[BOBTHENAILER]

"Over the next five months, House Republicans will fight every single day to hold Democrats accountable for their dismal record on producing more energy in our country," Boehner told reporters.

Good, good, good.

This is a winning issue and they need to jam down their throats.

[tacticalogic]

"We cannot drill our way out of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California countered.

How would she know that? The only solutions she's ever had to anything have been "tax and regulate", and neither one has ever gotten one drop of oil out of the ground.

[DesScorp]

It’s about damned time the part showed some leadership and some fight.

[Chode]

lets see... NOT drilling got us INTO this mess, so not drilling will get us out???

stoopid cow...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"We cannot drill our way out of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California countered. Opening the wildlife refuge in Alaska would reduce U.S. gasoline prices by one penny per gallon, she said.

I've heard the Democrats and their enviro-overlords trot out this line repeatedly, and I don't buy it. There are over 10 billion barrels of oil in ANWR and even the promise of getting that oil into the pipeline would immediately let a lot of air out of the current oil bubble.

She and other Democrats blame President George W. Bush's energy policies for the gasoline price spike.

I blame every politician who has pandered to the environmentalists by banning offshore drilling and drilling in ANWR. Although Bush's dad is in that list, most are Democrats.

[vpintheak]

even a sign that these rat bastards will allow drilling would help out the market. They are blaming speculators, well crap, if there is more oil beinbg pumped in the future, the price will go down. I canot stand these traitorous SOB’s in congress.

[RJL]

"We cannot drill our way out of this," Nancy Pelosi...

But we can depend on technology that doesn't exist?

[theBuckwheat]

Recently, I saw an ad on TV claiming that in a few years, we would need far more energy than we presently produce. Where would it come from, they asked. Indeed, for every year since oil has been used this alarmist question could have been breathlessly asked.

Excuse me, but if one looks at the graph of oil consumed per year and compares that with oil produced every year, surprise, goooleee (!!) like magic the supply-demand relationship of the free market works every time. Production and consumption roughly track over time.

[tnvol01]

Is there any substance or refute to the Dems’ charge that oil companies are actually sitting on millions of acres of explorable land?

Is there any there there?

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., dismissed the need for oil explanation, speaking with FOX News Wednesday.

“There are 68 million acres right now that is available for exploration right now that the oil companies have — an area the size of Illinois and Georgia. We ought to be focusing on doing that,” Blumenauer said, adding that a legal gap he referred to as the “Enron loophole” exempts energy trading from oversight of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

[Nuc1]

We can drill, harvest oil from shale, convert oil from coal, and build nuclear. So Nancy, sit down shut-up and let real Americans fix the problems that decades and decades of following your party's evil policies have caused. Unlike you witch, I have served my country and work at generating nuclear electricity every day. You are just a self absorbed leech.

[JHBowden]

Realistically, drilling isn’t going to help. Despite leftist claims that Big Oil is a monopoly, it is pretty much close to perfect competition as anything can get. The price is set on the global market, and there are comparative advantages to building refineries into other countries as opposed to the USA. Alaskan oil, for example, could easily be sold to Japan as to California.

Granted, when people like Durbin and Obama try to stop BP from expanding its Whiting Indiana facility to process heavy Canadian crude, they can’t seriously yell supply is being constricted domestically because of a conspiracy. But anyone who says that we can drill our way domestically out of high oil prices is not being honest.

[DGHoodini]

Pelouse-si: “We will not let you drill our way out of this!”

[InterceptPoint]

The Congressional Republicans need to get McCain on board and declare that the party's message between now and November will be very simple:

We Won The War

Drill Here, Drill Now

[Bitsy]

Pelosi is truly an ignorant witch.