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To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 2:51:48 PM
From: Peter van Steennis	Respond to of 206181

Don't disagree with you Webster, but it would be nice to keep some of that $600 billion we spend on foreign oil here at home. Regards Peter

To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 4:13:40 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206181

Absolutely agree with you. This is the last place I would have expected to find folks pushing that nonsense Drill-Now petition...

To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 4:13:53 PM
From: pz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206181

"I believe high gas prices are a blessing to the American people, a big warning to change our wasteful ways." Tell the people on a fixed income that it's a "blessing" that they can't afford their medications, heat, cooling, etc. because EVERYTHING is going up in price because of energy prices. Paul

To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 5:17:57 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206181

"I believe high gas prices are a blessing to the American people, a big warning to change our wasteful ways." Big Dog - Please Excuse This One! Clearly Webster you like I find the price a nuisance and not a burden. Heck - I have made a lot of money on this nuisance - for me it has been great. Clearly Webster - to find this a blessing you must live in a bubble where only people with money exist. Yes - you and I are the financial elite. But are we elitists? Elitists like Obama only are sorry the rise was so fast - amazing for someone who supposedly cares for the least amongst us. I do not fit the Obama mold of elitism - do you? Now the left in this country claims to care about the least amongst us. Yes Webster - there are those who find these prices mods than a nuisance. Outside the bubble there is real hardship. Got that real hardship! Do you find such hardship a blessing? The ramifications of this hardship will be huge. I will make money - and those the left claim to care about will suffer. But that will be fine because then the left can blame the oil companies and pander for votes.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 6:15:59 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206181

The point is not necessarily to relieve gas prices but to ease the burden to the extent possible and to cut the increasing dependence on imported oil when Peak Oil hits in earnest. Not a panacea by any stretch of the imagination but something we should do.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (103162)	6/18/2008 7:11:56 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206181

Thats nonsense. What difference does the ratio of USA production to Saudi production make? Where would we be today if ANWR was opened 10 years ago? Maybe 1 mbpd more production would mean more revenue for USA and lower prices. Of course there is merit to the argument that we should use our last reserves until extreme conditions. But another argument could be made that the present course will have foreigners owning so much of the USA they will be able to come in and buy our oil reserves. It seems a certain irrational section of the populace believes we should take a huge leap of faith that something will be there down the road to replace oil and coal. The behaviour change you seek will happen with or without incremental drilling offshore, because the impact on prices would be years away. Who knows what the S/D balance will be years from now.