Should the US Continue Off Shore Drilling Despite The Spill?

[Exterminator]

That would be for foreign oil and not oil from the US.  The administration will not issue permits to drill here.

Newsflash: Alaska is part of the U.S. and this is domestic oil.

[The Troll]

Newsflash: Alaska is part of the U.S. and this is domestic oil.

  She sure is a brain, isn't she.  .  Don't you just love it, those great big tar balls that the hurricane turned up.  Is sure is fun going swimming with tar balls.  ;

[me]

   Ok I guess I should have read the article instead of thinking Holland.   

[Palehorse]

That would be for foreign oil and not oil from the US.  The administration will not issue permits to drill here.

WTF?????

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company, with its U.S. head office is in Houston, Texas.

ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation, with its U.S. Head office in Irving, Texas.

So in your mind the Deep-water Horizon incident was a foreign oil company too? 

[Palehorse]

A Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling barge remained grounded Tuesday on an island off southern Alaska amid a fierce winter storm that hindered recovery efforts, Coast Guard and Alaskan authorities reported.
The Shell-owned rig Kulluk was being towed to Seattle when it began encountering trouble Sunday, the Coast Guard said. One tug needed help after its engines failed; a replacement had to cut the rig loose Monday night during a storm that whipped up 24-foot waves in the Gulf of Alaska.
The 266-foot rig ran aground off Sitkalidak Island, about 200 miles south of Anchorage, on Monday night. A joint command was set up to head off any possible environmental damage, but crews had not been able to confirm the Kulluk's condition Tuesday morning, those authorities reported.. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/us/alaska-drilling-rig/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Drill baby, drill! Spill baby, spill!