Do you support oil drilling on or off-coast after this disaster?
FILE - In this May 6, 2010 file photo, oil from the leaking Deep Horizon oil rig is seen swirling through the currents in the Gulf of Mexico. Move over Goldman Sachs. Big Oil may be even less popular with the electorate than Wall Street bankers. Edgy lawmakers of both parties are counting on it. The month-old Gulf oil disaster has unleashed a gusher of congressional oversight hearings that may prove harder to cap than the blown BP well. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
Former Gov. Sarah Palin's tweets supporting oil drilling over the past week have many syracuse.com users outraged. Some question why Palin would even think to post these comments on Twitter during one of the worst oil spills in the history of the US, while others wonder if Palin is just doing what she needs to in order to stay in the media spotlight. Here's what syracuse.com user carpediem302 had to say:
"Palin knows what her advisers tell her. Unfortunately Americans act before we know what we actually are getting into. The oil spill is THE WORST man made disaster in history. Its our arrogance and our thinking that this will never happen that got us into producing sub-standard rigs with not nearly enough redundant backup systems in place to prevent something like this. Talking about drilling for more oil at this point in time is not really the subject we should be talking about. BP's solution to fix their problem is to drill more holes. And, for the record I am a republican and I think Palin and those like minded like her are idiots."
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