Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer: Restore the Moratorium

God no to nuclear. I mean don't we see what happens when people say "it won't happen, things are safe?" Remember the visions of Chernobyl?

Drilling in Gulf will NOT change our dependence on foreign oil one iota. My facebook status said this when the disaster first happened:

ALL drilling off our shores accounts for just 7% of the 20 million barrels of oil consumed in the US every day. All 35,000 offshore wells combined only provide the annual equivalent of 26 days worth of oil.


The electric car would be a lot farther along if it weren't for.... well, just watched "Who Killed The Electric Car"

And it would help if people like Sara Palin would stop spreading lies that we can drill our way into energy independence. We CONSUME TOO MUCH!!

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Maybe those low number have something to do with the fact that we have drilling moratoriums that cover most of the areas off our coastline??

EIA - Petroleum Basic Data

A large percentage of our oil is produced domestically. To ignore additional potential domestic resources is incredibly short sighted, especially considering world oil reserves are shrinking. We will drill for all of this oil at some point - that you can be assured. Desperation over waning resources will ultimately force the issue.

OBAMA TO RESTORE MORATORIUM FOR SIX MONTHS!

I'm sure that all of our emails to our Congressmen helped.

But IMO what did the trick is that it took Obama and others a while to "get" how bad things are and all of the repercussions of the BP disaster.