Are you nuts!!
One serious move by Americans to drill will almost instantly send oil prices down. The bridge to independance is to drill. We also need more nuclear power, clean coal, solar and wind. Your way and the way of those who think like you is what has gotton us into this mess. Starting now is better than starting never. To do nothing is the BAD IDEA.
Traci Welch

Global warming is a farce. The environment changes by the second. The Global Warming Crowd is the leftovers from the Anti-American Hippies of the 60's and 70's. It is a religon to them and an excuse to hate achievement even more. Think i will go cut down a tree.

I combine two critically clear facts for a response....First, Perception is everything. Second, There are FEW experts, and likely fewer in the government. Quoting any Government Department seperate of other supporting non government sources is foolish. The absolute Millisecond drilling begins in the USA, onshore or offshore AND when that drilling occurs on a site judged feasible and profitable by FOR PROFIT companies (the only Real experts because they follow the money), OIL PRICES WILL COLLAPSE. Why is this simple market reality ignored by the learned? And as to those 'millions of acres of existing leases not used', please people, IF these had a reasonable chance of profitability during a period where oil went from $60+ a barrel to near $150, they'd be drilling! As to the media pressing this baloney about this being a Supply and Demand, not speculation thing? Has anyone waited in any gas line or seen any service station with no product? Have you seen any changes in how competing service stations price product since this big Supply and Demand thing is occuring? Course not. Truth, not politics, are what real people want and frankly, I could care less about anyone else.