Gulp: 51% now oppose new offshore drilling
posted at 8:21 pm on June 4, 2010 by Allahpundit
It’s a poll of adults, not registered or likely voters, but there’s no reason to doubt the trend. A Gallup poll taken last week showed a double-digit reversal in just two months between whether energy production or the environment should be a higher priority for America. A Quinnipiac poll from mid-May showed 53 percent support for continuing offshore drilling, but that was before “top kill” failed. Now, per CBS, the majority is pointing the other way.
With oil continuing to stream into the Gulf, a majority of Americans – 51 percent — say the costs and risks of increased offshore drilling are too great, according to a new CBS News poll.
That’s ten points higher than one month ago and an increase of 23 points from a poll taken in August 2008, when Republican rallies regularly broke out in chants of “drill, baby, drill.”
In the new poll, 40 percent said they favor increased offshore drilling. That’s a drop of five points from last week and 22 points from August 2008…
Americans increasingly see the oil spill not as an isolated incident but rather part of a broader problem with offshore drilling. Last month, 51 percent saw the spill as an isolated incident. That figure has now dropped to 45 percent. The percentage that see the spill as part of a broader problem, meanwhile, has increased ten percent to match that 45 percent figure.
The One’s approval on handling the spill is 38/44. Question: Is it worth putting any stock in these polls? They seem to be the purest form of public-opinion snapshots. When there’s an environmental crisis, support for drilling collapses; when there’s an energy crisis, it skyrockets. If things come to a head with Iran and suddenly gasoline’s six dollars a gallon, “drill, baby, drill” will be back to 70 percent in no time — which, er, won’t be much of a consolation when we’re paying six dollars a gallon. I guess the real question is how stable these numbers will be if BP’s containment dome works and the oil starts to trickle instead of to gush. Rough equilibrium, maybe? Pretty much every other issue is 50/50 anymore, so why not energy?
The best barometer of our new political reality isn’t a poll, though. It’s the fact that the Great Libertarian Hope and heir to the Paulnut throne is now going around saying things like, “I think we do have to have [drilling] regulations, and we do have regulations in place but apparently wasn’t enough.” No wonder Kentucky libertarians are looking at a third-party run! For your viewing pleasure, here’s his old man yesterday on Imus expressing a little sympathy for The One, who, despite promising America during the campaign that he would slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet, is now discovering that government can’t do everything after all. Click the image to watch.
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Well then I guess we know how to save the oil, let them walk.
tarpon on June 4, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Of course. This has been the worst enviornmental disaster in our history.
You think, really, people will want to continue risking this?
No way. And, btw, tarpon, at this stage? People would gladly walk, ride bikes or whatever.
That will pass, of course, but the time is totally wrong for off-shore or even on-shore drilling.
We now understand that the oil companies do not have a real fail-safe plan.
I’d suggest that this puts back nuclear energy, too.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM
You can bet that this is a crisis that will not go to waste…
d1carter on June 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Kind of a loaded question fallacy.
Maybe I missed it, but did they ask if they support ON-shore drilling? Stupid people will think these results mean that 51% don’t want drilling at all.
If the government is smart (which it isn’t) or interested in doing things right (it never is), it will allow drilling on shore. Safer, cheaper, quicker.
foucaultsvac on June 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Sad how backward it is. The restrictions that caused the spill inspire even harsher restrictions.
Count to 10 on June 4, 2010 at 8:26 PM
They’ll change their tune when gas hits 4 bucks.
RarestRX on June 4, 2010 at 8:26 PM
So when does Obama take a photo op on an off shore rig with the banner “Mission Accomplished” behind him?
Scratching his cheek with the middle finger for us, of course.
ThePrez on June 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM
I oppose all disasters! Both natural and man made! WHO’S WITH ME?? BAN DISASTERS NAO!!
/except for volcanic eruptions. They’re too cool for school
//s
Ugly on June 4, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Can’t resist taking a shot at Paul, eh? Did he run over your
dogcat?keep the change on June 4, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Do the blog world a big favor and just
Lanceman on June 4, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Yeah, polls like this are largely pointless. An interesting question would have been whether or not you support expanded on shore drilling instead of off shore.
Either way, I’ll just be happy if the oil stops flowing.
BadgerHawk on June 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM
No.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM
When gas is $5 bucks a gallon then conduct a new pol.
Amadeus on June 4, 2010 at 8:32 PM
I think he stole allahs ipad
offroadaz on June 4, 2010 at 8:32 PM
You’ll find Americans with very short-term memory when they have to pay $4 a gallon again. Suddenly oil on a beach is a risk they’re willing to take.
Just like Bush’s approval was in the 90% range right after 9/11. It’s emotion-based.
amerpundit on June 4, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Ashton Kutcher on the subject:
Ashton’s Truck (International Harvester CXT – 15k LBs, 7 MPG)
Ugly on June 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Maybe support for on land drilling will increase and the enviro-crazies support will go down.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on June 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM
I think this will turn out to be a good lesson for everyone. You can debate like mad on blogs, fuss over this or that law, but the real deal? This is the real deal.
I happen to agree with Palin. This is largely in part of the push from Dems. I look back and think how naive we all were. Like pushing oil rigs out “further” meant we were safer.
It’s really superstitious thinking. We now are a bit more realistic.
A real energy policy for the country requires people to actually understand the cost to us, including this type of disaster.
There’s a reality to be faced.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:35 PM
This poll means absolutely nothing.When gas goes to 4.50 to 5.00 per gal people will be saying (DRILL NOW DRILL HERE THERE EVERYWHERE AND DO IT QUICK )
thmcbb on June 4, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Well , the “non of the above solution” will make people starve for real.
the_nile on June 4, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Idiots.
KSgop on June 4, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Then why don’t we drill on land…?
Seven Percent Solution on June 4, 2010 at 8:36 PM
We’re ready to move into a new era. In the past, working from home was a kind of intresting idea.
Now? It’s going to be something employees demand. We can link up via computer. There is absolutely NO need to keep driving into some stupid cubicle to answer a phone.
There are solutions.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Loll sniffer alert!!!
Means squat…a majority of Americans know we need oil and want to go get it…period.
winston on June 4, 2010 at 8:37 PM
What people tell pollsters has nothing to do with what they do in the car showroom or as the gas pump.
The dustbowl was certainly worse than this oil spill. It might be that even a bad hurricane is worse than this spill.
pedestrian on June 4, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Not enough oil to invest is what I understand.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Wasn’t that the Plan and Liberal Narration that was to be
the end result!!
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 8:38 PM
I’m convinced that most people still believe that they are part of a school of fish. When one changes direction, they all follow, but ask them why, and they haven’t a clue.
OldEnglish on June 4, 2010 at 8:38 PM
This is one of those times where what you write reminds people that you live too much by the latest poll. This survey, like the other polls showing the public turning against offshore drilling, is a visceral reaction to the fiasco in the gulf. Long-term, the people realize our need for oil, and a strong case can be made that our restrictive regulations have pushed us to drill needlessly in very risky areas. As long as advocates keep making intelligent arguments (including the need for effective oversight), those numbers will turn the other way. Especially when (not if) gas prices go through the roof again.
irishspy on June 4, 2010 at 8:39 PM
I agree. Did you know why people moved to the plains and then left?
Locusts.
That’s right. Locusts were the reason people couldn’t survive on the plains.
Those who did? They ended up rich. It became the breadbasket of the world. The locusts were vanquished.
Really a story that most people don’t hear, but it’s amazing.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:39 PM
Drill baby, drill.
Learn from the accident, design better equipment, drill in shallower water. Oh, and have spill response equipment in place ahead of time.
rbj on June 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I’m saying it now. And build new refineries while we’re at it.
Jobs, baby, jobs!
Connie on June 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM
That’s rather a sweet way of saying most people are lemmings.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM
It will be cleaned up within 10 years like Exxon Valdez.
We’ll survive, people.
Now plug the damn hole.
Good Lt on June 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I’m against offshore drilling, too, and think there should be an indefinite moratorium on it.
Especially in light of the fact that we have perfectly good oil deposits CONUS and beneath inland Alaska. Why go out in the water, at all?
DRILL, BABY, DRILL!
Virus-X on June 4, 2010 at 8:41 PM
They sounded like they had a bit of success today with the cap. I’m praying.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Seeing those poor birds trapped in the muck, heck, even I’d say I was against drilling…but, then I’d come back to my senses.
Our economy is too fragile at the moment to subject it to the strain of skyrocketing gas prices again. We have to drill. It isn’t an option.
Dee2008 on June 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM
You got that right.
Dire Straits on June 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Doubtful you ‘understand’ much.
Except a keyboard.
Lanceman on June 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Over a trillion barrels of oil and it’s not enough to invest in…?
You environmentalist skirt is showing.
Seven Percent Solution on June 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Maybe we could post some pictures of dirty, starving children in Appalachia* to counter the heartbreaking photos of oil soaked birds.
*a metaphoric peek into our future if we stop drilling for oil, or mining for coal, and end up at the mercy of Hugo Chavez and his comrades.
Buy Danish on June 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Oh shoot, I won’t look at those pictures. At least we knew they were coming.
Me? I freaked out over my doggie back problem. I KNOW I’m not capable of looking at those pics.
But then, my parents had to haul me out of Disney movies, too. My father made a rule that I couldn’t go to them. I reacted too much.
Bambi’s mom still burns in my brain. :)
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Bring out your bicycles.
Wonder how fast we can get produce from California to NY by horse and wagon?
BowHuntingTexas on June 4, 2010 at 8:45 PM
No, I just don’t know the details.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:45 PM
Cmon AnninCA..ANWR is loaded with oil!
Dire Straits on June 4, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Drill baby drill.
When gas is $5+/gallon and food costs 2x normal (how do you think food gets to the store, oh yeah, trucks. And what do they run on? Oh yeah, pixie dust.
This is just so precious:
“We” didn’t think that because “we” aren’t morons. You apparently bought into it.
WitchDoctor on June 4, 2010 at 8:46 PM
The opposition to offshore drilling will mysteriously dissipate once gas is back above $4.
Pavel on June 4, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Why don’t you just join the real discussion.
I’m irrelevant. Truly.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Of course a majority opposes offshore drilling. They’re basing this on their emotional reaction to those images of birds covered in oil. Just like people didn’t wanna drill in ANWR because some imaginary caribou might get killed. But when the reality of high prices at the pump(which leads to higher costs in every sector of the economy) intrude on everyone’s lives, suddenly they’ll find the prospect of a few dead animals acceptable collateral damage.
Doughboy on June 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Thank you, and, sadly, it appears to be accurate.
OldEnglish on June 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Poll how many Americans know that stricter governmental/environmental regulations led to deeper off-shore drilling in the first place?
On-shore and on-land, baby. Drill away.
lansing quaker on June 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Any ‘real discussion’ doesn’t include your innane ‘observations.
But you can absolutely destroy an otherwise interesting thread in a heartbeat.
Lanceman on June 4, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Reason has been tossed aside for blind emotionalism and jingoistic class hatred.
Our country has fallen.
Skywise on June 4, 2010 at 8:49 PM
What is that poor creature in the picture?
Alana on June 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Why don’t you gladly walk or ride your bike off into the sunset already?
AsianGirlInTights on June 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM
If the Conservatives/Republicans can’t explain to the public why we need to Drill Baby Drill and widely publicize pics such as of Ashton Kutcher in his monster truck (above) then they don’t deserve to lead. It’s sickening having to cower and gulp at every push poll the media puts out. I’m not gulping, grow some Malkins. If we drilled in Anwar, we wouldn’t have oily Florida beaches now would we.
Marcus on June 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM
How the heck would I know that or even know if you know that?
Seriously.
I don’t think normal voters need to “get” this stuff.
We should be able to rely upon people who know.
Anyway, I still think you can look for a very BIG backlash against anymore offshore drilling, on-shore drilling, drilling period.
BP has scared the Bejusus out of everyone.
It’s definitely a game-changer.
And yeah, I do think that people will tolerate higher prices to avoid the topic.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM
When does the “Oil Spill Commission” begin? I would really like to know who is ultimately responsible for protecting our coastlines.
CTSherman on June 4, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Yeah, don’t worry, people. I’m sure that the trucks and trains can bring food and clothing to the stores in your cities and towns with pixie dust instead of oil.
Aitch748 on June 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM
At least there’s still some activity! :D
AsianGirlInTights on June 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM
That will not happen..let gas go up to $5.00 and there will be a riot!
Dire Straits on June 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM
Um, no, they won’t gladly do that. Most people do *not* live within walking/biking distance of their jobs, etc.
All of you folks that simply want oil to stop being used have not clue #1 about what happen to our economy in general, or how miserable your own personal existence would become, specifically.
These people (and many here at HA, apparently) have already forgotten what $150/barrel oil and $4-$5/gallon gas did to our already struggling economy – it turned anemic into disastrous. Increased unemployment, plummeting stock market, ever-more businesses closing their doors for good, lives and livelihoods destroyed for years to come.
Let’s not lose our minds here. I, too, look forward to a day when we have a viable alternative (ie: not wind and solar and crap that’s subject to the inconsistent whim of nature), but *until the day that said alternative is ready and able to start supporting our economy – energy for *all* of our needs (electricity, transportation, heating/cooling, etc), yes – we drill, baby, drill – ever more, ever deeper, every-f-ing-where* – and improve our ability to do so safely and ecologically as we go.
Midas on June 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM
Nah, no magic needed – those things will just be walked or biked to us, apparently.
Midas on June 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM
The jury’s still out…
Lanceman on June 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Well then you can count out the Obie gang.
Dire Straits on June 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM
And yet,PETA,and environmental Wackos are silent
as to connecting all the gut-wrenching angst of
da poor animals that have been murdered by this
Liberal Administration,and in particular,President
Barack Obama!!(sarc).
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Not sure; it’s certainly more attractive than Helen Thomas though.
Midas on June 4, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Only if it’s due to some dumb Cap-and-Trade bill. If it happens naturally?
I doubt it.
I really think we all are absolutely horrified by this.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Well said.
CTSherman on June 4, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Let the Democrats try to pass Cap-in-Trade. Hell will rain down in November!
Dire Straits on June 4, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Huh? How do we as a civilization learn and develop by avoiding the topic, bending over and …..?
3 mile island and the public outcry on that issue is why we had to rely on other energy. At least we had other energy. We don’t have a replacement for oil in my lifetime.
Electrongod on June 4, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Any chance I can fuel my suv with AnninCA cranial waste?
myrenovations on June 4, 2010 at 8:58 PM
I won’t look at the animal pictures. It’s just really way too painful, and it’s inevitable, given the extent of this problem.
I personally refuse to be a martyr here. My feelings won’t help a single little bird.
But I do think that any proactive plan on drilling is over. And maybe even nuclear energy plans.
And that is going to mean higher prices.
Buckle up. Save your pennies.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM
So,Liberals are too blame for the DeepWater Accident!!
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Letter: Democrats forced oil drilling into deep water
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The media has been placing much of the blame for the oil leak in the Gulf on BP. But the deep water oil rig was more than 50 miles offshore where water was 5,000 feet deep. What the media has not reported is that in 2008, the Democratic controlled Congress passed an Energy Bill, which restricted oil drilling to outside a 50 mile limit from our shores, a restriction proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and voted for by Senator Barack Obama.
According to a Sept 17, 2008 Boston Globe report, voters who were deeply concerned about the distressed economy and high gasoline prices pressured the Democratic majority into allowing ocean drilling. Democrats had resisted Republicans proposals to end a longtime ban on offshore drilling. But with the ban set to expire at the end of September and the November elections approaching, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shifted her stance, proposing legislation that would allow drilling as close as 50 miles from shore.
House minority leader John Boehner protested that the vast majority of known offshore oil is within 50 miles of shore and would therefore still be off-limits. But, environmentalists had pressured the Democrats to keep the drilling far offshore, fearing that an accidental oil spill would foul the Gulf’s shoreline. Forcing drilling offshore by 50 miles also forced it into deeper waters. Ironically, should a spill occur, the deep waters would make a disaster more likely, not less likely because the frigid temperatures and the high water pressure would frustrate deep sea technological attempts to stop the leak.
Certainly BP should and agrees to bear its share of the blame for the spill, but Congress and President Obama also deserve their share of responsibility as well for forcing drilling into deeper waters.
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http://montgomerynews.com/articles/2010/06/02/perkasie_news_herald/opinion/doc4c0605d3dcb24010151616.txt
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM
I’m pretty sure that would violate some law of thermodynamics
AsianGirlInTights on June 4, 2010 at 9:01 PM
… and guess what?
It’s not a mile under water…!
Seven Percent Solution on June 4, 2010 at 9:03 PM
I actually oppose off-shore drilling, too, as long as there is easy oil to get ON LAND! The only people to blame here are the environmentalist kooks and their democrat buddies.
SouthernGent on June 4, 2010 at 9:03 PM
If there is one thing I have learned the past several years, anything is possible if you have the right message and the right kind of leadership.
It doesn’t matter what this poll says nor does it matter whether this is the worst environmental disaster in history.
What matters is leadership on the part of Republicans.
If America could elect a man named Barrack Hussein Obama, if a Mosque can be built near ground zero and the Muslim community can become the new victim class in America, all within a few short years after 911, I don’t want to hear how some oil spill means America will never drill again.
JellyToast on June 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM
It doesn’t matter to most voters that it was a Dem congress who approved these wells.
We are totally, totally fed up with the entire system, and this disaster is just the “tip” of the problem.
First, we crash financially. Now, we crash environmentally.
Those of you who wish to keep plowing ahead? I suggest the nnext major disaster is probably international relatinships.
We could be in the position of real surrender here.
We’ll see.
AnninCA on June 4, 2010 at 9:05 PM
53% voted for Obama
faraway on June 4, 2010 at 9:06 PM
O/T
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Rush Limbaugh marrying Katherine Rogers!?
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM
If everyone told you you were an idiot, might you stop and think ‘Could I really be an idiot?’
You might. Would Ann?
AsianGirlInTights on June 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM
I’m guessing you understand very little about much. Under Clinton and Bush II, there was a plan and a contingency for this happening. Just not under Dear Leader. He and his boys are smarter than everyone else in the history of the world.
We don’t need no stinking contingencies.
JeffinOrlando on June 4, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Comprehensive Analysis of Offshore Oil Drilling Debat
Florida
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/26865547/Comprehensive-Analysis-of-Offshore-Oil-Drilling-Debate
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Yeah. Don’t worry when you can’t afford your utility bills. No heat. No A/C. Just remember that we’re doing it for all those people somewhere else who can’t get their $hit together. But if we reduce our lives to their level of existence, all will be well.
Once the world is one, big banana republic, the fun begins.
Look at what’s happening in Europe. It’s crashing…. again. Now it’s Hungary. No big deal, right? Wrong. It isn’t just Hungary which recently received help from the IMF, it’s their impact on Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It’s all connected, and Greece is still a problem that the media has simply tired of discussing.
AnninCA…. you are a myopic fool. You have no idea what’s going on and how it will affect your little life. Stop mewling and get educated if you can handle it. You might need prescription drugs to deal with reality.
I say drill, drill, drill. Create jobs. Flood the market with oil, screw the Saudis, Russians and Iranians. Flood the market.
If there was oil under my house, I’d tear it down and tell them to drill.
Cody1991 on June 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Yes, thank you for that. And yes we should be pounding that idea into people’s heads: that off-off-offshore drilling, way out in the middle of the ocean, is dangerous because when things go wrong, fixing them is so much harder because the well is so deep beneath the surface of the ocean that the water pressure at the well becomes a huge obstacle to stopping any leaks.
Oil wells that are on land, or offshore but still on the continental shelf, at least have the benefit that leaks are much more fixable.
Aitch748 on June 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM
If you don’t like drilling offshore, then let the Venezuelan’s( I mean Chinese and Soviet Union{ yes they aren’t independent as you think}) do it. But then drill on land but ” drill, baby , drill”… unless you’ll do nuclear, which I hardheartedly endorse
MNDavenotPC on June 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM
I’ll oppose offshore drilling too when POTUS walks and parks AF1.
ted c on June 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Offshore Engineering for Structural Engineers
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29053442/Offshore-Engineering-for-Structural-Engineers
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
They will not waste this crisis…
d1carter on June 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Yeah, well I’d rather we drill on land. Easier to solve problems when they occur. Or I suppose it would be ok if all oil rigs had new safety precautions installed.
I say we start drilling in OK, TX, AK, SD, MT, IL, etc.
Drill baby drill!
Oink on June 4, 2010 at 9:15 PM
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM
I’d say Rush is doing just fine.
CTSherman on June 4, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Congressional hearings on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Congressional_hearings_on_the_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
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http://www.eoearth.org/article/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Took the words right out of my mouth!
MCGIRV on June 4, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Gulp? I seem to recall that upwards of 60% oppose obamacare and look where that got us!
lukespapa on June 4, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Hilarious. The most environmentally conscious drillers will… stop drilling. Our slack will be taken up by people whose corporations and populations couldn’t care less and are only concerned with their national advancement. And when they have a leak like this, we’ll get to make a speech but we’ll have zero say or any real influence over if they continue or not.
And no, I don’t think people are ready to walk or stop using plastics. Like Gore, they’re ready for everyone else to, but not themselves. If not, they’d already be walking to Whole Foods and choosing to stay at home instead of flying to hip destinations from the Travel Channel episodes they DVRd on their new TVs and they’d be overall refusing to buy new plastic crap. But they won’t. They’ll demand laws as a substitute for their own willpower, knowing that they’ll only feel better when everyone else has to quit driving the vehicle they choose and subsidizing failed green energy models even more because it’s the “right” thing to do.
If only the ones who were concerned would put their money where their mouths were we wouldn’t have the demand/problems we currently have. Stop driving, oil demand decreases. Funny how that works, eh?
rogerb on June 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM
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I’d say Rush is doing just fine.
CTSherman on June 4, 2010 at 9:15 PM
CTSherman:I fully agree,he has a hectic schedule,so its
kinda rough on the relationship,I hope it works!:)
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM
I’m not opposed to drilling, but seeing those birds covered in oil makes me cry. I have a soft spot for animals.
rising21 on June 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM
canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM
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Oil wells that are on land, or offshore but still on the continental shelf, at least have the benefit that leaks are much more fixable.
Aitch748 on June 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Aitch748:Ya,they have to get in closer,at least to a safe
diving depth,here is another link,from a previous
thread!
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Here’s my question: Why were we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place?
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Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000 feet and more), in part because environmentalists have succeeded in rendering the Pacific and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-limits to oil production (see map above).
And of course, in the safest of all places, on land, we’ve had a 30-year ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So we go deep, ultradeep — to such a technological frontier that no precedent exists for the April 20 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.”
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/05/28/why-are-we-drilling-5000-feet-in-the-first-place/
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canopfor on June 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM
It is this short-sighted emotionally charged thinking that got us Obama.
Obama has failed the BP test. Neither Bush or McCain would have left it go this long. Obama is a joke of a leader.
CWforFreedom on June 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM
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