Energy: What Would Reagan Do?

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by the way im a 37 year old male who never finsh high school and i can see the answear to our problem why can them college grad. from goverment and all them special intrest people see it too(sorry for my grammer)

cesar uranga of AZ 5:57PM October 04, 2008

the drill now plan is a brige to energy indipendance.if we start now even if it takes ten years.(i dont think it will take that long)like obama says.prices will drop buying us time to get there.we all want 0 edmission car,we all want to save the planetbut for now we need lower price fuel to keep the economy going.our economy is run by fuel.i like paying 1.00 for milk but when fuel rises then transportaation if milk,bread,beans,meat ex. rises as well, house prices rise couse of transportation of materia. everything is govern by the price of fuel.WE NEED TO DRILL FOR NOW! to keep the economy going.we can not continue to let other nations(opec)venesuela iraq,mexico,iran run our economy. we are hurting.we need do something know and until we have the tecnoly go 100% enegy independant witch we dont now, we need to drill and get control of our economy back if not we will be at the mercy of all of enemies that control the price

cesar uranga of AZ 5:53PM October 04, 2008

"We can NOT drill our way out of this problem; we only prolong the inevitable. There is only so much oil in the ground."
Yes, because we know that you liberals know where all of the oil is. Please. Our energy woes are self-inflicted. While we squabble over energy, other countries such as Russia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iraq (Iraq!!), Iran, Nigeria, Angola, etc., etc., etc. continue to move forward with providing the world's energy needs. This foolishness has got to stop. The only way this is going to get resolved is by voting out Democrats who are beholden to the environmental lobby, who are not environmentalists at all, but, as the WSJ calls them, enviromaniacs.

Chris of AZ 2:40PM August 07, 2008

There are no longer light vehicles in Brazil running on pure gasoline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil
Jimmy Carter was spewing nonsense. Like, conservation. Like solar panels on the White House.
We can NOT drill our way out of this problem; we only prolong the inevitable. There is only so much oil in the ground.
Had we kept up production of the electric car, put solar panels on all government buildings erected since 1980, and got Detroit to produce efficient vehicles instead of SUV's and Hummers, we would not have to drill at all.
If, as Mr. Bush says, we are addicted to oil, the solution is not to give the addict more drugs, but to get off drugs.
We can get totally off of oil in the same amount of time it would take to drill and increase production of oil (6-10 years) We can keep putting off the inevitable, and pay the price (at the pump)
or move into the 21st century, stop funding our enemies in the Mideast with U.S. dollars, and solve the pollution and warming issues, to the extent fossil fuels are responsible.
Or, we can drill and remain mired in the past.

DanMingo of 2:11PM August 07, 2008

"Obviously, what he did not do was pay attention to Jimmy Carter's televised speech of July 15, 1979. Had he done so and used his popularity to urge enactment of the plan, we would be independent of imported oil today just like Brazil is."
No, we wouldn't. Brazil is not independent from foreign oil, but it uses more ethanol and domestically drilled oil than they do foreign oil. Jimmy Carter was spewing nonsense the very same way that many Dems are now spewing nonsense. Want to reduce our reliance on foreign oil? Increase drilling here. We CAN drill our way out of the problem.

Chris of AZ 1:03PM August 07, 2008

What plan? Synfuels? Government meddling in energy investment? Biking to work? What we lacked during Carter's presidency was WILL, the lack of which was the center of that now infamous speech.

DCLawyer of MD 11:08AM August 07, 2008

Obviously, what he did not do was pay attention to Jimmy Carter's televised speech of July 15, 1979. Had he done so and used his popularity to urge enactment of the plan, we would be independent of imported oil today just like Brazil is.

HillBillyBill of TN 7:41AM August 07, 2008