[SevenMinusOne]

How the RNC/WH cannot use this issue of rising oil prices to slam ANWAR (and other off shore modern day drilling techniques) down the Democrats throats....and right to the American public....is dumb founding.

This is a bread and butter issue that would drive people to the polls.

Yeah, the reality is we need refinery capacity (those such issues) but drilling for our own oil (with a clear determination to do such!!) would have an impact on OPEC and the world oil markets. The symbolism of such would cause prices to go down.

[RC2]

When we first started buying oil from the middle east, it was because it was only about $6. Theory was, since it was so cheap, why drill our own? At $93, it’s time we drill our own and build more refinerys and........keep our oil here in this country.

[AmericaUnited]

How the RNC/WH cannot use this issue of rising oil prices to slam ANWAR (and other off shore modern day drilling techniques) down the Democrats throats

Doing that requires the two B's... brains and balls.

[MNJohnnie]

Maybe it because no one in the WH is on the ballot in 2008. What is dumb founding is how none of the 2008 Candidates are making this a center piece of their campaign.

[Betty Jane]

Can’t Bush do it by executive order? Do a reverse Clinton and put energy on the table to help the American people.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for saying that. I’ve been saying it for 10 years. Or more. I have not heard one single candidate on either side propose it.

Why not?