Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer: Restore the Moratorium

[Beauty hunter]

Please sign the petition in post # 1. So far, there has only been approx. 300 views. We need to swamp this platform with signatures. We need to flood every avenue against drilling to stop this destructive form of energy use. Step up to the plate and speak. Thank you. Every step in this direction is one step closer to victory, don't give up. Oil floods must be stopped and new, safer energy alternatives MUST be implemented.

 

[Dylan]

Bump

Do what's right!

 

[30ashopper]

Bump

Do what's right!

I don't support the moratorium because I don't like buying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela. The more domestic production the better. What's "right" is the opposite of what this site is suggesting. It's knee jerk, and short sighted.

 

[scooterbug44]

We won't stop buying foreign oil because we focus on domestic oil. It still feeds the addiction.

We have to change our dependence on oil - both foreign and domestic.

 

[Dylan]

I don't support the moratorium because I don't like buying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela. The more domestic production the better. What's "right" is the opposite of what this site is suggesting. It's knee jerk, and short sighted.

I think our continued dependence on oil is knee-jerk and short-sighted. We are too smart a people to continue to rely on and deplete fossil fuels. Not to mention drilling in Gulf is not going to curb our dependence on Middle East crude.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I don't support the moratorium because I don't like buying oil from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela. The more domestic production the better. What's "right" is the opposite of what this site is suggesting. It's knee jerk, and short sighted.

Why don't we just buy more from Canada and Mexico, our largest two sources of imported oil, and figure out a way to do with less fossil fuels in the meantime?

 

[30A Skunkape]

love it

 

[scooterbug44]

Why don't we just buy more from Canada and Mexico, our largest two sources of imported oil, and figure out a way to do with less fossil fuels in the meantime?

Saudia Arabia recently passed Mexico as our #2 foreign source and Mexico is not too happy with us right now about the whole Arizona kerfuffle - they even issued a "travel advisory" to try and hurt the state economically and make them reconsider.

 

[30ashopper]

Why don't we just buy more from Canada and Mexico, our largest two sources of imported oil, and figure out a way to do with less fossil fuels in the meantime?

Why don't we do that, plus, produce more domestically, invest in alternatives like nuclear and solar, and cross our fingers and hope that some day electric cars like the volt become cheaper, less *fugly*, more efficient, and do zero to sixty in six seconds. ;-)

If we don't want to do as much drilling in the gulf, lets open up areas like ANWAR where oil spills aren't an issue.

(Queue the responses from envormentalists and teddy kennedy's ghost: NO to nuclear, NO to ANWAR drilling to save the polar bears, NO to solar farms because it hurts pack rat habitats, NO to wind farms because it hurts the birds and wrecks the view.. etc.. YES to, well, YES to.. nothing. Everybody should just stop using so much oil.)

 

[scooterbug44]

What is so unrealistic about me wanting us to:
1) use both existing and future technology to use less energy
2) have each of us work to conserve energy
3) shift a percentage of our energy from oil to solar and wind power?