Do you feel Virginia's leaders are rushing into an offshore drilling deal?
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crogers
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Posted 6 months ago #
An editorial in the Ronaoke Times today explores the reasons why Virginia may be making a bad deal in its leaders' rush to explore offshore drilling. Do you feel a more careful and reasoned approach to the issue is necessary? Do you feel we should be looking at offshore drilling at all?
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pulliam
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Posted 6 months ago #
Yes - We should look at offshore drilling, more nuclear power, offshore/mountain wind turbines, and cleaner coal technology . It is essential we reduce our enegry dependence generally and from foreign powerts specifically. Even if all enegry producers were our allies, the global demand for energy will outstrip available supplies. What we can reduce is the demand to divert corn from food to ethanol and follow the Brazillians' lead in using other naturtal products.
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tpartymary
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Posted 6 months ago #
Yes. Offshore drilling, if oil is found, could give the state of Virginia the kind of financial independence that Alaska has, plus serving the interests of the country to get energy from sources other than hostile countries. I also support nuclear, except thanks to the current administration, there is now no funding for a place to deposit the waste material, which makes it difficult to expand nuclear energy, one of the cheapest and most reliable available.
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brucedeitrickprice
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Posted 6 months ago #
One very offensive part of this debate is the way certain papers pretend that "offshore" is "offshore" is "offshore." In fact, there are good reasons for being very careful off the coast of Virginia Beach and the Naval Base, for all the obvious reasons. The desirable zone is Eastern Shore because there are no beaches to go to there, not that many people, no shipping; and this place is huge, 60 miles long.
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