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No-Drill Stand Is A Dry Hole For Democrats

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I cringe the way how Kudlow talks.

Posted by Thor Glineger4862 2008-08-06 01:09|| 2008-08-06 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone want to argue against me and my positon weeks ago that somethgin as small as just removing the moratorium would take the top off the market and lower prices in the short term? Hmm? Some of you said it wouldnt, and you were as wrong as Nancy Pelosi.

I told you so.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-06 02:37|| 2008-08-06 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I think half of oil price hikes are due to concern about Congress's refusal to reverse course. W just gave them a prod with a sharp stick when he removed the executive ban on drilling and look what happened. The other half will be taken care of when we get a good energy policy implemented. And if we want to have the $$$ to implement this policy, we'd better drill now so that $$$ we need doesn't end up in the hands of terrorists and people who want to use it to gain power like Chavez by villifying the US and duping everyone into going along with their stupid plans.

Nancy's gotta go. She's got some serious OCD and ODD problems.

Posted by gorb 2008-08-06 04:05|| 2008-08-06 04:05|| Front Page Top

#4 the closer we get to the election, the polls might just convince the Donks to dump that bug-eyed botoxed bitch. Since she looks surprised all the time, I expect to be disappointed in the "I'd like to see her face when that happens" category of schadenfreude. I just hope it's too late to get the smell of elitist watermelon politics out of the voter's noses

/watermelon as in "green on the outside, red on the inside". No racist overtones were implied or meant. Gotta be clear with O'bama playing the race card on anyone who disagrees with him

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-06 04:34|| 2008-08-06 04:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Kudlow is disingenuously wrong about the relation of the housing crisis to oil prices. When the housing crisis came, the Fed chose inflation asits means of combating a decline in asset values to protect banks' balance sheets. As a result, the dollar tumbled. When the dollar falls, the price of oil will rise.

A pox on Bernanke and Greenspan.

This situation is aggravated by the increasing demand from China and India. But that pressure will grow consistently and gradually. It was the shock of the dollar falling because of the housing crisis that created this crisis.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-06 06:52|| 2008-08-06 06:52|| Front Page Top

#6 ...and I suspect the when the Fed extended 'emergency' borrowing to the banks, they simply displaced monies on their books committed to investment to their paper front agents and agencies engaged in speculation which had shifted to oil.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-06 08:36|| 2008-08-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 A dry hole issue but also a public lynching issue for donk CongressCritters?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-06 10:16|| 2008-08-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't tease.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-06 12:34|| 2008-08-06 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Be sure to go to any "meetings" your local congresscritters are hosting and ask them WHY they are not in DC getting the jbo done, and delivering an energy bill.

And sy "not just conservation, not jsut drilling, not just electric cars and nuclear power - but ALL of the above!"

Remind them that we are sending $700 BILLION overseas for oil every year, and we need to become self sufficient and keep that money here for taxes and jobs instead of making the Saudis and Hugo Chavez rich.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-06 12:53|| 2008-08-06 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 40% of increased world oil demand is from China alone. Now add a fast growing India to the demand side. There is no way the developed world can conserve enough to offset even China's, let alone the rest of the world's, energy demand.

In the short term, we must produce more of what we consume and import less goods from other countries, while moving as fast as we can away from petroleum based transportation.

Posted by ed 2008-08-06 13:35|| 2008-08-06 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 The Republicans have the issue. The dems are on the defensive. Now the Republicans have to get their heads out of their a$$es and define, communicate, and push their agenda. It is really not that hard.

The issue is not just DRILL DRILL DRILL. The issue is the vision of how this country will achieve its SUSTAINABLE energy independence. There are a multitude of energy sources and solutions, and that will change over time.

I can see some simple graphs: the first step is education of the public.
1. Show where our nation's energy comes from and where it goes. Show where we are vulnerable in our energy supply.
2. Show a series of simple graphs where alternative sources of energy kick in and where petroleum's contribution goes down.
3. Show the timeline to achieve these goals. Tout the economic benefits.

Show the people the BIG PICTURE. Not just the sexy stuff like windmills, solar. Get the public to buy into it. Find things, tangible things, that the public can do to make a difference a feel a part of the process.

The optimist in me says that it can be done. The realist in me says that there is no hope that the republicans will seize the opportunity.

Bottom line, someone has to do it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-08-06 14:24|| 2008-08-06 14:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Drill here, drill now, and work our asses off to get off petroleum as a fuel by using electric, nuclear, wind, water, solar, geothermal, coal, etc.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-06 15:32|| 2008-08-06 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 AP, send that message to John Bohner, the Republican House leader. He's one of the people spearheading the current House rebellion. His weblog is here

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-08-06 15:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-06 15:48|| Front Page Top

#14 bug-eyed botoxed bitch

Love it.

I told my boss if he'd let me telecommute it'd conserve energy but he won't let me do it. I bet if Congress gave him a tax credit for letting me telecommute he would. With a laptop on my nightstand I could do my work without ever getting out of bed. Hey, that'd save my energy too.

Here's another thought: building codes across the country should mandate solar panels on the roofs of all new buildings be they residential, commercial or whatever. It should be required just like indoor plumbing with no exceptions.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-08-06 16:03|| 2008-08-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#15 building codes across the country should mandate solar panels on the roofs of all new buildings

That's a nice idea in the consistently sunny parts of the country, Ebbang Uluque6305, but it would be a waste of money in, eg. Buffalo, NY. Buffalo is the cloudiest city in the country, if I recall correctly, not to mention the roofs being snow-covered from Thanksgiving to April Fool's Day or so. How about if we go with, "Nothing everywhere but everywhere something"? Windmills should work nicely on the leeward side of Lake Erie...

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-06 19:27|| 2008-08-06 19:27|| Front Page Top

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