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Originally Posted by texas*princess
EE-BO, thanks for the explanation
Re: offshore drilling, Bush is a moron to think this is going to solve the problem. It's a temporary solution to a very permanent problem. All environmental reasons aside, it is just delaying the inevitable. This isn't going to decrease our dependance on oil and if he thinks oil is the only thing affecting the economy he's a lot dumber than I thought.
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Nobody is looking at this as something that will be responsible for solving the problem. It's something that can and will help out. We will always have a dependence on oil so long as there are no viable alternatives. Thankfully, those are heavily in the works. In the meantime, being able to produce more domestic oil will alleviate some stress for many and absolutely alleviate some of our dependance on foreign crude. Lucky for us, this "temporary solution" is one that could be effective for many, many decades.