[quote=Led Zep;324372]SIMPLE SOLUTION


First, we need to tell the environmentalists to go shove it and begin drilling for oil anywhere we think we can find it, and that includes ANWR. If the drilling adversely affects how and where a moose has a bowel movement then so be it. The earth isn't supposed to be worshipped, it's supposed to be used.

I hope that this is just a blanket statement by you after you have been drinking. Have you flown over the oil fields in Texas? Talk about an ugly scar on the environment. I am glad that the oil companies have more sense than you appear to. Do you know that very few Americans own the mineral rights under their property? Why not just start drilling for oil in your backyard? Just because we have an overwhelming thirst for oil doesn't mean that we should adopt a scorched earth method of obtaining it. If the Government would quit tinkering with the interest rates, the SEC quit allowing groups both internationally and locally to day trade things would play out in our favor in the short to medium term. The market would stabilize and we would enter an inflationary cycle. This would up the price of the dollar and bring it more in line with the rest of the world. $100 a barrel oil would then seem more reasonable. Just my meat eating, SUV driving, naive opinion.