Posted on 06/19/2008 6:16:03 AM PDT by captjanaway
A recent telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters nationwide by the polling companyTM, inc. on behalf of FamilySecurityMatters.org shows that by nearly a 4-to-1 margin, Americans favor increasing domestic oil drilling (77% support; 18% oppose).
Moreover, 61% of respondents strongly backed tapping into U.S. oil reserves, and majorities from every demographic group surveyed backed domestic drilling, including 91% of Republicans, 73% of Independents and 67% of Democrats.
(Excerpt) Read more at familysecuritymatters.org ...
Yeah, we hate being on Middle East oil
The voters want domestic drilling and they need the voters to stay ion office.
But they LOVE all that $$ that the environazi lobbyists give them to not drill.
What a conflict....
This could be the WINNING ISSUE for McCain.
When they were told what it was and ask if we should drill even if it bothered the caribou they said yes. One black lady said they could put the caribou in a zoo, just drill...lol.
“Domestic drilling is off the table.” — Sen. Harry Reid
The Dems mantra is “we can’t drill our way out of this.” But anyone with a class in basic economics will know that when the oil speculators KNOW that the US is about to open ANWR, the Gulf, and the Montana/ Dakota fields, just the knowledge of that will panic the speculators to sell their paper. The price per bbl. will fall dramatically within two weeks of a decision to open all known American fields.
I don’t know enough about the system to figure out exactly who is causing the unrelenting rise in oil prices, but I DO know enough to realize that someone, at some point, is buying at $xxx a barrel today, then bidding up the price to sell that oil at a much higher price down the road a bit.
Anything that stops the rise will put a serious hitch in the git-along of these speculators.
This is exactly how the housing bubble came about. It burst when the mortgage bubble could no longer support the inflated prices it was causing.
You have to remember that the Muslim religion wants everyone to live under the same conditions that prevailed in the Middle Ages. I guess this is consistent with Obama's call for change. The only problem is that most people thought the change would be a move forward, not backward.
There's also the Dilbert/Dogbert "fungible" cartoon. Is Scott Adams a closet conservative?
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Tell them that they can't run away and hide during the 4th of July holiday, they have to stay in D.C. and do their jobs. We ran the amnesty sham out of Congress and we can do it again. Call them up and let them know they can't get away with it. Also, shut off the A/C in the Capitol Building, energy savings, you know!
Of course the public favors domestic drilling. The only people who don’t favor it are Congressional Democrats, who rely on environmental groups to get elected. Congressional Democrats prefer that we be burdened with high gasoline prices than that they alienate their environmental constituency.
“OMG...what are the libs to do?????”
Well, some of them want to nationalize the oil industry. Then they’ll really have control.
...and watch OPEC drastically cut its prices to try and get in front of it and make it econoimically unfeasable.
We should then take their lower rices and tell our oil companies to continue in any case and insure that in the end, it is them we buy the oil and refined products from, produced here...through trade restrictions and legislation that even the playing field so we can be energy indepenedent from those who hate us and use it as a weapon.
“Domestic drilling is off the table.” — Sen. Harry Reid
Will the voters please get Harry Reid off the table?
Yeah, but picking up a winning issue could be “mean spirited”.
Simple. They should promise to form immediately a commission to investigate the drilling question.
The libs like the high gas prices right now because they can keep blaming them on Bush and his administration. Problem with that is, people are realizing that it is the LIB congress not the President. Now they have to do something and it is going to anger the lobbyists who keep putting $$ in their pockets.
Moral dilemma: Do what is right, or keep taking the $$....and we know libs have NO morals to start with.
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