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[buckman]

Originally Posted by spence

Yea, Norway is a great example

Your declaration that liberals are anti-drilling is equally absurd. By your reasoning Obama is a radical liberal and yet when he became President he...MOVED TO INCREASE OFFSHORE DRILLING!

The objection to drilling ANWR isn't that it's going to kill caribu, it's that human activity has the potential to destroy one of the few perfectly balanced ecosystems left on this planet.

Can it be done? Perhaps if we act more like Norway...

The US doesn't have enough oil to just open up more drilling. Energy independence will only come with alternative technologies, more frugal consumers all back filled by the carbon fuels we do have in abundance like natural gas and coal which we know how to produce and use safely assuming proper regulations are in place.

-spence

Obama said he was going to open it up but instead shut it down, You have to look at what he does..not what comes out of his mouth.

The US has more enviromental restrictions and precautions then most of the country's that now drill on their own land. Are you saying that Norway is better at this then us??? I call BS.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by buckman

Obama said he was going to open it up but instead shut it down, You have to look at what he does..not what comes out of his mouth.

The US has more enviromental restrictions and precautions then most of the country's that now drill on their own land. Are you saying that Norway is better at this then us??? I call BS.

It was shut down with a pretty decent reason. How many wells out there lack the relatively inexpensive blow out protector that could have significantly reduced the spill of last April? If the answer is we don't know, then yes, Norway and others may be doing this better than us.