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  • who said it was the number one isue ma nigga?

  • Retorical BS Drilling here would create thousands of jobs and reduce our involvement in the middle east.

  • @garebear1015 until the wells runs dry.

  • That silence was more awkward than the time....wait, must stop watching family guy

  • Cenk ! Da Big Meathead ! Bringin da fratboy wizdom!

    He's Bill O Reilly! No, wait, he's Jon Stewart.

  • ZOMG. this video literally just made me horny. I can't believe I just witnessed a Democrat finally grow a set of testicles. Can he please now follow through with a little backbone where his mouth has taken him though?

  • @juscurious is going to be so happy now because the oil is freely flowing to us. It's doesn't even cost any money. Drill baby drill. Drill the ANWAR, drill outside California.

  • lmaoo

  • @ juscurious

    Actually, there are free energy technologies but our dear friends, the petrochemical industrialists bought up the patents to protect their own profits and suppressed the free energy. (google Tesla/Dr Steven Greer)

    This oil volcano is a wake up call from Mother Gaia -- we simply cannot continue to rape her a moment longer -- or we all end up as dead meat.

    She needs her oil to stay balanced and for internal lubrication.

    This is BIG and we ignore it at our certain peril.

  • @Aliba56 your sentimental call to gaia is touching... it really is. Sadly, it is pointless. I am floored to see even the "spiritual" approach is devastated by motions such as "the petrochemical industrialists bought up the patents to protect their own profits." So what! Did they beat you? Does some copyright infringement stand in the way of the spiritualists plan for salvation. For God's sake people stop following the system. They don't, they manipulate it. Turnabout is fair play.

  • @ juscurious

    Actually, there are free energy technologies but our dear friends, the petrochemical industrialists bought up the patents to protect their own profits and suppressed the free energy. (google Tesla/Dr Steven Greer)

    This oil volcano is a wake up call from Mother Gaia -- we simply cannot continue to rape her a moment longer -- or we all end up as dead meat.

    She needs her oil to stay balanced and for internal lubrication.

    This is BIG and we ignore it at our certain peril.

  • This a stupid video and the Senator's question is supid. Because drilling is the No. 1 issue facing the American people doesn't mean we shouldn't drill as much as possible. The two issues are not exclusive. Oil is absolutely imperitive for our economy and for our security. We can have neither without oil. Alternative Energy CANNOT replace oil in the short or even medium term. You cannot power a car or airplace with solar power. The Senator is being disengenuous.

  • Shale Oil... you need VAST amounts of Water to Xtract the oil + energy to do so........so.... look into what you may believe.... Bumper Stickers are for cars ...NOT your brain.

  • fuck those guys are dumb. They......are in gov't. A governing body, .....passing bills....lining pockets. Fucking......BRUTAL.

    HOW?

  • u dumbass snow in new orleans is global warming so is the fog global warming means it fucks up the weather paterns not its hot

  • Take a look at the latitude of New Orleans. The truth is that the last several years have seen cooling temperatures. During the 1970's there was a huge scare over global cooling and it turned out to be a fraud. And you didn't deal with my point that the biggest factor in global temperatures is: THE SUN. Not to mention that there are numerous other natural causes for temperature changes. Global warming is a hoax, just as global cooling was.

  • please stop being an idiot im begging

  • BTW, there are large shale oil deposits in the mid-west waiting to be tapped. Take those deposits and we will see prices go down as the supply goes up, while demand remains relatively the same. It's called basic economics. Supply goes up w/demand steady, prices go down.

  • Good job Sen. Whitehouse. That was a classic! I'll never understand these stupid "drilling is the answer" morons. GREAT video.

  • @74VDC No this isn't a great VIDEO. It''s a supid video. Because drilling for oil isn't the #1 issue for the American Public, doesn't mean it isn't important or even vital. What's the alternative to Oil? There isn't any. Wind and Solar cannot replace Oil as a transportation fuel. Can you fly a airplane on Solar or Wind? Again, this is a stupid video.

  • @juscurious So r u going to move to Louisiana and swim with the dying birds now? May 4 2010 Drill Baby Drill. Yeah!!!

  • @jsmith2007LOL Your comments are moronic. What alternative do we have to oil as a transportation fuel? Give me an example. Yes the oil spill is bad but we will get it capped and cleaned up. There is no reason to stop drilling for oil either offshore or in ANWAR. It's vital to our economy that we bring more oil to the market. Do you wish to pay$6 or 7$ a gallon for gas. You're an idiot.

  • @juscurious Yes, there is no alternative for oil-for now, but still, people do not look out for it, which makes oil unsustainable.... People are becoming very dependent on oil that oil spill happened.. Wat IF there's no more solution for that oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico? It's just that people drill so much faster than the process of nature making the oil, making it nonrenewable...... just saying.....

  • @74VDC Yea, drilling is the answer because the economy RUNS on oil. Show me an economy powered by windmills and solar panels, and I'll show you an economically depressed nation.

  • @jimbad05 not if do a FULL conversion jackass. full enegry sustainibility and an enormous flux in job creation. you are a complete moron ruled by fear and your sothful desire to keep every luxury as you know it

  • @runelord37 LOL, you're brainwashed. Green energy has a downside too. How well do solar plants work in Canada? Obama's wind power push sure has created a lot of green jobs - for the Chinese. I don't know about you, but I live in the real world where green jobs have been a fairytale for the last 3 years. What about all the birds that the windmills kill? Almost sounds as bad as the oil slick in the GOM. What about the batteries needed? There are drawbacks to everything. There is no miracle cure

  • @jimbad05 1) fuck your jobs you pathetic economic slave... you want jobs push for the finance of technology elsewhere. The environment trumps your economy anyday you selfish soul-less prick 2) More jobs for Canada and China.... Awesome! more power to em I ain't skeered 3) birds the windmill's kill? If you said that to my face I'd probably stab you and see it as a mercy kill...... assuming you are truly that stupid. Remember, your money means shit..... then you will start to think clearly

  • @mindstain75 Well, unless you want to eke out a living being a 100% self-sufficient farmer, then yea, you need a job. You need money too. It's hard to find people who will barter chickens for bicycles nowadays. To me, money means being able to pay for food, so it doesn't mean "shit" to me. I've also sent you an article confirming that windmills do in fact kill birds. It's probably beyond your reading comprehension level, but hey, I tried. Oh, and I won't even issue a death threat back to you :)

  • @mindstain75 "Altamont's turbines, located about 30 miles east of Oakland, Calif., kill more than 100 times as many birds as Exxon's tanks, and they do so every year."

    From a WSJ article. Funny how you pretend to care about nature, but then condemn anyone who points out a green energy source that seriously harms birds. Threatening me with death because I don't want more wind farms killing birds? You sound like a domestic terrorist to me.

  • @jimbad05 I stand corrected on the bird issue..... I can't believe it, but I stand corrected. I'd apologize about the whole threatening your life thing but it was sarcastic statement and I simply assumed you would take it as one. No, I wouldn't actually stab you for being stupid, that would be elitist and despicable. I do admit I would have become upset and probably said some harsh things though. I still can't believe you cited a credible source on that.

  • @jimbad05 Lets see here Birds or clean energy? Birds or saving a precious resource? Birds or better future for generations to come... It's not like these farms are wiping out entire species of birds here. I'm sure in most cases some animal comes and eats the thing... Don't be such a blade bro

  • @warieno01 Hmm.. I'm not sure PETA would agree with that. Why don't you liberals fight it out amongst yourselves. Us conservatives will keep advancing the world while you're gone.

  • @jimbad05 Conservatives advancing the world ? LOL Geeze how lame can you get the conservatives have put America so far down in the hole[ deficate] that anything would look up ! Advance , if you call making the US a third world country , I gusse you guys think just because 3 is a higher number than one it's better? LOL !

  • America sells its oil on the foreign market . drilling will not reduce our dependency on foreign oil by one drop .but this is exactly what the republicans told us during the campaign. my governor wants to drill of the coast of Florida. drill baby drill is their motto the already rich oil companies fund the republican party which has been hijacked by corporations that use these week minded religious people to push foward their agendas

  • What would you expect from the "Hot Pattie" fans of Sarah Palin???????.

  • Remember all of the stupid fuckers supporting Palin holding up their signs and yelling 'Drill Baby Drill!?Where are all of those fucking idiots now?The oil companies since then have seen a decrease in gas prices and they're intentionally NOT DRILLING TO MAKE THE PRICE STAY HIGH!! THEY'RE DRILLING AT ALL BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE PRICE GOING DOWN! Where are all of those stupid fuckers with their signs?Shouldn't those stupid fuckers tell the oil co to drill baby drill? Stupid fuckers..

  • There are at least 10 billion barrels of oil in ANWR. Does anyone want to guess what the price for a barrel of oil is going to be in 2016? A hundred dollars? Two hundred? Go ahead, keep a straight face while saying, it's only a trillion dollars.

  • Yeah, its stupid, but Sarah Palin is so Gawsh Darn Charmin don'tcha know?

  • what the hell is "TheYoungTurks" ?

  • what the hell

  • LOL!

  • all that money goes to repair roads and other essential services you nut

  • "Drill baby drill" is something you'd hear in a porno.

  • I can stake my life that i'm sure she did. LOL

  • xD xD

  • @sicktoaster

    sarah palins porno.

  • i'm sorry but a hypothetical 2%-4% increase in domestic production does NOT justify offshore drilling. It does make Exxon, BP, etc richer. This is a scam. I remember not so long ago when John McCain opposed off shore drilling because he knew it was way too much investment with little to no returns. This is an ad campaign by big oil to get you to support them raping the environment and pocketing a few billion more.

  • U.S. consumers are paying record prices for gasoline and diesel fuel, which the Bush administration blames in part on tight supplies. From 'Fast Money':

    Will the ECB Ruin Americans' Vacation?

    While the administration argues that more supplies would help to bring down prices, U.S exports of diesel fuel in April averaged 387,000 barrels per day, up almost seven-fold from 59,000 barrels a day in the same month a year earlier.

  • Recent surges in oil exports appear to contradict the pleas from the U.S. oil industry and the Bush administration for Congress to open more offshore waters and Alaska's ANWR to drilling.

  • Listen, if we start fucking going off shore and drilling all around the Gulf and in Alaska, it's just going to further the fucking problems. It's not environmentally safe, for one. And it's just continuing our need and obsession with petroleum. This problem needs to be dealt with quickly. Off shore drilling would only account for 3% more oil, and we need to invest more into green energy, like solar, wind, and safe nuclear. The more we rely on oil, the less we are truly "energy independent".

  • Maybe you should learn to read because i made perfect sense.

  • I think we should drill the hell out of the U.S. Let's drill in the school yards, the parks, the beaches. Let's exhaust all of the pittance of oil under U.S. soil as fast as possible and then be done with it.

  • The main movement behind NOT drilling for oil is that it will take lots of time, money and effort and not bring us much relief if any at all. If we put this time, money and effort behind the tried and true renewable/sustainable energy sources, we will immediately begin to reap the benefits. A coordinated effort can give us cleaner inexhaustible energy at a much lower cost and get us out of the middle east. Climate/Economy/National Security. Any reason we shouldn't at least try? Let's MOVE!

  • Nothing in what you wrote supports the argument that offshore drilling will reduce our dependence on foreign oil or reduce the price of gas.

  • i would hav said, "well lets not all talk at once here"

  • Thats funny but the only thing you haven't explained is that the earth WAS in an Ice Age, but there hasn't been when one of 10000 years, so the earth unfroze in an ice age why the fuck would it have to unfreeze no smart ass. And 2000 acres is still a lot, you mind obviliously can't comprehened magnitude, or severity.

  • You not even the least bit funny. Ok so forget about the polar bears and penguins but if the polar ice caps melt you idiot we die. And those penguins have been on this earth longer than us and now they have to suffer because are stupidity and greed. God i hate people like you so ignorant and challenged.

  • Holy crap, run for your life!

  • you can't you idiot, you'll drown a slow a painful death so laugh, joke. Keep polluting you genius

  • Run C0m3backkid! Run for your life lol!

  • Com3backkid, I feel your pain. You can't talk sense into people who either 1. don't believe in logical thinking or 2. just don't give a shit about others.

    Don't worry, there will be less and less people who don't believe in "global warming", due to this other scientific theory they equally hate, "Evolution".

  • Exactly there idiots complete and total morons, who either are scared to admit it, or are just as i said idiots.

    This is happening, so maybe its another case of expert(disagree with GW) Vs. non expert (agree with global warming.

    People Global Warming isn't warming its eratic weather paterns which could be warming but think about didn't snow at all in new jersey in december but January, Feb, and March it was like a fucking icicle, hurricanes are rapidly getting stronger open your eyes.

  • There isn't a single peer-reviewed science journal that disagrees with the global warming theories.

    If someone doesn't understand global warming and doesn't even care to learn. Then there's nothing one can do.

    The only hope we can do at this point is to educate the young properly.

  • And with a government education i doubt thats going to happen sadly you'll have to take classes in college if you want to properly learn about it.

    Maybe if Barak gets elected than we could see a change in education and a smarter better off America.

  • penguins are in the south pole dumbazz.

  • yeah, no shit.

    an ice cap is a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land. and since the south pole is covered by the antarctic ice sheet and in the polar region that would make it a polar ice cap you retard.

  • And some of those penguins are probably gay, so it's literally killing two birds with one stone.

  • PENGUIN ORGY 2008

  • Stop deining the armenian genicide!!! fucking turks.

  • So your saying that 20 million ACRES is small wow your just pathetic they can do serious damage to life on earth with 20 million ACRES, and if they get the chance to dig there, they magically they will find somewhere else. Considering i wasn't around 10,000 years ago i can't Ice Age. Maybe you can explain why tornados are increasing or why water level and water tempature is going up, OH FUCK WAIT YOU CAN'T. As for that Ice Age bull shit we aren't in one so you can't use that comment.

  • i'm yet to see a comment of this guy looking like harvey dent yet.i was waiting for someone to throw acid at the dudes face.instead they all sat stunned thinking "is aaron eckhardt telling us how to run the country?"

  • Oh, please! When did you guys ever stopped? We leased a SHIT load of land to you guys. Did you guys stop? Even if we free up EVERY federally banned area and you just magic it so there are no accidents, there is only enough oil there for 10-15 years at our reduced consumption rate, you dumbass! Every heard about the NEED to find a spot to drill that is profitable? That isn't a federal regulation, it is oil company policy. This isn't Arabia. You can't randomly stick a pipe in here!

  • In case you DIDN'T know, Gore is little more than glitter. The one that brought it up was a member of NASA in the 1980s! Which was under REPUBLICAN RONALD REGAN!

  • In case you haven't noticed, Iran helped us take down Saddam. And do you honestly think Chavez can exist without us. Unless the Russians managed to like magic like a hundred super high tech refineries, Chavez only has US to refine their REALLY REALLY dirty oil. Get a clue!

  • Oh, please! What we get from royalties is not even 40 percent. You are such a fake.

  • Obama has a really freaking long energy plan. Even FactCheck said that it is more complicated than McCain's.

  • In case you haven't noticed, Katrina and Rita caused a bigger spillage than the accident that put the ban in place.

  • Oh, now I KNOW you are bullshitting me. I just checked their site. They have eight ships ready around the globe. NOWHERE is there mention of any DRILL SHIPS. Just ones cable of laying cable underwater. I think we need PIPES down there, not cables. We are trying to get oil, not electrocute the fish! Don't reply to this comment, you fake.

  • ....and how does that help? In case you haven't noticed, the current ban covers DEEP water. Even half of the federal land given to them already is covered in WATER. No drill ships. No water based oil rigs. Unless you want to go to China and buy one of theirs at a much higher price.

  • yah, i read about it, i watched the fox news clip; its all bullshit propaganda; the frontman for the stupid movement cant even properly define global warming! furthermore, i bet he'd have a hard time actually showing those 30,000 signatures, im calling it, its all fake

  • Ofcourse this Muslim bastard from the YOUNG JURKS is against drilling. It would hurt his terrorist brothers! Fuck him and the YOUNG JURKS!

  • That article came out a day after this stupid argument popped up. The companies that are making all the drill ships and rigs ARE producing at 400 percent. However, all of it is BOOKED by nations like China and India. It will be YEARS before one frees up for us to buy.

  • so $10B and 7000 american lives is worth fucking oil? i'm glad you cleared that 1 up for me

  • my name is james. nevertheless, $10B could be better spent as i suggested. it appears reading ain't your strong suit. enjoy your suv

  • that's not my logic at all. nevertheless, bad grammar & not using a spellcheck is a far cry from a typo. you've already lost. give up

  • so you worked at a gas station. that doesn't put you on a rig.

  • Upabittoolate is correct. And thill029 is very incorrect. Firstly, drilling is not solving any problem, we're going to run out of it eventually anyway so we should ride the high prices and use it to influence innovation towards more enviornmentally efficiant fuels. Republican in power do not solve problems, they make them, lie about making them, then use stop-gap measures to "correct" them. Also, America does not have vast oil reserves. We have a ton of oil shale but that is not at all the same.

  • well put. what's wrong with weaning off of petroleum? why aren't the $10B that's being spent every month on this war going toward the technology of building more efficient cars, improving public transportation & developing alternative energy technology?

  • Who says I'm against using all energy resources. That's what they should do. All I'm saying is oil companies should drill on the land they allready have leased. They are not drilling there to keep prices high. Offshore drilling itself wouldn't do anything so would not be worth the risk of oil spills on our coastline.

    So by all means use all energy sources including drilling. Just not offshore.

  • Wow Wow Wow that was incredible - wish Mcain was there.........

  • nevertheless, there's more than 1 reason that people are out of jobs these days. if oyu think there's going to be some kind of employment spike because of drilling, you must think that gas prices will plummet too. good luck with that logic

  • suuuuuuuuure you worked on a rig. if anyone believes that, i'm selling the brooklyn bridge for the low, introductory cost of $99.99. nevertheless, name calling won't win the argument or make you correct. forests for tree cliches won't make you correct either. starting with capital letters doesn't make for bad grammar; i didn't use the shift key. so what. none of this negates the fact that you're intellectually incompetent & proved so with your own rhetoric.

  • He is a fake. He pointed me to a site, saying that they are producing drill ships. Global Marines has 8 ships around the world available...to lay down cable underwater and other cable related business. I assume it is for the sea base wind turbines. Correct me if I am wrong, but we haven't gotten to the point of digitizing oil, right?

  • well put

  • There is absolutely no conceivable logical reason why companies should be prohibited from tapping America's vast oil reserves. Anybody who thinks that they shouldn't drill must have a ruler lodged deep within their brain...

  • what's more, the premise that drilling generates more jobs is intensely stupid. if every other industry is importing labor, why do you think oil drilling is exempt, esp. if it's OFFSHORE. checkmate

  • no, it shows that you can barely communicate let alone reason beyond the intellectual developmental level of a 3rd grader

  • the fact that you can't spell the word A C R E speaks volumes about your ability to reason on a critical level let alone wage any sound argument about ecology. you're kinda dumb

  • drilling=jobs? that's preposterous.

  • Thank you for the talking point. I love how offshore drilling falls into the "do everything you can" umbrella. The notion that offshore drilling will reduce prices and help us become energy independent is a flat out lie. Any oil drilled offshore is not American oil, its BP or ExxonMobile or Shell's oil. They are multinational corporations who will sell oil on the world market. FACT. So unless we nationalize the oil companies... It's a PIPE Dream. It's an election year mind fuck.

  • We use 25% of the worlds oil and we have only three percent of the worlds oil reserves. Somehow I don't think more drilling is going to solve our dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

  • ...yes there is...unless maybe you are right and every single scientist and supporter or the Kyoto accords in the world are wrong... i figure there is about a .00000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­001% cahnce you are right

  • And there is no CONCRETE evidence that there isn't global warming and just because there numbers aren't considered low for you doesn't mean there suffering from the digging. Sarah Palin wants to dig in a national refuge in Alaska which we'll hurt the animal population, and global warming isn't warming its weird weather patterns.

  • Ever think that the same argument you use for global warming may hold true for the numbers, which is complete bullshit by the way. give me specifics on your amphibians... how many frogs went extinct the past 3 years? look it up.

    maybe these "population booms" are cyclical.

    Seriously look up your frog numbers and respond to my comment.

  • Wow...somebody, anybody wanna take this one?? Deafening. If Obama pulled that questioned out, I think McCain would have the same response too.

  • firstly id like to see your sources for that data, second, I dont give a @#%@#^ what the polar bear population is doing! you cant use the population of animals in canada to argue that global warming is a good thing, thats just rretarded!

  • What does that mean, their numbers are healthy? Are you comparing their numbers from say 30 years ago, or are you doing what dumb republicans are doing? Saying their numbers are healthy because they aren't low enough to be considered extinct.

  • You may need to watch the video again! I think you missed something.

  • ...tumbleweed...

  • silence

  • /crickets

  • i had no idea we were buying oil from al qaeda and the taliban

  • Well an agrument would be that it has nothing to do with supply and demand, we already have surplus and were killing innocent polar bears though people have heard that many times its true and why would you call someone a dumbass when i would assume you have to be older than 25, i am 14 and i don't even curse, grow up.

  • I don't want the government to drill. I want them to make it legal, and then lease the land to the oil companies. Government then makes some money, Americans save some, and everyone's happy.

  • How about if we are going to nationalize anything we nationalize the oil companies and give those quarterly record breaking profits back to the american people, and not ship the fuckin domestic oil over seas like they are doing now. Then gas prices would be regulated and not rise and fall by crazy amounts on the daily like they have been.

    I'd be happy paying 5 dollars a gallon if that money were being pumped into schools, new energy, and paying down the deficit. Hell, I'd even rethink ANWR.

  • The demand for oil is record high, so they make record high profits; their profit margins are only like 10%. Let's nationalize everything that makes too much money. Hell,let's nationalize the cell-phone industry--you'd cry if you knew their profit margins. Diamonds are marked up up to 100 times! FFS Microsoft makes more than me too

    You want to tax companies that ran their businesses right! If I owned a huge company, I'd run it to the ground on purpose, and try to get some of that $700B bailout

  • nationaization should only be used in a few very specific cases, such as health care and postal service. Proper regulation that restricts companies in a position of power from abusing their power is all we need.

  • like oil companies perhaps.

  • I live in Canada, and healthcare is nationalized. I've got plenty of horror stories; try waiting in an emergency room in excruciating pain for 7 hours, and getting just a urine and blood sample, then tell me you want health-care socialized. Please tell me ONE other thing that government has successfully run that makes you so confident they can pull off universal healthcare.

  • Thats funny...because i go to university in Canada and everyone I have talked to is quite satisfied with their health care system. Also i have never encountered anyone with these "horror storries" that you are talking about.

    there was a worldwide healthcare survey released not to long ago which listed countries with the best health care to worste based on bang per buck; The U.S. placed far down on the list right after slovakia.

  • If we're talking about cost, yes the U.S. system is more expensive, but it is also better. Read your newspaper; just yesterday I read about a man that waited 30-something hours in an emergency room in Saskatchewan and ended up dying. It's not always that bad, though; if you hurt yourself or whatever during business hours, you can go to a clinic where the wait is much shorter (usually under an hour).

  • actually i read about that too, he never registered to be seen when he arrived at the hospital; thats what the medical staff says. It is an interesting case, we will have to wait till the investigaiton into the matter is over to find out what happened exactly. But if the guy never registered to be seen...

  • You think Saudi Arabia marked up their oil from 30 dollars a barrel 7 years ago to $145 now? It is the refineries that gauge. I don't want them nationalized I was being sensational. I do want oversight though. In these bailouts I want equity, not to give out a blank check. These bailouts are over $2000 / taxpayer now. We can socialize medicine for cheaper than that, instead of socializing business. I'm saying the republicans aren't for lower taxes or for individuals. just welfare for the rich.

  • It's not just refineries; gas prices around the world are paying high(er) gas prices.

    I used to support the republicans, but every passing day, I seem to disagree with what they do. The republican party of 15-20 years ago would not have supported--let alone proposed--this bailout. Also, don't kid yourself about the $700B cost. Wasn't the Iraq War supposed to cost like $50 billion? This bailout is probably headed for the trillions.

  • PWNT

  • wow that's hilarious and awkward all at the same time...

  • sen whitehouse should be in the white house!

  • Nice, lol

  • Wow..its a football idiot..

    GO back to a zombie mode please, and stop spreading stupidity

  • They want to use the oil to pay off the debt

  • actually he wants us to get off of oil altogether and seek other sources. nice try though

  • Obama or McCain?

  • Obama

  • Obama all day.

  • the oil companies want rights to the land so they can hold it wait till the price is high then drill. they don't wanna drill they wanan scam you.

  • no they have permission to drill thats it. they can't pump the oil out, transport it, or use it. its the democrat's fault. the democratic congress's approval rating is 6%

  • In case you haven't noticed, McCain's request is that the OCS be opened for EXPLORATION, not production.

  • oh cos you know, exploration is for fun

  • No, even if they have a freaking hologram of all profitable areas and the states pre-rubber stamp their approval, there is no getting around the fact that there is no drill ships or rigs available for the next couple years even with their production at 400 percent.

  • Himechansexytightass

    If McCain is going to spend my tax dollars just so someone can EXPLORE and not produce anything, then that's even worse.

    Electric Plug-In / Compressed Natural Gas Hybrids is the way to go. Forget "Drill, baby Drill." We as Americans should be thinking "Innovate baby, innovate."

  • Offshore drilling won't get us any oil for seven years and even then won't change gas prices for 30 years. Even it will hardly even make a dent in our dependance on Middle Eastern Oil.

    So who is the real moron?

  • From the information I have gathered, driling off-shore counts only 3% of the market if it's succesfull and will take 30 yrs before it starts showing up on the market.

    This 3% will be negligable to the price compare to other factors that decide the market.

    Correct me, if I'm wrong.

  • Sheldon rocks....

  • Drill! Drill! it's the cry of the morons.

  • Genderism/Sexism at its best. Women are being utilized like pawns.......McCain uses Palin to get his agenda across and Palin gets all the blames. Wow. Come on, the ladies of America!!! It's time to fight back. Let McCain know how you feel.

  • Palin is not a good representative of female equality. She's anti women's rights...big time. The only other woman that is worse would be Anne Coulter, who believes women shouldn't have the right to vote or even be in the military.

  • Kinda like how the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority Foundation announced their support (and that of 8 other woman's rights organizations) of Obama and denounced both Palin and McCain?

  • Even if we drill our oil will still come primarily from the Middle East.

  • The recording is doctored! I'we seen the actual hearing and the question! Efey answered it right away!

  • /watch?v=1B47P_nKy-k