John McCain Will Open Your Shores and Drill Them So Hard
Today John McCain is hangin' in California with the Governator, part of an effort to burnish his eco-credentials at a panel discussion on the environment.
Of course, it's entirely possible some tofu-eating tree-hugger will throw a vegan pie at the GOP candidate, because last week McCain announced his support for offshore oil drilling at states' discretion. That's part of an even more important effort to maybe bring gas prices down a little bit.
You'd think freeway-happy Californians would get behind this idea...
[McCain's] newfound support for allowing states to decide whether to drill offshore, announced last week in Texas, carries risk. Having spent much of his campaign trying to distance himself from the current President Bush and Republican orthodoxy, McCain has now changed his tune to theirs on a hugely symbolic issue that has long helped motivate the independent voters whose support he needs to claim the White House.
Diana Cuttrell of Santa Barbara is one of them, and she fiercely opposes McCain's new stance.
"It's not going to solve the problem," she said of McCain's proposal to lift the federal moratorium on sea drilling. "It's a Band-Aid, basically. It's just pretty idiotic."
Okay, Diana Cuttrell of Santa Barbara. So I guess if you ever wind up in the hospital with six broken ribs and a gaping head wound, you'll just turn down a Band-Aid when someone offers you one.
It's so weird how some people refuse to let you help them.
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To respond to the masses about my comments on John McCain and his philosophy on oil drilling off the coast of California...I still stand by my opinion, that [drilling] is not an answer to this country's problem to our dependency on foreign oil sources.
My point was ignored in the LA Times article and I was incorrectly quoted. My point was, our country needs to find alternate sources of energy (i.e. wind power, hydroelectric power, geothermal, Solar power) Sources of energy that are renewable, not sources that are limited. We need to be on the cutting edge of this research, it is the next great technological industry since the IT industry. We need to move beyond being dependent on a resource that is limited / and or controlled by other countries; to a country who is controlling it's own destiny, and on the cutting edge of technology. We certainly have the intellect, the tenacity and the resources to become independent of foreign price control of the cost of a barrel of oil. Look at what happened today. Saudi Arabia is cutting back production to keep oil prices at their current levels, and all Russia has to do is close their pipe line (what would happen to Europe?) We are an intelligent nation, we can figure out alternate methods of energy, we can become less reliant on an energy source that is non-renewable. So, drilling off the coast of California only will provide a temporary band aid to the inevitable dilemma we face as a Nation. FYI...I sold my SUV in May of 07, before any gas glut, I drive a small compact car, not a Lexus, and yes, if I had to go to the hospital, I would accept a band aid. But, this [oil drilling] is not a band aid... we will not see a benefit from drilling for years....and then all we would get is only a small benefit. America wake up.... and start seeking sources of alternate energy... dc
I would call this a Coalition of the Drilling!
McCain is trying to win Bush's big oil cronies.
British Petroleum Estimates
Oil Production 2006: United States - 8%, OPEC - 42%.
Oil Reserves 2006: United States – 2.5%, OPEC – 75%,
Hmmm, I’m guessing that even if the United States tapped every single oil field within its boundary and pumped like mad, Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC nations would be able to set the price of oil where ever they want it.
Drilling offshore of Alaska or California is risky in itself-they're both earthquake prone. But McCain and the rest of the GOP seem to think "earth"quakes are just on land...
Meaning "only relatively" small amounts of crude will ruin the beaches, the flora and fauna, after a major earthquake, as they told us after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
And even IF offshore drilling were allowable in those and other areas of our nation's coasts, we wouldn't see any benefits until our oil reserves were used up! WTF?