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Dear Debby, Off-shore drilling will, of course, eventually occur and it will (1) not lower gas prices and (2) will not free the US from dependence on foreign oil supplies. Here's why: It is probable that about half the earth's oil has been discovered and is already being (or been) extracted for the simple reason that the biggest, most shallow oil reserves were the easiest to find. Future reserves will be deeper, and smaller, and more costly to extract. Costly both in technological and environmental terms. In the second place, demand for oil is increasing in Asia, so every barrel that US consumers save will be sold to China and India. These countries will burn that oil, pumping millions of more tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, accelerating global climate change, and creating more devastation. The US will continue to require much more than it can possibly produce because the country lacks the transportation infrastructure to move goods across the continent in the most efficient way. That infrastructure was short-changed for decades in favor of roads and cars and trucks. An additional critical factor is world population, which will continue to grow and will outstrip demand as poor countries try in vain to sustain agricultural output. In the meantime, conservatives who don't understand conservation will continue to bray and bloviate (as in your case). I assume you aren't really interested in the math, or you wouldn't be writing this twaddle in the first place, but the numbers are there, and they don't add up in your favor.

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Ms. Saunders, you really ought to write less and think more. Your mindless production of ill-considered words offers quite a parallel to what is going on with oil. The stuff is killing us. And so is the me-first, do-it-now chatter too many phonies like you are pawning off as journalism. Have a look at Tom Friedman's "Addict in Chief" column today in the NY Times and take a lesson in the real thing. And conscience too, while you're at it. The problem with babbling boobies like you is that you are just going to grow old and die, and the generations that follow aren't going to be able to damn you to your face for bequeathing them a planet that's like a bird cage filled with crap.

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This Obama character says the dumbest things all the time. He continues to make specious, nebulous promises and has baggage, the surface(s) of which have just begun to be scratched. If his Party had not fought drilling for years we would not be in the situation we are now regarding gas prices. I hope he and his mouthy wife will soon be discredited because Obama is dangerous to the safety of this Country with his ideas of appeasing terrorists ... negotiation involves appeasement(s) and we should never "talk" with terrorists. Besides he also seems to have personal, emotional and spiritual ties to terrorist countries, and that should call for a thorough FBI Investigation.