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Originally Posted by sailaway21
You no doubt missed my post calling for an increase in the gas tax. You'll be not surprised that I still favor domestic drilling and so am in favor of opening ANWR and the nearby offshore drilling areas for lease. Aside from the revenues generated to a broke Treasury, the oil companies would then be in position to drill when it becomes economically feasible. Which is something they are uniquely positioned to know.
Mr. Chavez has his own problems, remarkably similar to those internal problems of Iran, that will not be materially aided by his new found relationship with Russia who has her own issues of no little weight. We all might have different attitudes were Israel to be our neighbor or, more importantly, were we living where Israel resides.
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And who is going to pay for your domestic drilling? You?? The American Tax payer? The oil companies when their profits have imploded? Right.
A recruiter friend of mine that works oil and gas said over 3/4 of the projects for domestic drilling have been canned. ALmost ALL of them are put on hold. You can favor it all you want but unless you are willing to pick up the tab for the difference in cost of importing versus drilling here, it flat is not going to happen. We will import from overseas until we are right back in the same situation we were in a year ago. How do we fix that - legislation. How else?
So if you are going to push forward with drilling wells that are not profitable for the sake of getting ready should the next gas hike to come, then please explain to me again why you would not push that same legislation (or tax benefits) towards pursuiing an energy plan that is sustainable and will get us off of oil long term!???
This is the time to act. Now. Build wind, solar, nuclear. Build it while energy is cheap and you are NOT in a crunch. Position yourself now while oil and gas prices are not restricting our growth and future. Hey... if you want to creat more jobs on the infrastructure, do it here. AND GET AWAY FROM DRILLING HERE. THere is no oil and no immediate benefit anyways.
What say you, Sway???
- CD