I like the way that T Bone Pickens is talking. He is putting his money behind his talk. We need more guys like him in the USA leading the way for alternative fuels.

Right now we can build Wind Mills. It won't take 15 years to get them into production. They can be up and running in a year or two.

We have used oil for the last 100 years. First we used it for oil lamps as there were no cars before the Henry Ford Model T. Well there was no mass usage of internal combustion engines.

Our rail road could switch to Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology tomorrow.

We already have a natural gas (LNG) fueling station in Evansville, IN where I Live. The local power company converted a lot of their trucks to run on LPG.

We can drill offshore but there is not guarantee that oil will be found there.

Nobody but the oil companies knows for sure what's under the ground until they explore it by drilling.

Bush is doing this for political reasons. Why did he not do this when he first took office. A good leader doesn't wait until thing are in chaos before he acts. He plans ahead. He could have easily dropped his daddy's ban on drilling for oil along the coast of the USA. Yes it was his father Bush Sr that ordered the ban on oil drilling when he was President. And Bush's bother Jeb was totally against drilling off the coast of Florida.

If the oil companies had not screwed up so many times and messed up our pristine coast lines in Alaska there would not be as much opposition to their drilling plans. But they hired a drunk to run the Exxon Valdez and they are still paying for that mistake. And the people who live in Alaska where the Oil still contaminates the shorelines are paying more for that mistake.

There have been other tanker that crashed on rocks and broke apart spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into the sea along coast lines.

People who make a living off the tourist don't want that ruined by some mishap.

We have a golden opportunity right now to develop new alternatives to using oil for energy.

We are going to have to learn to use other forms of energy eventually. Even if we drill and find more oil we will only increase the worlds consumption and eventually run out of oil.

China and India are putting more and more cars on their roads and more they have billions of Chinese who have yet started driving automobiles

I hears a good joke last night about how people react to change.

First they say it's too expensive

Second they say it won't work

Third they say "Why didn't we do that sooner?



Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
I know it's going to take years to reap the benefits of drilling for our own oil but I say lets do it. Alternate fuel sources will take that long as well for any impact.
The Dems are at a crossroads with this one huh? If they do the wrong thing here it's gonna back fire. Voters want action not debate since that's been going on for 30 years and look where we are today.