Should the usa and canada develope the vast reserves of oil and stop buying oil from the arabs?

YES YES YES... The USA and Canada should DRILL IN THE NORTH COUNTRY.. Use OUR OWN OIL and drive the price of gasoline down to improve both countries ECONOMIES.. As soon as the ECONOMIES are at a point where everyone isn't spending so much on fuel that we can invest the money in FUEL ALTERNATIVES.. After we develop HYDROGEN and NATURAL GAS powered vehicles we can go in and REPAIR and REPOPULATE the areas that we had to use to DRILL and MINE.. It's a pretty simple plan, but of course we'll FOREVER have some ECO-FREAK or LIBERAL whining and crying about the spotted-left handed-migratorial-one eyed-ring tailed otters habitat..Should the usa and canada develope the vast reserves of oil and stop buying oil from the arabs?
What vast reserves? There's simply not that much oil in North America, and it would cost an extreme amount of money, most of it spent on energy costs, to be able to create the capacity necessary to cut out all middle east oil imports.Should the usa and canada develope the vast reserves of oil and stop buying oil from the arabs?
Absolutely. While working on the hydrogen engine, which still won't get us totally away from an oil based economy due to plastics and from what I have heard about having to use coal to produce the hydrogen we are still going to use hydrocarbons
I have a yes and no sorta answer. I think we should stop buying oil from other countries. Period.





BUT. Instead of spending vast quantities of our money developing our own reserves of oil (which will eventually run out, be harmful to the environment in many ways, etc. etc. ), I think we should spend more time developing fuel alternatives like BioDiesel (I'm just picking one fuel alternative for the sake of my answer), for instance, which...





';...is better for the environment because it is made from renewable resources and has lower emissions compared to petroleum diesel. It is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as fast as sugar. Since it is made in the USA from renewable resources such as soybeans, its use decreases our dependence on foreign oil and contributes to our own economy.';





And wouldn't it be a nice change for the entire U.S. farming community to actually start making some money again?





The U.S. has a huge thirst for fuel. Great. Let's let our farmers grow it for us.
It's impossible(for many reasons)


But a good idea, leave middle east alone.
It is a shame to make this an North America vs. Arab issue. We should not depend on such vital resources from unstable sources such as much of the Middle East, Nigeria, Venezuela, etc.





Instead of spending so much money on defense, war, etc. to protect those supplies why couldn't we spend the same money on substute sources? So many oppose alternative energy subsidies. However, I would rather subsidize solar panels made in the USA versus a defending so many corrupt governments.
I think you US %26amp; Canada should develop the vast reserve responsibly and still buying from the Arabs if not how on earth will US %26amp; Canada fuel their economy and gas guzzling vehicles?





The question you should ask is for US to stop poking into other people's business and keep their militiray at home guarding your own bloody country unless they are invited to come to any country by UN. Do not blame terrorist %26amp; oil resources, blame BUSH for high world oil price! His incompetentcy has caused everybody in the world to suffer!