Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
I’ve just signed the petition. You should too.
Or you can allow the hypocritical Democrats who have been blocking domestic energy exploration for decades to continue to drive your destiny. They don’t want to create “energy independence”… they want more control over your lives.
If Senator Obama WERE a “different kind of politician,” he would also support immediate exploration of America’s bountiful resources for internal energy use and have a Sister Souljah moment with the radical environmental wackos that control US energy policy.
Otherwise Obama’s calls for “energy independence” are, like his other proclamations, just mere flowery words.
[RELATED STORY: Gas prices up 75 percent since Dems took over in 2006 - Infidels Are Cool]
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Question for you:
When you refer to the “radical environmental wackos that control US energy policy,” does this include the 12 years of GOP control of Congress and the 6 years when the GOP held Congress and the WH? Weren’t the Republicans in charge for a very long time? What did they do to resolve this problem when they were in power?
Comment by torrentprime — June 11, 2008 @ 1:21 pm - June 11, 2008
Right on, Bruce! And in other great news, House Republicans who have pushed the production of domestic crude have gotten Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D) on board to allow their bill to hit the house floor.
See news item here. Hope it sends a message to Queen Pelosi that 57% of us are sick and tired of Congress doing nothing to alleviate the pain at the pump.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 11, 2008 @ 1:23 pm - June 11, 2008
drill now and forget about globle warming
Comment by ken christensen — June 11, 2008 @ 1:35 pm - June 11, 2008
Wow, TP. I guess you were transcribing Alan Colmes from his talking points last night.
TorrentPrime = Talking Points
Comment by GayPatriot — June 11, 2008 @ 1:48 pm - June 11, 2008
Alaska is for … drilling.
Comment by Julie the Jarhead — June 11, 2008 @ 3:12 pm - June 11, 2008
ANWR was declared off-limits to drilling by Bill Clinton in 1995.
Republicans tried many times to overturn the band so we can extract oil from this mosquito infested bog (like the Canadians are doing on their side of the same stretch of coastline), but were blocked by Democrats and a handful of RINOs like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chaffee and … oh yeah… John (Spit) McCain.
Comment by V the K — June 11, 2008 @ 3:18 pm - June 11, 2008
#4 - Per Bruce, “TorrentPrime = Talking Points”
Personally, I always thought TorrentPine = Toilet Paper.
And to answer the Tidy-Bowl man in #1, the “radical environmental wackos” were the ones in the DNC who threatened to fillibuster any ANWAR drilling when they were the minority party during those years you cited. They are also the ones who blocked other types of oil exploration, including Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), who wanted to placate their leftist constituencies.
And in a wonderful bit of schadenfreude, the Senate GOP just blocked any type of windfall profits tax which would have led to long gas lines and shortages like what we experienced in the 1970s. Of course, the Dhimmicrats call us obstructionist. We call it progress.
Furthermore, just to make you chew on it a bit further, the global demand for oil has driven up the price further than it did in the late 1990s and early 2000s because of exponential growth in India and China. And here are some numbers that will make you cringe:
1. Iran is pumping 3 millions of barrels a day (MBD), one-half of what it did 30 years ago due to the failure of the mullahs’ regime to attract private capital and advanced technology, and to develop a predictable oil and gas investment environment based on transparency and the rule of law.
2. One-quarter of Nigeria’s productive capacity is permanently down due to social unrest in the Niger Delta.
3. Venezuela’s dictator Hugo Chavez is destroying his country’s oil sector through nationalization, taking at least 1 MBD off the market. (Someone please tell Maxine Waters this little fact.)
4. Russian oil production, which has accounted for over 80% of the net increase in non-OPEC oil production since 2003, is stagnant as the government insists on state ownership of the oil sector.
Incidentally enough, Goldman Sachs predicts oil will reach $200 per barrel by the end of the year - exactly where Osama bin Laden said it should be back in 2001.
So what are the Dhimmicrat leaders doing to fix this mess? Or are they solely concerned about playing politics for means of control of the USA?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 11, 2008 @ 3:46 pm - June 11, 2008
And in another case of playing politics with the economy, Dhimmicrats refuse to let domestic drilling bill out of committee.
Libtards.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 11, 2008 @ 5:17 pm - June 11, 2008
We, and our Canadian vassals, are sitting on huge deposits of coal, oil shales and oil tars, as well as substantial inland and offshore oil and gas reserves…and it’s ALL “off limits” courtesy to misplace-priorities of the social and green Lefts. Meanwhile, our Chinese friends are siphoning one of our massive continental-shelf fields off Florida via a long-straw from Cuban waters. …How stupid are we?
And these same same social and green Leftists are blocking the use of easily-developed wind turbine farms in those same open prairies and offshore waters. We built 50 aircraft carriers in 4 years during WW2, yet we can’t erect 50 wind turbines off Nantucket in six? …Or one single new gasoline refinery in thirty?
And frankly, I not that bothered if the grain and switchgrass bounties of the North American breadbasket gets diverted to fuelling our economy vs. being used for propping-up marginal and ungrateful regimes in the Third World via food subsidies and handouts. Let them make their own bread and catch their own fish…if you understand the analogy.
And what did happen to all that research the DoEnergy funded for so-called “Pebble-Bed” reactors? How come the South Africans are building the first prototype, not us? From what I’ve read, pebble-bed reactors make much more sense both economically and construction cycle-wise than the traditional light-water containment-type mega-reactors of the past.
We’ve spent HOW MUCH on Afghanistan and Irag? …And on those useless TSA airport inspections and other Homeland Security boondoggles?
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — June 11, 2008 @ 5:35 pm - June 11, 2008
Great blog. Thanks for being there! I have added you to my blog roll.
Comment by Stogie — June 11, 2008 @ 5:42 pm - June 11, 2008
Ted, you have “Canadian vassals”? Must be nice. I know I sure don’t.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 11, 2008 @ 5:44 pm - June 11, 2008
Sheesh, that makes me think of The Simpsons.
Mountie: “Sir, you’ll have to leave now. The tower is closing.”
Homer Simpson: “Maybe THIS will change your mind…..” (displays US dollar)
Mountie: “American currency! When would you like your breakfast, sir?”
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — June 11, 2008 @ 6:14 pm - June 11, 2008
Too damn bad we can’t harnass that gas.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 11, 2008 @ 6:52 pm - June 11, 2008
TorrentPrime’s beloved Democrats just killed a bill to increase US Energy supplies on a straight party-line vote. Time for the Toilet Paper roll to start spinning.
Comment by V the K — June 11, 2008 @ 7:39 pm - June 11, 2008
I signed it. Thanks! I hadn’t even heard of that petition.
No it doesn’t. Because Republicans have never had anything close to a fillibuster proof majority. Republicans have been busting their asses to increase supply, increase refining capacity and improve infrastructure for decades. Democrats have blocked them at EVERY turn.
No, to the extent that Congress can affect prices, which is significantly, high energy prices can be laid squarely at Democrats feet:
via Powerline
Comment by American Elephant — June 11, 2008 @ 7:46 pm - June 11, 2008
Last I heard, McCain was opposed to drilling in ANWR. Has he changed his mind (in between his assaults on “obscene profits”)?
I guess he’s not figured out how crude prices are set and exactly who owns oil company stocks (e.g. anyone with a 401k). Actually, I think he knows all this but like most pols, they don’t make any attempt to instruct and inform the proles on the issues - they parrot what they think we all believe in hopes of buying our vote.
I could have some respect for the libs (and McCain) if they’d just say “Our policies have increased energy prices - that’s the point. Increased prices lower consumption which lowers carbon emissions”. Instead, they advocate policies to increase costs and then stand there with a “who farted?” look on their faces when costs increase. Can they be that dumb? OK, maybe Boxer… but all of them?
BTW: A Corner posting linked to Jonah’s column from a few years back when he went to Alaska and tour the oil fields.
http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/goldberg200503180758.asp
Comment by Robert — June 11, 2008 @ 8:46 pm - June 11, 2008
Here’s an excellent explanation for the current run-up in prices (aside from gummint meddling):
Mike Thornbrugh, a spokesman with Tulsa-based QuikTrip, said he was “sick to his stomach” after the close of trading.
“This thing is totally out of control,” he said. “It is not being driven by supply and demand. It’s being driven by greedy speculator bastards.”
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080607_49_A1_hThenu610040
I sure miss QT.
Comment by Robert — June 11, 2008 @ 8:50 pm - June 11, 2008
Robert,
I’ve been thinking of Jonah’s photographs a lot lately. I wish congressional Republicans would hop on a plane and head to ANWR for a publicity stunt to show Americans the “pristine” wilderness, aka midge infested mudflats adjacent to development, that Democrats are “protecting.” Americans would be outraged at how they’ve been lied to.
Comment by American Elephant — June 11, 2008 @ 10:07 pm - June 11, 2008
AE - I remember Jonah’s trip photos… what a desolate place. But the point isn’t that it’s OK to ravage desolate places; it’s that oil companies have learned to produce an awful lot of oil with very little mess.
Comment by Robert — June 11, 2008 @ 10:40 pm - June 11, 2008
But it IS ok to ravage desolate places.
Ok, good point, but Republicans could then visit one of the oil companies newest facilities, or better yet, a facility that has been closed down and left virtually no footprint.
But I still think its an important lie that Americans have been told about the “pristine” coastal plains, that needs to be corrected.
Comment by American Elephant — June 12, 2008 @ 5:21 am - June 12, 2008
Besides, I don’t think most Americans think oil companies can’t do it cleanly. I think they understand that they can.
But I think they believe the lies that Democrats, the media and envirowhacko groups have been telling and showing people that ANWR is a pristine heaven on Earth that should remain untouched forever.
And if they knew the truth that those pictures arent of the area in question, and that the area in question really looks like this, that they would be all for going ahead with drilling.
Comment by American Elephant — June 12, 2008 @ 5:31 am - June 12, 2008
I will avoid references to strange sex. But, just what is up with “ravage” and “desolate” as the descriptors? Wouldn’t moving a rock and not carefully replacing it on the ocean floor fit the charge or ravaging a desolate place?
John McCain has compared ANWAR with the Grand Canyon. That slip of logic makes any piece of real estate off limits.
No one I know favors destructive, leaky, oil extraction that will stink up the neighborhood and foul the nest. Somehow, the big news guys failed to notice the Katrina caused massive damage in the oil fields and there was not one oil spill as a result.
ANWAR is the poster child for liberal intransigence. Canada is scraping huge holes in the earth to mine diamonds and building ice roads to service the mines and we can not knock a hole in a 2000 acre footprint to pull oil out of the ground. God love the caribou and their first cousins, the Democrats.
Comment by heliotrope — June 12, 2008 @ 11:11 am - June 12, 2008