Oil vs. Air... What's up with that?

Free foot pumps and tire gauges for the Obama supporters and some free gas for McCain supporters would be my recommedation. Let us vote on it.

Any measure aimed at conservation.

Drilling our remaining oil reserves will accomplish nothing useful. We don't have sufficient reserves to make ourselves energy independent. We would only deplete them all the faster. And then we would be utterly dependent on foreign sources for oil. Which would be a particular disadvantage if we ever needed those reserves to fuel the military for our defense.

The only benefit to drilling would be to the oil companies. They would have more stock to sell. And they would get a price comparable to the current global price of oil, because we don't have enough reserves to significantly affect the price either.

Conservation measures, by contrast, have already driven the price down significantly. Further measures can extend that drop and maintain it. Development of alternatives would render us immune to long term rises in demand for oil, from China and India.

Drilling out our remaining domestic reserves is a very bad idea, for the security of this nation.

The only reason it's being considered, is because this nation is so full of lazy, gluttonous people, who have become convinced that the right to cheap gas, no matter how much they waste, must be contained in the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, or somewhere. And they must be pandered to.

I don't think pandering to such weakness, when it is clearly detrimental to the long term economic and military security of the nation, is anything like "presidential."

A leader that could get that point through a lot of very thick heads, and set an example for the world, would represent, for me, the kind of "presidential" material that we, unfortunately, have seen far too little of in this country, for a long time.

I live off the Gulf Coast where 10 years ago I voted to ban off shore drilling. Our beaches are some of the whitest in the world and I didn't want to see that spoiled. But now I have to step over refrigerators when I go for a walk because so many hurricanes keep hitting us we can't afford to clean up our waters! (this is no lie) Plus, gas was only $1.19 when I casted my vote.

I am an Obama Girl, but the man needs to LISTEN to locals...

most of us are saying the same thing...

OPEN OFF SHORE DRILLING ON THE GULF COAST!

^_^ Have a nice day.

so many blind followers in this country and so much ignorance. decreasing oil consumption is 2nd to increasing production.

The Department of Energy estimated in 2005 that U.S. motorists wasted 1.2 billion gallons of gasoline a year from driving on underinflated tires -- roughly 61 million barrels of oil.

By comparison, the U.S. Department of Interior says there are 17.9 billion barrels of oil available off-shore in areas under the federal drilling ban. Due to a shortage of equipment and legal hurdles, experts estimate that if the ban was lifted, it would take at least five years to produce an additional drop of oil from those areas.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said last year that new off-shore drilling could add about 200,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. output -- not enough to have “a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030"

or all those who think that it's a wste of time drilling for oil, then why not let others waste their time and money, especially if they meet the current enviromental inpact lasws.

The only thing that really comes out of it is;

1 your proven right

2. your provedn wromg in which case the US redcues it's dependancies on foreign oil.

Instead of telling us that there won't be any benefit for 10-20 years, please informa us on the projections for wind and solar energy, after all you can't deive electric cars without some source of energy.

If by more presidential, you mean pandering to the oil companies, then McCain for sure!

inflate our tires. my home town depends on beach tourism, and how nasty is that going to be if we have a couple of oil drenched dolphins wash up on the strip during labor day weekend?

Well we know Obama is full of hot air! But now he see McCain backing oil drilling so he changes. YES WE CAN ..... YES WE CAN

Well .. seeing that politicos are full of hot air .. I'm going with the tire thingy ... LOL

We take Air (Mother nature)........For garneted

But people will always chase the pound.........

Sad state of affairs.....