OBAMA FLIP FLOPS ON OFF SHORE DRILLING

Pull his string and he'll do a little dance. Obama damn near breaks his neck reversing position on off shore drilling:

This was Obama on June 20, 2008:

At a stop in Jacksonville today, Sen. Barack Obama plans to tell reporters that he continues to support the federal ban on off-shore drilling. His Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, said this week he would like to lift the ban and let states decide whether to drill.

“And when I am President, I will keep the moratorium in place and prevent oil companies from drilling off Florida’s coasts,” Obama says. “That’s how we can protect our coasts and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas prices for good.”

And this is Obama today:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."

That's all code for..."Damn!...The polls favor off shore drilling 75% to 25%!?!?".

Let's not give any politician credit for what will soon be the reality of off shore drilling. The American people deserve all the credit for this one.

DEMOCRATS BLOCK DRILLING AT SCENIC RIVER

Democrats blocked drilling in Massachusetts claiming the nearby river was scenic. It's a tire dump. Why do the Democrats want to see America destroyed?



h/t Gateway Pundit

INCREDIBLE: PELOSI CALLS DRILLING A "HOAX"

And this will be the party with complete control of your government the next 4 years. We'll be lucky to survive.

3 OUT OF 4 VOTERS SUPPORT OFFSHORE DRILLING

The news isn't that 3 out of 4 support offshore drilling. It's that 1 out of 4 doesn't. Obama types. No doubt.

Three in four likely voters – 74 percent – support offshore drilling for oil in U.S. coastal waters and more than half (59 percent) also favor drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.

A majority of likely voters across the political spectrum support offshore oil drilling, with vast majorities of Republicans (90 percent) and independents (75 percent) in favor of drilling for oil off U.S. coastal waters more than half of Democrats (58 percent) also said they favor offshore drilling. Republicans (80 percent) and political independents (57 percent) are much more likely to favor drilling for oil in ANWR than Democrats (40 percent).

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: THE MORAL IMPERATIVE FOR DRILLING

A Big brain doing his big brain thing:

The wealthier and better-educated seem less concerned about gas prices.

From my informal conversations, I'd go even further: The wealthy, especially political liberals, also like that high-priced gas translates into less burning of fossil fuels by others and will help accelerate research into alternative energies.

But what these elites don't seem to realize is that the energy policies they advocate are paralyzing almost everyone else - and that the truly ethical and environmental solution would require embracing positions long considered anathema to traditional liberalism.

The debate in Congress over more refineries and nuclear-power plants; drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts; and developing oil shale, tar sands and liquid coal has been a predictable soap opera: Grasping Republicans supposedly wish to enrich energy companies, while idealistic Democrats want only to protect the environment. But those stances, hatched in the days of $1.50-a-gallon gas, should be revisited in light of different moral considerations.

One is fairness to the poor and middle class. Like it or not, radical environmentalism appeals to an elite not all that worried when gas prices rise or electricity rates go up - since fossil-energy use goes down.

But a paradox is that most environmentalists think of themselves as egalitarians. So, instead of objecting to the view of a derrick from the California hills above the Santa Barbara coast, shouldn't a liberal estate owner instead console himself that the offshore pumping will help a nearby farm worker or carpenter get to work without going broke?

He didn't speak to the vested interest leftists have in bringing the American economy to a screeching halt. But he could have.
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WHO IS TO BLAME FOR HIGH GAS PRICES?

This simple illustration explains who is behind high gas prices and who is stopping America from becoming more energy independent.

Percent of Democrats against	Percent of Republicans for
ANWR Exploration
86%	91%
Coal-to-Liquid
78%	97%
Oil Shale Exploration
86%	90%
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
83%	81%
Refinery Increased Capacity
96%	97%
SUMMARY
86%	91%

Graphic from Doug Ross.

AMERICA'S GRAND PLAN TO SOLVE THE OIL CRISIS: SUE OPEC

I wish I was joking. But I'm not.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

The legislation also creates a Justice Department task force to aggressively investigate gasoline price gouging and energy market manipulation.

If you're dumb enough to think this legislation will fix anything, please do not come to this blog anymore.

Meanwhile, while the retards running this country draft lawsuits...

While Washington dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves off the coast of Florida, China has seized the opportunity to gobble up these deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along the U.S. Gulf coast.

The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West, Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making deals to sell his country’s oil to China, oil that is currently coming to the United States.

There are new reports out circulating that Chinese firms are planning to slant drill off the Cuban coast near the Florida Straits, tapping into U.S. oil reserves that are estimated at 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion barrels.

I should point out that the above snippet was from two years ago. China is two years into the process of slant drilling America's oil reserves. I reckon we'll sue them too.