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- MacBookForMe, on 11/21/2008, -1/+27Surprise, surprise...
- Dinsdale77, on 11/22/2008, -20/+11Sweet.
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -4/+5No, dumbass. Light Sweet Crude.
- brandita, on 11/22/2008, -22/+13Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill.
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -2/+10That's why your husband left you, you told him "Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill."
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -2/+10That's why your husband left you, you told him "Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill."
- speel, on 11/22/2008, -20/+20+1 for the federal courts.
- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4-1 for you
- speel, on 11/24/2008, -1/+1-1 for you
- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4-1 for you
- trentrezn0r, on 11/22/2008, -17/+16Holy *****! Sudden outbreak of reason by the US government!
- Rivetgeek, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5judicial != executive
- trentrezn0r, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Yah, no *****. They're still the judicial branch of the US GOVERNMENT. Judges need to think and make decisions too you know.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3cats != dogs
- Rivetgeek, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5judicial != executive
- jonathanzombie, on 11/22/2008, -25/+2
- absurdist, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Jesus... ENOUGH with the crappy, misaligned excuse for a pedobear image.
- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -20/+21what the hell.. why not completely get rid of oil drilling.. just freaking ban it.. heck we don't need oil.. we can run around in solar powered automobiles.. we can dump the coal too and burn wood.. that should really help the environment.. oh shoot, I forgot nuclear.. we don't need that either.. too much risk.. wind power should take care of generating enough energy to run our home computer, that's all we really need, right?
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -7/+8Begin playing the theme music to StarTrek...
"Bolding going where no thinking human being has gone before.
It's four year mission ... to hobble America once and for all...."
How about it, Bob?
Nihilism?
Didja see that great Digg about the subject?
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Liberalism_and_t ...
A quote from this excellent article:
"""The great liberal death wish
Death is the separation of body and spirit. The pulling apart of body and spirit in a living man can lead to a death wish as it did for Pollock and Nietzsche. There is a link between Nietzsche' statement "God is dead" and his death wish. In Proverbs 8:36, God says, "He who sins against me injures his own soul. All those who hate me love death." One approach to hating God is the idolatrous faith in man. Hence the link between liberal humanism and a death wish."""
I'm convinced Liberals have a death wish for America. - Ymeg, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8You do realize that oil is used for oth...
never mind. - ChristNewsWatch, on 11/22/2008, -1/+10Yea, we can get rid of the oil problem and the diet industry all in one shot, by having to walk everywhere.
People walked or rode horses for 1,000's of years, surely we can handle it, right?
(sarcastic)
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -7/+8Begin playing the theme music to StarTrek...
- ModernGeek, on 11/22/2008, -5/+21Does this mean the price of gasoline will rise as a result?
- Falldog, on 11/22/2008, -9/+8No
- uncleosbert, on 11/22/2008, -2/+9yes. please send an additional $.10 per gallon to me.
- ModernGeek, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Address?
- uncleosbert, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1number one observatory circle.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/vpresidence ...
- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -16/+10no, as a society we do not need oil.. we can grow trees and burn them.. get rid of coal.. get rid of nuclear.. get rid of the big oil companies, those rich bastards.. hell, what else can we kill in this country.. I think we should kill big government too. we don't need government. we don't need anything but a New World Order.. the devil will take care of us.. we can live in anarchy.. so yes, the price of oil will go down if we don't drill.. we don't need oil.. it is crazy to have oil.. I hate oil... damn I really hate oil.
- youannoyme, on 11/22/2008, -3/+5I buried you above for being stupid. I'm burying you here for double posting. You really needed to write the same thing twice especially when both posts are right next to each other...
g'day. - Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Nav wipes the dirt off seeingright.
Do you feel better now!
;-)
- youannoyme, on 11/22/2008, -3/+5I buried you above for being stupid. I'm burying you here for double posting. You really needed to write the same thing twice especially when both posts are right next to each other...
- flaunttnualf, on 11/22/2008, -23/+16These environmentalist wackos ought to be classified as "enemy combatants." Their effect is the same. Jackasses.
- ChemiosMurphy, on 11/22/2008, -8/+11You're an idiot. Once we ruin the environment, what do we have left? Think of future generations.
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -7/+3Once America is ruined by Liberalism who will be left?
Think of no future.
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -7/+3Once America is ruined by Liberalism who will be left?
- uncleosbert, on 11/22/2008, -4/+11so you believe the government should be able to break the law?
- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -8/+6crap we are a zillion dollars in debt.. not much left in this Country to ruin dufus.. the government can't pay for its own social welfare programs.. what makes you think it gives a ***** about paying for the enviroment.. it is all politics, scare tactics.. like I told you already, grow and burn trees. That would get rid of oil.. I hate oil. Oil is greedy and sinful. I really hate oil. If there is no oil the enviroment will thrive (as a wasteland).
- ChemiosMurphy, on 11/22/2008, -8/+11You're an idiot. Once we ruin the environment, what do we have left? Think of future generations.
- Keatonguy, on 11/22/2008, -15/+11This puts me at ease. It's good to know there's still a little scrutiny in the judicial branch.
- dbzssj44676, on 11/22/2008, -5/+3We at Digg are happy you feel better.
/s
- dbzssj44676, on 11/22/2008, -5/+3We at Digg are happy you feel better.
- Frozenlynx, on 11/22/2008, -12/+16Why do people think it's a good thing that we are forcing ourselves to rely on foreign oil when we've got plenty of it here? ***** the environment, I want lower gas prices for my V8 Firebird
- HomieG6189, on 11/22/2008, -10/+10Amen. We rely on countries who hate our guts. What's stopping them from just pulling the plug on our oil? I agree, search for alternative fuel methods. And do it fast!!! But until then, drill!
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -3/+2The oil we drill doesn't stay here, *****. it goes on market to "countries who hate our guts".
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11***** your V8 Firebird, I want a clean environment.
And hey, maybe instead of spending so much money on expensive cars, you can cut out the middleman and just buy penis enlargement pills.- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -6/+7You can have your Marxism communist BS.
I say he keeps the Firebird with the V-8 and you can live in dirt, harvesting beets and taking your marching orders from Comrade Obama. - mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5Who the ***** said anything about communism?
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Between Bush and Obama, only one has been locking people away indefinitely without trials, comrade.
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -6/+7You can have your Marxism communist BS.
- locojones, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11LOL oh the naivete' of Digg users. Don't you keyboard jockeys understand that any oil drilled here doesn't stay here? It goes up for sale on the open commodities market and gets bought by China, or Russia, or any one of those other counties that you presume to hate. And with a barrel of crude going for less than $50 dollars right now and gas in some parts of the country below 1.40/gal, why would you even want to risk harm to the environment for the potential for a couple cents off gas? Honestly, I can't fathom the short-sighted selfishness of some of the people on here.
- seth553, on 11/22/2008, -2/+2Maybe you could pipe the exhaust of your V8 Firebird into the interior, and seal yourself inside. You'd have your own little "environment" - and enough gas to last the rest of your life.
Wake up America.
- HomieG6189, on 11/22/2008, -10/+10Amen. We rely on countries who hate our guts. What's stopping them from just pulling the plug on our oil? I agree, search for alternative fuel methods. And do it fast!!! But until then, drill!
- titaniumten, on 11/22/2008, -11/+15The Federal Court can suck my fat hairy balls.
- Ricemanstm, on 11/22/2008, -13/+12And here go the wactivists determined to make sure that we pay as much as possible for oil. Too bad we can't make activists an endangered species.
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -5/+5here we go dividing our country into convenient little groups so we'll have someone to hate since we can't be racist anymore.
- SkittlesUSA, on 11/22/2008, -11/+21Yeah baby, let's continue to rely on foreign oil!!!111!!11 The federal courts are the best!!!!!!!
Federal Courts and Digg: 1
People who want to not depend on foreign oil: 0- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -6/+10@skittles.. too cool brother! I just love your comment.. still laughing and needed a good laugh today.. cheers, Bob
- marymixtoes, on 11/22/2008, -12/+10It would seem that the age of reason may be making a comeback
- Khast, on 11/22/2008, -10/+10Going to play psychic here.....ommmmmmmmmm
In other news, in Bush's twilight, vetoes the Federal ruling over Alaska drilling. (Or goes on some "emergency" ruling that gives Shell immunity.)
I hope I am wrong, but there's a pattern to the madness in the Bush Regime....destroy as much as they can before they leave office, without regard to regulations.
....boy, I really hope I am wrong...- Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -2/+4I hope you're kidding... or you really need to go back and retake Civics 101.
- Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -2/+4I hope you're kidding... or you really need to go back and retake Civics 101.
- mrgreg, on 11/22/2008, -9/+14Of course, the Obama-worshiping hippies will mark this up as a victory, when it clearly is a defeat, as we make no further progress to stop sending money overseas and use what resources we have. Terrible.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -2/+5What makes you think that oil would have stayed in the U.S?
Prove that it would, otherwise you have no valid argument here. Something tells me if we did allow drilling, these companies would just sell it overseas anyway, then the democrats would propose some kind of legislation requiring it to stay in the U.S, and the fake republicans would cry and bitch ZOMG REGULATION EVIL!
And nothing will have changed, oh except for all the new drilling. Thanks for that.- Kiganshee, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2So here's the thing mrsteveman.... the oil leaving the US doesn't really matter... if it leaves, by the time it does, the US has already taken a cut of it, so it doesn't much make a difference to us.
It's funny that you are concerned about domestic oil leaving the US, when that is precisely what we are asking OPEC to do every day -- send their oil on over. If the democrats did propose such legislation, it would be extremely hypocritical, and hopefully get us cut off by OPEC so we could see the irony (since if we won't send our oil to them, they shouldn't feel required to send their oil to us).
But it's unlikely the oil would leave, for a few reasons:
1. The US has the most refining capacity in the world (or if not the most, close). There's no reason to take alaskan oil anywhere else to be refined, unless people just like tanking it around the world for no reason.
2. The US uses far more oil than it produces. It would be similarly stupid to produce and process the oil here, and then send it around the world to someone else, when there is plenty of domestic demand to be satisfied at much lower transportation cost.
- Kiganshee, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2So here's the thing mrsteveman.... the oil leaving the US doesn't really matter... if it leaves, by the time it does, the US has already taken a cut of it, so it doesn't much make a difference to us.
- BBWolf, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3@mrsteveman: Commodity prices (like everything else) are a function of supply and demand, and increasing supply will, in fact, cause prices to trend downward. It does not matter that the market is global; Increases in net supply result in a decrease in price. In addition, OPEC now controls a large portion of the worlds reserves and decisions they make regarding production will be blunted if the percentage of world production under their control is decreased. Increasing our production will decrease their market share and result in a more stable and predictable market.
To put it another way. The size of the market has nothing to do with price, but the size of your share of that market has everything to do with your ability to influence price.
Demand is another subject.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -2/+5What makes you think that oil would have stayed in the U.S?
- Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -3/+9What happens here:
Shell employees approach short-timers at the Department of the Interior... jobs are promised if the study can be conducted post-haste.... Study is conducted in record time, record is appropriately 'packed...' Drilling permit is then re-approved. Environmental groups sue... they lose because the federal courts have to give deference to agencies.... Shell gets to drill, some former agency officials embark on a new career. Life is good for everyone ('cept some caribou).- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -5/+5only in your dreams.. this is the United States of America. The legal system and the enviromental wackos win. Shell goes somewhere else to drill and we lose energy.. this is what this Country wants.. damn, I hate oil... I just hate it.. it is no good.. it is evil.. it should never be allowed to taint our wonderful society again.. I just can't wait to get rid of oil.. thank you! you are welcome!
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -2/+3Damn liberals sent American oil men packing to the middle East in the first place.
I still remember the signs in the 60's and 70's: "Not in My Backyard!"
Over in the middle East the signs read: "Drill Here Infidels! Finance Our Agenda. Then We Kill You!"
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -2/+3Damn liberals sent American oil men packing to the middle East in the first place.
- Kiganshee, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Nah, here's what really happens:
Shell conducts environmental study about endangered species, makes concessions to inupiat about stopping drilling for whales (probably including paying them money, since everyone really just wants a cut), rebuilds rig to run quieter using electricity, agrees to build platform further offshore to please inupiat. Gets plan approved by MMS.
Enviro-wackjobs sue again, because they're really not concerned about the whales, the inupiat, or the endangered species, they just don't want oil drilling, and they'd rather make up issues to play football with than have an open discussion about the pros and cons of drilling in offshore alaska, and whether the government should allow it.
- seeingright, on 11/22/2008, -5/+5only in your dreams.. this is the United States of America. The legal system and the enviromental wackos win. Shell goes somewhere else to drill and we lose energy.. this is what this Country wants.. damn, I hate oil... I just hate it.. it is no good.. it is evil.. it should never be allowed to taint our wonderful society again.. I just can't wait to get rid of oil.. thank you! you are welcome!
- asgardshill, on 11/22/2008, -7/+6Tricky Dick Nixon had his access to the "nuclear football" taken away from him before he actually left office when he resigned. Can we/should we do any less for a drooling madman like Bush who so desperately wants to get in his last licks at the "traitor greenies" before he's given the bum's rush out of the White House?
Give the nuclear codes to Barack Obama now; hell, give 'em to the Jack-in-the-Box spokesball for all I care. But idiot children shouldn't be given sharp knives to play with.- TriMarkC, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Funny, I was thinking the same thing about the Internet and a keyboard ....oh, never mind.
- captainmage1966, on 11/22/2008, -5/+5Once again lets take step to bring back $4 plus gas . It is better to never solve a problem and only complain .
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -5/+7"Will drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lower the cost of gas? Government studies say ANWR oil will have little effect on prices at the pump."
http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/an ...
That article is talking about drilling the supposed motherload, ANWAR, and not just tapping into the offshore wells like Shell was trying to do. There are a lot more resources out there (easily accessible from your computer) that will help you understand how drilling American oil will not help the price of oil much if at all. The fact that gas is $1.75 right now is just proof that they can sell gas for under 2 dollars without going broke. There isn't more oil today than there was last summer. OPEC and others are ***** us. That's where the gas prices come from. It isn't supply and demand, rather it is politics. THAT is why "drill baby, drill" is the most self-serving thing any politician has ever said. It completely ignores the problem or any resolution
HEY! How about you learn WTF you're talking about! There's a good boy!- captainmage1966, on 11/22/2008, -1/+1 We need to build lots more refineries as well . I can see that wycheck89yo use the classic personal attack to drive his point home .
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -5/+7"Will drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lower the cost of gas? Government studies say ANWR oil will have little effect on prices at the pump."
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -5/+11All of you assholes trying to blame this on liberals and their lust for foreign oil should really just STFU. The ruling was because the proper procedures weren't followed. You can't add a bedroom to your own house without the proper inspections. They tried to circumvent the law and got slammed for it. Do you really want corporations to exist outside the law? You should really chill the ***** out and stop trying to pick fights with your neighbors when this is NOT a donkey vs elephant situation.
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -0/+10I'm getting buried, but I'd like for someone to comment and admit that yes, they do want corporations to get special treatment and be allowed to break the law. All Shell had to do was follow the rules. They didn't do that and they got slammed.
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -6/+5If we left every thing to liberals we wouldn't have bedrooms.
Just tents and we'd be speaking Arabic .... Those that converted anyway.
- benitojuarez, on 11/22/2008, -3/+9To those people for drilling I have this nice easy explanation
We use 25% of all oil that exists.
We have 3% of all oil that exists available for us to drill and keep.
You can't make a shiny quarter out of 3 dull pennies. Plain and simple. Its not really even remotely significant progress towards a quarter. Anyone thats had to dig change out of their couch at some point in their life should be able to understand this.- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -4/+5More oil has been discovered in the last two years than mankind has used since they found a use for the stuff.
Adiabatic oil.
The supply is limitless.
Getting to it is the tough part.
Regardless, until some paradigm shift technology becomes available on the open market, like Blacklight Power, there is no other cheaper, better, or more reliable product than crude oil
Crude oil is a gift from God and should be treated as such.
Liberalism on the other hand is nihilism.
Just as Kyptonite is deadly to Superman, so is liberalism death to America as we know it.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/07030 ...- rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -4/+6Conservatism = Nazism
See how ***** STUPID THAT ***** ***** IS, STFU - Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -4/+5What is it about 'You People' that you must use expletives when the better tool is nouns, verbs and adjectives oriented in a pleasing fashion and order to make a sound point of conviction?
The way you communicate reminds me os standing on one's own pants while trying to gain entry into the same. I know you want to wear the pants but the question is... Can you?
It seems liberalism is suffering medical conditions on two fronts:
1. Nihilism is leading you down the slippery slope of collapse:
"""The world view of American liberals began to collapse in the sixties. This was the beginning of the great liberal gotterdammerung, or "twilight of the gods." During the seventies, many liberals retreated into narcissism as a refuge and into hedonism as a consolation. If they could not have their promised utopia, at least they could retreat into the self-pampering cult of the New Age Movement and have the consolation of unbridled sex, drugs, and rock and roll."""
The other is lagomorphipta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gsaDdqGzA
If you dare! - rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -2/+3Expletives are a sign that I don't respect you, you have to earn that respect, and by insulting my beliefs, which are grounded in real, tangible things, you destroy any chance of ever earning it. Fine with me.
- TriMarkC, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Rheaume - If you begin conversations with expletives, and yet still demand that others respect you first before you will respect them, then you're off to a wonderful life of perpetual disrespect. Like you say to others, the world does not owe you one ounce of respect - it must be earned. And a great place to start is losing expletives ... it makes you sound like a teen anyway. Thoughtful responses take time, as Navigator7 demonstrated. So far, you have not earned any readers' respect, but we're willing to listen when you can respect us to the same degree you expect to be respected by us.
- Navigator7, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Rheaume,
You (and your kind) are an endless source for amusement!
Your abundant use of expletives belies your own inadequacies elsewhere.
The only truth evident here is you lack the tools to engage in any dialog of substance.
There is only 'One' who commands your respect. Thanks to the minions around our nation who think as you ... our nation is headed to his home in a hand basket.
With folks like you around, it's hard not to enjoy the ride.
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Christian/Satan2. ...
- rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -4/+6Conservatism = Nazism
- Navigator7, on 11/22/2008, -4/+5More oil has been discovered in the last two years than mankind has used since they found a use for the stuff.
- dbzssj44676, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6People are stupid.
- seth553, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Great comment. These jackasses who actually express their opinions are getting buried as much as they're getting dugg, but not you. No matter which side of the oil argument you're on, everyone can agree with you.
- dbzssj44676, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1:-) it wouldn't have made much sense if I said people are smart... or would it?
- seth553, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Great comment. These jackasses who actually express their opinions are getting buried as much as they're getting dugg, but not you. No matter which side of the oil argument you're on, everyone can agree with you.
- lccat, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4As long as the "whales" can migrate! If you could find Japanese whalers and harpoons when you need them, problem solved!
- jerryudigg, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6Soon we will be banning factories, cars, shopping malls, strip malls, and houses in the US without an environmental study. The golden age is right around the corner.
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6THE SKY IS FALLING!!! OH MY GOD!! THEY'RE MAKING A CORPORATION OBEY THE LAW! QUICK, EVERYBODY TO THE BOMB SHELTER!!
I'm assuming we're on the same page here, because you've got to be kidding, right?
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6THE SKY IS FALLING!!! OH MY GOD!! THEY'RE MAKING A CORPORATION OBEY THE LAW! QUICK, EVERYBODY TO THE BOMB SHELTER!!
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -7/+10Where the ***** did you people come from?
-"wactivists"?
-"***** the environment, I want lower gas prices"?
-"These environmentalist wackos ought to be classified as enemy combatants"?
Get the ***** off of Digg and go back to whatever anus you people crawled out of.- rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Computing has become so easy these days, its ***** Deliverance with a laptop.
I remember the days where it required a certain level of intelligence and funny enough, they weren't around... - Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -4/+1We've been drilling offshore all over the place for years now, and probably with significantly less advanced technology and environmental controls than Shell is planning to use on this one, and I'm not aware of any catastrophically destroyed local ecosystems.
- rheaume, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Computing has become so easy these days, its ***** Deliverance with a laptop.
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -7/+8They should just drill anyway.
Who's gonna go out and stop them? Greenpeace? Al Gore? Peacenik Hippies?- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7Yeah and contractors should just go ahead and build without the blessing of the inspectors right? Anarchy is so awesome! I think I'll kill my neighbor's dog cause it barks and is ugly. ***** what the law says!
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -3/+3You should know, right?
And, besides, Alaska would only be fulfilling the obligation made when she became a state in 1959.
Did you know that there's oil bubbling out of the earth's surface, including under the oceans, on a regular basis? - Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -3/+2Nilesmc, even more interesting is that ocean drilling actually reduces natural oil seepage by relieving pressure.
- nilesmc, on 11/22/2008, -3/+3You should know, right?
- absurdist, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1As this was a federal case, I would assume the U.S. Navy. Go right ahead and ***** with them if you like, tough guy.
- wycheck89yo, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7Yeah and contractors should just go ahead and build without the blessing of the inspectors right? Anarchy is so awesome! I think I'll kill my neighbor's dog cause it barks and is ugly. ***** what the law says!
- Oatlord, on 11/22/2008, -2/+8Much better article about this topic: http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/5964 ...
I'm 100% for using our natural resources and 100% for logical, pragmatic approaches to striving for energy independence. But, I think achieving those goals has to be done in a sound environmental way. Fifty years of cheap gas isn't worth a trashed ecosystem. If Shell truly didn't do their due diligence when conducting the environmental study that is required by law, then I don't disagree with this ruling.
I find it humorous though that environmental groups are hailing this as a victory for the indigenous wildlife while the local populations are hailing it as a victory so they can continue killing the wildlife, namely the whales. Guess whales are screwed either way. - akchrs, on 11/22/2008, -3/+8Actually the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is just considered, by Alaskans, a stupid stepping stone to an actual decision. They almost always get overturned. In fact we want to get out of the Ninth Circuit, like other states, because they legislate from the bench.
"The 9th Circuit also has a long-running streak as the most overturned, which went unbroken this year. "
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/11/opinion/oe ...- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2something has to be done about the 9th circus of appeals. every judge on that bench should be tossed out
- blindmelon1, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Title reads as if they won't let Alaskans drill for shells....
:0) - niradg, on 11/22/2008, -3/+6Oh no, but gas is so expensive right now!
Oh wait, it's not. It's actually cheap as hell. The petroleum bubble has burst.- Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3You might want to check the major stock indexes and decide if it was the petroleum bubble that burst or a much more fundamental one.
- reaper527, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2niradg, that stupidity is the attitude that got us in the mess we were in last summer. 10 years ago clinton said "it will take 10 years for returns if we invest in oil production". 10 years later, nothing was done and gas prices are soaring through the roof.
invest now to keep the prices low while also investing in alternative energy for the medium/long term solution.
- Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -4/+2"are the basis of the Inupiat community’s subsistence culture."
Sorry guys, I don't want to live a subsistence lifestyle, and I'm afraid that's going to require the offshore oil near you. I have to live with section 8 housing that interferes with my "trying not to get shot or robbed culture", so you're just going to have to suck it up and adapt. - Barackalypse, on 11/22/2008, -5/+2Wait, let me get this straight, is Digg siding with the whale killing natives on this one, because I'm pretty sure you guys like whales and I'm also pretty sure oil rigs don't kill them. In fact, I checked Google, all I could find one the subject was a picture of a whale happily frolicking near some oil platforms:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/images/080717_ ...- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Wow that whale sure looks happy! Nice name and avatar btw.
LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! ITS A MUSLIM!
- Jareth86, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Wow that whale sure looks happy! Nice name and avatar btw.
- normlsparky, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2The facts are that the oil companies have damaged the environment and shown willful disregard for the damage done to peoples' livelihoods. The Exxon Valdez incident is a good example. This is the reason that these regulations exist. If oil companies would have acted responsibly after incidents like this, instead of dragging out the case for 20 years, they may not be facing these regulations today.
- ZEROGreenhouse, on 11/22/2008, -1/+0We need to leave fossilized reserves of carbon alone. They were safe from harm to us where mother nature put them. That goes for coal and well as oil
www.strategicbookpublishing.com/ZEROGreenhouseEmissions.html - zunigbab, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Please name the other good examples...of oil companies damaging the environment. HINT...3 Mile Island doesn't count! ....Still Waiting! BTW - Carbon Dioxide and greenhouse gases don't count because that is your pollution. The seismic studies likely won't occur at the same time the migration does unless the environmentalist keep delaying things until they coincide. And it's not like the freaking Navy. Seismic gets shot ONCE! That's it! It is not going to harm the whales and there isn't one single documented instance.
- anthrodocz, on 11/23/2008, -1/+0A heartening move to be sure.
On the other hand, someone needs to teach a lesson in economics (or two) to the average US citizen about who wins or loses from oil drilling. People talk like "we" (average citizens) somehow own this stuff because it is geographically under US soil. Not only will today's or tomorrow's drilling not impact the economy in general for years to come, but the people who are going to reap the benefits of "drill baby drill" are the oil companies. This oil is not socially owned by the citizens of the US. In fact, as with the Bank bailout etc. we need to realize, the benefits are private (to the banks, the CEO's, the oil companies) while the losses are socialized (to us).
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