[BABRAM]

Time to see the *Big Picture* you guys.

Our country is the titanic after it hit the iceberg(Presidential failure to address the imported oil situation after Carter), the lights are still on and the music is playing, but ......we are going down fast without change.

.....the Fascists(formerly Conservatives)don't want to make changes so that we can save America before it hits bottom.

Good point. It was actually George Herbert Walker Bush that put parts of the US coast line drilling ban in effect, and then the moratorium was further extended by Bill Clinton.

[N0help4u]

They just said on the news that Bush W is suppose to sign a bill that allows off shore drilling tomorrow. Hope I heard right.
I blame the environmentalists for us not being allowed to use our own oil.
They say that Colorado and Anwar has more oil than Saudi Arabia
So why do we bow to the environmentalists?

[Fr_Chuck]

States lost that right long ago, anyone remember the civil war, that was a states right issue, they lost, federal government gained control and has only increased it ever sense.

[BABRAM]

They just said on the news that Bush W is suppose to sign a bill that allows off shore drilling tomorrow. Hope I heard right.
I blame the environmentalists for us not being allowed to use our own oil.
They say that Colorado and Anwar has more oil than Saudi Arabia
so why do we bow to the environmentalists?

If Dubya signs and lifts the moratorium his father initiated it would realistically give us a four year window of oil supply off the coasts alone. Car manufacturer's should be racing to take the opportunity for the coming supply and demand for alternative powered vehicles. Of course with inflation and stagnant wages, the cost of these new vehicles may be not be reasonably affordable or in the budget for the middle/lower classes.

[tomder55]

Yeah Fr Chuck the South fought for the States rights to enslave people. It is arguments like yours that discredits the whole concept of States rights.