More politics over offshore drilling

[iNow]

My own opinion is that we should avoid drilling in the US, other than to have enough to run the country's basic needs in case of war/embargo, and import what we need. Then, when everyone else's oil is used up, we can sell our own, or use it ourselves while we let them spend the big bucks trying to figure out how to be sustainable.

 

I, too, think that idea has merit. I argued briefly a similar point over here:

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=422261#post422261