Most Democrats in the federal government are Republican doppelgangers with surgically enhanced testicles.

Drill, drill, drill.
But what happens after 2025 or 2030 when most of the oil is gone and what’s left is 15-20 dollars a gallon and natural gas costs 1500 dollars a month to heat your home! And no amount of oral sexual favors will permit you to heat your house with oil.

The time to start is now! the people will follow if someone is bold enough to lead.

Hell, we followed shrub for almost seven years before we wised up and called bullshit. how hard could it be?

The democrats in congress simply heard the American people. The polls show that about 70% of Americans support offshore drilling. Question do you thing that the democratic congress should support a policy that 70 % of Americans oppose.

As for the question of solar, read the Nov 06 issue of popular Mechinics. Popular Mech. calculated the cost of America converting to solar power at $ 28 Trillion. Yes that trillion with a T. I hate to break it you but Americ does not have that kind of momey.

Newsflash for everyone - this is nothing but a symbolic victory. One I would have rather not witnessed, but that was before our entire economy finally started to collapse. If this is such a great thing for the repubs why are we reading it in a UK newspaper?

Geez, stop the pity party and “nut up”!

So what if the oil companies have their freedom to drill wherever they want - for now. Guess what? They won’t spend the cash it will take to actually do it.

What would have just a few weeks ago fired up the speculative markets is now kind of a moot point - world economies are in trouble, and it’s kind of a hollow victory at best. 

We anti-neocons have bigger fish to fry. And that is to keep John McCain from getting into the White House. Period. Anything else we can deal with.

Once again… this oil, if it actually is extracted, would be sold on the world market. It is not going to be - nor has it ever been “to make America energy independent.” The only way to make US energy independent is to reduce our use of oil products (ALL OIL PRODUCTS) by 75%.

I’m not holding my breath.

Considering that we are about to be a bankrupt country the oil companies that extract that oil, at our ecologic expense, can then sell it to China or whoever has the cash. Who gives a shit about those stupid Americans. Couldn’t they see this coming?

Some of us did and have been yelling about it for years only to be laughed at and scorned as alarmists!

the end of America. He is so close to death and a Sarah Palin presidency makes Dumbya look good.

If America truly wants to be independent of foreign oil, reestablish its economic dominance, and lead the world to the path away from global warming, then we must fully commit to developing 21st century alternative renewable clean energy technology now rather than be sidetracked waiting till oil is about to run out or the earth is ready to run us all off of it.

We can not afford to delay transitioning to a clean energy-based economy simply because the longer we take the much longer the world will take to stop emitting hydro-carbons into the atmosphere. And the world will not stop until we can offer it a lower price clean energy alternative to burning oil. Clean renewable energy will be the foundation on which the most viable 21st century economy is built.

We need to innovate the future not stagnate in the past doing the same old things like drilling for oil. Weaning ourselves off of oil will be a short-term costly problem giving way to our long-term greater prosperity.

It is a challenge we have no choice but to meet.

Drill Here Drill Now is the Bridge to No Where

I beg to differ. The dimmos had no spine left to turn in.

How do we know that running the economy into the ground wasn’t part of the plan to slow support for green technologies, place it on the back burner for our old friend the drill?

Nobody in debt up to their eyeballs is going to worry about putting solar panels on their roof, or turbines in the back yard, or hybrid cars.

One positive about drilling everywhere, the faster we pump all the oil, the quicker it will go away!
And hey, it’s probably too late for the climate anyway. Or should I say, it’s too late for western civilization, in a million years or so the climate will be just fine.