No driving, no 72 degree thermostats, no SUVs, don't eat so much, no guns, bitter religion...we have the makings of our very own Mugabe in Barack Hussein. How nice. [/dripping sarcasm]
Posted on 06/19/2008 4:32:56 AM PDT by CWWren
Obama and The Don't Drill Democrats To America: Don't Drive. Just Shut Up and Sweat In Your Dark House.
When Barack Obama told a Pennsylvania audience this past weekend that "We can't drill our way out of this," he was repeating the same line that Nancy Pelosi used days earlier and that Harry Reid used on Wednesday.
The Big Three Democrats are thus all agreed that their party has given up on bringing down the cost of oil and thus the cost of gas at the pump.
Because demand for oil isn't going to drop due to growth around the globe, the only way to bring the cost of a gallon of gas at the pump down is to increase the supply of oil. The only way to increase the supply of oil for the present is to explore for more oil and then bring it to market. That means drilling.
In the U.S. that means drilling on the outer continental shelf, more than 50 miles from the nearest coastline.
John McCain favors allowing states to do just that. Obama, Pelosi and Reid oppose it. To get the exploration underway a federal ban on such off shore drilling must be lifted, but House Democrats have blocked that move, most recently this very month. They and their presidential candidate would rather see your wallet bleed and American growth deteriorate than cross their political allies and contributors in the environmental movement. House Republicans should offer a new amendment lifting the ban on outer continental shelf drilling if the price of gas hit $6.00 a gallon. Democrats would still oppose it. Follow it with an amendment at $8.00 a galklon and then $10.00. Get the point across that the Democrats just don't care how high the price goes. They do not care about the impact on the average American family.
(The environmental activists, by the way, are seeking to use the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species to further impede oil exploration even where it is legal. Their agenda is to drive the cost of oil and thus gas to the sky to force you out of your car and America out of the economic growth business.)
The DDDs have three talking points: Exploration won't bring down the cost of gas very much. There isn't that much oil to find. And oil companies aren't using their existing leases anyway.
Both arguments reveal the DDDs as either ignorant or dishonest.
First, the announcement by the U.S. of an immediate move to begin outer continental shelf drilling would send oil prices downward and probably significantly as the speculators' premium vanished quickly. No one wants to get caught holding the contract for high priced oil when new reserves are discovered. Make no mistake, the refusal of Obama et al to push for outer continental shelf exploration is costing you a great deal at the pump this very day and every day the ban remains in effect.
As for the argument that the reserves are not that great, this ignores the entire history of oil exploration, where new discoveries and new fields often bring huge new reserves into view. That's why it is called exploration. The huge reserves in the North Sea weren't discovered until the 1960s. Huge new discoveries off the coast of Brazil were reported in 2007. Combined with new (and very environmentally safe) extraction technologies, the canard that reserves can't possibly be enough to help is exposed as just another thin facade over the DDDs' extremist agenda.
The worst argument put forward by the DDDs though is the one that says oil companies aren't using all of their existing leases to begin with.
First, a lease isn't an entitlement to drill. It is the first step. Every single environmental rule must be complied with after the lease is awarded, from land use permissions to permits to work near endangered species. (This is why the polar bear listing was so crucial to opponents of exploration --they got another club to beat would be producers of energy with.)
Second, the award of a lease doesn't guarantee an oil field is beneath the land leased or that the cost of extraction makes sense. Lots of leases are prospected and most are found wanting. But we know there are huge deposits of oil on the outer continental shelf. Scientists have confirmed it.
Obama and the Triple Ds are singing from the old statist hymn book, and they increase the volume every time another American looks up and uses common sense to conclude that he and they are standing by while the standard of living of most Americans slip on the altar of extreme environmentalist ideology.
We can drill our way out of this problem. The problem is the Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid won't let us.
The choice in November is clear. A vote for any Democrat from Obama on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas. Obama and his allies don't care now and they won't care next year even if Obama wins. The change you will get if the Democrats get the presidency plus the Congress will be prices at the pump skyrocketing.
What he's talking about is leaving you with the change that jingles in your pocket: pennies and nickles.
A vast miserable heap of humanity with the leftists on top running things with a whip. Now there's Utopia We Can Believe In.
here in Virginia, the dims want to fix the oil crisis by tax credits for better mpg cars, paid for by taxing the oil industry.
morons.
the dims say we cant drill our way to energy independance, the republicans should respond that we cant tax our way to independance either.
No driving, no 72 degree thermostats, no SUVs, don't eat so much, no guns, bitter religion...we have the makings of our very own Mugabe in Barack Hussein. How nice. [/dripping sarcasm]
“Walk you miserable peasants... burn your own dung to stay warm... then look to Chavez to see how a real leader handles the capitalist bloodsuckers!”
If we don’t drill our way out of this mess, how does BO expect us to get out of the mess? Does he think that we can conserve ourselves to economic prosperity?
If the Dems think that we can get out of this mess by using more “alternatives” then they need to be reminded that it takes huge quantities of oil to build a new energy infrastructure (construction project require lots of oil). There are already some wind projects on hold because oil has driven up the cost of construction.
I find it real hard to believe that all the money propping up the "environmental movement" is made by little old ladies and college kids sending in a few dollars to the Sierra Club. Has anyone followed the environmental movement's money? It seems to me that the only people who benefit from what they want are NOT Americans.
Well, that’s just great.
I earn my living by DRIVING from Maine to Virginia. I carry heavy equipment (about 400 lbs.) to perform my job, so flying isn’t an option (it’s too damned expensive, anyway).
As of now, I’m charging my customers sixty cents a mile to get me to and from their locations. I think this figure will increase as gasoline prices rise.
I drive a Honda Element that gets about 25 mpg. It’s the smallest vehicle I could find that holds all my stuff.
Frankly, I’d rather be driving a Dodge Magnum with a freakin’ HEMI.
So, Congress, just keep denying us the fuel that runs Our Nation, and I assure you that Our Nation will cease to run at all.
The cause: To create a tax which becomes "just another kitty" for "pork" and "political control".
We have already seen their stupidity in promoting "corn" for fuel.
Dear DDD,
OK, I will stop driving. Which means that I’ll have to stop working as well. Please be prepared to support me in the lifestyle in which I’ve been living. You see, for all intents and purposes, I only drive to and from work. And since there’s no public transportation where I live, I’ll no longer be able to pay any of my taxes. I do live close enough to the grocery store to walk (about a mile round trip), so I’ll be able to feed myself, as long as you supply the food stamps. But you’ll need to come up with my mortgage payments, unless you want to pay off my mortgage (even though I’m not in default or foreclosure.)
I’ve been working between 60 and 80 hours a weeks since 1989. I’m ready for a break. Thanks for offering.
Mark
When I was a child, samplers said,
Nowdays samplers should say,
If we could start a massive program to put men on the moon, our nation is capable of starting another massive program to drill, transport and refine our own crude oil.
I believe that voting for ANY Democrat for ANYTHING is so counter-productive that it defies any logical thinking.
If this country is to survive the American people must emasculate the party of death and doom and commit them, along with their sycophants, to the dustbin of history. The sycophants I refer to are those Republicrats who continuallly 'reach out' across the aisle to their Democrat pals in the name of accommodation and appeasement in order to get bill after bill after bill passed that accomplish nothing but to further enslave American citizens by welding them to the central stinking government.
McCain is an example of one who has played politics like most millionaires play polo. He has advanced his country through his years in the senate not one iota, but has been a contributor to the problems that today confront this nation.
That being said, we have no other option but to hold our noses, once again, and vote for this whispering gadfly.
We have four more years to get busy and either clean up the party to which most of us here have belonged to for most of our lives, or to work hard to create a legitimate party that reflects our wishes and the wishes of, unfortunately, a slim majority of our fellow Americans.
The democrats have an excellent plan..........to bring this nation to its knees.
Right, and stupid America will play right along and is going to elect this idiot piece of Marxist dung.
If I remember correctly, environmentalists' demands led to decreased miles per gallon.
The Democrats have a pre-occupation with control of all our behavior...from what we eat, smoke, buy, how we obtain and pay for health care, who we may choose to allow across our borders, to what each of us may or may not do with our private property....etc.etc.etc. My ancestors fought a King over similar nonsense. I pray and hope some Pubbie, somewhere, can find his stones and run with this .
This Obama character and the party he is a card-carrying member of represent nothing but doom, death, socialism/communism, large oppressive government that keeps the majority of citizens in a state of despondency, confiscation of firearms (making it easy to trample over our dead bodies), the confiscation of our children and their minds at the hands of the central government lackies, shoving the homosexuals and their evil agenda down the throats of decent Americans, more and more political correctness and....well, you get the picture.
Our nation, under more and more Democrat/socialist rule will be a picture not painted in color, but in stark black and white!
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