Offshore Drilling...

Yesterday Sen. John McCain, (Next President of the United States of America) called for the end of the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. However, there are people out there that are yelling, NO you can't do that.

Well, here are the facts folks, just 200 miles from shore, is the continental shelf outside the Gulf of Mexico, and China is currently has the contract to drill for oil there with Cuba. Sen. Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho told the times " Red China should not be left to drill for oil within spitting distance of our shores without competition from U.S. industries."

Adding insult to injury, US firms where invited to bid on the Cuban contracts, however the US Government barred them because of the embargo of communist Cuba. But we do trades with China all day long, now wait, am I wrong, or is China a communist country also?

Now, let's just take a step back here for a second, China is going to start drilling off of Cuba and they do not have the safety controls that we have for our drilling platforms, so because its a China platform and they have a spill, the oil will not come our way, well because it's China not the US.

This is what the environmentalists groups out there believe that keep stopping us from drilling off our shores.

As I wrote in a my blog earlier, Oil is used for a lot more than just energy, and I do believe that energy prices are out-of-control. However, until we can find a better way we need to find more oil.

Gas companies are part of the issue, as for they are getting larger and larger profits as the we have to pay higher and higher cost at the pumps and at the house for our light bills. I fully understand that these companies are in to make a profit, but come on, 84 Billion in profit, I sure 10 Billion profit would have been cool also, but that would have helped the average person out and we can't have that.

I do not know if ending the ban of offshore drilling is the correct answer and I'm sure it's going to annoy the hell out of two republican governor's (Crist - Florida & Schwarzenegger - California), never the less, Sen. McCain is putting ideas out there, not just staying with the same old same old, like Sen. Obama is trying to do.

Just one dog's point of view.