Comments on: Gilmore: drill in Alaska http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gilmore-drill-in-alaska Harrisonburg's Community News Network Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Miller http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40663 David Miller Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:41:35 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40663 www.crocktown.com for related "news" http://www.crocktown.com for related “news”

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]]> By: Karl http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40584 Karl Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:04:26 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40584 Bubby, Kaine just last week said the state is staring down a two billion dollar shortfall by 2010. That's "whatever" I'm talking about. Thanks though for pointing out the terrible revenue sources the Commonwealth is struggling with, hadn't thought of how badly a poor construction market hits the bottom line. The state should take a page out of the Rockingham County book. Permits for construction are down, but fees are up. For clarification: I voted for Warner and would have voted for him again if this wasn't a backward state (Commonwealth) that doesn't allow two term guv's. I just wish he had been more honest about how he would fix Gilmore's mess. Once in office, Warner said the problem was worse than he thought. That's somewhat plausible, but I would hope that someone claiming to have the answers during a campaign would also know the questions. I don't want Brooke to think I completely disagree with her assessment. Gilmore does seem un-electable and easily fits the "worst" perception. I'm not willling to give "best" to anyone, but Warner is certainly the frontrunner. Bubby, Kaine just last week said the state is staring down a two billion dollar shortfall by 2010. That’s “whatever” I’m talking about. Thanks though for pointing out the terrible revenue sources the Commonwealth is struggling with, hadn’t thought of how badly a poor construction market hits the bottom line. The state should take a page out of the Rockingham County book. Permits for construction are down, but fees are up.

For clarification: I voted for Warner and would have voted for him again if this wasn’t a backward state (Commonwealth) that doesn’t allow two term guv’s. I just wish he had been more honest about how he would fix Gilmore’s mess. Once in office, Warner said the problem was worse than he thought. That’s somewhat plausible, but I would hope that someone claiming to have the answers during a campaign would also know the questions.

I don’t want Brooke to think I completely disagree with her assessment. Gilmore does seem un-electable and easily fits the “worst” perception. I’m not willling to give “best” to anyone, but Warner is certainly the frontrunner.

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]]> By: Barkley Rosser http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40519 Barkley Rosser Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:26:25 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40519 I stand corrected on pollution from offshore sources. I stand corrected on pollution from offshore sources.

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]]> By: David Miller http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40516 David Miller Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:43:09 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40516 May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service published their offshore damage assessment: 113 platforms totally destroyed, and - more importantly - 457 pipelines damaged, 101 of those major lines with 10" or larger diameter. At least 741,000 gallons were spilled from 124 reported sources (the Coast Guard calls anything over 100,000 gallons a "major" spill). That's only from offshore sources May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service published their offshore damage assessment: 113 platforms totally destroyed, and – more importantly – 457 pipelines damaged, 101 of those major lines with 10″ or larger diameter. At least 741,000 gallons were spilled from 124 reported sources (the Coast Guard calls anything over 100,000 gallons a “major” spill).

That’s only from offshore sources

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]]> By: David Miller http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40515 David Miller Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:36:43 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40515 I'm sorry I was wrong "May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service published their offshore damage assessment: 113 platforms totally destroyed" I’m sorry I was wrong
“May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service published their offshore damage assessment: 113 platforms totally destroyed”

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]]> By: Brooke http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40513 Brooke Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:32:27 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40513 Thank you, Dave. I was just coming here to post the same thing about Katrina. Drilling is not the answer. Reducing consumption is the answer, and that is where we need to be placing our emphasis. That is, finding ways, both on a national level, through research and development, and through changes made on individual levels, to reduce our dependence on oil - PERIOD. Thank you, Dave. I was just coming here to post the same thing about Katrina. Drilling is not the answer. Reducing consumption is the answer, and that is where we need to be placing our emphasis. That is, finding ways, both on a national level, through research and development, and through changes made on individual levels, to reduce our dependence on oil – PERIOD.

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]]> By: David Miller http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40512 David Miller Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:29:05 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40512 There were 111 major oil spills because of Katrina (the Gulf) and I for one won't vote for that idiocy of our coasts. Ps, when the media and McCain tells you that the derricks were safe during Katrina they are outright lying! Cross check their facts, the EPA declared the spills worse than the Exxon spill in Alaska. The reason this issue is coming up now though is because neither McCain nor Gilmore stand a chance if they are forced to talk about important issues that they neither have answers (like oil dependency) for nor want to talk about the few policies that they do have "answers" for. So debate away where you stand on oil drilling, in the meantime we ignore real solutions. There were 111 major oil spills because of Katrina (the Gulf) and I for one won’t vote for that idiocy of our coasts. Ps, when the media and McCain tells you that the derricks were safe during Katrina they are outright lying! Cross check their facts, the EPA declared the spills worse than the Exxon spill in Alaska.

The reason this issue is coming up now though is because neither McCain nor Gilmore stand a chance if they are forced to talk about important issues that they neither have answers (like oil dependency) for nor want to talk about the few policies that they do have “answers” for. So debate away where you stand on oil drilling, in the meantime we ignore real solutions.

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]]> By: Barkley Rosser http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40510 Barkley Rosser Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:05:34 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40510 Karl, Gilmore managed to run a deficit during a booming economy. Kaine is facing a declining economy, with the property value collapse in Northern Virginia clearly a major problem, and most certainly not his fault. More generally, I actually support McCain's position on the oil drilling issue. Protect ANWR (from the stupidities of Gilmore), but let states who want it allow drilling on their offshores, such as Virginia. In fact, there is little evidence of pollution problems from such drilling (heard of any out of the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea? No, I have not either). So, let them drill there if they want. However, let us just not get into any delusions that such drilling (or the even smaller returns one could get out of ANWR) would or will come remotely close to solving the problems the US faces in terms of oil dependency or high oil prices, which seems to be the line coming out of both McCain and Gilmore. All this stuff is just drops in buckets compared to the humongous amounts we guzzle down. Karl,

Gilmore managed to run a deficit during a booming economy. Kaine is facing a declining economy, with the property value collapse in Northern Virginia clearly a major problem, and most certainly not his fault.

More generally, I actually support McCain’s position on the oil drilling issue. Protect ANWR (from the stupidities of Gilmore), but let states who want it allow drilling on their offshores, such as Virginia. In fact, there is little evidence of pollution problems from such drilling (heard of any out of the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea? No, I have not either). So, let them drill there if they want.

However, let us just not get into any delusions that such drilling (or the even smaller returns one could get out of ANWR) would or will come remotely close to solving the problems the US faces in terms of oil dependency or high oil prices, which seems to be the line coming out of both McCain and Gilmore. All this stuff is just drops in buckets compared to the humongous amounts we guzzle down.

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]]> By: Emmy http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/07/gilmore-drill-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-40502 Emmy Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:28:54 +0000 http://hburgnews.com/?p=985#comment-40502 I'm sorry, but I agree with everything Brooke said in her first comment. I’m sorry, but I agree with everything Brooke said in her first comment.

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