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Lifting The Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Would Be A Good Idea For Our Economy.
Gas prices are really high and we need to do more research before we use alternative sources. So in the meantime we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The economy is the most important issue right now, so we need to fi8x our oil industry. So I think Offshore oil drilling is reasonable. If we don't, we will suffer a bad economic crisis.
 JoeCool  27 Jul 2008 20:53
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The enviro risks are small and the reward is not much bigger but I say do it anyway.
 
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If it's only for our economy i will be in it.
Because of high gas prices the people shopping has been decreased. When you earn 500dollar a month and you pay 350 for gas and you only have 150 left. Then you pay 100 dollar in your water,insurance and etc. Then you only have50 left then you need to eat. So what?
Nothing left for the person.
NOT MANY PEOPLE WILL BUY STUFF. THEN THE STORES WILL BE IN BANKRUPT. THEN MANY PEOPLE LOSES JOB.
 
 edhardy  13 Aug 2008 05:28
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I agree that we need to do more drilling to lower the prices of fuel and that this will help while we look for other fuel sources. I see that rbetan did not carefully read the debate as tyhe biggest point was that we will end up in the same boat. Some people need to read more than just the headlines.
 
 boy2girl31  28 Jul 2008 06:39
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Gas prices are going up because industry experts are worried about a shortage in the near future. If legislation was passed that would open up more areas for drilling, then there would be much less concern about shortages and gas prices would fall. That would have a huge impact on the economy (in a good way) because gas prices were largely responsible for the economy going south in the first place.
 
 ur_wrong  27 Jul 2008 22:53
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The problem with gas is that it is the worst case scenario for the consumer.

The demand is sure to increment in the future.
The supply is sure to diminish in the future.

So even if we drill our way to hell to find all the gas that we can possibly find under our earth, we will still be stuck at the same historical moment in another point in time in the future.

Oil will not reproduce and have little baby oil molecules okay, it will run the bleep-out.

So why risk it!!! Why risk having other environmental problems if we will run into the same problem in the future, not enough oil, to many people wanting the little oil that is left.

The alternative is to INVEST and EXPLORE other technology; Solar power, hydro cars, wind energy,,,,

The answer is to invest in Scientific Research and education.
 
 rbetan  28 Jul 2008 04:43
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 What do you propose we do till we find a better source of fuel?
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 28 Jul 2008 06:35
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Ive considered this a lot and i mean a lot.
Your point went through my mind a lot and this is what i figured. The way your idea would work is would be to make all pedestrians who are within biking distance of work to take bikes, maybe mass government handout, and reserve gas for only economy and military reasons or else we will just run out again and if we run out again before we figure out a new source then were stuck to a crawl for a while.
 
 Smito  28 Jul 2008 04:31
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 Unfortunately there are a lot of people who are not able to walk or bike to work, that's the problem, we must invest in mass transit.
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 31 Jul 2008 23:49
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