McCain Seeks to End Offshore Drilling Ban

SUBMAN1 · 06-17-08, 02:12 PM

McCain just got a big boost in image in my mind! Maybe I will vote for him after all!

-S

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061602731.html

Platapus · 06-17-08, 04:16 PM

This is one of the few things that I agree with Senator McCain.

The solution to our energy problem will be two fold

1. Increase production in the short term. Like it or not, we need oil.
2. Explore and develop alternative sources for the long term solution

Gots to have both of them.

I am sure that with today's technology we can build and operate a drilling rig that will minimize the effects on the environment (can't ever eliminate it) while maintaining an increased safety level from leakage (can't ever be 100% safe)

Now if we can only get permission to build some nice new safe efficient refineries to replace the old crappy ones we have been using for far too long.

AVGWarhawk · 06-17-08, 05:54 PM

Why not? everyone and their brother is doing it and some off our coast to boot!

August · 06-17-08, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Now if we can only get permission to build some nice new safe efficient refineries to replace the old crappy ones we have been using for far too long.

This is what i'd like to see...

SUBMAN1 · 06-18-08, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by August

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Now if we can only get permission to build some nice new safe efficient refineries to replace the old crappy ones we have been using for far too long.

This is what i'd like to see...

First one is about to be built in over 30 years! Should be able to refine up to 4% of our total refining capacity!

-S

Tchocky · 06-18-08, 06:12 AM

Refiniries, yes. It's silly that oil is being wasted in inefficient old ones.

If the object of this move is to bring down gas prices, then it very much conflicts with his carbon cap-and-trade proposal. Totally conflicts.

SUBMAN1 · 06-18-08, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

...If the object of this move is to bring down gas prices, then it very much conflicts with his carbon cap-and-trade proposal. Totally conflicts.

Perfect. No thx to Al Gore.

-S

Tchocky · 06-18-08, 06:30 AM

So you prefer it if a candidate has messy & mutually conflicting policies?

That's perfect?

Actually, McCains new emphasis on energy/environment has the air of most of his domestic issues - you never get the impression that he's interested in them.

Votes against Climate Security, plans to drill more oil, then runs around misunderstanding his own carbon cap scheme. This is quite a turnaround from 2000, when he was viciously against offshore drilling, saying the "special interests" in Washington wanted it, and he was going to fight the good fight. Or some "maverick" nonsense.

EDIT - CNN has a look at his energy speech -

baggygreen · 06-18-08, 06:54 PM

Isnt that because the carbon cap scheme is a load of bollocks anyways?? :p

SUBMAN1 · 06-18-08, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by baggygreen

Isnt that because the carbon cap scheme is a load of bollocks anyways?? :p

Pretty much sums it up right there.

-S

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,369 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	This is one of the few things that I agree with Senator McCain. The solution to our energy problem will be two fold 1. Increase production in the short term. Like it or not, we need oil. 2. Explore and develop alternative sources for the long term solution Gots to have both of them. I am sure that with today's technology we can build and operate a drilling rig that will minimize the effects on the environment (can't ever eliminate it) while maintaining an increased safety level from leakage (can't ever be 100% safe) Now if we can only get permission to build some nice new safe efficient refineries to replace the old crappy ones we have been using for far too long. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Why not? everyone and their brother is doing it and some off our coast to boot! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Refiniries, yes. It's silly that oil is being wasted in inefficient old ones. If the object of this move is to bring down gas prices, then it very much conflicts with his carbon cap-and-trade proposal. Totally conflicts. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	So you prefer it if a candidate has messy & mutually conflicting policies? That's perfect? Actually, McCains new emphasis on energy/environment has the air of most of his domestic issues - you never get the impression that he's interested in them. Votes against Climate Security, plans to drill more oil, then runs around misunderstanding his own carbon cap scheme. This is quite a turnaround from 2000, when he was viciously against offshore drilling, saying the "special interests" in Washington wanted it, and he was going to fight the good fight. Or some "maverick" nonsense. EDIT - CNN has a look at his energy speech - __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Last edited by Tchocky; 06-18-08 at 07:01 AM.

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baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Isnt that because the carbon cap scheme is a load of bollocks anyways?? :p