President Obama, please:

alynna spent 1pc on a proposal for this priority to be acquired by Drill for oil in our own country Tue May 26 11:06:20 -0700 2009 1 comment
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alynna (opposes) Tue May 26 11:06:20 -0700 2009

This is the same thing.
Northwest_Inventor endorsed Drill for oil in our own country instead Fri Mar 20 10:43:45 -0700 2009 25 comments
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Northwest_Inventor Fri Mar 20 14:09:54 -0700 2009

We have oil:

Bakken Oil Formation, Green River Formation, Offshore Oil Formation

Offshore has 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of gas according the U.S. Mineral Management Service. http://www.mms.gov/offshore/

Keep in mind that any exploring for oil requires permits issued by the respective State and U.S. Government if it’s federally owned.
(Uncle Sam is the largest land owner at 28.8% of America. source: http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/381_total_and_federally_owned_land_and.html)

What does the US Department of Energy say?
DOE says 2 Trillion barrels of oil shale: http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/npr_oil_shale_program.html
As much as 6 Trillion: http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/Oil_Shale_Resource_Fact_Sheet.pdf

According to USGS: http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/noga/

Eastern Oregon and Washington Province has 2.4 Trillion CFG (Cubic Feet of Gas)
Sacramento Basin has 1 Trillion CFG
Montana Thrust Belt has 8.6 Trillion CFG
Southwestern Wyoming Province has 84.6 Trillion CFG

Bakken formation has 200-400 billion barrels of oil shale:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1653/p1653.pdf

What’s this? 590 TRILLION in gas hydrate…
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3073/pdf/FS08-3073_508.pdf
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daring2anchor (opposes) Fri Mar 20 11:45:35 -0700 2009

drilling in Texas or California is NOT the same as drilling off shore or in ANWR. The damage in those places is not easily repaired. We are still suffering the effects of the Exxon Valdez.
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Northwest_Inventor Fri Mar 20 15:04:01 -0700 2009

prometheuspan, Hurray, you gave your… opinion. Thanks
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geokem7 voted against Drill for oil in our own country acquiring Domestic Oil drilling --off shore and ANWR Fri Mar 20 06:51:40 -0700 2009 1 comment
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geokem7 (opposes) Fri Mar 20 06:57:11 -0700 2009

They are hardly the same. One specifies two locations the other is generic. I could support more domestic drilling ONSHORE, excluding ANWR, but still very much opposed to driling in the other locations. Besides we need to get this out of mind anyway, domestic drilling will do extremely little for future energy needs. We will NEVER be self-sufficient based on oil. Throwing money and trashing our environment in a blind scramble to extract every drop of oil from the earth only leads us down a dead-end street and lines a few pockets with money. So..NO!
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Darlene Little (opposes) Thu Mar 19 21:36:16 -0700 2009

There is a BIG difference between drilling for oil in say Texas oil fields and drilling in ANWR or off shore. I strongly oppose drilling for oil offshore or in ANWR.
Ellis voted against Drill for oil in our own country acquiring Domestic Oil drilling --off shore and ANWR Thu Mar 19 18:50:31 -0700 2009 3 comments
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Ellis (opposes) Thu Mar 19 18:55:43 -0700 2009

To equate (a) drilling in our own country with (b) drilling offshore and in ANWR totally obscures the increased environmental risks and potential damages by drilling in the latter. This is not purely either an issue of economics nor of petroleum resources. The issues are far more complex.
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Jim Gilliam Thu Mar 19 19:59:43 -0700 2009

Very true, but offshore and ANWR are the areas under contention right now. There’s plenty of drilling going on in other places…or am I wrong?
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Ellis (opposes) Thu Mar 19 20:36:24 -0700 2009

News accounts of reviving old wells and drilling new in West Texas when the price of oil topped $100/bbl point out that those were economic decisions, not political ones. Long ago in chemistry I learned that the term “ore” is an economic, not a chemical term. As E. F. Schumacher pointed out in “Small is Beautiful” we err both economically and in our use of limited natural resources when on our balance sheets we treat these resources as operating expenses rather than assets – -part of the very capital that under girds a continuing flourishing economy. Why not emphasize ways of meeting our energy needs in sustainable ways?
Tombo endorsed Drill for oil in our own country instead Thu Mar 19 17:49:12 -0700 2009 1 comment
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Tombo Thu Mar 19 18:00:04 -0700 2009

You betcha! Drill Here-Drill Now. We use the same amount of oil everyday whether we get it from the volatile Mideast of right here in the USA. The REAL travesty is California. they are walking around on Trillions of dollars of Gas and Oil and are going broke…That’s Ridiculous! Also, for those who still believe in the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX; head for the library. There are many books written on the subject that will change your mind like “Unstoppable Global warming” and “Red Hot Lies” just to mention a couple. …and as always…Who is John Galt? www.americansolutions.com
YGBSM opposed Drill for oil in our own country instead Thu Mar 19 16:17:00 -0700 2009 2 comments
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Fredicats Thu Mar 19 16:19:28 -0700 2009

Why would you oppose being free from the Islamic countries?
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YGBSM Thu Mar 19 16:45:35 -0700 2009

The top 5 US import total petroleum countries to the US as of 12/08:
Canada
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
Venezuela
Nigeria
I suppose you also ‘support’ the troops. Fantastic. You want to be “free from Islamic countries,” yet we have almost 200,000 troops in 2 very Islamic countries.
What do you propose? Should we be “free from Islamic countries,” or should we not?
Your knee-jerk ‘blame-it-on-the-ragheads’ reply is so pedestrian. You shouldn’t fear Islam, so much as you should fear extremists of any stripe. Life is not like a box of chocolates as much as your post indicates you’d certainly like it to be.
Jim Gilliam spent 8pc on a proposal for this priority to be acquired by Drill for oil in our own country Thu Mar 19 15:49:55 -0700 2009 6 comments
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Jim Gilliam Thu Mar 19 15:49:55 -0700 2009

It means the same thing, and “drill for oil in our own country” has more endorsers and opposers already.

Please note that if you oppose domestic oil drilling, but still feel that these two priorities should be merged together, you should vote YES. Your opposition will transfer over.
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