It didn't take long. Is Obama's bid over now that he has REJECTED offshore drilling?

I hope so. If people would open their brains and listen to what this moron is actually saying he would have been done long ago.

EDIT: CNN and FoxNews BOTH claim that China is/will be drilling off Florida.

EDIT: Why won't Exxon? Congress BANNED them from doing so in the 1980's.

EDIT3: Doing nothing and waiting for alternate fuel will accomplish NOTHING.

Dream on, there is more money to lose if we drill off our coasts, by spills and the destruction of our vacation industries. Not only that, the FACTS are that drilling offshore will NOT lower the gas prices, the problem isn't a lack of oil it is with the refineries. But don't let the facts get in your way of spreading your right wing wacko propaganda.

As for Obama, I'll just wait to see the tears from all you Repugs when he wins the presidency. Maybe we should take a idea from the Repugs and have a 100 year Democratic rule!!!! We'll show you how it should be run!

Unfortunately Oil revenue experts also agree that "off shore" oil drilling will do nothing to immediately to effect the price of gas at the pumps. Even the California Governor is against offshore drilling. The research & developement of alternative fuel sources & vehicles is causing the Saudis to "revaluate" oil prices. They realize that each successful alternative means less business for them in the future. ( of course, asking the American oil companies to level their profits to a point where pump prices are not harming the everyday economy would be " unpatriotic" ?)

Those who support Obama believe that the oil problem is engineered and fake, that the U.S. has more than enough domestic oil, or that increases in oil prices saves the planet from emmisions and the like by forcing everyone to change their habbits due to personal expenses. If they are wrong the U.S. should be running out of domestic oil and should enter into prolonged famine. Its hard to tell given that oil reserve figures have historically increased every year rather than declined, which would be more logical (when you use a limitted resource the amount of the limitted resource should be gong down not up)

I saw a headline today saying Pres. Bush was lifting the offshore drilling ban. If that is so then BO will jump on the bandwagon and he will be for it any moment now.

do you have a link or source that shows a picture of the Chinese oil platform "50 miles off Florida's shores" ?

the clear majority of experts say the the U.S. can NOT drill it's way out of it's oil problem - and most Americans are smart enough to understand this

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the Saudis understand that their awesome oil reserve is about half gone.

and whats left wont last forever.

in fact they are taking steps to make sure they invest wisely now for the future of their country.

they understand "peak" oil.

I love that posts on here are "eternal", don't you? Here we are approaching the end of Obama's SECOND term and your confident prediction that his bid for the Presidency is "doomed" is still here for all to see....along with YOUR IDENTITY!

Woah

He is a liberal tried and true! they dont believe in progress period! its not hard to understand where he stands. He cannot understand where these enormous fuel prices are going to lead us he has never seen or dealt with such problems. his plan is "maybe it will go away on its own." Not the best plan stratagy but its a democratic designed play.

You people just want to rape the planet for resources. I live in California and there is a very strong anti-drilling sentiment here. There will be NO offshore drilling of our coasts in California. Never, and there really isn't anything you can do about it. Even McBush has proposed that these decisions be left up to individual states. It'll never be voted in here, I can assure you of that.

One of the few times Obama should have promoted change but didn't!