[M. Espinola]

"Tell me again why we're not drilling in ANWAR?"

The President should order a national energy emergency and issue a Presidential order to drill everywhere and now. But....Washington will most likely wait around until oil is some how disrupted from the Persian Gulf, Venezuela, Nigeria or all combined before even thinking about doing anything constructive.

[MNJohnnie]

al energy emergency and issue a Presidential order


Doesn't even begin to have the authority for that. I know it really upsets the Bush haters on the right, but we live in a Constitutional Republic. The people who continually whine "Why doesn't Bush DO something" seem to forget he is not an absolute dictator. If you want something done, tell Congress to get off it's dead ass and do something about refinery capacity in this country. As the article says, the problem is not SUPPLY, there is actually an OVER supply of oil. The problem is the processing pipeline is screwed up.