Drilling for oil in Alaska BUY OR SELL?

bigboydan · 07-20-2008, 06:36 PM

With these outrageous oil price we are forced to pay and with all the untapped oil scientists say that is in Alaska right now. I think the U.S. government should do all they can to refine it!

Buy or sell: Oil drilling in Alaska?

element1286 · 07-20-2008, 06:40 PM

Buy.

Gotta do something to get the prices down.

pavyracer · 07-20-2008, 06:49 PM

There are no significant deposits in Alaska. Most of the oil is across the Bering Sea in Siberia. This is why the Russians sold us Alaska for 2c/acre because all the oil is in Siberia and with global warming exposing most of the permafrost in the 10,000 mile long Siberia coastline we are going to be left grabbing the moose's testacles to milk for oil.

MonkeyF0cker · 07-20-2008, 07:46 PM

Sell.

Use the money to invest in alternative energy research and development. There isn't enough oil there to make much of a dent in gas prices anyway. We need to alleviate this problem permanently, not patch it for a few years by raping the little undeveloped wilderness still remaining. This problem needs to go away and the only way we truly resolve it is to get away from fossil fuel consumption as our primary means of energy. Its high time we quit putting it off!

jjgold · 07-20-2008, 07:47 PM

Not going to drill because so many politicians have oil stocks and are making a killing.

jtuck · 07-20-2008, 08:00 PM

Buy. Glenn Beck said it best. I'd drill through a polar bear's ass to get cheaper gas.

ryanXL977 · 07-20-2008, 08:03 PM

glenn beck is not a person i would quote
he is dummer than a box of rocks

jtuck · 07-20-2008, 08:04 PM

Nevermind. Dont want to start something

durito · 07-20-2008, 08:20 PM

There is not enough there to have much effect on oil prices.

We need to invest in alternative energy sources.

ryanXL977 · 07-20-2008, 08:25 PM

do you guys seriously think drilling is gonna drop our oil prices
if they will , go for it
kill all the polar bears for all i care, give me back $2 gas. but i have a funny feeling it wont do anything, because no matter what, oil will go to the highest bidder, not the lowest
so drilling is pointless

onthewhat · 07-20-2008, 08:25 PM

buy buy buy buy

RageWizard · 07-20-2008, 09:33 PM

I'm a no on drilling. Oil prices aren't going anywhere but up even if they find a giant pool up someones ass big enough to supply us for the next 100 years. Oil companies don't want to find too much at one time. It is time for the U.S. to bite the bullet and find something else. 10 years of pain and we can be off of oil for good. What is needed is the polictical will and a giant program to give incentives to companies for going to alternative energies. Yeah its going to hurt everyone in the short run to do it, but you'll be better off in a decade for doing it. Of course we live in a I need it now society so I'm not counting on it, so in the meantime please buy a land yatcht so that I can stay employed.

element1286 · 07-20-2008, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RageWizard

I'm a no on drilling. Oil prices aren't going anywhere but up even if they find a giant pool up someones ass big enough to supply us for the next 100 years. Oil companies don't want to find too much at one time. It is time for the U.S. to bite the bullet and find something else. 10 years of pain and we can be off of oil for good. What is needed is the polictical will and a giant program to give incentives to companies for going to alternative energies. Yeah its going to hurt everyone in the short run to do it, but you'll be better off in a decade for doing it. Of course we live in a I need it now society so I'm not counting on it, so in the meantime please buy a land yatcht so that I can stay employed.

Why can't both be done?

mathdotcom · 07-20-2008, 09:45 PM

Don't get why everyone thinks they're entitled to cheap gas.

Like others have said, it's about phucking time for alternative energy. Low gas prices will never be compatible w/ that. Oil is the source of all of America's problems. Get rid of it.

RageWizard · 07-20-2008, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by element1286

Why can't both be done?

U.S. residents are fat and lazy by nature, and will not do anything until we have too. We could have done this in the late 70's but then oil got cheap and we got the Ford Escallade which gets like 10 miles to the gallon but is 4 times the size of a european apartment. If there is sufficient pain, the government will declare a war on oil and it will be patriotic to save as much oil as possible. Hell JJ will even get credit for not using astroglide on the fatties that he is banging in the ass.

bigboydan · 07-21-2008, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by mathdotcom

Don't get why everyone thinks they're entitled to cheap gas.

Like others have said, it's about phucking time for alternative energy. Low gas prices will never be compatible w/ that. Oil is the source of all of America's problems. Get rid of it.

While I do agree we need to focus on other means of energy resources, why not focus on what we have sitting on U.S. soil. To me thats just a no brainer.

Deuce · 07-21-2008, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by pavyracer

There are no significant deposits in Alaska. Most of the oil is across the Bering Sea in Siberia. This is why the Russians sold us Alaska for 2c/acre because all the oil is in Siberia and with global warming exposing most of the permafrost in the 10,000 mile long Siberia coastline we are going to be left grabbing the moose's testacles to milk for oil.

I was told there is more oil in the US than in Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, and Nigeria combined.