Our Natural enviornment which took millions of years to develp need to be respected, not destroyed

Here's an idea.. get away from relying on fossil fules to supply our energy needs. Stop ruining all the land we have in the name of oil.

I wish Obama cared this much about saving the Great Lakes from 75-pound flying fish. But I guess Chicagoans matter more than Alaskans, huh

How dare Moriarty thinks that "it is our back yard and I find it offensive". It belongs to the people of the United States. All of them.

Lets keep buying and borrowing from nations that don't have our 'moral' conflict. Forget about the facts I guess, piety is good substitute.

A time and technology will come where they can reach it adjacently, might as well wait till later when the oil will be more valuable anyway

Take away the subsidies and hold companies responsible. The government has been granted enough power to enforce this.

"In the end we will conserve only what we love, love only what we understand, and understand only what we are taught."
- Baba Dioum

Open this area for drilling now, this place is a deep freezer 11 months of the year

A no-brainer. There's enough oil there for Big Oil to fill its pockets, but nowhere near enough to make a difference re energy independence

I just hope the Republicans don't ever get in charge. They would drill in your backyard in a minute.

our desire for material possessions and power have blinded us to the pain we have cause Mother Earth, by our conquest for "natural resource

Screw the tree huggers. Ask Alaskan's where they want to drill.

Oil has spilled & gone unckecked on land in AK due to irresponsibility & profits of the oil companies that continue to whine. Conserve ANW

The President & Congress should listen to the local people who've lived in the arctic for thousands of years and want safe drilling on land

The problem is the lies of the left! The pictures they always show are not where drilling would. Prudhoe Bay and ANWAR are desolate drill

And how long will it take us to burn the 11 billion barrels? Then what? We should be focused on sustainable energy and renewables, not old

It won't be long before we will be paying $5.00 to $8.00 a gallon like the Germans do. We need to let our congress men and women know HWFee

The carribou will survive, you won't.

The Mideast can not keep holding the US hostage to their agendas.

Sure lets designate Another National Monyment errr Monument. Of course doing so fits well with Obama's plan to increase fuel tax collection

Drill, baby, DRILL!

Perhaps there are large oil reserves. We wold be better served by investing in "green energy" anyway, and leaving the wilderness alone.

This is a ridiculous idea to put the oil under ANWR out of reach. To get out from under our reliance on the Mid East, we need this resource

True scientists don't manipulate complex data for to get a simple answer they want to achieve at the start. That's not science.

Incredible people still think the data is still a sham. This is the 3rd report that has vindicated the data from the CRU!!

looks like overwhelming evidence is hard to beat.

It's inexcusable to engage in gamesmanship to refute ignorant partisan windbags and their followers, when the facts will do that themselves

It's unfortunate the scientists behaved as they did. It fuels the ignorant as this vote shows. Climate change a matter of fact, not choice!

It does not matter what you believe. Global warming (not the same as climate change) is past point of no return. Our time here is at an end

Anyone who thinks the changes we are experiencing is "normal" is nuts. The scientists need to be 100% up front

No. The e-mails clearly evidence collusion, hiding & falsifying of data, & lack of openness, all hallmarks of scientific scamming & lying.

It is all guess work based on theory without any absolutes to build on.

Climate change is real.

Yes they were fair but only because Sarah Palin helped them. She is the oracle of righteousness and truth and must be obeyed...

What it showed was scientists as advocates willing to manipulate data & intimidate dissenters. Hopefully a more open system will occur.

Competely fabricated and then coverd up.
They did this (read the e-mails) to cover their asses and to keep global warming funding.

I don't think they fabricated data, but they revealed a deep set bias that likely colors their research and conclusions.

It's not sound science to "unintentionally" discuss and then use a "trick" which makes graphs misleading.

They only fudged all of the data "a little bit" to show climate warming. Is that like being "kind of" pregnant?

You don't get a vote; it's not a beauty contest, the science is the science. There is global consensus.

Given that there was virtually no protection extant when this latest catastrophe broke, any step is a step in the right direction.

Using oil for energy the way we do is going to cause greater disasters. We need only clean energy. Yes we can.

No drills---no spills. It's that easy. Wetlands, wildlife, sea life--all will be wiped out.

Drown Imhoff

Even if they try their best there is no way to guard against another disaster. It's time for ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, people!!

We all know this, we just choose to be ostriches. We don't want to pay $5/gal for our gas and if its not our shrimp boat, who cares.....

With the current mindset - nothing will prevent these thoughless people from doing this again!

Oversight will make it SAFER never safe. Exxon needs to pay for their desaster (they never did) and BP must pay for this one!

Anytime you get more Government involved just means more expense for the tax payers who get nothing in return. BP is not enjoying this.

I am sick at what is going to happen in the Gulf - a virtual Deadzone, not for years, but generations. Talk to AK where oil still washes p

Drill, baby, drill!
Spill, baby, spill!
Kill, baby, kill!

Deep sea drilling is inherently unsafe - how many fires, explosions and deaths do there need to be???

Why is this country continuing to pursue oil as an energy source. Wasn't anyone paying attention in the 70's? No more oil!

1940's era blowout preventers are laughable BP, is very obvious now that you were cutting corners when you have record profits, goodby B

The corrupt private sector will find away around any law or regulation

The only intelligent thing to do now is explore green energy sources, not any more carbon fuels.

I would love to think it would work, but these overhauls must be complete, exact, and lasting....Were just not capable of that...

OVerhauling MMS now is too little, too late.

Neither answer is correct with the attached comment. Yes is the closest match.

yes, but i wonder if there are any honest, ethical people left to employ here.. the love of money has corrupted many otherwise good people

Will never be completely safe but can be made safer. Foolish to believe we will never need oil. Not just used for gasoline people.

No the answer is to find out what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.

Offshore drilling is quite safe when the appropriate procedures are followed.

No. Doing away with political appointments would though. Job quals, not political support should decide who is in charge.

These wells have no economic benefit except to the oil companies, while the costs are borne by all of us.

hello-there is flagrant sloppiness in many areas of drilling offshore-we have a special list/story picked upn from internet-the accidents/

The new figure for the spill is 70,000 barrels a day (2.3 million gallons). That's an Exxon Valdez every 4 days. Solar, wind, wave NOW!

Another rig sank off Venezuela today. "Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." Albert Einstein.

I believe the necessary rules are in place but, as in many government oversights, the rules are not followed. Exceptions are the norm.

Right now there is no routine maintenance or testing of the fail safes for oil rigs. Every other industry has them, time for B.O to as wel

This is the wake up call we need. Time to switch to alternate fuels. We've needed to do this since the 1970's. Time for action, not talk.

NASA has batteries that last 20 years but are not available to the public that would be a good start

The logistics of any hazardous operation should be defined by worst-case scenario. This clearly was a lack of definition for a worst-case.

drill drill drill gas is to high and affects my standard of living who can afford shrimp anyway

We needed to move to a hydrogen economy ten years ago.

Oh Hell yes. Our planet is dying as we type!.

Oil is killing our world, just as it is killing the Gulf for generations to come. STOP SUPPORTING OIL, Support SOLAR, WIND, and others

I'd like to see independent analysis of this disaster below the surface. This geyser is a mile deep, and the surface oil is not the measure

Necessity is the mother of invention. The incentive to get serious about alternatives. Without price parity with oil, it's a slow go.

It's time for synthetic oil,ethanol, wind,solar, geo,hydro,and natural gas. Lets finally do something positive.

We don't need to go back to the dark ages with energy. We would be better off to financially reward new innovations.

What happens if another one goes?

This event is a clear indication that we have nowhere near the technology, nor integrity, to manage of the earth's crust. No more!

This is sickening and never should have happened. This could/should have been cleaned up in a matter of days - NOT weeks. A larger tube.

BP and Obama are lying SOB's and to add further insult they suggest that the American public is so stupid that we can not estimate the flow

We and the rest of the world finally need to take a long term view regarding how our practices affect this planet.

I was (mistakenly) up in the air about off shore drilling. Until now. BP not in control and lacks ability to care for site.

We can and must develop alternative fuels using green energy sources, for us, for the world.