New Permits For Even Shallow Water Gulf Drilling Suspended

Federal government halts new drilling in Gulf of Mexico

nola.com changed the previous article i posted

Just wait till the gas price at the pump soars. They will change their story pretty quickly.

Hope youre right ERSTER but I dont think so. Odrama will use this as an opportunity to push his agenda o n alternative energy. Mainly at La's expense IMO

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an opportunity to push his agenda on alternative energy.

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so this disaster hasn't convinced you that we should make more of an effort to move off of oil?

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he is going to use this to get La, Texas, Miss, and Alabama to vote for his cap and trade. this move is political and nothing more.

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Correct

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so this disaster hasn't convinced you that we should make more of an effort to move off of oil?

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It doesn't change the fact that we don't have any reliable alternatives right now or for the foreseeable future. Oil and gas are the best solution to energy demand for the present. Because of the limited nature of wind, solar, geothermal, and other alternative energy we are going to need all the sources we can possibly harness in the next few decades. Add in that ethanol is a joke and is arguably worse for the environment when spilled because it will penetrate groundwater and the solutions are limited even further. Stopping oil drilling now is only adding to the problem.

Apparently this administration doesn't know its arse from a hole in the wall. They don't know what they're doing.

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but alternative energy should be on everyone's agenda now. We really need to step up the effort to replace oil

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1. Tell to that Kennedy's and their rich liberal friends who for years have blocked the development of wind farms off of Cape Cod because it would ruin their "view".

2. In theory you are correct, but do you KNOW the economic costs of forcing this before its ready? Well, I guess given the proposed bans that are likely to come, we'll get to see it. But name me one other time in history that a government has forced such a large societal change? Markets and economics, shaped by the government, but if the market isn't ready (and it isn't), its not going to happen just because some yahoo from Hawaii says so.