Is the coast clear?

[Guns Guns Guns]

Looks as if the GOP thinks so.

They're going back to "drill, baby, drill".

Obama insisted in his radio and Internet address that the best answer is a long-term drive to develop alternatives to fossil fuel.

He also renewed calls to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies. "Instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy sources," he said, "we need to invest in tomorrow's."

Republicans contend that high gas prices are the inevitable result of an administration they accuse of stifling domestic drilling, and which placed new curbs on offshore exploration after last spring's disastrous BP oil spill.



http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlZcVqPR01GG9xtKiVuNKeGMdsFw?docId=20dbb0e5d9544175a27b08f773f6255a

 

[WinterBorn]

Since BP was guilty of numerous violations prior to the spill, is completely stopping domestic drilling the answer?

Perhaps doing actual inspections and stopping oil companies from violating environmental laws while drilling would be a better answer?

 

[Liberty]

Drill, Drill, Drill.

I hope Obama keeps the ban though.

I'd like to see him have as bad a defeat as Carter did.

The only problem is we usually always get an even worse Pres. then the one we're replacing. That's been the case in my lifetime.

 

[Liberty]

News flash: the ban was lifted a while ago.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...p-water-drilling-ban-fails-to-win-praise.html

The lack of progress is attributable to oil companies dragging their feet on meeting tougher safety regulations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576050451696859780.html

Try to keep up.

Keep up with what?

Obama has done just about as much to stop drilling as he can.

You don't see that?

 

[Liberty]

You need to learn how to read.

Dick!

 

[Liberty]

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You really and truely don't understand what i said. Do you.

This explains a lot.

 

[Liberty]

So, break it down.

What did



mean?

For you?

I already did.

 

[WinterBorn]

Absolutely.

Post a link to the GOP's proposal to require inspectors to perform actual inspections and stop oil companies from violating environmental laws

I didn't say the GOP had any such proposal. I did not start spewing partisan nonsense. I asked a simple question?

 

[WinterBorn]

I see dumb people, with you at the head of the class.

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Didn't you just say you hoped Obama keeps the drilling ban?

So if we disagree with a ban on drilling we are in the KKK? wtf? Kinda of a leap in logic there, wouldn't you say?

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

So if we disagree with a ban on drilling we are in the KKK?

Now you get it, WB. Glad you've seen the light of logic.

 

[Lowaicue]

Since BP was guilty of numerous violations prior to the spill, is completely stopping domestic drilling the answer?

Perhaps doing actual inspections and stopping oil companies from violating environmental laws while drilling would be a better answer?

I think you mean: BP, Transocean, Haliburton, Cameron were guilty, etc.
Come on, get it right. One finger pointing away, three fingers pointing back.

 

[WinterBorn]

I think you mean: BP, Transocean, Haliburton, Cameron were guilty, etc.
Come on, get it right. One finger pointing away, three fingers pointing back.

Ok, I didn't intend for the regulations to be enforced for only one company. But, for the sake of clarity, I accept correction.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Now that the short bus has apparently picked up Libertard and stopped (temporarily, I'm sure) his attempts to derail another thread, let's continue.

"...months after the Obama administration lifted its ban on drilling in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, oil companies are still waiting for approval to drill the first new oil well there.


Experts now expect the wait to continue until the second half of 2011, and perhaps into 2012.


The administration says it is simply trying to enforce new safety rules adopted in the wake of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 workers and set off the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

...lengthy delays in reviewing new permits have caught the industry off guard.

When the Obama administration lifted its ban on deep-water drilling on Oct. 12, many experts had expected a few permits to be issued before the end of 2010, followed by a gradual ramp-up of activity this year.

Among the new rules: Companies must hire outside engineers to certify key well-safety equipment and subject the gear to more rigorous tests.

They require more worker training, more documentation and detailed plans of how they would respond to a worst-case well blowout."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576050451696859780.html

let's make sure we're clear on this......we had rules......the problem occurred because people didn't comply with the rules.....so the solution is to create more rules?.....maybe the solution would be to enforce the rules we already had....