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Thu., Jul. 31, 2008 1:57 PM link Matt S. | O Fallon, MO
Bill Clinton vetoed drilling in ANWR in 1994 because it would take too many years to get to it. Well, if he had signed it then, it would be flowing right now, and gas wouldn't be $4!! Please, help us excape foreign oil dependence. If we don't do it now, then 5 years from now we will be sorry.The area of ANWR affected would only be a fraction of 1% of the total acreage. Well over 99% of the region would still be preserved. Let's use our common sense and drill. Not only there but offshore as well!
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Tue., Jul. 22, 2008 8:30 AM link Joseph K. | Middletown, RI
With all due respect, Congressman Kenneday, please stop with the nonsense about suing OPEC, or holding hearings concerning speculators in the futures market. The appropriate course of action is to drill ANWR and drill off-shore and manufacture crude oil from shale in the Mountain states, and to do all of these actions, NOW!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 22, 2008 7:21 AM link eh h. | campbell, OH
This should have happened back in the 1970's. But because of our "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" crooked, money hungry wimp ELECTED OFFICIALS and Environmentalists (The people who need to get a life.), we continue to be at the mercy of the very people in this world who would like nothing more than to see our GREAT COUNTRY collapse. We are not far away from that happening. The Middle East Countries, Russia, China, Mexico and on and on are systematically tearing our country apart. We are at the point that at any given moment, these hostile countries we depend on, could cut off the supply of oil and imports to our country and put our what used to be a great country into economic ruins.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Thu., Jul. 17, 2008 10:50 AM link ejh h. | campbell, OH
Is your elected Representative aDemocrat Opposed to Petroleum Energy
or their Republician counter parts who have aligned themselves
to this economy wrecking policy. ROPEaDOPE
Republician Opposed to Petroleum Energy aligned with DOPEs
Find Out BEFORE you VOTE!!!
Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com
It is a Great Idea to develop Alternate forms of Energy. But the DOPES and ROPEaDOPEs are so out of touch with reality, that they don't realize our ECONOMY still runs on Petroleum Energy. These are your "LEADER's" of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
They are responsible for the CON in CONgress.
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Thu., Jul. 17, 2008 10:27 AM link Dianna R. | Snook, TX
We can't wait, we have to do something now and I believe this is a step in the right direction. Drilling in Anwr is part of the solution.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jul. 16, 2008 5:28 AM link ej h. | campbell, OH
http://speaker.house.gov/contact/http://www.majorityleader.gov/email_and_rss/email_the_leader/
http://republicanleader.house.gov/
http://majoritywhip.house.gov/
Contact your favorite congressional member and let them know what you think about drilling for oil???????????????????
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 9:21 PM link Joel F. | Alliance, OH
Stop the games - do what's right - Drill, Drill, Drill for God's sake - the spotlight is on each and every member, either shine with the light or wither away under it.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 8:42 PM link James M. | York, PA
I very strongly support using our own natural resources.The environmental movement is way out of line.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 8:40 PM link James M. | York, PA
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 7:02 PM link jason p. | Waterford, MI
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 6:37 PM link Donny C. | Stanardsville, VA
Gentlemen,We need to open up our own resources, and stop depending on other countries for our necessities. This is becoming the most dependent independent country I have seen. If the global market crashes we as a nation will crash along with it. We need to make sure that we as a country, are capable of standing on our own feet. Which includes the ability to provide our own energy.
There needs to be a two tier plan to gain our energy independence from foreign countries. We need immediate action to stabilize our energy needs, which means opening up our own energy resources. This immediate action should provide us enough time to pursue viable alternative energy resources, instead of trying to force fit poorly designed plans of alternative fuels.
Please open our own energy resources.
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 5:09 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
Is your elected Representative aDemocrat Opposed to Petroleum Energy
or their Republician counter parts who have aligned themselves
to this economy wrecking policy. ROPEaDOPE
Republician Opposed to Petroleum Energy aligned with DOPEs
Find Out BEFORE you VOTE!!!
Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com
It is a Great Idea to develop Alternate forms of Energy. But the DOPES and ROPEaDOPEs are so out of touch with reality, that they don't realize our ECONOMY still runs on Petroleum Energy. These are your "LEADER's" of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
They are responsible for the CON in CONgress.
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 5:04 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
Please voice your opinion to Ms Pelosi, wht we need to drill for oil, since Mz Pelosi is stoping a vote!!!?Congressional //site: contact point, telphone #, addresses
http://www.house.gov/pelosi
We want to drill now, not later
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 5:01 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
Please voice your opinion to Ms Pelosi, wht we need to drill for oil, since Mz Pelosi is stoping a vote!!!?http://www.house.gov/pelosi/
We want to drill now, not later
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 4:48 PM link Patrick F. | New Castle, PA
Please get your head out of your forth point of contact and open up ANWR for drilling and recovering resourses for energy....what does it take for you to vote for drilling...or are you saling out American to other nations....????? My vote will go for anyone the is in favor of drilling and recovering our own resources...!!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 4:21 PM link Adam H. | Abingdon, MD
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 3:41 PM link ed h. | campbell, OH
Please voice your opinion to Ms Pelosi, wht we need to drill for oil, since Mz Pelosi is stoping a vote!!!?http://www.house.gov/pelosi/
We want to drill now, not later
A barrel of oil is $149.67
Milk a gallon is $4.98
The Speaker of the House of Representative today was begging the Prez Bush to pull her butt and the Democratic Party out of the hole, with oil drilling, please Mr President please open up the National Oil Reserves, so we dodn't get the blame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Asking no policy Bush for help!
Mr President Ms Pelosi doesn't want to go against the ECO-Liberal (Enviromentalist).
Mr U S Rep:
To: Democratic Party, Why don't you pass these great bills, what's the problem?????????
H.R. 3089, No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007
Reduces the price of gasoline by opening new American oil refineries, investing in clean energy sources such as wind, nuclear, and captured carbon dioxide; and making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope and America's Deep-Sea Energy Reserves.
H.R. 2279, Expand American Refining Capacity on Closed Military Installations
Reduces the price of gasoline by streamlining the refinery application process and by requiring the President to open at least three closed military installations for the purpose of siting new and reliable American refineries.
H.R. 5656, To Repleal the Ban on Acquiring Alternative Fuels
Reduces the price of gasoline by allowing the federal government to procure advanced alternative fuels derived from diverse sources like oil shale, tar sands and coal-to-liquid technology.
H.R. 2208, Coal-Liquid Fuel Act
Reduces the price of gasoline by encouraging the use of clean coal-to-liquid technology authorizing the Secretary of Energy to enter into loan agreements with coal-to-liquid projects that produce innovative transportation fuel.
H.R. 2493, Fuel Mandate Reduction Act of 2007
Reduces the price of gasoline by removing fuel blend requirements and onerous government mandates if they contribute to unaffordable gas prices.
H.R. 6107, American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act
Reduces the price of gasoline by opening the Arctic Energy Slope to environmentally sensitive American energy exploration. Development footprint would be limited to 0.01% of the Refuge, and revenue received from the new leases would be invested in a longterm alternative energy trust fund.
H.R. 6108, Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008
Reduces the price of gasoline by enabling the United States to responsibly explore its own deep ocean to produce American Energy. The bill would grant coastal states the authority to keep exploration 100 miles from their coastlines and it would also allow states to share in the revenues received.
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 3:40 PM link ed h. | campbell, OH
Please voice your opinion to Ms Pelosi, wht we need to drill for oil, since Mz Pelosi is stoping a vote!!!?http://www.house.gov/pelosi/
We want to drill now, not later
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 10:53 AM link William M. | Youngstown, OH
I also support - DEMAND - drilling be permitted inland and our coastal areas NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 10:46 AM link Dan B. | richeyville, PA
I understand that a different source is needed to fuel our cars and trucks, but in the mean time. Until the technology is there and the industry accepts this new soure. WE NEED OIL! Help our country by decreasing our importation of oil. Not only from Middle East countries that want us to vanish from this earth but from any country who sells oil. We spend 4x what the Iraq war cost per year on oil imported from countries that support terrorist or would prefer to see US gone. Drill ANWR - DRILL anywhere. Short term we need oil!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 9:37 AM link Victoria Z. | Ambridge, PA
Let America be America again.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 8:29 AM link Leah F. | Virginia Beach, VA
I think it is vitaly important for the United States to provide as much of it's own natural resources as possible. While environmental protection is a nice idea, it should not prevent our mining and drilling. Also, I think the ethanol mandates need to be repealed in order to lower grocery prices!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 6:55 AM link Bernie D. | Columbus, OH
Stop being a minion of the LEFTIST envirocommunists.I care about the environment as well. As a veterinary technician I guarantee I have done more to help animals that most of those supporting "the environment" by preventing us from safely and cleanly extracting oil from desolate lands that will not be harmed in the extraction of oil and natural gas. Off shore drilling is likewise not the pending enviro catastrophe that it is portended to be. In fact, the catastrophe, should we drill, would be to expose the "environmental movement" as the nest of reds that they are. This "disaster" I would welcome.
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 6:51 AM link James G. | Pittsburgh, PA
I am a GM of a local automobile dealership of high line European models, and obviously we sell cars. Cars run on gas. Gas is made from oil. So are tires, some of the plastic materials used in the interiors, etc. Our nation is energy dependent. Our nation's sovereignty and well being are dependent on it. This goes well beyond cars, however.How many people are employed because of the use of petroleum? How much money does the government "earn" from taxes of those employed in all sectors related to petroleum? How much does the government "earn" in taxes for every gallon of gas? More than the oil companies, I'd guess.
While I see nothing wrong with creating new technologies for future use in order to power vehicles, it is obvious that we have the technology to bridge that gap right now by drilling our own oil. We will always need oil to make and use other products. Ethanol doesn't lubricate machines or can't be turned into plastic. Using our food sources for fuel is NEVER a good idea.
The argument that it will not help to drill now is a crock. We need people to stand up and repudiate the false notions of liars like Harry Reid, Pelosi, Shumer, and on and on.
The time is ripe to take our country back from the ultra liberals and those 'servants' of our country that have no clue how their actions impact ordinary people's lives.
I have several excellent staff members that travel over 50 miles to work here because, we believe, it is a great place to work. Some have the opportunity to grow with the organization and earn higher incomes. I stand to lose some of them because they can't afford the gas expense to and from work. They may be forced to work someplace closer to home, with less opportunity, and less than ideal conditions just to be able to afford commuting to work.
I have never fully believed in the global warming notion, at least inasmuch that we, human beings, are hastening it. If it does happen, it won't be because of us.
I place my faith and trust in God, not politicians. One way or another, He'll take care of me. I hope He does the same for this nation.
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 6:43 AM link James G. | Pittsburgh, PA
I am a GM of a local automobile dealership of high line European models, and obviously we sell cars. Cars run on gas. Gas is made from oil. So are tires, some of the plastic materials used in the interiors, etc. Our nation is energy dependent. Our nation's sovereignty and well being are dependent on it. This goes well beyond cars, however.How many people are employed because of the use of petroleum? How much money does the government "earn" from taxes of those employed in all sectors related to petroleum? How much does the government "earn" in taxes for every gallon of gas? More than the oil companies, I'd guess.
While I see nothing wrong with creating new technologies for future use in order to power vehicles, it is obvious that we have the technology to bridge that gap right now by drilling our own oil. We will always need oil to make and use other products. Ethanol doesn't lubricate machines or can't be turned into plastic. Using our food sources for fuel is NEVER a good idea.
The argument that it will not help to drill now is a crock. We need people to stand up and repudiate the liars, (Harry Reid, Pelosi, Shumer, and on and on).
The time is ripe to take our country back from the liberals and the RINO's like Schwartznegger. California has more roads, vehicles and people than the rest of the country but won't drill off their shores. I hope the states that do drill charge the Californians more for their oil. Let them power up their cars to sit in traffic in LA and run out of energy trying to get home.
I have never fully believed in the global warming notion, at least inasmuch that we, human beings, are hastening it. If it does happen, it won't be because of us.
Keep doing what you do, Quinn and Rose. I have been listening to you since you left your liberal past behind, all those many years ago!
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Tue., Jul. 15, 2008 12:26 AM link Timothy D. | Bridgeville, PA
I Think it is way past time that Congress took some action and help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil.The strain on the people and their finances is becoming to much to bare . If you want to remain in office for even one more term you better do something soon , the American people will remember what congress failed to do .This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 11:41 PM link Geoffrey A. | Stow, OH
We have oil, we don't need to rely on states that want us dead for oil, and we can't rely on technologies that, as of yet haven't produced near the amount of energy this country needs to function the way the world needs it to. Let's start drilling in ANWR!!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 6:33 PM link Richard M. | Akron, OH
You must preserve US Sovereignty and maintain a strategic plan that benefits your entire fellow US Citizens by developing new oil wells for the explicit use by the citizens of the United States.This would be a measure, in part of real patriotism, a call for the National Government in Washington D.C. to be loyal to its sworn duty to serve and defend US Sovereignty with accountability to the nation, not to globalization and the many environmental falsehoods for the purpose of controlling national resources and marginalizing the legitimate voter as, "Human Resource" by judicial action, corporate policy and treaty.
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 4:18 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
A barrel of oil is $149.67Milk a gallon is $4.98
The Speaker of the House of Representative today was begging the Prez Bush to pull her butt and the Democratic Party out of the hole, with oil drilling, please Mr President please open up the National Oil Reserves, so we dodn't get the blame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Asking no policy Bush for help!
Mr President Ms Pelosi doesn't want to go against the ECO-Liberal (Enviromentalist).
Mr U S Rep:
To: Democratic Party, Why don't you pass these great bills, what's the problem?????????
H.R. 3089, No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007
Reduces the price of gasoline by opening new American oil refineries, investing in clean energy sources such as wind, nuclear, and captured carbon dioxide; and making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope and America's Deep-Sea Energy Reserves.
H.R. 2279, Expand American Refining Capacity on Closed Military Installations
Reduces the price of gasoline by streamlining the refinery application process and by requiring the President to open at least three closed military installations for the purpose of siting new and reliable American refineries.
H.R. 5656, To Repleal the Ban on Acquiring Alternative Fuels
Reduces the price of gasoline by allowing the federal government to procure advanced alternative fuels derived from diverse sources like oil shale, tar sands and coal-to-liquid technology.
H.R. 2208, Coal-Liquid Fuel Act
Reduces the price of gasoline by encouraging the use of clean coal-to-liquid technology authorizing the Secretary of Energy to enter into loan agreements with coal-to-liquid projects that produce innovative transportation fuel.
H.R. 2493, Fuel Mandate Reduction Act of 2007
Reduces the price of gasoline by removing fuel blend requirements and onerous government mandates if they contribute to unaffordable gas prices.
H.R. 6107, American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act
Reduces the price of gasoline by opening the Arctic Energy Slope to environmentally sensitive American energy exploration. Development footprint would be limited to 0.01% of the Refuge, and revenue received from the new leases would be invested in a longterm alternative energy trust fund.
H.R. 6108, Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008
Reduces the price of gasoline by enabling the United States to responsibly explore its own deep ocean to produce American Energy. The bill would grant coastal states the authority to keep exploration 100 miles from their coastlines and it would also allow states to share in the revenues received.
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 3:50 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
Thinking of the environment as a "thing" has had enormous implications for how environmentalists conduct their politics. The three-part strategic framework for environmental policy-making hasn't changed in 40 years: first, define a problem (e.g. global warming) as "environmental." Second, craft a technical remedy (e.g., cap-and-trade). Third, sell the technical proposal to legislators through a variety of tactics, such as lobbying, third-party allies, research reports, advertising, and public relations.When we asked environmental leaders how we could accelerate our efforts against global warming, most pointed to this or that tactic -- more analysis, more grassroots organizing, more PR.
Few things epitomize the environmental community's tactical orientation to politics more than its search for better words and imagery to "reframe" global warming. Lately the advice has included: a) don't call it "climate change" because Americans like change; b) don't call it "global warming" because the word "warming" sounds nice; c) refer to global warming as a "heat trapping blanket" so people can understand it; d) focus attention on technological solutions -- like fluorescent light bulbs and hybrid cars.
What each of these recommendations has in common is the shared assumption that a) the problem should be framed as "environmental" and b) our legislative proposals should be technical.1
In 1973 we had the Arab oil embargo. Then the USA was 30% dependent on foreign. In the next 35 years, you leaders established no real energy policy except giving more power to EPA. The last US oil refinery opened in 1976. From 1981 to 2005 the number of US oil refineries has decreased from 324 to 148 (and yes that equates to closing of 176 refineries). Today we are 60% dependent on oil.
You leaders need to free up America's lands and oceans for more drilling and certainly in ANWR. You and previous cohorts bear a BIG responsibly for our current energy crisis.
Building a refinery from starting thru applying to permitting takes a minimum of 10 years. In 1995 Pres Clinton wouldn't permit drilling in ANWR with the statement --"Why it will be 10 years before we see anything." Well 13 years have passed, folks. And now look!
You all need some good technical advisors in Wash DC. BS and Rhetoric isn't going to solve our energy dilemma!
Area 1002 is actually not party of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge...it is hundreds and hundreds of miles away. This is in an area that is tundra...full of ice and mosquito infested flatlands in the summer.
The environmentalist has minimized the benefits that area 1002 can bring to the American public.
There is more likely 30 years worth of oil in the area.
The drilling would give the United States almost two generations to develop new energy resources and perfect that investment so we do not have to depend on foreign oil.
The environmentalists claim it would take years to get the oil and build a pipeline...The Alaskan pipeline and Perdue Bay is about 200 miles away.
Announcing the new drilling in Alaska will bring oil prices down. This will also increase the value of the dollar.
Knowing how small the area is, this might affect one polar bear's habitat....maybe. The polar bears need a wide range. The caribou are documented to living around drilling areas without them habitats being destroyed
Oil companies make a lot but spend a lot. Currently I am doing two projects worth $55 million for personnel safety at an oil refinery. I did a scrubber project a few years back---$65 million to clean the air. Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) was very costly in capital outlay to meet the environmental criteria. None of these projects resulted in more products, higher octanes or higher yields. So don't blame the oil companies!!!
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 3:48 PM link ej h. | campbell, OH
Get all the information about your Senator and U.S. Rep.We are going to EXPOSE the Democrats who are opposed to Petroleum Energy and Drilling in ANWN and find there voting records, what bills and resolutions, anything you want to know about them.
Vote against the Democrats that will not use our natual resources, and support Enviromentalist in there quest to keep us from using OUR LAND.
Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com
Go to the Newt.org site and sign the Drill NOW, not later petition. Tell congress to do there job and listen to the PEOPLE of AMERICA.
Global Warming is a farce, Drill Today ECO-Liberals
http://newt.org/
Support US or get voted OUT, Drill in ANWR.
Sincerely,
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 3:20 PM link elizabeth s. | kennerdell, PA
Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 2:14 PM link joe h. | campbell, OH
Get all the information about your Senator and U.S. Rep.We are going to EXPOSE the Democrats who are opposed to Petroleum Energy and Drilling in ANWN and find there voting records, what bills and resolutions, anything you want to know about them.
Vote against the Democrats that will not use our natual resources, and support Enviromentalist in there quest to keep us from using OUR LAND.
Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com
Go to the Newt.org site and sign the Drill NOW, not later petition. Tell congress to do there job and listen to the PEOPLE of AMERICA.
Global Warming is a farce, Drill Today ECO-Liberals
http://newt.org/
Support US or get voted OUT, Drill in ANWR.
Sincerely,
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 2:11 PM link joseph h. | campbell, OH
My friends are on their way to Iraq to serve their country while you Democrats (liberals) Eco-liberals, are actively trying to ruin the country. Democrats only serve themselves by making promises they can't (would not)(intend to not )keep and by making more and more people dependent on them because some people are too ignorant to realize what FREEDOM (Capitalism)really means. I think the Iraqis and the Eastern Europeans know more about LIBERTY than most Americans do. That's sad and makes me wonder why I served this nation at all when our sacrifices are viewed with such disdain that they could elect a phony like Obama (Jimmy Carter). I will cry for our nation and hope and pray that they do what's right.Global Warming is a fraud, and frace, its a money making sceem made up by the rich Democrats and socialists for new ways for the distribution of the wealth from one nation to another and in the pockets of the RICH 2%. I can't wait until the area elections, this year and next.
CO2 in plant and tree food.
Drill now, drill for oil even if it takes 7 years, like Obamas tv-add says a least, George Bush and John McCain have a plan.
Democrates Plan:
1. Sue OPEC
2. Harrass the Oil Excutives
3. Blame the oil Speculators
4. Waite for technology that does not exicst
5. Blame the American people
6. Blames George Bush
7. Blame GOP Gas and oil Party
8. Do not drill for oil, coal and resources Mr. Reid gets sick from natural resources.
Obamas Plan
1. We can eat as much as we wnat because the europeans and the world get mad.
2. We can't drive our SUV's because the ERO and the world get mad.
3. WE 2% of the world population palute more that other countires, you reps better get after the EPA
so they can close more plants and refinerys down.
4. Use technology that do not exist yet or under developement, to replace gas/oil.
5. My rich friends don't want us to.
6. Tax the oil cpmanies
7. No oil drilling anywhere because my ECO friends say no
8. No new refineries because my ECO friends say no.
9. ncrease our tax rate to 45%, our income.
10. sighn all the global treaties, U.S-Europe no more constitution.
11. Sign Glabal Warming-Climate Change/CO2 trieties and Cap And Trade, there goes more indudtries and jobs (Jimmy Carter)EPA, more steel mills, refineries, gasoline station lines of the 70s.
Sincerely,
Last thing i can't believe with our natioins EPA, that there would be Global Warming, or Climate change.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for in the future Jimmy Carter sorry,!!i'm mean OBAMA.
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 2:11 PM link joseph h. | campbell, OH
My friends are on their way to Iraq to serve their country while you Democrats (liberals) Eco-liberals, are actively trying to ruin the country. Democrats only serve themselves by making promises they can't (would not)(intend to not )keep and by making more and more people dependent on them because some people are too ignorant to realize what FREEDOM (Capitalism)really means. I think the Iraqis and the Eastern Europeans know more about LIBERTY than most Americans do. That's sad and makes me wonder why I served this nation at all when our sacrifices are viewed with such disdain that they could elect a phony like Obama (Jimmy Carter). I will cry for our nation and hope and pray that they do what's right.Global Warming is a fraud, and frace, its a money making sceem made up by the rich Democrats and socialists for new ways for the distribution of the wealth from one nation to another and in the pockets of the RICH 2%. I can't wait until the area elections, this year and next.
CO2 in plant and tree food.
Drill now, drill for oil even if it takes 7 years, like Obamas tv-add says a least Obama George Bush and John McCain have a plan.
Democrates Plan:
1. Sue OPEC
2. Harrass the Oil Excutives
3. Blame the oil Speculators
4. Waite for technology that does not exicst
5. Blame the American people
6. Blames George Bush
7. Blame GOP Gas and oil Party
8. Do not drill for oil, coal and resources Mr. Reid gets sick from natural resources.
Obamas Plan
1. We can eat as much as we wnat because the europeans and the world get mad.
2. We can't drive our SUV's because the ERO and the world get mad.
3. WE 2% of the world population palute more that other countires, you reps better get after the EPA
so they can close more plants and refinerys down.
4. Use technology that do not exist yet or under developement, to replace gas/oil.
5. My rich friends don't want us to.
6. Tax the oil cpmanies
7. No oil drilling anywhere because my ECO friends say no
8. No new refineries because my ECO friends say no.
9. ncrease our tax rate to 45%, our income.
10. sighn all the global treaties, U.S-Europe no more constitution.
11. Sign Glabal Warming-Climate Change/CO2 trieties and Cap And Trade, there goes more indudtries and jobs (Jimmy Carter)EPA, more steel mills, refineries, gasoline station lines of the 70s.
Sincerely,
Last thing i can't believe with our natioins EPA, that there would be Global Warming, or Climate change.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for in the future Jimmy Carter sorry,!!i'm mean OBAMA.
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Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 11:16 AM link Jamie Z. | Sarver, PA
Please, please start drilling for oil on US ground and coastal areas. We need to be less dependent on other countries for our oil. Plus adding the oil drilled for in the US will go to the open market which will make the supply outweigh the demand, in turn dropping oil prices. By the way, just the opening of these drilling sites will drop the prices of oil because the world will see that we can drill and are willing to drill for our own oil and one day won't need other countries to supply us oil. This will put fear into people and the oil prices will go down IMMEDIATELY!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jul. 14, 2008 9:28 AM link Peter K. | Pickerington, OH
We need to drill now everywhere there is oil. We need coal and nuclear power. Our most environmentally conscientious friends in Europe do it (France, Norway, Holland just to name a few...) so can we. Can you imagine what will happen to gasoline prices if Israel-Iran conflict turns from rhetoric to military? We will not be able afford to drive!!! We must drill now!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jul. 13, 2008 8:32 PM link Louis R. | Chesapeake, VA
Sun., Jul. 13, 2008 4:34 PM link Thomas M. | shakopee, MN
Drill in Anwr, Drill in my backyard.Invest in alternatives --- do it all!!!!-------- but quit failing the american people. I am speaking to mostly democrats and limp Republicans. Quit stalling. Do SOMETHING.
You really care about the poor in this country???? They are taking the hardest hit on these high gas prices.
And to top it off -------- we pay for your gas. For your jets and limo's. Do something constructive to ease the burden or simply start packing your limo for home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sun., Jul. 13, 2008 1:09 PM link Ronald K. | Fredericksburg, VA
I am writing this letter to Demand that you support drilling in ANWR. The time for playing politics is long past. You are exposing not only this nation but my family and friends to economic destruction and of course making us more vulnerable to terrorism. Failure to act on increasing our domestic production of energy is, in my opinion, treasonous. National security has and is being degraded due to the failure of politicians of both parties to move forward with the development of nuclear energy as well as other energy sources right here at home for political reasons. The environmental wackos have been in control way to long and this must end.Please understand that we are all in agreement that the problem has to be attacked on multiple fronts including drilling offshore at all levels including outer continental shelf, the entire gulf of Mexico, other areas of Alaska with a high probability of hydrocarbons; nuclear power plants(this should be given immediate attention), coal including all forms of its use and or conversion, solar, wind and of course biofuel production where same does not result in damage to the availability of food supplies. Do not spout the nonsense about how long it will take and that oil companies already have a lot of leased land. Much of these leases cover property without known significant oil and gas reserves. We need to do offset drilling. We also need to develop shale and oil bearing sand and of course we must do everything possible to help friendly suppliers increase their production including both Canada and Mexico. Once again, we are sick and tired of hearing about how long it will take for the first oil to arrive if we start drilling. Had we started drilling the last time the liberals spouted out this defense we would now have a lot of oil production on our own land. We intend to vote against any and every politician that does not support all of the above and will work hard for their defeat. Perhaps everyone who has delayed development of our own reserves should be asked to resign or perhaps should be impeached since they have directly contributed to the destruction of our nation and of course made us more vulnerable to terrorists. Remember, we are talking about islamofascist-terrorist and in our own country liberal fascists and closet Marxists such as Obama. The time for political correctness is long past! The time for talk is over- we have been subjected to so much demagoguery that we are chronically nauseated.
Please get moving on this problem or be prepared to be replaced or publically ridiculed.
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Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 7:27 PM link Eric S. | Saint Clairsville, OH
Quit sending our money to the middle east for oil, So they can in return use the funds to support the terriost to kill the working mans- woman sons and daughter. We are really paying to kill are own kids. WAKE UP A AMERICA BEFORE ITS TO LATE. Vote all of them out make term limits. Use our resources and brains to defeat all comers. NOW THATS THE AMERICAN WAY! IN GOD WE TRUST all others be on Guard the sleeping Giant is about to wake (BEAR Market) Enough is to much. The oil coal and all other resources belong to the American Tax Payer not some dim wit politian who dont want to do what they were elected to do Serve the American People. Good Bye Ried- Pelosi-Gore and the rest of you tree hunging enviromental Whack Os. God said he would Destroy the world so let him do it, Keep your nose out of my life and check book. What do trees, plants,live on (CO2)what do they turn co2 into dont you thank GOD already knew what we were going to be facing today. Get off your high horse run your own life. I will be dammed if you Run Mine!!!!Eric S Smith
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Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 7:15 PM link e h. | campbell, OH
Get all the information about your Senator and U.S. Rep.We are going to EXPOSE the Democrats who are opposed to Petroleum Energy and Drilling in ANWN and find there voting records, what bills and resolutions, anything you want to know about them.
Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com
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Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 5:24 PM link James B. | Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Get a clue before you Bankrupt the country. Our economy still runs on Petroleum. We are going to EXPOSE the Democrats who are opposed to Petroleum Energy. Start at www.EXPOSEaDOPE.com.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 4:30 PM link e h. | campbell, OH
Do you realy want to take us back to the Jimmy Carter (Obama) days, of oil line, oil embargos. Gasoline Station line 3 mile long, 4 gallons of gas rassion for every 2 days. HIGH unemployment 9% and 12%. Steel Mills and large corporations going out of business. In 1973 we had the Arab oil embargo. Then the USA was 30% dependent on foreign. In the next 35 years, you leaders established no real energy policy except giving more power to EPA. The last US oil refinery opened in 1976. From 1981 to 2005 the number of US oil refineries has decreased from 324 to 148 (and yes that equates to closing of 176 refineries). Today we are 60% dependent on oil.You leaders need to free up America's lands and oceans for more drilling and certainly in ANWR. You and previous cohorts bear a BIG responsibly for our current energy crisis.
Building a refinery from starting thru applying to permitting takes a minimum of 10 years. In 1995 Pres Clinton wouldn't permit drilling in ANWR with the statement --"Why it will be 10 years before we see anything." Well 13 years have passed, folks. And now look!
Your OBAMA will take us back to Jimmy Carter years of oil lines, stinky national defense, high job less rate, large coprorations going out of business every day, every one laughing at america or is that what you want?????????????????????????????????????????????.
Remember people Mahoning Valley steel industry 25 miles of steel mills along the Mahoning River, by end of the 70's, 70,000 land off workers, 1978, 25 miles of waste land along the river. The first Michigan.
Thr Democratic Party line oh we can't drill our way out, it will be 10 or 15 years, we been hearing there party line for 25 years. now there awaiting for technology to do the job.????????????blog 21
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Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 2:48 PM link Joseph Y. | Pittsburgh, PA
Please start drilling here and start drilling now. ANWR is a desolate area and with our technology today there will be minimal environmental impact. If Hurricane Katrina can destroy 100 oil rigs in the gulf and not one leaks we should have no reserve drilling here, drilling now!! Thank You.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 12:33 PM link Drexel M. | Lexington, KY
As a veteran of the armed forces of the United States I feel the Congress needs to exhaust all options in providing energy sources for the citizens of this great country. Short term options including drilling for oil in all areas as well as long term alternative options.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 8:21 AM link daniel k. | hanover, PA
THE PRICE OF A GALLON OF GASOLINE HAS DOUBLED SINCE THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER CONGRESS! DRILL IMMEDIATELY!!!!!STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!!!
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Sat., Jul. 12, 2008 12:48 AM link David R. | Cleveland, OH
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 11:37 PM link Arlan G. | Medina, OH
Our country cannot afford to keep buying foreign oil (from our enemies!) when we have oil resources right here in the U.S. It is ruining our economy, and it will keep ruining people's lives until Congress realizes that it is the roadblock that needs to move or get pushed aside. We need domestic oil!! Please vote in favor of legislation to drill in ANWR, off the coast of Florida, or anywhere else that will free us from the grip of OPEC and other countries from which we buy oil. This is restricting our freedoms, our way of life, and it doesn't have to be this way!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 9:46 PM link Andrew D. | Wexford, PA
I find it appalling that we do not drill off shore and in ANWAR considering the resources we have in these areas. Not to mention oil shale in the midwest. The resources this abundant county has is what has made this country great. The fact that you, as representatives of the people of this great nation, do not have intestinal fortitude to disregard special interest groups and listen to the people will make me work harder to make sure you do not serve another term. We have the ability to stop this spirial and the fact you do nothing to me is disturbing. I have doubts to whom your service is too. It is to yourself and NOT THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE. YOU SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 7:01 PM link Lawrence S. | Pittsburgh, PA
I'm on my way to Iraq to serve my country while you Democrats are actively trying to ruin the country. Democrats only serve themselves by making promises they can't keep and by making more and more people dependent on them because some people are too ignorant to realize what FREEDOM really means. I think the Iraqis and the Eastern Europeans know more about LIBERTY than most Americans do. That's sad and makes me wonder why I serve this nation at all when our sacrifices are viewed with such disdain that they could elect a phony like Obama. I will weep for nation and pray that they do what's right.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 6:12 PM link Earl H. | Snohomish, WA
Drill in ANWR---We have a right as Americans, to take whatever actions necessary. Your job, is to see it happen, and very soon I might add.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 9:51 AM link Raymond F. | CLOVER, SC
Perhaps Congress can do at least one thing this year! Let's drill in Anwar.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 11, 2008 8:57 AM link SUE D. | DOVER, OH
plese drill now.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 8:58 PM link Jennifer S. | Donora, PA
This is terrible that we have these resources in our own country and we can not use them. As our government, you should be concerned about what we need as a whole, not what one group of activists say. Middle class people like my self and my husband are already drowning in taxes and bills and this price for a gallon of gas is certainly not helping. Every day I turn on the news somewhere else in Pennsylvania the gas price went up by a few more cents. When will it end? When the price is $6 or $7 per gallon? $10? My husband has to drive to work every day and I have to drive to school every day. Between the two of us we are using over $400 per month for fuel. That is more than our house payment. We have tried to cut so many corners already just to send me to nursing school and it seems like this is the way that my government chooses to reward me for attempting to make my family's life better. Any chance we have to get ahead the government takes their cut and puts us back at square one. Our fore fathers never intended for our country to be this way. Have you no pride in the American tax payers any more? Have you no respect for us? We need you to do the right thing for us, the voters, the tax payers, the people who provide your pay checks.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 4:12 PM link e h. | campbell, OH
Do you realy want to take us back to the Jimmy Carter (Obama) days, of oil line, oil embargos. Gasoline Station line 3 mile long, 4 gallons of gas rassion for every 2 days. HIGH unemployment 9% and 12%. Steel Mills and large corporations going out of business. In 1973 we had the Arab oil embargo. Then the USA was 30% dependent on foreign. In the next 35 years, you leaders established no real energy policy except giving more power to EPA. The last US oil refinery opened in 1976. From 1981 to 2005 the number of US oil refineries has decreased from 324 to 148 (and yes that equates to closing of 176 refineries). Today we are 60% dependent on oil.You leaders need to free up America's lands and oceans for more drilling and certainly in ANWR. You and previous cohorts bear a BIG responsibly for our current energy crisis.
Building a refinery from starting thru applying to permitting takes a minimum of 10 years. In 1995 Pres Clinton wouldn't permit drilling in ANWR with the statement --"Why it will be 10 years before we see anything." Well 13 years have passed, folks. And now look!
Your OBAMA will take us back to Jimmy Carter years of oil lines, stinky national defense, high job less rate, large coprorations going out of business every day, every one laughing at america or is that what you want?????????????????????????????????????????????.
Remember people Mahoning Valley steel industry 25 miles of steel mills along the Mahoning River, by end of the 70's, 70,000 land off workers, 1978, 25 miles of waste land along the river. The first Michigan.
Thr Democratic Party line oh we can't drill our way out, it will be 10 or 15 years, we been hearing there party line for 25 years. now there awaiting for technology to do the job.????????????
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Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 1:29 PM link Michael E. | Glendale Heights, IL
Op;en up all federal land to drillingThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 12:05 PM link elizabeth j. | Wappingers Falls, NY
Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 10:35 AM link SUE D. | DOVER, OH
DRILL,DRILL,DRILL. DRILL NOW.DRILLThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Thu., Jul. 10, 2008 10:34 AM link SUE D. | DOVER, OH
DRILL,DRILL,DRILL. DRILL NOE, DRILLThis comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jul. 9, 2008 8:36 PM link John F. | Cleveland, OH
Congress is the primary cause of the high gasoline prices. It is long past time to drill at ANWR.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jul. 9, 2008 2:37 PM link James T. | Mount Sterling, OH
Wed., Jul. 9, 2008 1:11 PM link Rachel Y. | Latrobe, PA
Wed., Jul. 9, 2008 8:08 AM link Robert B. | Eastlake, OH
Since actual science, not junk science, has shown that the planet is cooling, NOT warming, now is the time to drill for more oil and build more refineries. There is no reason not to.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Wed., Jul. 9, 2008 5:18 AM link Mary F. | Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Dear Senator and Representative,I am signing this petition for the simple reason being we have to become independent of other countries for our oil and become independent completely. Please take my name on this petition into consideration when you are voting on my behalf.
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Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 8:09 PM link David B C. | Allison Park, PA
We believe that Congress is responsible for the high price of gasoline today. You have aggravated the oil shortage by preventing us from drilling for our own oil resources. It is time for congress to remove all restrictions on oil exploration and recovery, the building of new refineries, and the construction of nuclear power plants.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 8:06 PM link David H. | Vandergrift, PA
GentlemanWhy wait? 10 years ago gas was $1.24 a gallon. Today its $4.09 a gallon. We can’t afford to hope for a miracle. We need to become less dependent on foreign oil and more self sufficient as we work toward a new energy policy. Drill here, Drill now. Encourage new refinery development and new energy development. Lest we suffer through another great depression and economic upheaval as our economy grinds to a slow crawl.
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Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 7:54 PM link C ann h. | campbell, OH
Laws from the mid 70's come back to bite up.Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage claims that federal officials violated laws designed to protect the animals and their sensitive habitat in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea.
"These regulations set the parameters for how oil exploration will be done in the next five years," said Brendan Cummings, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the suit along with Pacific Environment. "The Chukchi Sea is critical habitat for those animals. For them to survive in the face of global warming, we simply cannot allow oil development there."
Last month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to grant legal protection to seven oil companies in the Chukchi over the next five years should they accidentally harm "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses while drilling or during other exploratory activities. The agency is named as a defendant in the suit, along with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
Fish and Wildlife Service officials said oil and gas exploration will have a negligible effect on the bear and walrus populations. Global warming is most likely to cause the animals' numbers to dwindle, the agency said.
Under the harassment permits, oil companies are required to report all sightings of polar bears and walruses, Fish and Wildlife spokesman Bruce Woods said. The agency treats such reports as valuable data because research in the remote region is often prohibitively expensive.
"Our biologists feel this regulation program is a valuable conservation tool," Woods said. "The companies have to report every sighting and what measures they took to avoid disturbing the animals and what the response was. They give us information on the location and actions of the animals that we might not otherwise have."
About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where the government in February auctioned off oil leases to Shell Oil Co., ConocoPhillips Co., and five other companies for $2.6 billion. Over objections from environmentalists and some members of Congress, the sale occurred before the bear was classified as threatened in May.
The groups say the Chukchi is also home to nearly the entire female population of Pacific walrus.
The agency has 60 days to respond to the lawsuit.
Drill for oil, forget the Polar Bears
How can oil Companies harass Polar Bears when man is at the bottem of the food chain in AK.
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Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 12:24 PM link A.V. A. | Pittsburgh, PA
It would seem impossible that our elected [let's hope not for long] representatives could possibly be so blind/ignorant of the will of 75% of the electorate. Of course, the suffering felt by "the great unwashed" will not be felt by you fat cats. It is beyond the scope of my imagination as to why you would desire us to be impoverished, and leave us at the mercy of the world's dictators and the thugs at the United Nations. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED, BUT WE KNOW THAT IS NOT THE CASE! Partisan politics and power are your only goals.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 8:31 AM link Paul L. | Cranston, RI
Oil is going to be drilled, and coal is going to be mined; it's just a question of who is going to do it. Is it going to be done by foreign killers? Or American workers?This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 5:23 AM link Clint B. | Loganville, GA
It's obvious we need the oil, Drilling not only in ANWR, but also off the Florida coast is in the US's best interest, So please drill for our own domestic supply.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Tue., Jul. 8, 2008 5:11 AM link Eric T. | Greensburg, PA
Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 8:03 PM link Aaron S. | Massillon, OH
America's absolute lack of realization and action regarding the blatant fact that we outsource billions of dollars of our economy and our primary source of defense and energy, into the hands of proven terrorist nations and supporters, is an explosive ignorant failure of our government of epic proportions. The fact that we have proven reserves and oil fields waiting to be tapped, and yet we refuse to take advantage of our own land's limitless (60-100 years) supply of resources is unthinkable, and grows in obsurdity daily. The tired and abused excuse of protecting the surrounding habitat has been created and taken hostage by a small group who have never drilled for oil, and do not realize their claims do not hold true in the real World.This is about security, independence, and survival of freedom and our economy... the choice is self-evident.
-Aaron R Smith
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 12:39 PM link joseph h. | campbell, OH
Dear Senators and RepresentativeDrill for oil now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Energy independence, jobs, defense security, and technology developement.
Representatives look a barrel of oil today $149.02 & a gallon of gas $4.56
Do you know how many UNION jobs you’re giving up by not letting us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES.????????????????????Studies say that the allowing of Drilling for oil and all other resources
would bring to the economy, 2.5 million new jobs, in every aspect such as manufacturing pipes, gyrators, pumps and pumping stations and other such products. The service sector jobs in trucking, personnel, medical, Colleges and trade schools, and technology for drilling and mining resources. Then there are jobs lost because of the lost of oil drilling in the United States, about 65,000 persons. The revenue and taxes from drilling for oil and resources can be used for technology development for the future to get off resources. Technology Today Mag.
Money into AMERICAN economy????Tax Revenue????????????????????????By not drilling for oil??????????
All the technology jobs that we could have in AMERICA if you let us drill for oil, and use coal?????????????????
The new technology that could come about because of money from oil revenue and taxes?????????????????????.
The reason there are food lines, and people using medical free clinics is because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES. The unemployment rate is 5.5% because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us use or natural resources.
The Labor Department reported a net loss of 62,000 jobs in the month. That matched the job loss figure for May, which was revised higher from 49,000. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 60,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate stayed at 5.5%. Economists had forecast the rate would come in at 5.4% in the latest reading.
Accordingly, 77% of those polled felt gas prices were "extremely" or "very" important to their vote, making fuel costs the third most important issue for American voters.
Economists say that the economic pain will not ease for voters come the November election.
The crystal sucking tree huggers need to find a cause that will hurt the American way of life!, now they found another cause grass fowl are endangered now just happens they are in most of the western and mid western states that oil is said to be in quantity, how amazing they just in time that congress is being pressured to start drilling oil, you of course know who the liberal-Eco-Democrats will side with the ENVIROMENTALIST of course.
Congress and the Senate have a nice July vacation.
Thank you Eco-Liberal Democratic Party for $4.97 a gallon and $148.00 a barrel oil, for not letting us uses coal, nuclear power. Let’s go on stupid ethanol which makes corn go to $7.99 a bushel. For the Food lines at the local shelters (Free Food Centers), all the truckers you put out of work, also for your free trade agreement that 220,000 persons out of work to. Last of all for where I live north Eastern Ohio which looks allot like Michigan, large vacant areas where building/companies/plants used to be, all the vacant houses and lots in the county. Remember our steel mills of the 70's, 25 miles of steel plants in the valley, since 1978, 25 mile of nothing, out of business because of Federal Regulations think jimmy carter, just like today. You can’t build power plants, coal/nuclear, oil refineries, pipe plants, steel plants, oil drilling, dams for power, and lumber industries, because of federal regulations that the Sierra Club, Earth justice and others, Eco-Liberals (lawyers) use against us. Remember the mid/late 70's gas shortage car lines, oil embargo, Guess who was in charge, there coming back in the 2009, thanks for in the future Democrats.
Remember the large population in Mahoning County of the 50’s, 60, 70, 80’s all went like the birds, gone to southern United States right towork states, and Mexico like my uncles steel mill, pipe plant, iron plants, chemical plants had really good paying jobs making $40,000. to $70,000.00 a year, a fact.
Opinion of a Conservative Democrat
Drill for oil
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 12:23 PM link David F. | Derry, PA
We will remember who is for our best interests and I promise to help rid congress and the senate of those who wish to do our country harm by not allowing access to our own resources. This is our land. You do not own it. Do not try and use the excuses that "we cannot drill our way out of this" and "we won't see the effects of drilling for 10 years". If President Clinton had been doing his duty as president and signed the Anwar bill, we would be seeing it right now. Do your duty and see that we have access to OUR land.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 8:29 AM link Kathleen B. | Pittsburgh, PA
It's time to be the "smart" - "tough" Americans that we have always been. Let's do what is best for America. If we continue down the path we are on, the American way of life will be severely altered. Americans don't give up and settle. Americans forge the way. Americans dig in and solve the problem. So what, if we are behind and it will take time to get the oil we need. Since when did being behind ever stop an American? We need to develop the resources that our energy rich country already has. I don't understand why these resources are placed off limits to its citizens??? Let's stop supporting middle eastern oil countries with money that ends up in the hands of our enemies. There is no need to do this! We have our own resources. Let's DRILL! Let's REFINE! Let's look for alternative sources of energy! Let's conserve! Let's DO IT ALL - NOW!!! Have you forgotten that we are AMERICANS. WE CAN DO IT ALL - better, faster, cheaper, cleaner, smarter - than anyone else. LET'S ROLL!!This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 7:38 AM link Alan D. | Rochester, PA
I can't believe we are here in Iraq where gas on the local economy is $1.60 per gallon, and theU.S. military is being charged $3.23 per gallon. I am quoting prices that were in the Stars And
Stripes military newspaper back in May while we were in Kuwait prior to coming to Iraq. I want
to see the U.S. drill in Anwar, build refineries, even help Mexico with oil production if we could
work out some sort of agreement. We need to be self- sufficient with oil and not rely on the middle
east, Hugo Chavez, or anyone else.
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 7:11 AM link c ann h. | campbell, OH
Fighting ThreatsClimate Change
Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The United States accounts for approximately 4 percent of the world’s population, yet it is responsible for approximately 25 percent of the world’s global warming pollution. Our government must provide domestic and global leadership on this issue because we have a moral responsibility to leave future generations with a safe and habitable world.
Climate change will have enormous consequences for Nevada, the Great Basin, and all of the southwest. Temperatures in the southwest are currently rising, and it is widely predicted that climate change will decrease precipitation. Drought will make farming and ranching tougher, increase the frequency and acres burned by wildfires, and could drive many plant and animal species to extinction. Some invasive plants, such as cheatgrass, are better suited to hotter climates, and are already replacing native vegetation. These impacts are already creating serious challenges and could become catastrophic in the future if we fail to take action.
I am proud that developed and developing nations of the world came together in Bali in December to adopt the “Roadmap” to guide United Nations global warming negotiations. This consensus could open the door for a future agreement on mandatory global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The United States Federal government must take a leading role in slowing global warming at home and abroad. I will continue working to ensure that our nation once again provides the world with the leadership it needs to address global warming.
Fighting Invasive Species
From cheatgrass to Mormon crickets and quagga mussels, Nevada faces serious challenges in controlling invasive species. That is why I helped establish the Nevada Arid Rangelands Initiative through the University of Nevada, Reno, and have consistently worked to secure funding to combat Mormon cricket infestations.
I have also introduced legislation to help Nevada and other states resolve invasive species infestations. My 100th Meridian Invasive Species State Revolving Fund would provide low-interest loans for invasive species projects that promote wildfire management, reduce changes to wildlife habitat, and reverse the spread of aquatic invasive species.
Wildfires
Although wildfires play an important role in naturally-functioning rangelands and forests, if they burn out of control, they can devastate our communities, displace livestock grazing and destroy wildlife habitat. Nevada has been particularly hard hit over the last several years. In addition to ensuring our firefighters have the resources they need to battle wildfire, I have secured hundreds of millions of dollars for removing hazardous fuels and eradicating fire-prone invasive species across Nevada through appropriations bills and the special accounts in our Nevada land bills.
In 2007, Senator Ensign and I introduced the Wildfire Presuppression Fuels Management Act of 2007. This bill establishes a USDA conservation program that helps to prevent the occurrence, spread of, and damages caused by wildfire to rangeland. This legislation would allow private land owners to receive annual incentive payments through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program for implementing innovative conservation practices on rangeland that is vulnerable to wildfire or has suffered the consequences of wildfire. This bill will help protect land in the Great Basin from catastrophic fires through incentives and conservation efforts.
Eradicating Mormon Crickets
As someone who grew up in rural Nevada, I am and have been especially committed to improving the quality of life throughout the rural areas of our state. The Mormon cricket infestations that have been experienced throughout Nevada have caused a great deal of hardship to ranchers, farmers, and numerous businesses. In response, I worked hard to secure over $8 million for local officials and volunteers in Nevada to combat the Mormon crickets on both public and private land. This money has given the hard-working people who have been fighting this threat the support they need to protect our communities from future infestations. Most recently, I added additional funds to an appropriations bill to further control the crickets in upcoming years.
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 7:11 AM link c ann h. | campbell, OH
Fighting ThreatsClimate Change
Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The United States accounts for approximately 4 percent of the world’s population, yet it is responsible for approximately 25 percent of the world’s global warming pollution. Our government must provide domestic and global leadership on this issue because we have a moral responsibility to leave future generations with a safe and habitable world.
Climate change will have enormous consequences for Nevada, the Great Basin, and all of the southwest. Temperatures in the southwest are currently rising, and it is widely predicted that climate change will decrease precipitation. Drought will make farming and ranching tougher, increase the frequency and acres burned by wildfires, and could drive many plant and animal species to extinction. Some invasive plants, such as cheatgrass, are better suited to hotter climates, and are already replacing native vegetation. These impacts are already creating serious challenges and could become catastrophic in the future if we fail to take action.
I am proud that developed and developing nations of the world came together in Bali in December to adopt the “Roadmap” to guide United Nations global warming negotiations. This consensus could open the door for a future agreement on mandatory global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The United States Federal government must take a leading role in slowing global warming at home and abroad. I will continue working to ensure that our nation once again provides the world with the leadership it needs to address global warming.
Fighting Invasive Species
From cheatgrass to Mormon crickets and quagga mussels, Nevada faces serious challenges in controlling invasive species. That is why I helped establish the Nevada Arid Rangelands Initiative through the University of Nevada, Reno, and have consistently worked to secure funding to combat Mormon cricket infestations.
I have also introduced legislation to help Nevada and other states resolve invasive species infestations. My 100th Meridian Invasive Species State Revolving Fund would provide low-interest loans for invasive species projects that promote wildfire management, reduce changes to wildlife habitat, and reverse the spread of aquatic invasive species.
Wildfires
Although wildfires play an important role in naturally-functioning rangelands and forests, if they burn out of control, they can devastate our communities, displace livestock grazing and destroy wildlife habitat. Nevada has been particularly hard hit over the last several years. In addition to ensuring our firefighters have the resources they need to battle wildfire, I have secured hundreds of millions of dollars for removing hazardous fuels and eradicating fire-prone invasive species across Nevada through appropriations bills and the special accounts in our Nevada land bills.
In 2007, Senator Ensign and I introduced the Wildfire Presuppression Fuels Management Act of 2007. This bill establishes a USDA conservation program that helps to prevent the occurrence, spread of, and damages caused by wildfire to rangeland. This legislation would allow private land owners to receive annual incentive payments through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program for implementing innovative conservation practices on rangeland that is vulnerable to wildfire or has suffered the consequences of wildfire. This bill will help protect land in the Great Basin from catastrophic fires through incentives and conservation efforts.
Eradicating Mormon Crickets
As someone who grew up in rural Nevada, I am and have been especially committed to improving the quality of life throughout the rural areas of our state. The Mormon cricket infestations that have been experienced throughout Nevada have caused a great deal of hardship to ranchers, farmers, and numerous businesses. In response, I worked hard to secure over $8 million for local officials and volunteers in Nevada to combat the Mormon crickets on both public and private land. This money has given the hard-working people who have been fighting this threat the support they need to protect our communities from future infestations. Most recently, I added additional funds to an appropriations bill to further control the crickets in upcoming years.
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 7:10 AM link c ann h. | campbell, OH
Fighting ThreatsClimate Change
Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The United States accounts for approximately 4 percent of the world’s population, yet it is responsible for approximately 25 percent of the world’s global warming pollution. Our government must provide domestic and global leadership on this issue because we have a moral responsibility to leave future generations with a safe and habitable world.
Climate change will have enormous consequences for Nevada, the Great Basin, and all of the southwest. Temperatures in the southwest are currently rising, and it is widely predicted that climate change will decrease precipitation. Drought will make farming and ranching tougher, increase the frequency and acres burned by wildfires, and could drive many plant and animal species to extinction. Some invasive plants, such as cheatgrass, are better suited to hotter climates, and are already replacing native vegetation. These impacts are already creating serious challenges and could become catastrophic in the future if we fail to take action.
I am proud that developed and developing nations of the world came together in Bali in December to adopt the “Roadmap” to guide United Nations global warming negotiations. This consensus could open the door for a future agreement on mandatory global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The United States Federal government must take a leading role in slowing global warming at home and abroad. I will continue working to ensure that our nation once again provides the world with the leadership it needs to address global warming.
Fighting Invasive Species
From cheatgrass to Mormon crickets and quagga mussels, Nevada faces serious challenges in controlling invasive species. That is why I helped establish the Nevada Arid Rangelands Initiative through the University of Nevada, Reno, and have consistently worked to secure funding to combat Mormon cricket infestations.
I have also introduced legislation to help Nevada and other states resolve invasive species infestations. My 100th Meridian Invasive Species State Revolving Fund would provide low-interest loans for invasive species projects that promote wildfire management, reduce changes to wildlife habitat, and reverse the spread of aquatic invasive species.
Wildfires
Although wildfires play an important role in naturally-functioning rangelands and forests, if they burn out of control, they can devastate our communities, displace livestock grazing and destroy wildlife habitat. Nevada has been particularly hard hit over the last several years. In addition to ensuring our firefighters have the resources they need to battle wildfire, I have secured hundreds of millions of dollars for removing hazardous fuels and eradicating fire-prone invasive species across Nevada through appropriations bills and the special accounts in our Nevada land bills.
In 2007, Senator Ensign and I introduced the Wildfire Presuppression Fuels Management Act of 2007. This bill establishes a USDA conservation program that helps to prevent the occurrence, spread of, and damages caused by wildfire to rangeland. This legislation would allow private land owners to receive annual incentive payments through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program for implementing innovative conservation practices on rangeland that is vulnerable to wildfire or has suffered the consequences of wildfire. This bill will help protect land in the Great Basin from catastrophic fires through incentives and conservation efforts.
Eradicating Mormon Crickets
As someone who grew up in rural Nevada, I am and have been especially committed to improving the quality of life throughout the rural areas of our state. The Mormon cricket infestations that have been experienced throughout Nevada have caused a great deal of hardship to ranchers, farmers, and numerous businesses. In response, I worked hard to secure over $8 million for local officials and volunteers in Nevada to combat the Mormon crickets on both public and private land. This money has given the hard-working people who have been fighting this threat the support they need to protect our communities from future infestations. Most recently, I added additional funds to an appropriations bill to further control the crickets in upcoming years.
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Mon., Jul. 7, 2008 5:35 AM link C ann h. | campbell, OH
Carbon Dioxide and Global WarmingWhere We Stand on the Issue
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
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There is little doubt the air's CO2 concentration has risen significantly since the inception of the Industrial Revolution; and there are few who do not attribute the CO2 increase to the increase in humanity's use of fossil fuels. There is also little doubt the earth has warmed slightly over the same period; but there is no compelling reason to believe that the rise in temperature was caused by the rise in CO2. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that future increases in the air's CO2 content will produce any global warming; for there are numerous problems with the popular hypothesis that links the two phenomena.
A weak short-term correlation between CO2 and temperature proves nothing about causation. Proponents of the notion that increases in the air's CO2 content lead to global warming point to the past century's weak correlation between atmospheric CO2 concentration and global air temperature as proof of their contention. However, they typically gloss over the fact that correlation does not imply causation, and that a hundred years is not enough time to establish the validity of such a relationship when it comes to earth's temperature history.
The observation that two things have risen together for a period of time says nothing about one trend being the cause of the other. To establish a causal relationship it must be demonstrated that the presumed cause precedes the presumed effect. Furthermore, this relationship should be demonstrable over several cycles of increases and decreases in both parameters. And even when these criteria are met, as in the case of solar/climate relationships, many people are unwilling to acknowledge that variations in the presumed cause truly produced the observed analogous variations in the presumed effect.
In thus considering the seven greatest temperature transitions of the past half-million years - three glacial terminations and four glacial inceptions - we note that increases and decreases in atmospheric CO2 concentration not only did not precede the changes in air temperature, they followed them, and by hundreds to thousands of years! There were also long periods of time when atmospheric CO2 remained unchanged, while air temperature dropped, as well as times when the air's CO2 content dropped, while air temperature remained unchanged or actually rose. Hence, the climate history of the past half-million years provides absolutely no evidence to suggest that the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 concentration will lead to significant global warming.
Strong negative climatic feedbacks prohibit catastrophic warming. Strong negative feedbacks play major roles in earth's climate system. If they did not, no life would exist on the planet, for some perturbation would long ago have sent the world careening into a state of cosmic cold or horrendous heat; and we know from the fossil record that neither of these extremes has ever occurred, even over billions of years, and in spite of a large increase in the luminosity of the sun throughout geologic time.
Consider, in this regard, the water vapor that would be added to the atmosphere by enhanced evaporation in a warmer world. The extra moisture would likely lead to the production of more and higher-water-content clouds, both of which consequences would tend to cool the planet by reflecting more solar radiation back to space.
A warmer world would also mean a warmer ocean, which would likely lead to an increase in the productivity of marine algae or phytoplankton. This phenomenon, in turn, would enhance the biotic production of certain sulfur-based substances that diffuse into the air, where they are oxidized and converted into particles that function as cloud condensation nuclei. The resulting increase in the number of cloud-forming particles would thus produce more and smaller cloud droplets, which are more reflective of incoming solar radiation; and this phenomenon would also tend to cool the planet.
All of these warming-induced cloud-related cooling effects are very powerful. It has been shown, for example, that the warming predicted to result from a doubling of the air's CO2 content may be totally countered by: (1) a mere 1% increase in the reflectivity of the planet, or (2) a 10% increase in the amount of the world's low-level clouds, or (3) a 15 to 20% reduction in the mean droplet radius of earth's boundary-layer clouds, or (4) a 20 to 25% increase in cloud liquid water content. In addition, it has been demonstrated that the warming-induced production of high-level clouds over the equatorial oceans almost totally nullifies that region's powerful water vapor greenhouse effect, which supplies much of the temperature increase in the CO2-induced global warming scenario.
Most of these important negative feedbacks are not adequately represented in state-of-the-art climate models. What is more, many related (and totally ignored!) phenomena are set in motion when the land surfaces of the globe warm. In response to the increase in temperature between 25°N latitude and the equator, for example, the soil-to-air flux of various sulfur gases rises by a factor of 25, as a consequence of warmth-induced increases in soil microbial activity; and this phenomenon can lead to the production of more cloud condensation nuclei just as biological processes over the sea do. Clearly, therefore, any number of combinations of these several negative feedbacks could easily thwart the impetus for warming provided by future increases in the air's CO2 content.
Growth-enhancing effects of CO2 create an impetus for cooling. Carbon dioxide is a powerful aerial fertilizer, directly enhancing the growth of almost all terrestrial plants and many aquatic plants as its atmospheric concentration rises. And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2-induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet. In addition, many non-sulfur-based biogenic materials of the terrestrial environment play major roles as water- and ice-nucleating aerosols; and the airborne presence of these materials should also be enhanced by rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Hence, it is possible that incorporation of this multifaceted CO2-induced cooling effect into the suite of equations that comprise the current generation of global climate models might actually tip the climatic scales in favor of global cooling in the face of continued growth of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
There is no evidence for warming-induced increases in extreme weather. Proponents of the CO2-induced global warming hypothesis often predict that extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and hurricanes will become more numerous and/or extreme in a warmer world; however, there is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, many studies have revealed that the numbers and intensities of extreme weather events have remained relatively constant over the last century of modest global warming or have actually declined. Costs of damages from these phenomena, however, have risen dramatically; but this phenomenon has been demonstrated to be the result of evolving societal, demographic and economic factors.
Elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 are a boon to the biosphere. In lieu of global warming, a little of which would in all probability be good for the planet, where do the above considerations leave us? Simply with the biospheric benefits that come from the aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment: enhanced plant growth, increased plant water use efficiency, greater food production for both people and animals, plus a host of other biological benefits too numerous to describe in this short statement.
And these benefits are not mere predictions. They are real. Already, in fact, they are evident in long-term tree-ring records, which reveal a history of increasing forest growth rates that have closely paralleled the progression of the Industrial Revolution. They can also be seen in the slow but inexorable spreading of woody plants into areas where only grasses grew before. In fact, the atmosphere itself bears witness to the increasing prowess of the entire biosphere in the yearly expanding amplitude of the its seasonal CO2 cycle. This oscillatory "breath of the biosphere" - its inhalation of CO2, produced by spring and summer terrestrial plant growth, and its exhalation of CO2, produced by fall and winter biomass decomposition - has been documented to be growing greater and greater each year in response to the ever-increasing growth stimulation provided by the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content.
Atmospheric CO2 enrichment brings growth and prosperity to man and nature alike. This, then, is what we truly believe will be the result of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content: a reinvigorated biosphere characteristic of those prior periods of earth's history when the air's CO2 concentration was much higher than it is today, coupled with a climate not much different from that of the present. Are we right? Only time will tell. But one thing is certain now: there is much more real-world evidence for the encouraging scenario we paint here than for the doom-and-gloom predictions of apocalypse that are preached by those who blindly follow the manifestly less-than-adequate prognostications of imperfect climate models.
Our policy prescription relative to anthropogenic CO2 emissions is thus to leave well enough alone and let nature and humanity take their inextricably intertwined course. All indications are that both will be well served by the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2.
Supporting references. This brief was written in 1998. References to the voluminous scientific literature that supports the many factual statements of this position paper may be found on our website - www.co2science.org - which we update weekly.
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Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 11:02 AM link C Anne h. | campbell, OH
Do you realy want to take us back to the Jimmy Carter days, of oil line, oil embargos. Gasoline Station line 3 mile long, 4 gallons of gas rassion for every 2 days, really high unemployment 7%. the 70's, 2009 will be the jimmy cater years again.Today: oil $148.00 a barrel also THANKS for $4.98 a gallon MILK...........................
Thanks Democrat Party for the 5.5% unemployment rate. Are you the PEOPLES Party or the Eco-Sierra Club Party-Green Party, or than Marxist(Communist Party) you rule you do what you want party. by the time your (OBAMA) Jimmy Carter gets do what he wants the rate will be 9% to 11% unemployment rate and $9.00 a gallon for gas.
The reason there are food lines, and people using (Free Clinics) medical free clinics is because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES. The unemployment rate is 5.5% because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us use or natural resources which creates jobs in maney sectors of the economy .
The Labor Department reported a net loss of 62,000 jobs in the month. That matched the job loss figure for May, which was revised higher from 49,000. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 60,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate stayed at 5.5%. Economists had forecast the rate would come in at 5.4% in the latest reading.
Accordingly, 77% of those polled felt gas prices were "extremely" or "very" important to their vote, making fuel costs the third most important issue for American voters.
Economists say that the economic pain will not ease for voters come the November election.
The crystal sucking tree huggers need to find a cause that will hurt the American way of life!, now they found another cause grass fowl are endangered now just happens they are in most of the western and mid western states that oil is said to be in quantity, how amazing they just in time that congress is being pressured to start drilling oil, you of course know who the liberal-Eco-Democrats will side with the ENVIROMENTALIST of course.
Congress and the Senate have a nice July vacation.
Thank you Eco-Liberal Democratic Party for $4.57 a gallon and $148.00 a barrel oil, for not letting us uses coal, nuclear power. Let’s go on stupid ethanol which makes corn go to $7.90 a bushel. For the Food lines at the local shelters (Free Food Centers), all the truckers you put out of work, also for your free trade agreement that 260,000 persons out of work to. Last of all for where I live north Eastern Ohio which looks allot like Michigan, large vacant areas where building/companies/plants used to be, all the vacant houses and lots in the county. Remember our steel mills of the 70's, 25 miles of steel plants in the valley, since 1978, 25 mile of nothing, out of business because of Federal Regulations think jimmy carter, just like today. You can’t build power plants, coal/nuclear, oil refineries, pipe plants, steel plants, oil drilling, dams for power, and lumber industries, because of federal regulations that the Sierra Club, Earth Jstice and others, Eco-Liberals (lawyers) use against us. Remember the mid/late 70's gas shortage car lines, oil embargo, Guess who was in charge, there coming back in the 2009 thanks in he future Democrats.
Remember the large population in Mahoning County of the 50’s, 60, 70, 80’s all went like the birds, gone to southern United States and Mexico like my uncles pipe plant, iron plants did.
Opinion of a Conservative Democrat, i didn't vote for Prez. Reagon
Drill for oil
Drill!!!!for oil Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 10:46 AM link Christopher G. | Indiana, PA
I remeber about ten years ago when then-president Clinton had the oppertunity to lift the ban on drilling in ANWR. He decided not to do so beacuse he said we wouldn't see any results for at least ten years. Well here we are ten years later and look at the proces the American public is paying at the gas pumps. My question is where will we be in another ten years?This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 9:55 AM link Jim S. | Pittsburgh, PA
Increase oil supplies! Saying we are going to do it will start driving speculation down. It is simple economics of supply and demand. It is fine to look at alternative energy, but in the mean time remove road blocks to getting our own oil.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 8:15 AM link Kay W. | Sopchoppy, FL
As an American Citizen and voter, I believe we (the people) should have the rights to ANWR. America belongs to all America, not just to those in government. Drilling CAN be done in ANWR in a way that is ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly. PLease vote to drill here, drill now.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 6:31 AM link Ronald H. | Punxsutawney, PA
Sun., Jul. 6, 2008 1:58 AM link Theodore M. | Williamsburg, PA
Stop making lame excuses about the oil problem, you know the solution and you know what the people of this country want. You are NOT doing your job. You do not deserve to hold that office. The people of this great country will never be defeated or made into a Socialist Nation.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 10:51 PM link Karl R. | Brookfield, OH
I am very disgusted that my representatives in the House and Senate care nothing about anyone but themselves. The high price of gas is detrimental to everyone in our society.How can you sit there and do absolutely nothing except fly around on your private jets while the hard working, honest people of this country suffer and prices of everything go up because of your lack of moves on drilling? Alternate energy is also needed, but when we have the extensive oil resources that we do, why are we supporting the Arab countries with our money for oil.
Get busy and DRILL!
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Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 6:29 PM link C Anne h. | campbell, OH
Today: oil $148.00 a barrel also THANKS for $4.95 a gallon MILK...........................Thanks Democrat Party for the 5.5% unemployment rate. Are you the PEOPLES Party or the Eco-Sierra Club Party-Green Party, or than Marxist(Communist Party) you rule you do what you want party. by the time your (OBAMA) Jimmy Carter gets do what he wants the rate will be 9% to 11% unemployment rate and $9.00 a gallon for gas.
The reason there are food lines, and people using (Free Clinics) medical free clinics is because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES. The unemployment rate is 5.5% because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us use or natural resources which creates jobs in maney sectors of the economy .
The Labor Department reported a net loss of 62,000 jobs in the month. That matched the job loss figure for May, which was revised higher from 49,000. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 60,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate stayed at 5.5%. Economists had forecast the rate would come in at 5.4% in the latest reading.
Accordingly, 77% of those polled felt gas prices were "extremely" or "very" important to their vote, making fuel costs the third most important issue for American voters.
Economists say that the economic pain will not ease for voters come the November election.
The crystal sucking tree huggers need to find a cause that will hurt the American way of life!, now they found another cause grass fowl are endangered now just happens they are in most of the western and mid western states that oil is said to be in quantity, how amazing they just in time that congress is being pressured to start drilling oil, you of course know who the liberal-Eco-Democrats will side with the ENVIROMENTALIST of course.
Congress and the Senate have a nice July vacation.
Thank you Eco-Liberal Democratic Party for $4.57 a gallon and $148.00 a barrel oil, for not letting us uses coal, nuclear power. Let’s go on stupid ethanol which makes corn go to $7.90 a bushel. For the Food lines at the local shelters (Free Food Centers), all the truckers you put out of work, also for your free trade agreement that 260,000 persons out of work to. Last of all for where I live north Eastern Ohio which looks allot like Michigan, large vacant areas where building/companies/plants used to be, all the vacant houses and lots in the county. Remember our steel mills of the 70's, 25 miles of steel plants in the valley, since 1978, 25 mile of nothing, out of business because of Federal Regulations think jimmy carter, just like today. You can’t build power plants, coal/nuclear, oil refineries, pipe plants, steel plants, oil drilling, dams for power, and lumber industries, because of federal regulations that the Sierra Club, Earth Jstice and others, Eco-Liberals (lawyers) use against us. Remember the mid/late 70's gas shortage car lines, oil embargo, Guess who was in charge, there coming back in the 2009 thanks in he future Democrats.
Remember the large population in Mahoning County of the 50’s, 60, 70, 80’s all went like the birds, gone to southern United States and Mexico like my uncles pipe plant, iron plants did.
Opinion of a Conservative Democrat
Drill for oil
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Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 8:42 AM link C ann h. | campbell, OH
Global Warming is a farce Look at $4.56 a gallon gas, a barrel of oil is $147.00Environmentalism is today more about protecting a supposed "thing" -- "the environment" -- than advancing the worldview articulated by Sierra Club founder John Muir, who nearly a century ago observed, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
Thinking of the environment as a "thing" has had enormous implications for how environmentalists conduct their politics. The three-part strategic framework for environmental policy-making hasn't changed in 40 years: first, define a problem (e.g. global warming) as "environmental." Second, craft a technical remedy (e.g., cap-and-trade). Third, sell the technical proposal to legislators through a variety of tactics, such as lobbying, third-party allies, research reports, advertising, and public relations.
When we asked environmental leaders how we could accelerate our efforts against global warming, most pointed to this or that tactic -- more analysis, more grassroots organizing, more PR.
Few things epitomize the environmental community's tactical orientation to politics more than its search for better words and imagery to "reframe" global warming. Lately the advice has included: a) don't call it "climate change" because Americans like change; b) don't call it "global warming" because the word "warming" sounds nice; c) refer to global warming as a "heat trapping blanket" so people can understand it; d) focus attention on technological solutions -- like fluorescent light bulbs and hybrid cars.
What each of these recommendations has in common is the shared assumption that a) the problem should be framed as "environmental" and b) our legislative proposals should be technical.1
In 1973 we had the Arab oil embargo. Then the USA was 30% dependent on foreign. In the next 35 years, you leaders established no real energy policy except giving more power to EPA. The last US oil refinery opened in 1976. From 1981 to 2005 the number of US oil refineries has decreased from 324 to 148 (and yes that equates to closing of 176 refineries). Today we are 60% dependent on oil.
You leaders need to free up America's lands and oceans for more drilling and certainly in ANWR. You and previous cohorts bear a BIG responsibly for our current energy crisis.
Building a refinery from starting thru applying to permitting takes a minimum of 10 years. In 1995 Pres Clinton wouldn't permit drilling in ANWR with the statement --"Why it will be 10 years before we see anything." Well 13 years have passed, folks. And now look!
You all need some good technical advisors in Wash DC. BS and Rhetoric isn't going to solve our energy dilemma!
Area 1002 is actually not party of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge...it is hundreds and hundreds of miles away. This is in an area that is tundra...full of ice and mosquito infested flatlands in the summer.
The environmentalist has minimized the benefits that area 1002 can bring to the American public.
There is more likely 30 years worth of oil in the area.
The drilling would give the United States almost two generations to develop new energy resources and perfect that investment so we do not have to depend on foreign oil.
The environmentalists claim it would take years to get the oil and build a pipeline...The Alaskan pipeline and Perdue Bay is about 200 miles away.
Announcing the new drilling in Alaska will bring oil prices down. This will also increase the value of the dollar.
Knowing how small the area is, this might affect one polar bear's habitat....maybe. The polar bears need a wide range. The caribou are documented to living around drilling areas without them habitats being destroyed
Oil companies make a lot but spend a lot. Currently I am doing two projects worth $55 million for personnel safety at an oil refinery. I did a scrubber project a few years back---$65 million to clean the air. Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) was very costly in capital outlay to meet the environmental criteria. None of these projects resulted in more products, higher octanes or higher yields. So don't blame the oil companies!!!
1. Global Warming is a face
2. CO2 is plant and tree food
3. Who cares about Polar Bears
4? Northeastern Ohio looks like Michigan, in the way of jobs, and housing vacant, and buildings are vacant, large areas of open space where jobs were once, areas bear/nothing vacant.
5 Our population in the area is moving south to right to work States.
6. Our biggest employer in Mahoning County is an Austintown, OH, School system, and Youngstown State.
7 Gas is $4.39 to $4.74 a gallon
8. Small business people are going out of business, over fuel, gas, too many taxes.
9 Food prices are up to, a gallon of milk cost $.4.69 a gallon
10 Every time a country that's produces oil that hates AMERICANs, says there going to reduce the supply of oil to make the price go up another $5.00 a barrel. NOW $142.00 a barrel.
11 And last of all the Democratic Party says the party line on oil drilling while WE pay $4.67 a gallon. No we can't should be OBAMA lines, not YES WE CAN
12 Other countries can drill were ever they want. WHY?????????????????????
WHY?????????????WHY is Congressman?????????????WHY???????????????????????
13 90 % AK is waste land, and 60% of AK has no polar bears, ducks, or deer.
14 Why do we let 10% of the population in this country tell us what to do, make laws to satisfy them, and sue over building refineries for gas and drilling for oil.
Plans for foreign oil companies, some from India and China, to drill off the cost of Cuba are prompting calls from lawmakers to ease environmental restrictions that prohibit coastal drilling in most of the U.S., according to a report Tuesday.
At a time of rising soaring gasoline prices caused partly by a lack of supply, legislators are fuming that Cuba is opening up its continental shelf for oil and gas exploration while most of the U.S. continental shelf outside the Gulf of Mexico, which extends 200 miles from shore, has been off limits for drilling since the early 1980s, the New York Times reported.
Adding insult to injury, the Times said U.S. firms were invited to bid on the Cuban contracts, but were barred by the U.S. government due to the country's longstanding economic embargo of communist Cuba.
"Red China should not be left to drill for oil within spitting distance of our shores without competition from U.S. industries," Sen. Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho, told the Times.
Firms from Canada and Spain will also drill off the Cuban coast, the article said
Craig is introducing a bill to exempt U.S. oil firms from the embargo, much as food and drug firms are, according to the article.
There are also several bills moving through Congress aimed at opening up areas more areas of the U.S. to oil and gas exploration, including coastal waters and Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Supporters of the bills, including the oil industry, say it would help bring down oil and gas prices and decrease the country's reliance on oil imports from the volatile Middle East.
Gasoline prices have soared 33 percent over the last year, while the price of crude oil has tripled since 2002.
But critics of more drilling say the energy obtained, which they say would be minimal and wouldn't bring down prices that much, isn't worth the environmental risks. They also say more drilling for a finite resource does nothing to promote long term conservation solutions.
Most coastal states also oppose offshore drilling; fearing unsightly rigs and oil spills will hurt their tourism industries.
The United States Geological Survey estimates the Cuban deal involves 4.6 billion barrels of oil and 9.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Times. The paper said that's enough oil and gas to power the U.S. for a few months.
The paper also cited an Interior Department study that said the U.S. continental shelf contained 115 billion barrels of oil and 633 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That would be enough oil to satisfy U.S. demand, at current consumption levels, for 16 years and enough natural gas for 25 years, according to the Times.
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The question of whether to allow drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been a political football for every sitting American president since Jimmy Carter. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is just east of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska's "North Slope," which is North America's largest oil field. Currently, the Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production.[1] In 1987 and again in 1998 studies released by the U.S. Geological Survey have estimated significant deposits of crude oil exist within the land designated as the "1002 area" of ANWR, as well.[2][3][3]
Oil interest in the region goes back to the late 1960s. Since the 1979 energy crisis, the question of whether to drill for oil has become a hot-button issue for various groups. Most Alaskan residents, trade unions, Republicans, and several business interests have supported drilling in the refuge, while many ecologists, environmental groups, and Democrats have opposed it due to claims of threats to the natural wildlife. Among native Alaskan tribes, support is mixed.See below
In the 1990s and 2000s, votes about the status of the refuge occurred repeatedly in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, but as of 2007 efforts to allow drilling have been stopped by amendments, filibusters, or vetoes. Arctic Refuge drilling was again approved by the Republican controlled House of Representatives as part of the Energy Bill on April 21, 2005,[24] but the Arctic Refuge provision was later removed by the House-Senate conference committee. The Republican controlled Senate passed Arctic Refuge drilling on March 16, 2005 as part of the federal budget resolution for fiscal year 2006.[25] That Arctic Refuge provision was removed during the reconciliation process, due to Democrats in the House of Representatives who signed a letter stating they would oppose any version of the budget that had Arctic Refuge drilling in it.[26]
On December 15, 2005, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) attached an Arctic Refuge drilling amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill. A group of Democratic Senators led a successful filibustering of the bill on December 21, 2005, and the language was subsequently removed from the bill.[27]
On June 18, 2008, President George W. Bush pressed Congress to reverse the ban on offshore drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in addition to approving the extraction of oil from shale on federal lands. Despite his previous stance on the issue, President Bush cited the growing energy crisis as a major factor for reversing the presidential executive order issued by President Bush Sr. in 1990, which banned coastal oil exploration and oil and gas leasing on most of the outer continental shelf. In conjunction with the presidential order, the Congressional moratorium banning drilling was first enacted in 1982 and has been renewed annually. Estimates of oil reserves
In May of 2008 the Energy Information Administration released the following report:
"The opening of the ANWR 1002 Area to oil and natural gas development is projected to increase domestic crude oil production starting in 2018. In the mean ANWR oil resource case, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR reaches 780,000 barrels per day in 2027 and then declines to 710,000 barrels per day in 2030. In the low and high ANWR oil resource cases, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR peaks in 2028 at 510,000 and 1.45 million barrels per day, respectively. Between 2018 and 2030, cumulative additional oil production is 2.6 billion barrels for the mean oil resource case, while the low and high resource cases project a cumulative additional oil production of 1.9 and 4.3 billion barrels, respectively." [29]),
The report also states:
"Additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States. The opening of ANWR is projected to have its largest oil price reduction impacts as follows: a reduction in low-sulfur, light crude oil prices of $0.41 per barrel (2006 dollars) in 2026 for the low oil resource case, $0.75 per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high oil resource case, relative to the reference case." [30])
For the average case, drilling in ANWR would reduce crude oil by 75 cents, in 2025. The total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030.[31]
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Sat., Jul. 5, 2008 7:25 AM link Linda H. | Portersville, PA
Dear Representative,Simple supply and demand principles teach us the more supply-the lower the cost. I think it is imperative that we use the resources provided by our Creator to take care of our own. Drill in ANWR, drill offshore, drill in my backyard if there is oil. Do what you have been elected to do and provide for "domestic tranquility and common defense".
Thank you, you will be remembered for how you acted on this issue.
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Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 8:51 PM link Kristina B. | St Ann, MO
We need to start drilling in Anwr. We need to be using the oil on our land instead of pucrchasing it from foreign lands. We need our oil to be working for us. We need our Senator's and our Representatives to have our agendas not their agendas. We need our Senator's and Representatives to be for big exploration of new technologies for new fuel resources not for big business.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 5:42 PM link Roger F. | Youngstown, OH
Please support efforts to explore and drill in ANWR and to effectively use American energy resources. Thank you.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 5:22 PM link Phil G. | Belle Vernon, PA
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Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 5:19 PM link Phil G. | Belle Vernon, PA
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 4:49 PM link C Ann h. | campbell, OH
Representatives look a barrel of oil today $146.02 & a gallon of gas $4.56Do you know how many UNION jobs you’re giving up by not letting us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES.????????????????????Studies say that the allowing of Drilling for oil and all other resources
would bring to the economy, 2.5 million new jobs, in every aspect such as manufacturing pipes, gyrators, pumps and pumping stations and other such products. The service sector jobs in trucking, personnel, medical, Colleges and trade schools, and technology for drilling and mining resources. Then there are jobs lost because of the lost of oil drilling in the United States, about 65,000 persons. The revenue and taxes from drilling for oil and resources can be used for technology development for the future to get off resources. Technology Today Mag.
Money into AMERICAN economy????Tax Revenue????????????????????????By not drilling for oil??????????
All the technology jobs that we could have in AMERICA if you let us drill for oil, and use coal?????????????????
The new technology that could come about because of money from oil revenue and taxes?????????????????????.
The reason there are food lines, and people using medical free clinics is because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us drill for oil in the UNITED STATES. The unemployment rate is 5.5% because the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will not let us use or natural resources.
The Labor Department reported a net loss of 62,000 jobs in the month. That matched the job loss figure for May, which was revised higher from 49,000. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 60,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate stayed at 5.5%. Economists had forecast the rate would come in at 5.4% in the latest reading.
Accordingly, 77% of those polled felt gas prices were "extremely" or "very" important to their vote, making fuel costs the third most important issue for American voters.
Economists say that the economic pain will not ease for voters come the November election.
The crystal sucking tree huggers need to find a cause that will hurt the American way of life!, now they found another cause grass fowl are endangered now just happens they are in most of the western and mid western states that oil is said to be in quantity, how amazing they just in time that congress is being pressured to start drilling oil, you of course know who the liberal-Eco-Democrats will side with the ENVIROMENTALIST of course.
Congress and the Senate have a nice July vacation.
Thank you Eco-Liberal Democratic Party for $4.27 a gallon and $146.00 a barrel oil, for not letting us uses coal, nuclear power. Let’s go on stupid ethanol which makes corn go to $7.50 a bushel. For the Food lines at the local shelters (Free Food Centers), all the truckers you put out of work, also for your free trade agreement that 220,000 persons out of work to. Last of all for where I live north Eastern Ohio which looks allot like Michigan, large vacant areas where building/companies/plants used to be, all the vacant houses and lots in the county. Remember our steel mills of the 70's, 25 miles of steel plants in the valley, since 1978 25 mile of nothing, out of business because of Federal Regulations think jimmy carter, just like today. You can’t build power plants, coal/nuclear, oil refineries, pipe plants, steel plants, oil drilling, dams for power, and lumber industries, because of federal regulations that the Sierra Club, Earth justice and others, Eco-Liberals (lawyers) use against us. Remember the mid/late 70's gas shortage car lines, oil embargo, Guess who was in charge, there coming back in the 2009 thanks in he future Democrats.
Remember the large population in Mahoning County of the 50’s, 60, 70, 80’s all went like the birds, gone to southern United States and Mexico like my uncles pipe plant, iron plants did.
Opinion of a Conservative Democrat
Drill for oil
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Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 2:05 PM link Dale L. | Uniontown, PA
To all U.S. Senators and members of the House; Our country is going down the tubes. What in the world ever happened to you folks acting in the best interest of the United States of America and its people? Why are you allowing a small fraction of special interest groups to block oil drilling and construction of new refineries? Global warming is a sham. The most respected names in science say it doesn't exist. Drilling in ANWR will put the world on notice that we will no longer have to depend on foreign oil. Also, drilling will create jobs for AMERICANS! Speaking of jobs. Please pay attention to the voice and opinion of we Americans. You represent us. You took an oath. Do YOUR job.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 2:01 PM link Dale L. | Uniontown, PA
To all U.S. Senators and members of the House; Our country is going down the tubes. What in the world ever happened to you folks acting in the best interest of the United States of America and its people? Why are you allowing a small fraction of special interest groups to block oil drilling and construction of new refineries? Global warming is a sham. The most respected names in science say it doesn't exist. Drilling in ANWR will put the world on notice that we will no longer have to depend on foreign oil. Also, drilling will create jobs for AMERICANS! Speaking of jobs. Please pay attention to the voice and opinion of we Americans. You represent us. You took an oath. Do your job.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 2:01 PM link Dale L. | Uniontown, PA
To all U.S. Senators and members of the House; Our country is going down the tubes. What in the world ever happened to you folks acting in the best interest of the United States of America and its people? Why are you allowing a small fraction of special interest groups to block oil drilling and construction of new refineries? Global warming is a sham. The most respected names in science say it doesn't exist. Drilling in ANWR will put the world on notice that we will no longer have to depend on foreign oil. Also, drilling will create jobs for AMERICANS! Speaking of jobs. Please pay attention to the voice and opinion of we Americans. You represent us. You took an oath. Do your job.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!
Fri., Jul. 4, 2008 2:01 PM link Dale L. | Uniontown, PA
To all U.S. Senators and members of the House; Our country is going down the tubes. What in the world ever happened to you folks acting in the best interest of the United States of America and its people? Why are you allowing a small fraction of special interest groups to block oil drilling and construction of new refineries? Global warming is a sham. The most respected names in science say it doesn't exist. Drilling in ANWR will put the world on notice that we will no longer have to depend on foreign oil. Also, drilling will create jobs for AMERICANS! Speaking of jobs. Please pay attention to the voice and opinion of we Americans. You represent us. You took an oath. Do your job.This comment has been reported to the site manager. It will be reviewed and removed if inappropriate. Thank you!