I propose a balance budget and term limits. I think that pretty well addresses it all.

And all this time Neocon has sworn the HE was a Democrat… and berated and called 'liar' anyone who suspected that he was not.

Neocon said: “I could go on and on and on and on and on.“

It seems you have Neocon… on and on and on and on and on…. & on.

Rigs by region http://www.rigzone.com/data/rig_report.asp?rpt=reg
Brazil http://www.rigzone.com/data/results.asp?Region_…
US GOM http://www.rigzone.com/data/results.asp?Region_…
Brazil deepwater rig http://www.rigzone.com/data/rig_detail.asp?rig_…
Typical US shallow rig http://www.rigzone.com/data/rig_detail.asp?rig_…

Brazil is active in all types of drilling, the USA not so much.

I can't find a link from over a week ago, but drilling rigs aren't available to drill now. The link I'm searching for listed rigs/ships and capacity by country and the rigs aren't available. We can't really drill now. The oil companies want to drill near shore for more profits. It's a shame that Brazil leads us in deep and ultra-deep drilling(oil) and alternative fuels. We trail third world Brazil in energy independence, regardless of your Republican talking points.

Here's a recent article from NYT's:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/business/19dr…

As President Bush calls for repealing a ban on drilling off most of the coast of the United States, a shortage of ships used for deep-water offshore drilling promises to impede any rapid turnaround in oil exploration and supply.

In recent years, this global shortage of drill-ships has created a critical bottleneck, frustrating energy company executives and constraining their ability to exploit known reserves or find new ones. Slow growth in oil supplies, at a time of soaring demand, has been a major factor in the spike of oil and gasoline prices.

Mr. Bush called on Congress Wednesday to end a longstanding federal ban on offshore drilling and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration, arguing that the steps were needed to lower gasoline prices and bolster national security. But even as oil trades at more than $135 a barrel — up from $68 a year ago — the world’s existing drill-ships are booked solid for the next five years. Some oil companies have been forced to postpone exploration while waiting for a drilling rig, executives and analysts said.

Demand is so high that shipbuilders, the biggest of whom are in Asia, have raised prices since last year by as much as $100 million a vessel to about half a billion dollars.
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Samsung Heavy Industries' latest drill ship, West Polaris. Demand is so high for drill ships that builders have raised prices as much as $100 million per vessel since last year.

I will give you one thing. I will say okay, Barak Obama is sincere about this. But what exactly does that mean?

Define that JSpencer. Because everyone whom I've asked that question of defines it in a way that puts forth their own democratic agenda and leaves the rest of those who do not endorse that agenda behind. In the dust.

I do not for a moment believe the democrats want a united America unless such America means an embracing of their agenda.

I do not believe that Democrats want to drill for oil. Only build green stuff in a bizarre belief that more electricity will lower the price at the pumps.

I do not believe that Democrats want to banish abortion, Only strengthen Roe v. Wade.

I do not believe that Christian Democrats want to deny Gay Marriage.

I do not believe that democrats want to allow guns everywhere.

I do not believe that democrats want to no longer tax the rich.

I could go on and on and on and on and on.

The unification simply is fancy talk for Embracing the DEMOCRATIC platform. That is why more than 1/2 of the country is not buying Mr. Obama's uniter speech. These two candidates who vote party lines 96 percent of the time in NO ones book could be considered as uniters.

Yes unity is a great thing. The last time we had it was about 5 minutes after 911 until the democrats and the republicans could figure out a way to divide the country over patriotism for the sake of power………..piss on them both.