Come on, ci, he is not completely ignorant at all.
Here is the straight of it.
If we do more drilling in places like Alaska and offshore, this is what it will accomplish.
It will provide an immediate bump in lowering price pressure by the sheer fact that commodities future traders will consider the impact on future oil prices and supply.
It will help our balance of trade and domestic oil production picture at the margins years down the road, as compared to what it will otherwise be if we don't drill.
It will not solve our energy crunch, nor will it make high prices go away, but the situation will be marginally better than it will otherwise be.
It will pick up Alaskan production to replace areas that will decline or are declining on the North Slope.
It will not be a major environmental problem in any way whatsoever. The sky is falling crowd can simmer down and relax if they had any common sense, but they won't.
The future of alternative energy and conservation would still be desperately needed and will be developed as before, but the country will be better off by helping ourselves with domestic oil production, instead of the current suicidal attitude in regard to energy. By drilling and producing our own oil, we simply relieve some of the worst economical effects upon our economy, but it will not produce utopia. It would accomplish infinitely more than producing a little oil out of our strategic petroleum reserve, which some Democrats advocate and which is silliness at best, and irresponsiblly foolish at worst.
P.S. The offshore Cuban drilling sounds inaccurate, but it sounds like preliminary work is being done, such as seismic, and it may not be Chinese altogether, but it could be partly, we don't know, but it appears Cuba intends to move forward, and that is the salient point.
