So please set the course right as government officials and support the exploitation of oil here in this country.
Our, all of our, not just the "regular" people's future depends on this.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:21 AM link Paul H. | Seville, OH
My wife and I blame Congress, the enviromental zealots and mis-informed Americans for this insane policy of not accessing our own resources. Man-made global warming is a SHAM! DON'T COAX the HOAX!!! DRILL HERE-DRILL NOW!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 8:07 AM link Tess M. | Hendersonville, NC
I blame the inaction of Congress for high gas prices. Drill in ANWR, drill offshore, build refineries.We need to access our own resources.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:52 AM link Kim F. | Bowdoin, ME
Energy independence and economic leadership are so critical to our national status and personal way of life that it should be a priority, rather than having to fight for it. What ARE the priorities of our elected "leader's"?Please push for responsible drilling and oil refining with at least the energy you expend on alternative energies. It is naive and irresponsible to think we can maintain/regain our strength without oil and nuclear energy production. We should not have to plead with those who control our oil markets, many of whom are at least indirectly the enemies with whom we are at war. How demeaning!
While we constrain our own productivity, be assured that our competitors in the world energy markets will feel free to further their own agendas with their own best interests at heart.
Let's lead the world and free the United States of America through strength!
Thank you.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:12 AM link Edward D. | Monessen, PA
Do you really believe that the oil companies are going to go in and simply destroy the environment when they drill in ANWR? Do be as stupid as most of us believe you to be. It is in our nation's best interest to not only drill for oil in ANWR but to also utlize all the superior technological knowledge we possess to secure energy sources that are within our nation's borders.Wake up and for once, do what is right.
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:03 AM link Rodney M. | Mayport, PA
How long will we wait to drill in Anwar, off America's coasts, and/or develope oil shale? We will never be free of foreign oil unless we start drilling now. If not now, when; if not in America, where; if not Congress now, who; and if not our own resources, how. Nuclear energy could be a part, start building reactors now. It is time to quit doing nothing and take specific action. By the way our, new cars are a joke. Chevy Geo Metro got 48 mpg and it has been out of production since 2001.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 7:01 AM link Robert S. | Buena Vista, PA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=enThis is why we need to drill. Plz take the time to watch this video.
Thanks!
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 6:33 AM link James D. B. | Castle Shannon, PA
It time we start using our own resources instead of paying for them from other countries who use our wealth to plan our destruction.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 6:27 AM link Eric C. | Cortland, OH
If congress can sue OPEC to supply more oil and that will help with the price of gas then drilling for our own oil will do the same. It would also put more people to work. we need to do this. Thank you for your time.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 6:24 AM link Susan F. | Elizabeth, PA
Our Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves to know that the "federal government" is tying the hands of "the people" in this country. This was not their vision for this great nation.You have stifled the American economy and also American ingenuity ( which has made this country great) by your over-reaching regulations. I urge you in the strongest terms possible to remove the restrictions, and allow the respective companies to drill for our own oil and natural gas. Also, allow companies to use proven clean energy in the form of nuclear energy.
Even through all her problems, America is still the best country going. We have helped more people than any other nation through our ingenuity and generosity. Your socialistic policies are threatening to end this by tying the hands of "the people" with all your regulations.
This nation was not made great by federal regulations or governmental programs. It was made great by the freedom of "the people".
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Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 6:10 AM link Michael C. | Akron, OH
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 2:03 AM link Donald C. | Show Low, AZ
We are Truck drivers struggling to survive. We need to drill here and now! That is the only way to get prices down.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jun. 2, 2008 12:32 AM link Edward R. | South Heights, PA
If those of you in Congress are truely serious about our energy and gas crisis, you'll look into drilling in the ANWR region. Stop drinking Al Gore's kool-aid and get some real scientists involved with the research. The footprint of a drilling platform in the ANWR region is small at best...would any one of you be willing to dig up your linen closet if you knew there was gold under the floor, or would you let it sit there unused because it might cause you to have to move a few towels four more feet to the bathroom.Get Serious and Show America's working class that you are really on our side and not just giving lip-service to keep us off your backs, or to win elections
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:10 PM link Michael K. | Gibsonia, PA
How about a little oil independence and finding alternative fuel? Allow the arabs to drown in their oil. Why not drill in ANWAR? The "greenies" are sending us back to the 1800's.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 9:20 PM link Gerard A. | Raymond, NH
We need to drill and process fuels for our countries survival. Blame what and who you will but this doesn't help our country. "WE" the "PEOPLE" need this done for our country and your voters families survival and to stop the global idealists that use ENERGY pressure tactics on us making "YOU" bow to thier will !!!You had better listen I mean really listen to the real people being hurt by this failure by all of you in the congress. Today is the first day of "WE THE PEOPLE" this is what you need to be thinking when you wake up each day you are in office. Start refusing to abide by the status quo and see what impact the results will have in this country and on the economy. Or, do you realy not care about this country's future...just yours?
You, Congressional "SERVANTS" need to do your "JOB" and stop the blame game and get to work! Push President Bush to the point of executive order (if need be) to let drilling begin. The world will suddenly be taken back by such action and just the words being said will shake down current high price trends.
Drill before it's too late for my grandchildren...PLEASE!!! Obscure groups with rediculous reasons with money and lawyers are a threat to our survival!!! To use a quote from a Star Trek movie "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the...". You figure the rest out. Ask yourself is that ______________ (fill in the blank)more important than "americans" freedom?
Start doing a better JOB or your fired!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 9:07 PM link Gerard A. | Raymond, NH
We need to drill and process fuels for our countries survival. Blame what and who you will but this doesn't help our country. "WE" the "PEOPLE" need this done for our countries and your voters families survival and to stop the global idealists that use ENERGY pressure tactics on us making "YOU" bow to thier will !!!You had better listen I mean really listen to the real people being hurt by this failure by all of you in the congress. Today is the first day of "WE THE PEOPLE" this is what you need to be thinking when you wake up each day you are in office. Start refusing to abide by the ststus quo and see what impact the results will have in this country and on the economy. Or, do you realy not care about this countries future...just yours?
You, Congressional "SERVANTS" need to do your "JOB" and stop the blame game and get to work! Push President Bush to the point of exexutive order (if need be) to let drilling begin. The world will suddenly be taken back by such action and just the words being said will shake down current high price trends.
Drill before it's too late for my grandchildren...PLEASE!!! Obscure groops with rediculious reasons with money and lawyers are a threat to our survival!!! To use a quote from a Star Trek movie "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the..." You figure the rest out. Ask yourself is that ______________ fill in the blank more important than americans freedon?
Start doing a better JOB or your fired!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 8:42 PM link Gerard A. | Raymond, NH
We need this done for our countries and your voters families survival and to deflect the global idealists that use pressure tactics on us making YOU to bow to thier will !!!You had better listen I mean really listen to the real people being hurt by this failure by all of you in the congress. Today is the first day of "WE THE PEOPLE" this is what you need to be thinking when you wake up each day you are in office. Start refusing to abide by the ststus quo and see what impact the results will have in this country and on the economy. Or do you realy not care about this countries future...just yours?
Drill before it's too late for my family...PLEASE!!!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 8:08 PM link James H. | columbus, OH
To whom it may concern:Unfortunately, this is as polite as I am going to be about this. EXPLORE, DRILL, and REFINE!!!!!!!!! Instead of looking for new and innovative ways of weakening the nation, try the tried and true approach of letting the free market decide how much the citizenry pays for energy and everything else for that matter. The not so successful approach of punishing, restricting and penalizing companies who have the unmitigated gall of making a profit has regrettably, yet not to any of the masses whose oxygen makes it to their brain, failed. Surprise!!!! When the President of what is left of the greatest nation of all time has to go to another country to ask them to increase oil production, alarms in empty heads all over D.C. may have went off, but were no doubt ignored in the name of hugging some tree somewhere. This is the only nation that fails to use its own resources for its own benefit. If anyone would have any incentive
for better access to energy, common sense (believe it or not) suggests the government would benefit most of all. If one thing is obvious, all of you have proved how much you adore taxes. You know, the raising and misspending of taxes, and the more energy available to sell to the citizenry, the more taxes will be generated for everyone in Washington to misspend. What an incentive for energy independence! Until alternative energies are plentiful, proven, and in widespread use, oil is it people.
Thirty plus years of catering to the environmentalist weenies is enough!
P.S. DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING OUR GUNS!!!! ( hello! amendment #2)
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 7:51 PM link Patrick H. | Butler, PA
Drill it here. Refine it here. Employ us, union and non-union labor. Provide jobs other than "burger flippers". Quit sending billions of our dollars to our enemies each day. Get off your asses, face down the radical environmentalists, and do what is right for ALL Americans.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 6:54 PM link Brian S. | Louisville, KY
It is necessary to drill not just in ANWAR, but in other U.S. locations where there are beneficial oil reserves. Furthermore, it is necessary to build and operate new and better refineries to mass-produce the petroleum products that this country and the world run on.Those who are most against it, by their own actions, demonstrate that they want to see the American economy weaken, and see the American people put through hardship, so that they themselves can control the lives of the American people.
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 5:36 PM link Doris L. | Bellingham, WA
The United States neeeds to be energy independent, not only for economic reasons but for national security reasons. We need to build nuclear generators, drill anywhere in the United States that has oil (starting in Anwr), build refineries and use coal-to-oil technology. We need to do all this until green technologies are perfected and become reasonably priced.Every day we delay, we drag on troubles with the Middle East and economic problems at home.
I pay attention and I vote. I haven't missed an election in 40 years. Please get to work!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 5:34 PM link Doris L. | Bellingham, WA
The United States neeeds to be energy independent, not only for economic reasons but for national security reasons. We need to build nuclear generators, drill anywhere in the United States that has oil (starting in Anwr), build refineries and use coal-to-oil technology. We need to do all this until green technologies are perfected and become less expensive.Every day we delay, we dray on troubles with the Middle East and economic problems at home.
I pay attention and I vote. I haven't missed an election in 40 years. Please get to work!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 5:11 PM link Lawrence A. | New Port Richey, FL
The future strength and well being of the U.S.A., DEPENDS on our ability to be energy self-sufficient. Congress must also ratify The Convention on the Law of the Sea before we are left on the outside looking in. The Arctic as well as the ANWAR region, is a tremendous resource that we cannot let slip away. It is imperative that we secure our place in tapping the resources of the Earth just as any other country with the ability to do so would.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 4:50 PM link Gilford P. | Tucson, AZ
If we don't drill for our own natural resources we are committing national suicide.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 4:32 PM link oliver b. | Wadsworth, OH
OIL NOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 4:01 PM link Robert G. | Victorville, CA
It is time for our country to have energy independence. Drill in Anwr, obtain oil from the shale in colorado, exploit natural gas reserves in the oceans off our coast. This is 2008. We can make it safer for the environment, and stop being held hostage by OPEC. Fuel prices are going to destroy the economy of this country if something is not done. Low fuel prices are possible. Look at the price of gas in Saudi Arabia. Less than 50 cents a gallon. We too, could have a thriving economy with low fuel prices. Then, offer tax incentives to companies that explore alternative energy sources, such as wind, geothermal, and solar. Build more nuclear power plants. We are victims of ourselves. If we continue on this road, we will collapse upon ourselves. We do not want to see this country weakened any further.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 11:29 AM link James A. | Spring Grove, IL
Whatever happened to WE THE PEOPLE ??. You have no idea what is best for us and our country,ELECTION time will come around and WE THE PEOPLE will decide if you stay in office!. Your vote will be noted.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:56 AM link Joel C. | Pensacola, FL
We have been protecting the Middle East way too long and for what. No gratitude from them. I'm almost ready to let the bank reposes my SUV. I can't keep paying these prices. I'm falling deeper in debt. My wife is a Realtor and we already know what that market looks like. My teachers salary got us through the month, but not anymore. I have heard that as Americans if we all did not buy gasoline for the same three days the oil companies would be giving it away because they have no where to store the gas. DO SOMETHING! The oil companies are showing record profits, and executives get hugh bonuses. Somebody has got to get to the bottom of this mess, or Americans are going to loose more.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:52 AM link John M. | albuquerque, NM
We believe that congress need to address the needs of their constituents and approve drilling in Awar and offshore. We feel that this should be a temporary fix instill other forms of energy can replace oil.John and Louise
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:29 AM link GEORGE T. | Pittsburgh, PA
if the u.s. goverment is in such dire need for money then why not drill for our own oil . whats wrong with the revenue that money would not only bring in to the country but , would also keep in this country . and not go to a country like saudi arabia who arent true allies of ours anyway . we in fact help pay for our own destruction .the democrats had better get off the hands on this one or they will certainly be out of work come next election . the time has come ,you will see an immediate reduction in the price of oil as soon as we begin drilling for our own oil . the president has been told twice already by the suadi's they will not drop the price per barrel ,lets send them a message that we will not stand for this thuggery at the pump !!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:27 AM link GEORGE T. | Pittsburgh, PA
if the u.s. goverment is in such dire need for money then why not drill for our own oil . whats wrong with the revenue that money would not only bring in to the country but , would also keep in this country . and not go to a country like saudi arabia who arent true allies of ours anyway . we in fact help pay for our own destruction .the democrats had better get off the hands on this one or they will certainly be out of work come next election . the time has come ,you will see an immediate reduction in the price of oil as soon as we begin drilling for our own oil . the president has been told twice already by the suadi's they will not drop the price per barrel ,lets send them a message that we will not stand for this thuggery at the pump !!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 10:05 AM link Walter L. | Pittsburgh, PA
What you people expect us to believe is that Caribu and Polar Bears are more important than humans.We need to drill now. Even a stupid dog knows enough to get out of the rain.
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 9:13 AM link Doug H. | Latrobe, PA
Our country is rich in coal, & oil. Sure if we drill & dig here the Green Lobby will not like you. But, think of how many UNION JOBS you will allow to be created with new mining operations & drill rigs. Why stop there mabye a couple of new refineries? Heck you'd be shoe in's for re-election from all of the votes of the UNION workers, new & old alike!By the way that lawsuit against OPEC, WOW! How childish! What's next stomping your feet? Who do you think would pay for it anyway? We would through the pump!
The real threat of drilling alone would have OPEC openning the spigot just to get us to stop.
Besides, we are only dependant on foreign oil because we aren't using our own natural resources.
Drill in ANWR! Drill in the open waters! Use OUR nations resources!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 7:22 AM link Mark C. | Cheraw, SC
I hear the Democrats in the House and Senate tell us continually that we need to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. I agree completely, but I differ on the solution. I believe the best way to gain energy independence from our social and political enemies is to use our OWN resources, utilizing an industry and infrastructure that already exists. I think the idea that we can create alternative energy sources where none exist, and expect those sources to supply our needs today is not only stupid, but suicidal.Let us go after what is already ours!
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Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 6:33 AM link Martin G. | Milford, CT
Energy independence should be the primary goal of our country inorder to secure or economic and national security, drilling in ANWAR is one step toward that goal. Restorying our energy independence with sound public and scientific policy will allow us to cuntinue down a sensible path toward the resolution of the global warming global warming question without knee jerk solutions driven by panic and histaria.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jun. 1, 2008 12:08 AM link John M. | Sparks, GA
Please drill anywhere you can. And turn coal to liquid petroleum. And build more Nuclear power plants. And lets build more refineries.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., May. 31, 2008 11:47 PM link Steven p. | burlington, IA
The us senate needs to stop betraying the voters. The senate is supposed to REPRESENT the voters. All the senate has done is LIE to the voters!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., May. 31, 2008 8:12 PM link Roger B. | Butte, MT
Come on Congress lets get real. Drilling in ANWR, off our coasts, plus coal powered generation plants and nuclear are our only real chance at energy independance. We cannot afford to continue to subsidize alcohol, wind, and solar and expect our economy to continue to be strong. Lets get serious and put America ahead of the special interest and do what is right for America for once.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., May. 31, 2008 3:20 PM link sam V. | Baden, PA
Dear sir or madam,Drill now and drill often. We the people have a louder voice and more power than we the environmentalist or we in Washington. You haven't heard us yet. keep on the path that ignores our intrest and you will hear and see things only seen in our revolution. nothing has changed but the season. We will have what we want and need. You will be our instrument for that change or we will replace you!!
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Sat., May. 31, 2008 2:51 PM link Carolyn O. | Bolivar, TN
Sat., May. 31, 2008 2:13 PM link E. A. | Redding, CA
The U.S. uses about 20 million barrels of oil per day, which equals 1 billion barrels every 50 days. ANWR is said to have 10 billion barrels at most. That's why drilling ANWR will barely make a dent in long term supplies or current fuel costs.But many people refuse to do the math, or see it as symbolic rebellion to an imagined "environmentalist conspiracy." Many of them are Creationists who have no concept of natural limits. Multiply, subdue and pillage is still their mandate after 2,000+ years of same (Genesis 1:28). Expansion has to end sometime and the market is giving us big clues.
Trashing more of nature to feed mindless Hemi-hunger is just gluttony. Peak Oil (the physical end of cheap, easy oil) may be happening globally now, as it already did in the U.S. around 1970. Cheap oil can no longer mask the true impact of endless economic/population growth in a finite world. People should stop complaining and start conserving.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
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Sat., May. 31, 2008 1:03 PM link Alan B. | Palm Bay, FL
From what I've heard, Alaskans are deparate for the oil companies to drill up there. KUDOs to Gov. Palin for sueing because of the Polar Bears being placed on the "endangered species" listThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., May. 31, 2008 11:36 AM link Christopher S. | Navarre, FL
Oil producing countries outside of the US are LAUGHING AT US! You are not showing the courage to drill for our own resources! Please change your attitude on this and allow us to use our own energy. Technology is so far beyond the environment-wrecking tools of 50 years ago, that the likelihood of bad environmental issues is miniscule.Have courage. Drill here, drill now, pay less!
You can do it!
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