Friday's Letters to the Editor

Dolores Kaemerle's letter to the editor on Tuesday cheering John McCain's call for lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling is wrong in many respects.

[No way]

I actually agree with Ted Lieu...

[Lieu is so Wrong]

Wrong Wrong Wrong...

[A-Man]

Mr. Lieu clearly doesn't care how much we pay at the pump or how adversely it impacts our families. Ten years ago when there was a push for more drilling (ANWR and off shore) the opponents said what Lieu says today. So in ten more years when we are paying $10 a gallon the future Ted Lieu's can easily say why start now it is going to be ten years before we get a drop. It is embarrassing that a former military officer and current elected official has no faith in his fellow Americans. This nation has responded when needed. When we didn't have the technological advances we have today our nation re-built a decimated navy and won a World War in matter of a few years. Remember Katrina, I do but it wasn't because of the massive oil spills from the numerous rigs off shore. If a tourist is impacted by something many miles off shore I say go to Las Vegas. Supply and demand Mr. Lieu, that is basic economics. I say drill here, drill now, pay less.

[JBT]

A-Man wrote:

Mr. Lieu clearly doesn't care how much we pay at the pump or how adversely it impacts our families. Ten years ago when there was a push for more drilling (ANWR and off shore) the opponents said what Lieu says today. So in ten more years when we are paying $10 a gallon the future Ted Lieu's can easily say why start now it is going to be ten years before we get a drop. It is embarrassing that a former military officer and current elected official has no faith in his fellow Americans. This nation has responded when needed. When we didn't have the technological advances we have today our nation re-built a decimated navy and won a World War in matter of a few years. Remember Katrina, I do but it wasn't because of the massive oil spills from the numerous rigs off shore. If a tourist is impacted by something many miles off shore I say go to Las Vegas. Supply and demand Mr. Lieu, that is basic economics. I say drill here, drill now, pay less.

wrong,wrong,wrong...

[Milly]

Again, we will be paying $7.00 a gallon within the next 12-18 months ...
The price of gas is now hypersensitive to even minor world events and psychological trends.

Its sooner, not later for $10.00 a gallon gas.

[bad]

A-Man wrote:

Mr. Lieu clearly doesn't care how much we pay at the pump or how adversely it impacts our families. Ten years ago when there was a push for more drilling (ANWR and off shore) the opponents said what Lieu says today. So in ten more years when we are paying $10 a gallon the future Ted Lieu's can easily say why start now it is going to be ten years before we get a drop. It is embarrassing that a former military officer and current elected official has no faith in his fellow Americans. This nation has responded when needed. When we didn't have the technological advances we have today our nation re-built a decimated navy and won a World War in matter of a few years. Remember Katrina, I do but it wasn't because of the massive oil spills from the numerous rigs off shore. If a tourist is impacted by something many miles off shore I say go to Las Vegas. Supply and demand Mr. Lieu, that is basic economics. I say drill here, drill now, pay less.

It's not just drilling, stats show the US refineries are operating at 80 to 88 % capacity, so where will this extra oil be going to be refined? Seems to me we need to both build refineries and drill if we expect relief with off shore drilling.

[Truthhound]

Go hug them, Gloria. You must never have tried to park at the Y.

[Jackie Decker]

Assemblyman Lieu is correct. The oil companies have been dragging their feet on working on alternative energy. Remember the Rockefeller Family tried to change leaders in their company because they weren't looking to the future. This is not a myth. We need other resources without ruining our environment or ridding our environment of wildlife. The leaders change the subject for the consumers to cause confusion. We will lose our ocean, whales, seals and fish if we don't take care. I would say write to the oil companies and demand that they take less as CEO's and explore other energy options.

[Clear Thinker]

No one is dragging their feet on alternatives to oil. We can increase our use of nuclear power any time the Democrats agree.

Solar and wind may be nice but they're not cost effective. Neither is converting corn to ethanol.

Its time for people to think a little, use their math skills, and do some homework. It would also help if newspapers like the Breeze would print articles by someone other than Democrats.

[Obama bin Laden]

Sorry Mrs. Clever, gas rationing made the "crisis" worse in the 70's and it will do the same today. How come libs have such a hard time remembering history?

Sorry Luppy Lieu, if we followed your kind of logic we wouldn't have accomplished anything that takes longer than 10 years.

Liberal logic like this has painted us into a corner. No domestic drilling. No new refineries. No new nuclear plants.(Begin Bush Bashing Now)

[TORRANCEJIM]

"Clear Thinker" is the only Clear Thinker in the previous "tree huggers". These people don't want to understand that all their solar panels, and wind mills won't make a drop in the bucket of total energy. Those sources only produce energy when the sun is shinning or wind blowing. There is no storage for their production other than the grid which has to be furnished by hydrocarbons or nuclear which can be operated day or night or wind or not. They also conveniently forget that cost of energy is global. Solar wind is not going to fly planes or produce all the products that are produced from oil---clothes, chemicals, etc.
Also, don't be embarrassed by Lieu being a military officer--as I understand, he was only a lawyer.

[correction please]

To TORRANCE JIM - Since when is the wind not blowing and the sun not shining in Torrance?? Everyday is a blustery day in this fair city. I, for one, would be very happy to have solar panels installed on my roof and/or a wind mill in my back yard. I cannot say the same thing about another oil refinery in my neighborhood or an oil derrick polluting my beaches. I don't even want the oil refinery that we have to deal with now. That fire breathing dragon that smokes and stinks all the time has caused many more problems that it is worth. I wish "just a lawyer Lieu" would write legislation that would make that dragon monster accountable to the people whose lives have been destroyed by the chemicals and by-products spewing out daily. Those poor families on Del Amo deserve much more than the dragon monster is offering.

[Obama bin Laden]

Dragon Monster? What the hell do you put in your gas tank? How are your goods and services delivered?

[Johnny Cougar]

Try going up the Grapevine in your automobile full of family at 65 mph with air conditioner humming on wind power you dolt.

[Lieu Sir]

L-o-s-e-r !

[Tine deOui]

Probably Lieu thinks oil-producing countries like Saudie-Arabia, Indonesia, etc. do not drill for oil. Instead, he believes, they milk camels' udders to get the oil we Americans guzzle up.
But if they do indeed drill, we shouldn't care about environmental effects as long as it's not in our own country. What ugly Americans we are!

[chuy]

The sun doesn't shine in Torrance, clear thinker is mudddled up in his thinking and A-man is an A-hole!

[chuy]

sorry, a hole.

[chuy]

sorry, a hole in the ground (without the ground).

[chuy]

A whole without the dubya (finally outfoxed it!)