Quote Originally Posted by apb View Post
A few other things that you might want to consider. First, oil companies already have leases to many millions of acres of land that they are NOT drilling right now. WHY? How is the off-shore oil any better? Second, you do realize that we EXPORT a good deal of oil and refined gas that we drill in the US. Again, why? If the supply and demand was so great here, shouldn't that oil/gas be sold here? Sorry, but I just don't buy the republican "drill, drill, and drill some more" energy policy. If we really want to do something, we should be getting serious about alternative fuel sources now. Just finding additional ways to keep us on the oil teet is not helping us one bit.

Andrew
Just watched Glenn Beck on Headline News and he explained and gave examples of why the land that has been leased is not producing. He said that once they even find oil (which they are having a hard time doing) they have to deal with the special interest groups and local governments to gain access to the oil or natural gas. Gave an example of drilling for natural gas off of Florida that took years and millions of dollars to find only to be stopped by Florida politics and then years later they denied Chevron the ability to get the gas and removed Chevrons lease.
Exporting oil? That's pretty counter productive. Where did you find that info?
Apparently the "OCS" has oil (not sure how they know) while the leased land is barren at best. I'm not sure how true all this is but it's a start in trying to understand what's going on. Who knows???