So gas is high, the oil companies are making billions in profits, the shieks are making money hand over fist to give to the terrorists that W keeps sending us to fight and guess who is again calling for drilling  offshore.

"Bush looks offshore for remedy to high oil prices"(from AP) 

He is also trying to talk with states (probably a way to bypass congreess again) so what else is new.  Liers lie and cheaters cheat.  What would you expect from an oilman.  An oilman is always going to want another well.  Now I am not saying anything about oilmen  in particular but that is all they know.  Oil is in their blood through generations of working fields and esspecially in Texas.  But that is not what is best for our country and all the other citizens that live in it.  It is a call to the quickest short term fix with the possibility of enormous profits for the few.  Let's see, what was it they called that area in the gulf of the coast where oil has been drilled......hmmmmmm..........oh yea they are calling it a dead zone and it is getting bigger.  They say it is from fertilizer runnoff ...too much nitrates but coincidently that is where most of the drilling platforms are too.  At any rate it is a bad idea.  It will take several years to get going and there is a finite amount of oil there anyway.  That is not future thinking.  That is desperation thinking.  If they are so willing to spend the kind of money it would take to do all this why do they not wish to spend that same money on alternatives.  And Dynamic is right, they would not have any more refineries unless they wanted to build more and the turning crude into gasoline would still be slowed.  A smoker is always trying to smoke that last cigarrette before he decides he needs to quit  because it is bad for him.  But without support he will just keep trying to smoke because he does not have the courage or the will to change his life for his health's sake or for his family.  Let's help these short sighted people change by standing up for better alternatives.  Oil's had its dirty cheap run for a hundred years.  Let's move on to cleaner and better.  The ideas are out there we just need the will to change and leaders who lead with courage not fear and clinging to a past way of life.  Our planet is the only one we have and if we continue to screw it up there is no where for us to move.  There is no planet suburb for us to spread to.  We need to take a clear look at the devastation and pollution we leave behind in our sprawl.  Our future and our childrens future depend on it.  There are ways to have things and not devistate a planet.  You do not have to be a take what you can get survivalist to have nice things.  We really can be green and happy in comfort.  All we have to do is care.  The earth is not some seperate thing that goes away or takes care of itself.  It does take care of itself to some degree but we have over taxed its system and it is part of us and we are responsible to help it(which in turn helps us).  We are all one big organism and for some to say otherwise is a big lie.  By healing the earth and living within its systems we heal and protect ourselves.  Let us not be led by fools again any longer.  There are just better ways of doing things and they are here now.  Let's embrace change for the better not for the worse.

The party of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt it is not. Now it is the party of the GOP (greedy old pigs).

Charile Crist has screwed up the education when decide to make that property tax amendment (which had loopholes for the Rich) and now All these counties have budget problems that have even gone to the universities. Now he wants to mess up our coast lines. If there is an oil leak and it gets to land not only would it coast the state millions in touristism revene but also would make these already endangered species in even bigger trouble and don't forget the clean up!