Posted on 03/03/2009 6:12:01 PM PST by Shellybenoit
The repubs dropped “Drill Here, Drill Now” because, as usual, they are not as smart as the dems about staying focused on the really important issues. They are allowing Obama to steal the issue of energy independence, and, to make matters worse, letting him do it with a ridiculously stupid argument. Obama is running around claiming he is going to make us not dependent on middle east oil via solar and wind energy. That is demonstrably nonsense, but not a peep from the repubs to refute it. Wind and solar will never comprise more than a small portion of our electric supply. There is no wind and little sun on many days.
Just wait, we are going to be behind the eight ball on this, and will again have to play catch up the next time oil prices go back up. Yes, oil is low right now, but does anybody doubt it will go back up?
We should be contesting this notion and pointing out that the only way we can protect ourselves in the next century from dependence on foreign countries is to re-start our exploration and development of our own energy reserves.
We should also be screaming every day that if Obama is so interested in creating new, good-paying jobs, why are he and the dems so adamantly opposing an industry that could generate thousands of such jobs? Put the pressure on them for a change.
book mark
yeah, more short-sighted thinking. We did this in 80-81, too. God forbid anyone think ahead.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198688/posts
Supertankers that once raced around the world to satisfy an unquenchable thirst for oil are now parked offshore, fully loaded, anchors down, their crews killing time. In the United States, vast storage farms for oil are almost out of room.
As demand for crude has plummeted, the world suddenly finds itself awash in oil that has nowhere to go.
It’s been less than a year since oil prices hit record highs. But now producers and traders are struggling with the new reality: The world wants less oil, not more.
They relied solely on the empty words of a lunatic who eventually murdered everyone under his control.
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