Drilling in the Artic, Obama?

Question

says no, McCain says yes. I've paid close attention and I'm now pretty convinced that McCain will indeed be McSame. Please, I'm truly looking for insightful thoughts. I realize this is but one issue but for me it's a huge one. How do you now feel about McCain vs Obama. As of now, I will be voting for Obama. Please no spam calling me names. Just how you feel on the subject. Thank you and remember, you may change my mind with intelligent logic.

Answer 1

If you truly want to look at the issue independently, consider this;

1) Every day we delay drilling in our own territory for the oil that lies beneath it is another day we are guaranteed to be giving money to those oil producing governments that mean to do us harm and to bring down the USA. While Canada is our #1 importer of oil to this country, the percentage of oil import money that goes to hostile governments is far greater than anything Canada can produce.

2) In the past twenty years, great environmental protection advancements have been made to make drilling and even nuclear power safer to the environment, yet those people who continually oppose it do not want you to recognize this fact.

3) Supporting the drilling of oil is NOT the same as denying greener technological advancement; as there is no immediate green solution available for immediate switch over, then oil is still a necessity.

4) Even some of the greener technologies (wind, hydro) have been opposed by environmental activists on the grounds that a few birds or fish may die. While I appreciate their conscience, such actions make us even MORE dependant on oil from foreign sources.

To me, if you do not support the utilization of the resources that lie in our territory, you wish to keep us in the Middle East far longer than any war started by President Bush.

Answer 2

There is no easy answer to your question.



I have seen the movie by Al Gore concerning global warming and agree with the theme but am not convinced that by not using our resources this would help.



If the whole world would take global warming to heart there may be a chance for a change. China and India are the world's greatest population and these couturiers have not the means or the desire to change agendas.



I don't think John McCain will be the same as George W. Bush and my family are voting for the Republicans for the first time.



We have always been Democrats in our family but the Democratic party has too many negative issues .



I think we should drill in the Arctic and anywhere we can find oil as the use of alternative fuels is not going to be there when we need them. It will take a long time as we have known of this crises since WW II ended that there was going to eventually be a shortage. Why has the world not done something sooner and wait until the 11 th hour?

Answer 3

Obama like the rest of the Democratic party wants high oil prices to curtail consumption. That is a fact. Obama and the Democratic party seems to care less about the high oil prices are killing the American economy than getting back at Bush. In fact, many would suggest that's exactly what the Democratics want....to hurt the economcy to gain political position for election. I guess they think we are all stupid.



The blame for the current state of affairs is purely the failure of our political system. This country was put on notice in the 70s with the oil embargo. Since then every Senator, Congressman, and President has done absolutely nothing to prepare the county for this situation. Now we really have a problem and of course the political system seems incapable of responding to what any john doe on the street will tell you is the answer. The solution lies in two phases, a in term and a long term. For the short terms 1) drill of the coast of Florida, 2) build nuclear power plants, 3) drill in Alaska, 4) stimulate alliterative forms of energy, 5) use our shale oil.



The more long term solution involves the political leadership taking the imitative to develop a program of energy independence by establishing a plan and specific target date in the future by which the county can start to make the shift from an oil based economy to some alliterative fuel in the future. In the short term what we really need is a politician with the leadership to set the county on this course of action. Sad fact is that neither Obama or McCain can do the job. Bottom line we are all going to hell.

Answer 4

There is little reason not to drill off the coast and possibly in Alaska as well. We need the oil at this point and fact is, taxing the oil companies and "forcing" them to lower prices isn't the answer. It is very possible to drill with little or no effect on the local environment, and the people of that part of Alaska would very likely be very happy to have the jobs that would result from the drilling. Yes, it's a "temporary" solution and isn't the full answer and there needs to be development of alternative fuel sources as well so that we can have those available too.



I agree with the others who talk about development of alternative sources. Guess what? Our cars run on oil and gas at this time, most industry, heating, etc., all run on OIL at this time. Those alternative fuel sources will take time for everyone to be able to not only get, but afford to get, before they can be fully utilized. Until that time we need the oil.

Answer 5

Since you mention the Arctic.

On Energy McCain is offering solutions, he is being honest saying there is no short term answer. He is saying lets drill for more oil, while keep developing more alternative oils. as well he is not saying Lets Drill, he is just wanting to lift the Ban that is on drilling. There is a law if they drill for oil on our coast it has to be subsidized. , and it has to stay in the US, it can't be thrown in the Oil soup bowl and sold every where. SO it would dramatically effect our supply.

I personally have not heard Obama come up with any idea on the problem. He only yells us, how much we are starving at our homes.



Were close to a recession, and he wants to throw money into more social programs. I do agree our health care prices suck and something needs to be done. But you don't fix every problem with money.

Raising taxes can only hurt an economy.

McCain is wanting to go through and cut spending on waste. If McCain cuts waste, and then says we need more money for social/ humane issues. Go ahead raise taxes.

But cut spending first. What's wrong with saving money, before spending money.

Another huge difference Iraq. Agree with the war or not.

We are there, and we can't desert those people and leave up for grabs between Syria, and Iran.

Answer 6

We need to do whatever we can to help get the oil cost down. We are sitting on at least 100 years of oil in our own country, why wouldn't we drill for it and become less dependent on other countries. It makes no sense AT ALL!! Sure we need to start looking at other options instead of oil but for right now that's what we need. We don't have the technology right now to run cars and trucks 100% on anything but oil. Obama is against everything but taking money from big buisness, and doing what with it exactly? Blowing it on more government socialist programs.

Answer 7

Alaska wants to drill on their own turf. This will relieve us of dependency on foreign oil . This will lower our gas prices in half. Of course this is done environmentally in mind. They plan on where to drill to not destroy habitat.



As far as McCain he is similar to Bush on a lot of policies but he also differs a lot on policies. He is more "liberal" per say than Bush. I will vote for him even though he is not the best Rebuplican candidate. Gay marriage and Abortion are MAJOR moral issues with me.



As far as Obama, I think he is an incredible public speaker, but I just cannot trust him. The kind of people associated with him are to shady. He talks big but I just don't see it being backed up.





Having a black president would be be cool but not to the point of voting him in because of that. What we need is for our country to get back on it's feet. Not make history by electing based off of race or gender. I look at a persons morals and values.



Keep in mind that majority of America supported the war and it was approved by ALL. We have a Republican president but a Democratic congress. Hence the controversy of drilling.



Tax policies I cannot say who is right or wrong. I will vote for moral values all else failed.

Answer 8

Obama and most Democrats are massively concerned about the possible consequences of opening drilling off shore and in Alaska....



Lower gasoline prices, lower heating oil prices, lower diesel prices, lower natural gas prices, lower inflation, lower food costs, lower world wide oil prices, stabilized US economy.



It would blow them and their anti-oil policies out of the water. On top of that, they would be slow to sell and pump the BILLIONS they will take from the working and successful into their own states for every Tom Dick and Harry who wants to turn cow sh*t into solar energy. They want us to wait for YEARS, maybe even decades for their "research into alternative energies" to bear fruit. WTF? THEY DON;'T EVEN KNOW IF IT WILL WORK! Like increasing the mandates on ethanol. Any idiot could have told them that burning our food would increase world food prices, pushing 3rd world countries further into starvation.



Those who coo and purr at the mention of these are buying one of those brown paper surprise bags at the $1 Dollar Store. Chances are, it's going to be a real piece of cheap junk with no practical use.



Better wake up people. Or in 2 years we will be paying $10 a gallon WITHOUT the huge taxes of Europe.

Answer 9

McCain was opposed to drilling the Arctic game refuge and opposed to close inshore drilling in the Gulph of Mexico when he was just a Governor.

Now that he is a presidential wannabee he is all for drilling and says he always was.

Anyway the wind blows, that's the way McCain goes.



The recent oil discovery in the Gulph of Mexico is deep water drilling and likely too expensive to extract anyhow.

The Arcic Wildlife Refuge is already open to drilling except for the Coastal plains and that has been explored and mapped already. The oil companies figured years ago it was not worth extracting oil and they still don't.

If they thought it was worth going there they would not be demanding it to be royalty free, and the drilling program subsidized.



Thumbs down are nice, but you true McCain believers should do a bit of research.

Answer 10

Drilling for oil offshore and in protected wilderness is not going to free us from our energy woes. Idiots like Bush, McCain, Cheney, Rice, etc...are all for big oil, that's what got us into a war we didn't have to start. Oil, money, power...it's sick. We need to invest in Wind, Solar, and Hydro. The sooner we get off the middle east's tit the better. We must become self sufficient producing our own energy for the sake of our country's survival. Vote Barack Obama in November.

Answer 11

even the native people of the arctic say it's OK to drill. I personally think we should invest more money in solar, wind etc.

Answer 12

i feel obama will change this country for the better this is why

1.he realizes that the iraq war is putting a serious strain on our military and wants to show iraqs leaders that we cant babysit there country forever.



2.obama is for the working class,he will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay and finally end the tax cut for the top 1% in this country.he also has many NEW and IN-DEPTH ways of stimulating the economy.



3.wishes to fund new renewable enrgies wich will cut down our need for foreign oil,and in the process make 100's of jobs for americans. he also HAS IDEAS to lower gas consumption,this lowering the amount you need for gas.



"The first place to start is with cars. We've got to build cars that use less gasoline. The auto industry hasn't been asked to raise fuel-economy standards in seventeen years and Republicans and Democrats seem to have stopped asking. Today, we've got no choice. Starting in 2008, we will raise CAFE standards (that's the fuel-efficiency standards on cars) a modest 3 percent a year. If we did that over the next 12 years, by 2020 passenger vehicles would average 40 miles per gallon, light trucks would average 32 miles per gallon. That's not a dramatic increase; it's easily achievable through existing technology and it can be done without compromising passenger safety. "



"Now, there are going to be transition costs involved in making more fuel-efficient automobiles, especially for Detroit, which has relied heavily on the sale of SUVs for its profits. So I've proposed what I call the "Healthcare for Hybrids" bill, where we'd strike a grand bargain with U.S. auto-makers. We tell them we're going to pickup part of the tab for the retiree healthcare costs, a tab which, by the way, ran 6.7 billion dollars last year but, in exchange, you've got to use the money to invest in transitioning to fuel-efficient cars. So that would be point number one."





Oil companies are enjoying record profits while consumers are suffering from record high gas prices. In the 110th Congress, Senator Obama has introduced the Oil SENSE Act to eliminate unnecessary tax breaks to the oil industry. A version of the bill was passed by House of Representatives in January 2007.



In the 109th Congress, Senator Obama sponsored legislation, the FILL UP Act, requiring oil companies that made at least $1 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2006 to invest at least 1% of the their total reported first quarter 2006 profits into installing E-85 pumps.



Senator Obama also worked with Congressman Rahm Emanuel to obtain several million dollars to establish the first ethanol-to-hydrogen refueling station for refueling Chicago natural gas bus fleets







4.he wishes to increase our homeland security,feels bush still isnt doing a good enough job.



5.he wants more border security,and wants to make sure employers dont hire illlegals



6.he supports are troops and wants to insure we give them what they deserve even after they are out of the military.mccain actually turned down the bill that helps troops get a good education.



a vote for obama is a vote for change.



and before you give me a thumbs down for being honest. try going to the links and looking at his plans before saying he doesnt have any.

Answer 13

you are so correct...drilling off shore and in the artic is not the answer.... we need to tax the oil companies and make them sell gas cheaper.....or drive them out of business.......



and the sooner we do it the better off we will be....



repeat after me, four more years, for more years.... four more years of Carter failures then we go pump that oil like greedy little pigs

Answer 14

Obama will win in a landslide. It won't even be close. Americans do not want a Third Term for Bush.