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Yes, the new buzzword/phrase (besides “Drilling now wouldn’t change anything”) is “68 MILLION ACRES!!!! that the oil companies are ignoring—they should develop all those places first—there’s no need to drill in places like ANWR or off of Florida or California!!”
Neal Cavuto highlighted this on his show today.
I saw a Dem on TV yesterday insisting that the oil companies weren’t drilling what they already leased. I guess their knowlege about oil exploration is lacking because why would you try to compell a company to drill where there is no oil?
That sure sounds like an 'obscene profit by the government to me.
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The more these leftist loonies talk about this, the more idiotic they make themselves appear. Do they not think that your average guy understands that you can’t pump oil out of land that has no oil under it?
Keep talkin’ Dems. You’re just digging yourself a deeper grave.
Let me just say that if you weren’t planning to vote for McCain because you did not think he was any different from the Dems, then this issue ought to persuade you otherwise. And if you are still not persuaded, then you should seriously examine whether you’re really a conservative.
I heard this discovery being discussed today on talk radio. The secret is now common knowledge. Maybe it will even be discussed on the floor of Congress. The cat's out of the bag now.
Exactly why we should have term limits. With each term they get re-elected to, many of these Congress critters develop an increasing sense of omnipotence. It's scary to think that many of them actually BELIEVE they can legislate "solutions" to problems, either real or perceived.
The other big lie... we shouldn’t drill in ANWR (or anywhere) because it will be 10 years before we see any oil. Thats like saying we are hungry now, but we should not waste time planting seeds because we will not be able to harvest a crop until Fall.
Look oil exploration is a very cheap and fast process. You take out the old Winchester squirrel rifle and fire bullets into the ground. Out comes a bubbling crude, every time. Then you rape American consumers by making a whopping 8% profit.
Why can’t the Reps and McCain explain this simple fact to the public instead of letting the Dems get away with lies about 68,000,000 idle acres under lease?
Stupid is as stupid does.
I remain utterly convinced that we have SUPER VAST RESERVES that have been secretly idled since Ike’s Administration and often since then additional secret reserves have been capped and kept quiet about.
Hence, my new tagline.
Congressional Democrats are such a pack of liars. Why can’t they just come out and say that they are socialists/Marxists/communists? Of course, knowing about all the sheeple out there, that question practically answers itself! :-)
How do you know the potential exists if you haven't explored? You can't have it both ways...unless potential is not really a good guide to actual.
This is a good explaination of how oil leases work, but the Democrat talking point of “the oil companies have not used the leases they have” is a quick and easy lie that works with the masses.