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Post by Monica on Sept 3, 2005 10:02:31 GMT -5
Oil prices are sky rocketing. We are importanting more and more, and gas prices are going higher and higher.
Do you think we should drill in alaska for oil? It will harm the enviorment, but potentially lower gas prices...
As of yet, I don't really have an opinion on this, because I think that it's a delicate situation. Lets here some opinions.
Now its said to be going up a ton because of Rita! Where I live, we're at the end of the pipeline, and they think its going to go up to 6 dollars a gallon!
What can we do to fix this?
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Post by PunkyTurtle018 on Sept 3, 2005 14:43:03 GMT -5
I think, right now, anything is better than paying over three dollars a gallon. (lol i wrote galleon and had to delete it!)
It's not like we'll drill in alaska forever, just until everything is back under control. So it wouldn't be like we ruined everything.. The damage would be minimal/
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Post by The Private Eye on Sept 4, 2005 11:53:49 GMT -5
I agree with Tiff. You know, 12 dollars won't even fill up a quarter tank in some cars? (cough, my parents car). It's ridiculous. And me, former member of an enviromentalist group, say that we should be the greedy humans we are and drill some oil in Alaska. Not forever, but like tiff said, Temporarily.
But, we are greedy humans. So you know if we start to drill, and prices go back down, we're gona drill more. and more and more and more. Until we have no more oil and no more environment.
We need to find something else to power our cars, and quick!
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Post by flames on Sept 5, 2005 12:45:46 GMT -5
I think its stupid raising oil prices. They're doing it over here now. They'll have to stop raising prices and lowering them on everything soon because with everything rising they will need to print more money and it doesn't grow on trees!
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Post by The Private Eye on Sept 5, 2005 21:41:39 GMT -5
I just dont' see why they don't print more. It DOES grow on trees, though, cause face it--paper comes from trees lol But still, anyway--I say drill the hell outta alaska until oil prices go back down. or atleast wrangle up a bunch of hillbillies, take them rabbit hunting, and maybe they'll miss and strike up billions of dollars worth of oil? Hell, then we can send those poor hicks to californie Ok that was lame. lol
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Post by renor faer on Sept 5, 2005 22:54:49 GMT -5
:shakes head: wow yeah..printing more money is bad. ENFLAAAAAATIOOOOOON but i think that in a perfect world, we could drill in Alaska until needed..but i have a feeling we'd keep drilling when it' snot even necessary
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Post by flames on Sept 6, 2005 5:57:41 GMT -5
Yeah but you can't keep chopping down trees just to print money. There'll be no trees to print money and then the planet will be bankrupt! Why not just drill anyway? If its there use it! What have you got to lose?
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Post by The Private Eye on Sept 6, 2005 20:57:53 GMT -5
the prob is, once we start drilling, it'll take 10 years until we can use that Oil. So I say we drill now, and in 10 years, who knows, maybe we'll have better resources
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Post by flames on Sept 7, 2005 11:26:32 GMT -5
Drill now! In ten years time circumstances might have changed and it could get the country money!
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Post by Britt on Sept 22, 2005 23:05:51 GMT -5
Just today the price per gallon was supposed to go up $.18 around here.
And because of the hurricanes no one is working on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
I say drill in Alaska.
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Post by lovelyravenclaw on Sept 23, 2005 8:26:36 GMT -5
I am very against drilling in Alaska. I think resorting to drilling in Alaska is just prolonging the inevitable: one day we will run out of oil. Rather than destroying one of the last untouched places in the United States, I think we should be thinking of long-term solutions to the gas crisis. For instance, we should be developing ways of improving the hybrid cars, finding other ways to power vehicles (nuclear energy, for instance, of which I am a big proponent of, but has all sorts of stigma attached because it's "nuclear" and that scares people), and just reducing the use of vehicles in general. It's about time we followed the lead of Europeans and improved our mass transit, especially in extremely populated areas. I think if public transportation was more widely used, perhaps we would not find it necessary to have three, four, or even five cars per family.
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Post by renor faer on Sept 23, 2005 11:53:55 GMT -5
i totally agree! when i lived in canada.. sure, there were lots of cars.. but at least HALF of the people there walked, biked, took public transportation..that kind of stuff Americans are just too lazy to get up and actually WORK at getting places.. everything is made too easy for us.
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Post by lovelyravenclaw on Sept 23, 2005 12:56:13 GMT -5
absolutely, i think it was thoreau who wrote "men invented the automobile and forgot how to walk" that might be a mangled up quotation but it's something along those lines. my english prof had a shirt that said that... p.s. you're from texas? where from? i live in the dallas suburbs (when i'm not at school in illinois)
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Post by carlysue on Sept 23, 2005 18:15:21 GMT -5
i heard the gas prices were supposed to hit 5 dollars a gallon with rita shutting down the refineries here in texas, but i expect several new cars coming out that are powered by hydrogen or some other fuel source
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Post by renor faer on Sept 24, 2005 12:49:01 GMT -5
yeah.
Oh.. and i live in Tyler, Texas..which is about 2 hours away from dallas. and i used to live in Carrolton... if i spelt that right...but we moved here for my dad's job
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