re: #573 Obdicut

Upgrading the energy grid, investing in renewable technology like wind and solar while funding research into improving them, and other next-generation technologies as well. All stuff you’ve seen talked about on LGF before.

Again, the amount of oil and gas present in the US is not enough to really make a dent in the worldwide oil price. Furthermore, drilling projects beginning now wouldn’t start producing for at least five years, so in the short term, would provide no benefit whatsoever.

We have the chance to become the world leaders on renewable energy, which is going to be the absolutely most important product of the century. If we want to remain an economic superpower, it’s vital that we do so.

what a bunch of claptrap…I don’t have the energy to respond but go ahead and explain how the continued moratorium on deep water permits is good for the country, since 1/3 of our oil comes from there…explain to the people of that region why it’s a good thing to shut down the oil economy in the Gulf