We need to pump our own oil. Can anybody tell me why we are not doing so?
Because Man Bear Pig is on the loose?
Lefties want oil to be expensive. They want us to drive less. To lower our living standard. Our houses are too big and we eat too much, just ask them.
Assuming yours was not a rhetorical question:
The Bush administration has long sought to open the refuge as part of the president's national energy policy, but the proposal has repeatedly run into opposition on Capitol Hill.
we'd be drilling in ANWR today if John...and John McCain himself killed our ability to drill in ANWR
DATE: November 10, 2005
BACKGROUND: Both the U.S. House and Senate budget bills included a provision that would allow for oil drilling in a small fraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Senate passed its budget bill last week, but leaders in the House dropped the ANWR provision late November 9 after a small group of moderate Republicans threatened to withhold support for the budget if ANWR were included. Although the House repeatedly has voted to allow drilling in ANWR, since most Democrats were expected to vote against the budget, the moderate House members had exceptional leverage in this instance.
The budget measure the GOP moderates held hostage is intended to reduce government spending by $53.9 billion over five years.
A post I made here on FR in regard to this issue in June 2008.