LIEBERMAN: No drilling? No excuses

Here is a simple idea to find out where the Senate and House stands on this crisis of their own creation (we know where three quarters of the American people stand). Let's put forth a simple yes or no question to each member of Congress. "Are you in favor of drilling for more oil in areas now blocked such as the gulf and ANWR-yes or no"? None of this spin and obsfucation crap such as "the oil companies already have millions of acres leased, etc. would be allowed. A simple yes or no period! With the Democrat's propensity to never answer a straight yes or no question, this should be quite amusing. The whole process would be televised on CSPAN and it would be clear to the public where their so-called representatives stood on the issue. Everyone could then take appropriate steps in November.

As is normal the liberals through excessive law suits cause a problem and then blame their opponents for the problem and say that the solution is the policies that caused the problem. I hope this becomes one of the major campaign issues, the Dems won't change their stand.

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Drilling in the ocean or ANWR is not the only solution to this problem, but the remedy must include drilling. The US has to make the commitment to produce more of the assets it already has before it says to others that they have to produce more (for us). That is what OPEC and other oil producers are doing now. Once the commitment to produce more oil is made the price oil will drop. The sooner we get started the sooner we will be able to lower these gas prices and recover the economy.

OUR DEMOCRAT CONGRESS IS SO COMMITTED TO THE GREENIES THAT THERE IS NO HOPE OF ANYTHING GOOD COMING FROM THEM, NO MATTER HOW HIGH THE PRICE OF GAS GOES !

Democrats cannot have it both ways for the following reason: Topic: "Sources of energy to manufacture renewable hardware" It takes a lot of energy to produce the hardware for renewable energy rojects. Our current availability of oil is marginal. Solar and wind sources hardly produce enough energy to replace that energy it took to manufacture the hardware - eg. turbines and solar panels. (At the other end of the spectrum, Nuclear can produce energy many times its manufacturing requirements.) Therefore, lots of oil, natural gas, coal and other fossil resources will be needed for a long time to get the huge number of installations needed to get meaningful amounts of solar and wind energy. Yes, lots of carbons will be produced in the process. If we succeed (which I hope we will), we will really prove just how much carbon products generated by man actually affect the "global climate change." It's one or the other! In any event, we've got to start NOW drilling, mining, digging, building and anything else to get any and all sources of energy to meet our oncoming needs before we go down the tubes. We cannot wait for the next administration!! Democrats are about to seal our defeat and assure a future life of poverty for the United States.

Having read and heard many redundant arguments from both sides of table it occurs to me that no one is seeing this from a pragmatic point of view. Oil will continue to be a point of contention and since Hubbert's theory indicates that oil's peak is an eventuality, the prudent business man would begin to invest more resources into the development of a diversified field of energy sources ranging from remote oil fields to solar/wind to cane sugar ethanol, etc. Dispense with the antiquated arguments of infeasbility as these point only to one's mental lethary and fatalistism.