Doc_Bob said:
Call your Congressman and tell them to drill in ANWR.
More supply means stable fuel supply.
Bob
Doc,
With all due respect my friend, drilling in ANWR would be a major mistake under the present conditions. I realize that up where you live, you don't have the oil and gas drilling we have here in Texas, especially here in Wise County Texas, smack in the middle of the Barnett Shale. If you don't know already, the Barnett Shale is the largest natural gas deposit in the US. We also have a great deal of oil drilling going on too.
It isn't until you live in the middle of something like this that you begin to fully realize what the "tree huggers" are so concerned about with allowing those oil companies to drill in ANWR. Like you, I used to make fun of the so called "tree huggers" and labeled them "nut jobs". I certainly don't feel that way anymore and now I fully understand their concerns. Those concerns, from what I have personally observed with my own two eyes, and experienced in my rural area, are VERY WELL founded. Make no mistake about it, oil and gas in this country are major poluters of both surface and subsurface water. They are also major users of surface and subsurface water, for use in drilling and fracking their wells. Literally, millions of gallons are used every time a well is drilled or fracked and a well can be fracked several times in it's first year or so.
When they get done with that water, it contains 27 different types of toxic waste, and the excess (with the toxic wastes in it) is injected back into the ground in old wells or wells drilled for that specific purpose. That toxic waste can and does migrate into the drinking water, both surface and subsurface.
No Doc, until much more stringent regulations are put on oil and gas regarding how they operate, I would be totally against allowing them to drill in the ANWR. Just like with gasoline and diesel prices, oil and gas cares NOTHING about you, me, and our families. Our health and well being means nothing at all to those boys! All they care about is the millions they'll make and the quickest way to make them. In my opinion, they'll destroy anyone or anything to accomplish that too, including your family and mine.
I became an anti oil and gas "tree hugger" last March, 2005 when a foreign owned oil and gas company began trying to destroy my neighbors and my property, by wanting to put in an injection well in about 100 yds up the county road from my place. We've been fighting them ever since and so far have lost, but now we have it in the appeals court and out from under oil and gas control! We believe we will now win and send them packing! They didn't care about our health, water polution, financial burdens, or anything but the millions they would make. Honestly Doc, you can't trust any of them because they all operate alike, even though they claim not to.
BTW, I sold my diesel F-250 last year and went back to gas, after years of driving a diesel simply because of diesel getting higher than gas and remaining there. It's pure greed on the part of these big oil companies!!
I always go down the street to a real coffee shop.
