Oil fields in alaska *With Poll*

[neonerd]

I'm doing this partly for a project, and am not trying to turn this into a P&N Flamewar. Please vote on whether you think we should or should not drill them, and provice reasons to back up your decision. 🙂

 

[cavemanmoron]

if the oil goes to the USA,and Canada,yes.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Topic Title: Oil fields in alaska *With Poll*
Topic Summary: Should we drill them? (not meant for a flamewar)
Created On: 03/13/2005 03:55 PM


Should we drill them? (Total Votes: 5)
Yes
4 votes 80.00 (%)
No
1 votes 20.00 (%)

Originally posted by: neonerd
I'm doing this partly for a project, and am not trying to turn this into a P&N Flamewar. Please vote on whether you think we should or should not drill them, and provice reasons to back up your decision. 🙂

 

[Tiamat]

The is a sensitive topic as you stated. I say no. We need alternatives to oil. If we drill, we will kill the ecosystem up there - and that is not healthy for the environment as a whole. Neither is increased oil usage.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
The is a sensitive topic as you stated. I say no. We need alternatives to oil. If we drill, we will kill the ecosystem up there - and that is not healthy for the environment as a whole. Neither is increased oil usage.

Not sure if this is true...somebody told me that when another area was drilled, the deer or caribou up there actually increased in population. I can't find anything about it online, but just thought i should throw it out there. Maybe someone can find something to support or refute that statement.

 

[Eli]

No.

Alaska does not contain vast reserves of oil, at least that we know of.

It is possible that we would find more, if it were open for purveying....

Drilling in Alaska will not reduce our dependance on foreign oil for any significant ammount of time. It takes something like 5 years for an oil rig to come online once the building starts.

Hmm.. Doing a quick search, all I can find is stuff on how Bush is opening 3.6 million hectares of alaskan land for oil development, or whatever.

So apparently it's happening whether we like it or not.

Gah, I wish I could remember the figures, but Alaska's known reserves were not very large at all, only enough to supply us for 4 months or something absurd, if it was our only source.

I would suggest searching through the archives, we've covered this extensivly before... maybe I'll try to dig something up.

 

[imported_Hi]

wrong forum 😛

 

[Schadenfroh]

Drill it dry

 

[DaveSimmons]

Aside from destroying the wildlife refuge,

Why should we use up our oil now, when oil is plentiful? This is supposed to be a reserve for the future, when oil becomes scarce.

Let's use up the rest of the world's oil first.

 

[EGGO]

Don't drill it yet.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Aside from destroying the wildlife refuge,

Why should we use up our oil now, when oil is plentiful? This is supposed to be a reserve for the future, when oil becomes scarce.

Let's use up the rest of the world's oil first.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
The is a sensitive topic as you stated. I say no. We need alternatives to oil. If we drill, we will kill the ecosystem up there - and that is not healthy for the environment as a whole. Neither is increased oil usage.

I can only partly agree with you. I think that yes it's bad to drill there because it will only encourage people to use but for the environmental thing, it's total bull. These stupid hippies make up this bull about how it will ruin the "ecosystem" there when it really won't. All there is where they're going to drill is tundra where carabou walk... If we drilled there but increased price of oil, dropped arab depenancy for oil then I say, go for it all the way!

 

[ravana]

Drill it

 

[Mo0o]

Do we need to right now? We should probably focus our monetary resources on developing alternative fuels and if that doesn't pan out in time we can start drilling.

 

[DainBramaged]

Yes. It's oil, we need it. Drill like a muthafvcka.

 

[Fingers]

Yes but not right now.

We should wait until it becomes more important and only to go to the US.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

No, it's just a short term solution to gas prices, not worth it IMO. Instead of that, encourage people to buy small hatcbacks, coupes, family sedans, etc. instead of their huge SUV's that do nothing but drink gas all day long

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Nope.

What we need to do is pump money into renewable energy sources. Wind farms, for example.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
Nope.

What we need to do is pump money into renewable energy sources. Wind farms, for example.

Heh.. While I agree with the premise, we could probably cover the entire united states with wind farms and we wouldn't even come close to generating the ammount of energy we already use...

 

[Tbirdkid]

Oil alternative is the way to go. Such as hydrogen. Serious abundancy of it and we will be fine.. the problem is... we depend on cars too damn much anyways.

 

[neonerd]

bump

 

[HappyPuppy]

We should drill now and cap the wells for future emergency use.

We need to develoop alternative energy sources, but who knows when that will happen?

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

If it makes gas cheaper for me, go for it.

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: Tiamat
The is a sensitive topic as you stated. I say no. We need alternatives to oil. If we drill, we will kill the ecosystem up there - and that is not healthy for the environment as a whole. Neither is increased oil usage.

Not sure if this is true...somebody told me that when another area was drilled, the deer or caribou up there actually increased in population.

I got a bridge for sales if you are interested.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
We should drill now and cap the wells for future emergency use.

We need to develoop alternative energy sources, but who knows when that will happen?

As soon as we wake up and dispel the nuclear boogeyman.