Why won't we drill off our coast for oil ? Seriously i know the enviroment is used for a excuse but we can do it to where it would be safe and why shouldnt we ? China and other countries are already off our coast doing it .
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Ken44
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You ever been swimming at the beach in Santa Barbara? ;-)
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I have no problem with it. There's a trade off in everything we do in life.
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The problem is, most rich folks don't want to see oil derricks out of their beach front home windows.
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We should do it. These rigs would not be visible form the beaches, they want to drill 100 miles off the coast of Florida. Cuba already has plans to start drilling about 90 miles off our coast. No reason we should not be drilling off-shore We would be less dependent on foreign oil, which would reduce our trade deficit and help keep the dollar from falling further.
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Environmentalists would disagree with your statement that "we can do it where it would be safe". Deep sea drilling is inherently complex and risky, and accidents can happen despite the most stringent safety precautions. And even without accidents, such operations always leak bits and pieces of pollutants. It comes down to an optimist vs. pessimist thing: optimists say accidents are unlikely, so go ahead; pessimists say that the consequences if they do happen are too bad to risk.
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The fact of the matter is this, even if we drilled offshore, we would not be able to meet or oil demands. we would make a very small dent in it, but it would be offset by the increase in consumption. the only thing that would happen is: Oil companies would make big profits for tax write off for the exploration, and receive federal funding. about half of the oil that is found (the first coming in about 10 years) would be sold on the open market, since it is more profitable. there will probably be some long term damage from the drilling, since nobody can say how it will effect the ocean and coastal wildlife.
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Congress won't allow it. China, Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba are already doing it and in a couple of years BP and Petrobras will be do doing it. How much sense does it make to buy from strangers what they collected for nothing within sight of your own front door? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/drilling-ban-revisited/ http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=36268&print=on
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