offshore drilling? Options

[brooklyneast05]

offshore oil drilling is the hot topic at the moment it seems. are you in support of it or are you against it? why or why not? is offshore drilling the answer to our energy crisis?






i'm not really in favor of lifting the ban on it because i don't think it's the answer. i don't think it's going to help that much. i think we need to move away from not only foreign oil dependency, but oil dependency in general. i know a ton of people are in support of it, but i really only think they are because they somehow believe that this going to make their gas cheaper. i don't think this will significantly decrease gas prices.

[coconutter]

I agree, offshore drilling is not the answer because it's not going lower gas prices. I did hear McCain's recent speech about how which basically summarized said, we can't just pull out of the oil crisis because you need oil to pull out of it and resort to other energies, and anyone who thinks otherwise is inexperienced or has been lied to. I agree with that, but it doesn't mean we have to resort to offshore drilling. If we were to try and ween off oil we could use what's left of our land sources to do so. I'd say the faster we lower our dependency on oil, the better off we are.