Posted on 06/21/2008 8:11:34 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
“With Congress’s approval at 12% and gas at $4, McCain’s strategy is clear”
Run against congress? Where has he been for the last 20 years? He has ONE shot; gas stays high, he hammers Obama on the drilling and refining and nuke plants. It also wouldn’t hurt if he picked a hard right VP.
Al that happens and he has a CHANCE.
Will drilling here really save any money? The oil companies are still going to try to get as much as the market will bear. Congress will want to add another energy tax to it. I’m thinking we might slow the cost down but I don’t see a drop in prices.
The writer lost me when he said it would cost the Democrats control of Congress, too.
In a year that points to increasing Dem majorities in both chambers, we would be so fortunate to limit our losses or at most gain a little here and there.
Even a McCain landslide (not predicting one, mind you) wouldn’t lead to a Republican TAKEOVER.
A real hard right. We need to get serious about other forms of energy too.
McCain’s strategy would be a lot clearer with some legislation. He is still a senator.
Well, maybe. But I'm not sure the distain is for the "Democratic Congress", but rather for Congress in general. Beyond Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, I can't think of very many Pubbies who have distinguished themselves lately, either.
My husband contends that if we start drilling the Saudis will do what they can to lower their prices to discourage us from drilling.
America is awash with energy resources. But we have placed the vast majority of them off limits.
If we begin to drill, and everyone knows that new supplies are in the offing down the line, it will affect the marketplace price of fuel by depressing it.
These would be supplies outside the Cartel’s control.
Price is crucial but even price is not everything. We need to get off foreign oil, for national security sake.
And should have long ago...
The key is to explain that merely authorizing the drilling offshore would drive the price down immediately because the speculators are betting that Congress will not authorize the drilling. If Congress does authorize the drilling, there will be a stampede to sell the oil futures, thus driving the price per barrel, and at the pump, down.
Obama is spouting the Marxist line that authorizing the drilling will have no effect on oil prices for years. This would be true only if there were shortages, which there are not. This price spike is driven by speculation, which is based on the theory that drilling will not expand. It is not driven by shortages. If drilling appears to be on the horizon, this will change the mindset of the market, to wit: the speculators. And they will bid the price back down, for fear that a glut of oil in the near future will cause their oil futures to be worthless, thereby ruining them.
Drilling is a “long” term strategy to make us energy independent. That is a National Security Issue. Whether or not it lowers prices in the short term is irrelevant. It will lower prices in the long term and make our country free from the whims of the Hugo Chavez’s and the Middle East. That is what needs to be emphasized.
Obama is PART OF the miserably unpopular Democrat Congress. Bring out the roll call records and make him eat his own Socialism!
Then with lower prices, it's not profitable to drill and we're right back where we were ten years ago and my SUV is cool again.
We need candidates that recognize the fact that big government is the cause of our problems not the solution. We need people willing to stand up and say that the Dept of Energy needs to be dismantled and the government needs to get out of the energy business. Sadly, there are few in the GOP that believe that.
Can we really be energy independent?
Senator Jeff Sessions.
I also like my Senator John Cornyn.
But you’re right, there aren’t very many.
There are a few good House members as well. Marsha Blackburn, Steve King, Jeb Hensarling to name some, and maybe others can cite their favorites.
Good luck with that one. The inner workings of most polls show that the Republicans are receiving more blame than the Democrats in congress from the sheeple who probably have no realization of who is now running both Houses.
We can if as a nation we had the will to do it. Going to the Moon, winning WW II all took the nations determination. If we had that same determination to be energy independent we could do it.
Captain Queeg actually has to grow a pair in order for that to happen. He would need to articulate a clear conservative vision for energy independence from the Arabs. He would need to hammer Obama and the Democrats for preventing domestic drilling and nuclear power plants for 25 years. I dont see him doing that.
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