Why dumb republicans think that tapping oil reserves won't work and drilling would?

Drilling is going to take 10 years to make any difference in oil prices while tapping oil reserves could immidiately lower the oil prices.Why dumb republicans think that tapping oil reserves won't work and drilling would?
Peak oil is a way of guessing how much new oil will be discovered by looking at how much has already been discovered. Peak Oil is real but not an exact science. I am worried about drilling our reserves will give Americans a false sense of security. The facts are that we will still be buying oil from countries that are known to not be our friends. The main problem is that it may lower gas prices enough for people to go back to our old ways of gas guzzling vehicles. This would just create more problems down the road. There is not one answer to this problem. It will take many different types of fuel to help with this problem. I think most Americans would love to go to a gas station and have 4 or 5 different ways to fill there tank. The power of the consumer needs to be regained. I know we have a choice of which company we buy gas from, but I want the consumer to be able to choose what type of fuel they use. Gas is what I like to call a product monopoly. If all stores only had apples for sale you have no choice but to buy apples. I think most people would be pissed off if they knew there were other fruits out there and the government and the apple makers were doing things to keep the other fruits out. I want a choice not of which company I buy from but what product I buy.Why dumb republicans think that tapping oil reserves won't work and drilling would?
';Drilling is going to take 10 years to make any difference in oil prices while tapping oil reserves could immidiately lower the oil prices.';





Yes, tapping the reserves could lower prices, but for how long? A month? A week? A couple of days before the price shoots back up again?





Tapping the reserves is a short term temporary measure. Drilling for oil is a more permanent long term measure.





The question isnt why we think tapping the reserves wont work, and drilling would, but why you think tapping the reserves will work and drilling wont. You are correct about the drilling taking some time, though the claim that it would take 10 years is a falsehood:





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The real number of years aside, if we dont drill for oil, then how many years will it take for oil prices to drop?
Well, first off I'm not dumb, so I guess that disqualifies me.


Tapping the reserves isn't a continuing source. It doesn't solve the problem, but alleviates the pain for a very short time. It also reinforces the speculators belief that there's a shortage. This makes them perk up and bet some more.





Do you intend to not be here in ten years? I do. The short sightedness of Bill Clinton, when he used that very excuse, would have started producing oil about two years ago. Drilling doesn't have to take ten years. There are experts that estimate the can get oil off the outer continental shelf in two to five years. A lot of the problems with the whole ten years thing is due to the red tape imposed by our loving government.





But actually, by the very arguments of the Democrats in congress, it would help before we drilled an inch. They have a tendency to blame the speculators, and I do beleive they play a role. They're basically just gamblers betting on the future price of oil as a commodity. They watch what goes on in the world and follow that. If it looks like there's going to be more oil in the market sometime in the future, especially if it will provide price wars, they'll drop it like a hot potato. A good example is going on right now. President Bush and the governor of Florida said that now would be a good time to drill. Congress is fighting it tooth and nail, but in spite of that, the speculators are seeing that the tide is turning and some of the are wanting to cash in their chips now. As a result, oil dropped 16 dollars a barrel. That's a HUGE drop.





Can you imagine if congress went along with it? Not to mention if they cut the red tape it took as well? It would drop sharply. We also have the shale programs, giving us more oil than the middle east.





The last time the middle east was threatened with their oil going away, they dropped it drastically to discourage us from getting energy independent. They'll do it again.





This is before we put a single drop into the system. Afterwards, look out. Especially if we continue to develop our alternative fuels programs, which will lower the value of oil even more.





THAT is why drilling is a good idea.
The offshore drilling experts are saying that the ';10 year'; number that the Democrats insist on quoting is outdated and based on old technology. Figures.


They know where the deposits are and can have the wells operational in as little as TWO YEARS from the time Congress gives the OK.





The reserves have only a limited amount of oil.


We have no idea how much we can produce from the deposits we have as drilling and production technology improve.


There are many older fields that had stopped producing that are now viable using secondary and tertiary recovery techniques.


Oil shale recovery is now viable but frivolous environmental law suits are stopping us from utilizing this resource.





You are calling the WRONG people ';dumb.';
The strategic reserve is for national emergencies. It was created after the oil embargo in the 1970's. That was a threat to our national security. We are still recieving millions if not billions of barrells of oil from all over the world. With that said while paying $4+ a gallon does suck it is not a national crisis. As such it is not justifible to release some barrels from the reserve. That said drilling our own resources makes sense espicially if it is couple with an effort to bring other alternitive energy sources on line which will take a lot longer.
okay so we use our strategic reserves. then the nation has to pay an even higher price to replace those reserves. God forbid we have a national disaster and the tanks are empty.





using our strategic reserves to lower gas prices won't bring prices back down by much and would only do that much for a very very short time- like a month.





it's very shortsighted, not a solution, and actually just a reason for pelosi to scream at Bush and take the spotlight off her obstructionism.
I'm not sure how old you are, but if you study the problem, those of us who are a bit older have been pushing for drilling and alternative energy sources for the past 20 years or so. It was the liberal democrat tree-huggers like Green Peace and their ilk that have put up roadblock after roadblock. Had they listened when we told the government we needed to lessen our dependancy on foreign oil back then, we would be self-sustaining now and not in our current predicament.
Doctor, ';peak oil'; is a nice theory. I respect Mr.Pickens but when you see new oil finds like the Brazilian find and the exploration off the western shore of Africa, it is possible ';peak oil'; is theory that is conflict with reality.
so if you empty out your retirement savings now, and don't replenish it, do you think you will ever be able to retire?


Or should you leave that money alone, work a bit harder now, and be able to live comfortably when you get too old to work?
If a hurricane with the power of Katrina wiped out the Mississippi delta again, but we didn't have extra oil supplies to compensate for the disaster, you would blame bush for that too huh??
actually we could get new oil in 2 to 5 years. The libs like to use that quote because it was used to deny drilling in Alaska. And the amount of oil in our reserves would not last long.
If they had any brain they would have started looking for alternate energy long back.
Why don't we do both?





Why does it have to take 10 years? It shouldn't.