Okay… one final thought about polls: since this California one is accurate (according to you) the following must be accurate as well… right?

A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll last month found a majority of the U.S. public doubted the United States would win the war in Iraq and believed the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans over Iraq’s weapons capabilities when it went to war in 2003.

Associated Press/Ipsos poll showing a surprising 59 percent of Americans supporting Roe v. Wade

Asked whether the United States was meeting its objectives in Iraq, 56 percent in the poll said the United States was not while 39 percent said it was.

A new survey shows the U.S. public is unhappy with U.S. handling of Iraq and with how the Bush administration deals with the Muslim world in general.

And let’s not forget this major survey: Who do u side with Ryan Seacrest OR Simon Cowell?

60% vote Seacrest – because he’s cute.

nuff said?

Statement of Methodology: The following statement conforms to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls:How this poll was conducted: This SurveyUSA poll was
conducted by telephone in the voice of a professional announcer. Respondent households were selected at random, using Random Digit Dialed (RDD) sample provided by Survey Sampling, of
Fairfield CT. All respondents heard the questions asked identically. Within the report, you will find: the geography that was surveyed; the date(s) interviews were conducted and the news
organization(s) that paid for the research. The number of respondents who answered each question and the margin of sampling error for each question are provided. Where necessary, responses
were weighted according to age, gender, ethnic origin, geographical area and number of adults and number of voice telephone lines in the household, so that the sample would reflect the actual
demographic proportions in the population, using most recent U.S.Census estimates. In theory, with the stated sample size, one can say with 95% certainty that the results would not vary by more
than the stated margin of sampling error, in one direction or the other, had the entire universe of respondents been interviewed with complete accuracy. There are other possible sources of error in
all surveys that may be more serious than theoretical calculations of sampling error. These include refusals to be interviewed, question wording and question order, weighting by demographic
control data and the manner in which respondents are filtered (such as, determining who is a likely voter). It is difficult to quantify the errors that may result from these factors. Fieldwork for this
survey was done by SurveyUSA of Verona, NJ.

Geography: California

The problem with electric or hydrogen powered vehicles is that it’s NOT a primary source of energy.

You have to have electricity to produce such things. If you haven’t noticed years of hostility by the government towards the electrical industry has resulted in shortages in generation and transmission.

You guys keep thinking that in a magical way energy will just appear. I feel like I’m arguing with someone that believes in magic carpets and genies.

What about supply and demand? I am not using as much gas. I very carefully plan all my trips so that I do not make extra trips. I walk whenever possible to cut down on use of fuel. I refuse to put more than thirty dollars of gas in my car per week. I drive at 55 miles per hour in the slow lane on the freeway,. Now if we do this as an entire nation – then the consumption will go down. Once the consumption goes down, the supply will go up. This will cause the price of oil to go down. One of the primary reasons that prices go up is because the demand is up. We need to do this with perscription drugs and prices of food as well. All of these prices have skyrocketed, causing the recession. How can we keep up with the three major basic needs being so high. It is time to take the problem out of the “powers that be” and put it into the power in numbers. Let’s take the matter into our own hands and go around the government and large companies who have not been able to solve it.

There are vast shale oil fields that are so oil rich that you can pick up a stone and light it with a match and it will burn. The problem is, Bill Clinton named those lands as a National Park/National Reserve!

Obama says it will take until the year 2030 to reduce the price of gasoline and diesel in any amount. His words are foolish as opening thwe shale oil fields would have oil production booming within 5 years! AT MOST!

So, will you write your elected guys and gals? I did and write daily!

The illegal legislation banning drilling off-shore and in the Alaskan wilderness was passed, with much media fanfare, right after the OPEC agreement to hedge our money. At the time, environmentalist represented less than 5% of the population.

It’s too late for oil. We can replace it much faster than we can get it out of the ground and into our gas tanks.

Telsa, producer of a $100,000 125 mph electric car with a 225 mile range and sub 4 second 0-60 times, recently got another influx of VC cash to develop and cheaper family model. The Army has awarded a contract for hydrogen powered tanks. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come.

the faithlessness that runs rampant when it comes to the public accepting and recognizing our country’s inherent ingenuity and scientific prowess is truly discouraging. We learned to fly….we put men on the moon…..do I think its going to take five or ten years to get domestic oil on line???? Gimme a break. “EARTH FIRST..then DRILL the other planets”

As a Californian who’s spent all his life within a couple miles of the coast:

DRILL ALREADY!

California is 50th in spending on roads.

Our state government is in the pocket of the public employees’ unions, the last governor took every dollar of taxpayers’ money he could find and stuffed it into their pockets.

Our present RINO has been reduced to begging the Indian casinos for money to keep the schools open.

I want oil exploration because it’s the right thing to do, because it might help this state pay its way out of the hole it’s in, and because the day the first lease is signed half the environmentalists in the state will self-immolate and I really need practice with the video camera.

What we need from the Feds is a leasing program that makes it fiscally impossible for the states not to permit drilling.

Majority Of Americans Support Off-Shore Drilling…in California.

Hawk, it was a poll of Californians.
Learn to read.

Learn to write. I am sure our resident proofreader can diagram your sentence for you and explain that “in california” modifies where the “off shore drilling” is not where the “Majority of Americans” are.

This poll comes from a TV Station in Fresno Ca. and does not reflect opinions of most Californians… on this or almost any other issue facing the state. Fresno is a very very inland area (far from the ocean) who depends on farming, etc. and has a very conservative citizenship. To claim this poll as having some kind of finger on the pulse of California is ridiculous. This is a town where George Bush won 52% of the votes in 2004… even the mayor is a republican. In the case of this poll, and having personally spent time In this area, I think I can fairly say that a majority of these folks don’t care a lot about California beaches or ocean life – but rather the cost of fuel to power farming equipment, big trucks and SUVs (which most Fresno residents seem to have), etc. So please, don’t try and spin this as what “Californians are saying” – that’s just not the whole picture, and not at all true.

I don’t care how much of the state was surveyed, the fact is there’s going to be considerably higher support for drilling now than ever before.

California politics are a constant tug of war between the coastal Socialist Republics in the Bay Area and LA (and the potheads in Humboldt and the pseudo-Beltway-Bandits ringing Sacramento) and everyone else.

Aside from this just being the right thing to do, any issue that helps tip the state’s political balance the Right Way is potentially a good thing. Energy exploration might be one, especially if someone can put forward some detail on its value to the economy. The gay marriage Constitutional amendment is another, though I personally have nothing against the whole idea.

That’s because Republicans are more smarter, even in California.

Laughing my butt off.