Obamabot must have been in some sessions at Guantanamo with Gore.

They slapped Climate Change ideology into him.

Now I feel differently about the Trolls in the comments above.  Just a month ago I used to worry about them having some sway in our country, or even to a casual viewer of this site.

But now I just see them as sad little men in their cold garages, listening to little AM radios hanging from a tool hook, working on their warplane model kits and inhaling glue fumes, wondering aloud about a world they sincerely do not understand.

Now, they are only a curiosity, like a ship in a bottle.  Now its so easy to look up from that bottle, peer out the window at the horizon, and see Copenhagen 2009.

Very well put. I rather enjoy thinking of, e.g, jabailo (see above!) as kind of a site pet, a quirky little dog that runs around peeing in the corner and attacking sofa cushions. Kinda cute, really.

Sit, jabailo, sit!

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The same as drilling faster, and more. Yes, prices will drop temporarilly. Great news, isn't it. But the Oil existing will be consumed faster, more ineffective, and at a certain moment the oil will be gone. And then???

You can look at domestic drilling as a way to span the transition to better fuels, renewable fuels, instead of hort term dropping prices. Now is not yet the time to drill domestically.

America would better start to switch to European level of cars, consuming down to only 30% of average american monsters. That is what is killing your car industry today, your jobs and your economy.
Prices of oil will drop because you consume less.
You would have to buy less gasoline at a lower price. Wouldn't that be a win-win situation?

At the same time transition to renewables is key, if not you will in 20-30 years be condamned to walk or take the bike, because you were too stuburn to work at new fuels and used all the oil which can be gained at affordable prices.
Maybe tree-huggers are the smarter ones here.

Green energy is the way to go, and I hope it is how we recover from this economic downturn. In every decade it seems there is a recession, then economic growth based on some new industry. In the 80s it was computers and cell phones. In the 90s it was the internet and the development of e-businesses. In the 2000s it was financial services and housing (Oops, that didn't work out too well. Smart bankers figuring out how to bilk people out of their equity didn't create much long-term value for society!) As we climb out of this recession, it will be time to rebuild our energy system, and that -will- create long-term value.

last i read about cap and trade, the real market for cap and trade had deteriorated to the point where the credits didn't trade and had essentially zero market value:  a clear indicator that, in the real world, the concept has failed.

please do a reality check before suggesting a process that just may have already been proven to not work.

yeah, you too, Barack... things that look good, sound good, and you think should be good... just might not be.