Off-shore drilling? Where do they get this stuff? The Bush Administration is starting to tout expanding areas of off-shore drilling for oil. Supposedly this will lessen our dependency on foreign oil and lower prices on gasoline. All this will give us time to develop alternative sources to fossil fuels.
Since it would be years before any oil could be recovered from any new off-shore wells, how could anybody possibly believe that this would alleviate the current high price of gasoline? Add to this the fact that the oil companies already have vast quantities of land here in the US where they could drill.
It boggles my mind to think that anybody with a lick of common sense, and less than a quart of whiskey in him, could possibly believe that this would benefit anybody but the oil companies. Do they really need more windfall profits?!?
This is what an off-shore rig looks like.
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