Voters Say ‘Drill’ - Neither candidate gets it.

NRO ^ | 6/10/08 | Larry Kudlow

[roses of sharon]

[singfreedom]

I am all for alternative sources, but all of the ones we already know about still require lots of work.

I have written to the McCain campaign so many times that, if he does win, I’ll probably be audited by the IRS every year for the rest of my life. Everyone else needs to write and tell him, and his staff, that you know of a surefire campaign issue and position he can take that will win him the election: drill federal land and push for offshore drilling. If he doesn’t, he runs the risk of being as deaf, dumb, and blind, as he was on the “amnesty that’s not really an amnesty” issue.

Locating, drilling, and producing oil is a tremendously expensive undertaking. Its not done in a day, but I’m sure the majors could get it done in record time IF Congress suddenly gets smart.

[singfreedom]

Yes, I've been called a “sheeple” because I dared acknowledge that McCain isn't the Perfect Candidate.

[singfreedom]

The enviroweenies need to be “stuffed” back in their box and dropped off the edge of the universe. The average American has no idea how much these miscreants cost oil companies, utility companies, and legions of other necessary services.

[singfreedom]

Absolutely. They want us all to drive Yugos and cower in our cold, dark, mortgaged homes.

[singfreedom]

Thanks for the info AuntB! You're a peach! I'm heading over there to purchase a bunch to give to friends and family.

[singfreedom]

My son, working in Germany, tells me that the EPA will not allow European diesels. They aren’t “clean” enough.

[kitchen]

... if a harp seal had oil in it’s head I’d be all for drilling it.

You'd get a better product going after whales.

[singfreedom]

I agree with your “Manifesto”. It sounds perfectly reasonable and, more importantly, do-able.

[CougarGA7]

Just going out to fill up my SUV.

[Ann Archy]

If the Republicans would get on this DRILL and REFINE Bandwagon, they would take over the Congress!!!

The RNC needs to run an ad showing all the Democrats saying "We need HIGHER gasoline prices...we aren't paying ENOUGH for gasoline....Europe pays more, so should we".!!! It would be a LANDSLIDE to Republicans!

DRILL IN ANWAR.....DRILL OFF THE COAST (China is)!!!! BUILD REFINERIES on OLD Military Bases!!!!

[Ann Archy]

This is the “AMNESTY” issue of today and we CHANGED what happened to AMNESTY!!! CALL CONGRESS....DRILL and REFINE...HERE in AMERICA!!!

[painter]

BUMP to that!

[spectre]

Have you checked out the headlines in every paper across the Nation today?

Senate GOP blocks tax on Big Oil

Most people won't read past those headlines today. We're toast.

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[RightWhale]

Dream on

[roses of sharon]

Blunt’s office adds this footnote:

Methodology: Retail gasoline prices are the result of literally hundreds of factors including crude oil supply, global demand, refinery capacity, regulation, taxes, weather, the value of the dollar, etc. Therefore it is impossible to say with certainty what one individual action will do to the overall price. However, based on what we know about the impact of crude oil supply and prices it is possible to develop some potential ranges of impact on gasoline prices for certain policy changes. For example, using the methodology employed by Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats that suspending shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (between 40-77,000 barrels of oil a day) would reduce gas prices by at least 5 cents, bringing ANWR online (at least one million barrels of oil a day) could impact gasoline prices by between 70 cents and $1.60.

So you agree with Pelosi’s campaign tactics, and disagree with Blunt’s?

[RightWhale]

They are all wrong. Anti-trust has caused this situation. Allow Standard Oil to re-integrate, vertically, and the price of gasoline can be half what it is now.

[roses of sharon]

You should contact Roy Blunt, let them know your idea.

In Washington DC:
217 Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC, 20515
(202) 225-6536 (202) 225-5604 Fax

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Without competition, monopolistic practices might again ensue.

The end-to-end distribution efficiencies and reduced number of transaction costs gained compared to the present distribution chain might merely go to the bottom line—not that that is automatically bad, for it is indeed capitalism; but we must guard against unconscionable strangleholds by multinational corporations. Not that we’ve done a great job lately....

[RightWhale]

J D Rockefeller did provide the best price possible. His predatory method of eliminating competition drew attention and the eventual anti-monopoly legislation, not the existence of monopoly in itself. There is nothing inherently evil in monopoly even though it is also the economic managment technique of Russian Communism and German National Socialism.