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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (24344)	6/19/2008 2:24:41 AM
From: TARADO96	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Do a little research on the benefits/cost of coastal offshore drilling. Minimal benefit at best. Not worth it. time.com However, personally, I am in favor of nuclear power.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (24344)	6/19/2008 10:00:36 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I hear you. I've voting against my pocket book as well. But there comes a time when a person has to stand up and vote for the greater good. I don't think the Dems have everything right, but they sure do have alot of it a hell of a lot more right than the Reps. Oh and btw, you need to give Obama some credit. He's making a lot of statements and taking positions right now under duress. Once he's President, he will have alot more resources at his disposal to weigh all the options and make the best decisions. One thing I trust completely is Obama's intellect and ability to look at things from all angles to come to a good decision. So I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt until he proves me wrong. I never trusted Bush Jr that way, even when I voted for him in 2000. I certainly don't trust him now with all his 99% wrong decision-making record.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (24344)	6/19/2008 9:05:24 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I make most of my money trading Canadian resource stocks (30 years). Right now I have proably half of my porfolio in oil, gas and Sask junior coal stocks (new sask coal rush via GXS's discovery). Two things: 1) Getting Obama and the dems in office could literally mean the survival of the world. Considering my kids that takes priority over aything. And to be honest, I do not care whether they dril or not. Liberals have a tendency to go a bit overboard at times on this mining stuff-lol. I can say that because, as mentioned, I am so far left I am a Noam chompsky type of guy-lol. 2) Drilling, or not drilling off our shores will have no impact on oil prices. 10 years before any will be flowing. The demand for energy from developing country's is rising parabolicly and the decline is just the otherside of the bell curve-steeply down. Russia just annouced the first year of production declines, Mexico prodcution is really falling fast. Saudi fields are filling with salt water and in the US our gas reserves are decling at 5% per year. Our oil production has been decling for decades. High oil prices and food prices are here to stay as the world population rises at 77 million people a year and the developing world demands food and fuel; and the developed world is providing liquidty to the developing world for manufacturing, services and fuel; and in tryin to avoid a deflationary recession.