[epow]

We have plenty of oil in the US and just off our shores, but the ecofreaks have such a lock on Congress that it won't allow American oil companies to exploit our crude oil resources. The Interior Dept estimates that 113 billion barrels of recoverable crude lies under the continental shelf around the US, but it's placed off limits to American oil companies by Congress. Meanwhile, China is extracting that same crude 50 miles from our shoreline in the Florida Straits and refining it in a renovated refinery built by the old USSR in Cuba.

If the ecofresk's strangle hold on Congress can't be broken we are doomed to continue paying through the nose to import oil from people who hate us and want to see our nation destroyed. It seems that the greenies and their congressional allies would rather see the Chinese communists, who care little or nothing about the global ecology, use our oil than for us to use it ourselves.

[K-oneTexas]

Found on Nealz Nuze today (http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html) 'Reading Assignments:

McCain says it is up to the states to drill for oil.  He says he would offer incentives for states to drill but he wouldn't force them to drill in any "environmentally sensitive" areas.