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DISTURBING: Domestic Drilling Pollution Pictures

If they aren't a deterrent to Domestic Drilling then they ain't one.

They own the oil companies that are profitting off of all of this. They don't care that they're getting it from people less fortunate than them.

Come on, are you driving a car? if so, aren't you using the same Saudi oil as the Republics?

But if you do not drive a car, then more power to your feet..

But if you are? how do you know what oil are you using?? How do you know where your gas is being produced from? US Crude, or Saudi mud..

Something to think about.. At least before you say the Republicans love Saudi Arabia.. so when you using your car or other gas running device. than think.. Your gas is saudi oil.. so maybe you do love them as well...  {8^)

Mightily.

keeping the oil in the SPR isn't actually that bad of a political move NOR that bad of a rhetorical move. Take a look at commodity prices today and you'll see that oil has edged downward a couple bucks once again. Releasing a large amount of oil into the market all at once will not encourage further decreases in pump price over time, because people won't be as willing to conserve their gas consumption.

The market corrects itself by raising prices on scarce commodities. If the price remains high for long enough, people will start to demand less of the commodity and the price will fall - and in large part, that's why the price of a barrel of oil has fallen over the last couple weeks. Global demand is decreasing on account of the steep increase in price. That's real 'market moderation.'

That's why the Republican's plan to increase drilling is a more long-term solution to the problem which provides for market stability in the short term. Chances are, people will get more upset if gas prices dip by a dollar tomorrow only to rise by two dollars next week. That's what releasing oil from the SPR would have done. . . .caused an artificial increase in the amount of oil available in the market which would stop after a period of time. Cue the speculation (which happens in order to control the instability in the market) - releasing oil from the SPR would be a political blunder for anyone who undertakes to act upon it.

Incidentally, I don't think we should be putting more oil INTO the SPR - but releasing it would simply inflate the market availability of oil in the short term without enabling any sort of long term correction. Unless Pelosi, Reid and Co. really believe that sustainable energy is going to make a breakthrough in the next 6 months (and I'm not willing to take that bet). . . .

improving in key battleground states is because he talks about more drilling.

I think I'll make a commercial that says this. I'm not really up too much on this but do you think this will still be getting discussed in a month? Two months?

you phrased it!

From this point on, any time any Republican whines about oil, s/he should be slapped down HARD with this.  That oil was paid for by every one of us and we'll be paying for it again at the pump.  It's ours and we need it, not just for our cars but to send a signal that we aren't going to just sit around a wait for Jesus.  Then we need to get on the stick and do something that will really help in the long run.  What a bunch of fools!

To the first 527 to use this script in a TV ad, word for word.

No one will develop long-term solutions while energy is cheap. It simply won't happen. (See the presidency of Clinton, Bill for evidence).

Back in the 70's, the "hippie tree-hugging environmental whackos" told everyone that global oil production would begin to run out in 30-40 years.  Everyone laughed at them.

Nobody's laughing now.

The era of cheap oil is over.  It's time we understand that.  Oil prices will NEVER EVER go down to what they were.  Ever.  No matter what we do.  Production has peaked, the oil is almost gone, and it takes 250 million years to make more of it. We can drill everywhere on the entire goddamn planet, and it won't help us -- there simply ain't that much oil left.

It's long past the time when the American public should realize that.

Either we adapt, quickly, to a post-oil economy, or we go under.

The choice really is that stark.

The SPR (created by Jimmy Carter, interesting how the goplets forget to mention that) is a hedge against major disruptions in the oil supply. It's not there to moderate price bumps.

Conservation would open up supply and move prices much faster than draining the entire SPR. If Bush-league was interested in lowering prices, they'd be flooding the radio waves conservation-minded PSAs.

though.

...  In original post the smallest decrease in prices was 9%. At the rate I'm paying that would be $4.50/gallon * 0.09 = $0.40/gallon.  That's a reasonable amount.

And if it is 33% lower, well that's $1.50 PER gallon.  That's a considerable chunk of change. I can buy my kids a nice toy for the price I save on filling up.

We're in a major inconvenience, which is well short of an emergency.

This is a common sense measure against futures speculators who have been driving the price higher.  It works.  Sadly, the GOP want high prices and instead propose bullsh*t like more drilling.

And when it happens, do the SPR really mean a thing because how long will it last?

The Pentagon doesn't care if we can drive our cars or heat our homes in the winter.  That's not what the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for.

It's there for the MILITARY.  The name is entirely accurate, and is no mistake.  The US military, like everyone else's in the world, is entirely utterly absolutely completely dependent on oil.  Every jet that flies, every naval task force that leaves harbor, every tank that rolls, every Hummer that speeds along, is utterly dependent on gas.  No gas, no military.

The SPR is there for one purpose -- it is to give the US military enough in reserve so that "if the supply of oil is interrupted" (i.e., if the Arabs refuse to sell us gas again), we have a sufficient supply on hand here to supply the military long enough to invade some oil-producing country and let us TAKE their gas.

And given the situation in the Middle East with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, if you think the military is gonna let us use their gas reserve to drive to work, you are deluded.

Someone here making sense..

a desperation move to get "Insane" McCain votes by starting a war on Iran?

At that point, we'll need some of that SPR oil and rationing, since oil will NOT be coming through the Strait of Hormuz.

I cannot believe Obama's website doesn't mention a single thing -- not a theory, nothing -- for helping gas prices in the short term.  All the long-term 2030/2050 stuff he talks about is great, but we ARE going to lose in November on this issue if we don't get our act together.  McCain's drill-now plan is, of course, a scam, BUT it sounds a hell of a lot better than "well, lets improve emissions standards so in 2050 cars cost less."  What!?!?  And how many more old people have to die because they can't afford heat?  Or people starve because food prices have doubled?  As an Obama volunteer, I hear "Obama's alright, but I can't afford this gas" ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME.  Fix this, now.