DISQUS

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Not good! We can find more creative ways to get the oil we need.

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

How much longer must we put up with these criminals in the White House? They will answer to no one. Everyone in the administration, not just Bush, invokes executive privilege whenever they are backed to the wall. Everyone, down to the lowliest person in the administration. There has to be something we can do. There is, we will cave as usual.

The Washington Post: "The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in US policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality standards. Congressman Henry L. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called off a threatened contempt of Congress vote against Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson and a White House budget official while congressional Democrats decide how to respond."

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Oh hell, they'd just file those contempt citations with the signing statements Bush likes to push in Congress's face anyway.

Harvbishop · 1 year ago

I actually don't see offshore drilling as such a dire issue. It is another area where we can afford to compromise with the Republicans and once and for all break the gridlock. Obama was correct when he insisted that marriage must be reserved for only a man and a woman. He still supports gays, but he innoculated himself against Right-Wing attacks. The same with FISA. As long as you aren't doing anything nefarious, you shouldn't worry about governmental monitoring. Barack knows that we are in dangerous times with unseen Al Qaeda cells in our cities. I hope Obama takes the reasonable middle road on the drilling controversy too.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

You voted for bush twice. You're here now with how we should proceed. Uh, you're whacked.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

California Supreme Court says we gays have to be treated equally. We're getting "married" in California. If this is the type of Obama is attracting with "reaching out," I don't want any part of it. This thing says "we" have to compromise? What does this creep compromis? Seems like you must do what the wingnut wants. Period. Become the wingnut. You're losing me Obama.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

McCain 08!

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Love and MARRIAGE!
Love and MARRIAGE!

Two go together like a horse and CARRIAGE!

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Wingnuts are where the term 'useless eaters' came from.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

The shoreline near Galveston, TX is like an open sewer. People don't swim in it if they are smart. But they used to be able to dunk their camera film in it to get it developed. On a hot summer's day it smells like a sewage treatment plant.

JustAnOldLady · 1 year ago

Why do Republicans NEVER look to REDUCING CONSUMPTION which holds much more promise than risking destroying our beaches, shorelines, sealife and of course the economic benefits of tourism in beach resorts........they really are yesterday's thinkers.....

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

That's because they're useless eaters. It's all about consumption for them.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

This is all about annual bonuses at Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Life is short. Enjoy your garden. My container gardening is getting puffy out there spreading out.

loona_c · 1 year ago

Not that I need to defend TX beaches, but Texas coasts do get the (substantial!) backwash from the Mississippi River.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Gas consumption in the US is down at least 5-6%, and maybe more than that.

This isn't about shortages; this is about increasing consumption in the US. The Arabs say there is plenty of oil out there in the market, and I believe them.

The price is being increased simply because of speculation. Do we really think that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley aren't having problems with the subprime mess? Buying oil futures for a 6% margin is great for their bottom line, and hides their credit messes. Having Paulson (ex-Goldman Sachs CEO) at Secy of the Treasury ensured that money would be available to shore up capital, and the creation of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in London also ensured that US regulations wouldn't make a dent in their speculative buying.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Wingnuts say this is some sinister plot by muslims to destroy 'Murka so "we" need to bomb Iran. That's the general agreement in wingnutia.

Subroutine · 1 year ago

"Over the past 40 years, oil companies have drilled thousands of wells across the western and central gulf, and there are now about 3,800 offshore structures there. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have been willing to overlook the trash and tar in exchange for cash and jobs."

Well, lets see how that has worked out:

9 Poorest States
42) Montana - $40,627
43) Tennessee - $40,315
44) Kentucky - $39,372
45) Louisiana - $39,337
46) Alabama - $38,783
47) Oklahoma - $38,770
48) Arkansas - $36,599
49) West Virginia - $35,059
50) Mississippi - $34,473

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Oh, and there's this, although I think Whitney's being a bit harsh on Bernanke, a pure academic who's just taking orders and who's a prime example of the Peter Principle:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/15081

Indigo · 1 year ago

Bernanke sees the problem, he just doesn't see himself fixing it. That's a very interesting speech and a self-serving one. The issue here is Bernanke's academic compulsion to describe events and leave the rest to the gods. He can see what the market forces are doing, he cannot see the human beings behind those forces. He can see the issues and the distress people are experiencing but he has no sense of responsibility, accountability, or even a concern about human well-being.

Unlike Greenspan, who not only understood what was happening but pointed the way to profit from it or dodge the worst of it all, Bernanke just describes events in the manner of an unsuallly stupid weatherman standing outdoors in a Florida hurricane with a microphone in his hand saying, "Oh, my! It's really really windy and it's raining a lot!"

Indigo · 1 year ago

It could come to that. Progreso, Mexico was planned as a resort-beach community on the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula until, about 20 years ago, an oil spill ruined that plan.

Now it's an industrial port-fishing village-off-beat cruise ship out of Tampa port when Cozumel and Cancun are over-crowded. Swell. That's just peachy keen. Development is sometimes the cost of development. I don't see the Florida beaches becoming industrial sites, though. For one thing, heavy industry would find local Floridians aren't heavy industry type workers. It wouldn't work out at all well.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

It's obvious the Corporate Media will never cover this in an impartial way.

So, why don't some of the environmental groups put some ads together showing what you're talking about in your post---plus the fact that the drilling won't effect the price of gas by a penny.

I'm sure they could get the funds if they started appealing to the blogosphere.

jr · 1 year ago

The inventor in Japan made a car that runs on water but we have to keep using these polar bear killing and lung cancer causing fuels

Asterix · 1 year ago

Let's sink the first wells just off the Hamptons on the East Coast and San Clemente on the West Coast. A few holes poked into the ground off of Martha's Vineyard and a few exclusive Florida Keys ought to complete the picture. After all, why shouldn't the nobility set an example for the unwashed rabble?

cheetos · 1 year ago

1969 Santa Barbara, CA: The Oil Spill Heard ’Round The Country!

http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy/1969_Santa_Ba...

graymatter · 1 year ago

We definitely don't need drilling off the Florida coast.

#3 Republican in the House Adam Putnam is FOR DRILLING.

His Democratic opponent, retired Navy Master Chief Doug Tudor, is AGAINST DRILLING IN THE EASTERN GULF and FOR immediate research into alternative sources to get us off the petroleum teat.

We need your help to defeat Putnam. Won't you please donate?

http://www.teamtudor.org/contribute