[BB2]

We need somebody who can LEAD to come up with another ‘contract with America’ that everyone can get behind. First on the list should be legislation to make it easier to start drilling in our own country, the country with more oil than all the Middle East combined. Get approval for gasification of coal plants to be built, approve new refineries, and nuclear power plants. All of that would have immediate effects on getting the OPEC nations to increase production, and drop the price dramatically. Pie in the sky ‘alternative’ energy is decades off at best. There is no substitute for the power of oil.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

First on the list should be legislation to make it easier to start drilling in our own country, the country with more oil than all the Middle East combined."

I hate to say it, but this sort of determined ignorance (if you knew anything about energy policy, you would know your statement is just flat out absurdly wrong) is perhaps the biggest reason we are in the mess we are:

I shudder for the future of a country where voters are making decisions based on this sort of "knowledge".

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

We need somebody who can LEAD to come up with another ‘contract with America’ that everyone can get behind. First on the list should be legislation to make it easier to start drilling in our own country, the country with more oil than all the Middle East combined. Get approval for gasification of coal plants to be built, approve new refineries, and nuclear power plants. All of that would have immediate effects on getting the OPEC nations to increase production, and drop the price dramatically. Pie in the sky ‘alternative’ energy is decades off at best. There is no substitute for the power of oil.

You are so right. The Democrats causing these extreme energy prices needs to be campaign issue No. 1.

In 2000 I was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. While there, the Alaskan delegation wore vests stating "OPEN ANWR". If this had happened, we'd be using Alaskan oil right now.