News & Politics QotW: Offshore Drilling

President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday. Do you think this is a good solution to the high prices Americans are paying for gasoline?

This is really just an excuse for me to get on my soap box about this.  I think it's a terrible, short-sighted idea.  It has been estimated that all of the known oil resources (which includes the areas opened up for drilling) in the United States makes up about 2% of the world's oil resources.  Guess how much of the world's oil the U.S. uses?  Around 25%. 

Or so I hear.

Any relief that we'd see at the pump wouldn't come for a good minute, and it certainly wouldn't be anything to write home about. 

How about we start figuring out what the hell we're going to do when the oil runs out instead of further damaging the environment we've already done a really good job fucking up?  Or at the least, finish conquering Iraq so all of the U.S.' big oil companies can have no bid contracts.

Mr. Bush is sure on a roll this month.  First the FISA bill, now this.  I wonder what kinds of other things he'll do in the remaining months of his administration...