The point isn’t whether it will lower prices right away. It doesn’t take a genius or economic girly men to figure that out. Ask these people where we might be had clinton not vetoed the anwar bill. It’s a start and that’s all. We still have to get past the congressional ban on OSDrilling.
as i understand it, the congressional ban on drilling will expire at the end of September this year. i think that they will find it impossible to extend it but i hope they try because that should lead to lots of incumbents being thrown out by the voters. i think this was a part ot W’s strategy for coming out strong yesterday and lifting his ban.