Reply to "BP Oil Spill: Have You Heard This?"

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Originally posted by seeweed:

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Originally posted by Renegade Nation:

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Originally posted by seeweed:

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Originally posted by Renegade Nation:

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Originally posted by seeweed:
Oh well, why should we even worry about the environment when there is money to be made. Drill baby drill.

The gulf situation is terrible...but that is just silly...try going one day without your life being influenced by the oil industry...and here's a hint...despite the wacky enviromentalist...you wouldn't want to...

Actually I AM and environmentalist, although lack of concern for the environment in the current PB fiasco leads me to believe that we are not the wacky ones. The drill baby drill bunch who think the oil industry is better served being self-regulating kinda take that title along with all those republicans (not capitalized for a reason) that want to apologize to BP for making them hurt over this matter surely are the most wackey of all.

Really? You completely miss the point...I am in NO way defending BP...the point is THERE ARE REGULATIONS...Government has failed as badly (if not more) than BP...that was the point of highlighting the fact that BP recieved a WAVIER from government.

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Originally posted by seeweed:
Actually I AM and environmentalist

You are what? Living without the benefits of oil? If you actually believe that you are terribly naive. You have a computer and you are online...you are NOT living without the benefits of the oil industry...

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Originally posted by seeweed:
The drill baby drill bunch who think the oil industry is better served being self-regulating kinda take that title along with all those republicans (not capitalized for a reason) that want to apologize to BP for making them hurt over this matter surely are the most wackey of all.

The drill crowd is not for the most part lobbying for NO regulation...they are arguing for the US to become more energy self reliant.

Regardless if you think you are an enviromnetalist, if the ban on all the oil drilling in the gulf stays in effect, if cap 'n tax passes...OIL IS NOT GOING AWAY...it may become wildly expensive, but it is not going to be replaced by anything in the forseeable future...it NOT political it is PHYSICS...

Well, I'm not sure where to start:
1st, Cap and trade has little to do with oil, although oil being a fossil fuel does produce CO2.
Energy independence, more accurately oil independence is not going to happen no matter how many holes we drill into where ever. We have about 3 or 4% of the known world oil reserves , and use about 25% of the world oil supply. The 33 wells that are currently stopped in order to insure that what happened on the Deepwater Horizen will not happen again won't make very much difference in the overall picture of oil.

I'm still amazed that you think my owning and using a computer is closly related to oil drilling. I know the plastic comes from the oil, but the works come from sand (like what's on the beach) , so pardon me if I can't draw a real line between the two.

I am for ENERGY independence. We already have most of the ENERGY we need in reserves , although we import a lot of gas from Canada, but it is OIL that is the problem. Until we decide to ween ourselves from oil for personal transportation, we will NEVER have "energy" independence. NEVER. We just use too damm much, and we do not use much of it wisely.