Do You Favor Offshore Drilling?

[Parche]

Poll question: Do You Favor Offshore Drilling?

[elocs]

1. What an interesting poll to take at DU. I wonder what the results might ever be?

:shrug:

[OHdem10]

2. Ido not favor Off-Shore Drilling, but I accept it as a necessary "evil"

for the next few years as hopefully we transition to other
forms of energy.

[taterguy]

3. Why not just make a concerted effort to conserve?

We waste a lot more gas then we'll ever get offshore.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

4. Concur

I would ask - Do You Favor Offshore Drilling COMPARED TO WHAT ?

• Compared to "resource wars" (See Michael Klare's books on resource wars) -- Yes
  
• More nuke power - Probably
  
• Ethanol fuel -- No, even though Shell Oil funded Professor David Pimentel disagrees.
  
• Algae based fuels -- No, even though BP and GE have the controlling patents.
  
• Solar -- No.
  
• Changing our life style to a more urban life style --- THIS IS THE WAY TO GO! (See Christopher B. Leinberger.
  

[Charles Pikowsky]

17. Why is it a necessary evil?

Senator Bernie Sanders estimates that, " if we opened all offshore oil reserves to drilling, by 2030 Americans would save only 3 cents per gallon of gas." http://www.greenlaborjournal.org/cleantech/freedom-from-oil-spills

[frazzled]

5. I think any vote should be accompanied by a pledge ...

A pledge to own no more than one car per family; to reduce driving; to purchase an alternative fuel, clean emission vehicle if and when you need a new car; to carpool; to use public transportation when available; to turn your thermostat up in the summer and down in the winter; to insulate your home; to eat locally and sustainably as much as is practicable; to work to get a comprehensive energy bill passed ... we could go on.

We can rail against drilling (and I certainly do), but unless we change our behavior, our railing is just empty posturing.

(For the record, mr. frazzled and I own a single car (a hybrid Prius) and drive it fewer than 7,000 miles per year. We walk, take the train or bus most of the time; we try to watch our heating and cooling consumption and to eat fairly sustainably. Not that we're saints, but what we do seems fairly easy to us.)

[stray cat]

8. And to fight for higher taxes on energy and to not gripe paying more for oil

and any consumable such as food that requires shipping or transport

[TheKentuckian]

6. Thank you for saving me an OTHER: by having the appropriate response as an option

FUCK NO NIMBY BABY!

It's an open market, let's drink everyone else's up while we transition. Its of almost no measurable benefit for us to take such risks in light of our meager supply.

[stray cat]

7. I favor more reliance on foreign oil and higher energy prices

in other words I say no to offshore drilling

[taterguy]

11. Offshore drilling has a neglible impact on prices

And there are other ways to lower reliance on foreign oil

[Charles Pikowsky]

18. Do you having a source comparing how energy prices will be lower

And I'm not talking about two cents. I'm talking about a real difference, if we conduct offshore drilling.

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[calimary]

14. Too late. That idiot already has a world-class hole in her head.

I believe she was born with it.

[AsahinaKimi]

10. Not

In my life time, no.

[upi402]

12. Time for solar and wind and baterry storage

and the jobs in small business that would come.

Ah, but that would require a party not beholden to huge corporations. Wrong country, this.

[corpseratemedia]

13. are we ever going to get a high-speed rail infrastructure built

across the country?


let's do it

[Union Yes]

15. Voted FUCK NO. K&R nt.

[Charles Pikowsky]

16. I made a mistake

I voted "no" before I realized there was a "fuk no" option. Sorry.

[AnArmyVeteran]

19. Anyone caught at a traffic signal for 3-5 minutes?

If we just made all of our traffic signals smarter we could save enough oil to more than make up for ALL of offshore drilling. I'm sure everyone on this site has been stuck at lights for minutes when NO ONE else is even on the road. Have you thought about demanding your city get smarter? I have. I complain about little things like that because it is so wasteful, not only in energy, but also with our time.

[Parche]

20. how come Gorn only got 1 vote so far???

:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[JonLP24]

21. I don't think disasters like this are worth the risk

for offshore drilling.