How can you complain about our dependance on foreign oil but be against getting it at home? Weird.

The point is not to switch our gluttony from foreign to domestic, especially considering the negative impact of what offshore drilling will mean to the thousands of miles of coastline it will impact.

I remember going to the beach as a kid in Santa Monica, and having to avoid the patches of tar on the sand. Who knows what other nasty unseen chemicals were in the water? I would not want to go back to those "good old days," thank you very much.

We can reduce our dependence upon foreign oil the same way other enlightened countries are doing (see http://www.energybulletin.net/12852.html for one example). You'll probably want to give up your Hummer as gas prices rise ($5/gal=$175 for less than 280 miles of manly driving!) and turn to one of those Tree-Hugging brands that get 50 mpg+ ($55 for about 550 miles of driving), but the choice is yours.

Right--the real point isn't to switch from foreign to domestic, but from oil to other. Not that I expect Arnie to really think that. When the Hummer came out, he bought, what, three?

One should read MoJo's Free and Green," (H. Wasserman, 01/20/04) in which Bush's coal-oil-nuke-gas (King CONG) plan is compared to the green alternatives.
On the one hand, fossil fuels get billions in rebates, tax breaks and incentives hidden in the labyrinth of the federal corporation welfare system, while, on the other hand, State commissions in Colorado and Minnesota have certified wind power as the "least cost" alternatives for new electric power generation.
"On a truely level playing field, with no subsidies for anybody, wind power can compete flat-out with CONG sources. Where health and environmental externalities are counted, it's not even close."
In fact, "new satellite mapping techniques have shown that wind resources in the US are far greater and more widespread than originally believed. The Great plains region between Mississippi and the Rockies--the 'Saudi Arabia of Wind'--could generate three times as much electricity as the US consumes."
And doesn't this give us much insight as to why there are no electric cars in sight!
Furthermore, where "Critics have consistently cited only one environmental impact--bird kills--study after study has shown the threat posed by windmills located anywhere outside narrow migratory canyons is virtually nil.

You know if it is good enough for the gulf coast, I think that it should be spread around the whold US coast. We are people who say I want it..(gas), but not in my neighborhood.