The former Gulf of Mexico

[joeydb]

Bottom line: We need the oil, and we will need it for quite some time. You can get rid of offshore oil drilling when you allow enough land based drilling to make up the difference (and more...the amount needed for continued growth). That is, assuming that a land-based supply actually exists.

You want the end of offshore drilling? Start by opening up ANWR and let's go at it. I'd prefer land based drilling for the simple reason that you'd never have a leak go 24 hours let alone 50 some days.

But all the same people screaming about the Gulf catastrophe -- which should never have happened -- also aren't willing to pay $10/gallon for gas.

Supply and demand, as usual, is analogous to the law of gravity in physics. It will be obeyed, period.