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qtla9111 wrote:
And so what if we drill, drill, drill. Then what? Will the price of oil and fuel go down? I doubt it.

People can do what they want. In my case, I want to go solar as soon as possible. Electricity has never gone down in price. I don't care what it costs me short term, in the long term it will pay off.

No more doubts and no more promises. I will take care of myself.

No, it's not a good point. You are looking at the current situation all wrong. It's not drill, drill drill to get the price of oil to go down. It drill drill drill to buy time and to keep the price from going up too rapidly.

People can keep repeating the notion that drilling won't produce results for 10-20 years but they are wrong. First of all, is it 10 years or 20 years? Second, is the notion that the U.S. can do something to take control out of the hands of foreign countries. It's all about the message getting out to our current suppliers. That in itself creates results overnight. Within 24 hours of announcing we are going to start drilling off shore and in Alaska, oil futures would drop, probably well under $100 a barrel. So if someone tells you there will be no results from drilling for 10-20 years, they are wrong. You'll see results in a matter of days.

qtla9111 wrote:
I don't care what it costs me short term, in the long term it will pay off.

You don't care? Really. Say it costs you $50k in the short term. It might take 50 years to pay itself off. Do you care then? Lot's of us dream about living off the grid because we like the idea of not having to rely on others. But in the long run, most of us take the time to do the math, factor in our current age, and then make a more rational decision.

Look at people running out to buy a Prius. What did they pay? Probably full sticker price. Did they even understand what a hybrid was or how it worked? Some of these people commute on the highway each day, traveling hundreds of miles. Do they care that they are essentially driving a small gasoline powered car 98% of the time? They could have saved $5,000 and bought a Civic, or better yet, a diesel VW Jetta. How many of those Prius buyers even asked about the life span of their cars battery or how much it costs to replace it? They simply got fired up or fed up and ran out to make an impulse purchase. When their neighbors asked them why they paid so much for their Prius, they replied; I don't care what it costs me short term, in the long term it will pay off.

I live in Arizona. There is a group calling itself the Center for Biological Diversity, as well as a couple others with similar names. They are lawyers, mostly. After a large wildfire, there will be a proposal to go into the area and salvage the trees that are damaged. The groups like the Center for Biological Diversity will file papers asking a judge to stop the salvage, because they claim it will damage the environment, the land, the animals, the entire ecosystem.

Here's the punch line. They will lose in court and they know it. Yup, they lose almost every time, eventually. But they declare victory every time, because they win even when they lose in court. That's right. They know they don't need to win in court. They only need to stall for time. Those burnt trees can only be salvaged for maybe six months. After that, they are worthless dead timber. So those lawyers are not getting paid to win, but to stall for six months, which turns out to be a victory.

I'm not going to tell you which political party is more beholden to lawyers, especially trial lawyers. I would just be taking sides, as well as getting this post deleted. I'm just saying there are many things we wish our elected leaders were doing for us and for our country that they seem to fail to get done. We question them a little and wonder if they are influenced by all the donations from various special interest groups. That could explain why Congress has a 9% approval rating. We seem to agree they are not getting anything done. Perhaps it's time people in the private sector stepped up and come up with solutions that the American people can get behind and push forward, with or without the blessings of our elected officials.