[Williams]

“Oil companies are sitting on 68 million acres of public lands they have already leased, but President Bush and Senator McCain want to award them with even more."

So let me get this straight, the problem is the oil companies are not doing enough drilling??? She wants MORE?

Or maybe we should take away the existing leases, why are we even allowing that much if domestic drilling is such a pointless mistake?

So I'm supposed to believe the oil companies have all the land available needed to make us energy independent? But wait, Pelosi says there isn't enough oil to do that, so the problem CAN'T be that they are sitting on what's already available. It would have to help to make more available, if there isn't enough overall.

[pennboricua]

i wonder what the cost of leasing those acres is to the oil companies.