Drilling is only a bandaid solution for us living now Not a cure for the big picture for our great, great grandchildren....oh yeah this is the NOW generation the ME crowd.
Well OVM, guess what?
We live in the NOW time not the Great Grandkids time and we have to FIRST stabilize our country and energy sources in order for us to COME UP with better solutions in the near FUTURE.
Whether or not any new drilling will last more than 15 years does not matter, what matters is the removing of the shackles we have in order to explore and use OUR natural resources.
I honestly DON'T care what happens in 30 or 50 years, WE can only deal with the NOW at this moment and my HOPE is that people see through the political BS and not vote a socialist into office based on being a false prophet. If you think things are bad now, just wait. The party of the people has had 16 years to help the situation and they have done less than the big old bad Grand Old Party has. These Party of the people in the government are at fault, but we hold the ultimate responsibility because of our ignorance, selfishness, greed and stupidity that stirred by their great idea that we must be concern with what others have to compare what we don't have and not promoting self reliance and taking responsibility. At least with the GOP, there is some hope but it is fading fast.
Just remember that most of use have no choice in the matter, we can't switch to an alternative fuel or a Hybrid truck. We don't have these options available to us and have to do with what we have in the NOW. It would be great to get 18 MPG out of my truck, I think it is possible if we stop worrying about what happens on Mars and worry about finding solutions with our tax money.