An independant America (energy wise) is strong and a threat to others that want to keep us chained to THEIR oil. While oil is not the answer to our energy needs forever, greatly reducing and eliminating foreign imports will only help the U.S.
FACT: The United States is one of the world's largest consumers of oil.
What happens to the market when the biggest customer walks away? It drives down the NEED and forces the seller to reduce the asking price.

Since most of the U.S. economy is directly related to energy (oil in particular) everyone on the bottom suffers. Farmers need fertizlers to grow crops and fuel equipment. Truckers need fuel to get the crops to market. And you need fu...

An independant America (energy wise) is strong and a threat to others that want to keep us chained to THEIR oil. While oil is not the answer to our energy needs forever, greatly reducing and eliminating foreign imports will only help the U.S.
FACT: The United States is one of the world's largest consumers of oil.
What happens to the market when the biggest customer walks away? It drives down the NEED and forces the seller to reduce the asking price.

Since most of the U.S. economy is directly related to energy (oil in particular) everyone on the bottom suffers. Farmers need fertizlers to grow crops and fuel equipment. Truckers need fuel to get the crops to market. And you need fuel to get to the store.

As soon as America weans off the FOREIGN oil, she can start becoming strong again. And yes, Virginia, they (foreign nations) are drilling for oil 90 miles off the Florida coast near Cuba.

Drilling Down

Despite his state’s scenic rural tradition, Sen. John Sununu, R-NH, stood firm with McCain and Bush. “He is supporting offshore drilling,” said Sununu spokeswoman Liz Chamberlain. “As far as whether the senator supports Sen. McCain’s proposal to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, he does.”

Not only does the issue reinforce the environmental schism within the Republican Party, but McCain’s announcement provided an opening for Democrats running in moderate states to agree with the GOP contender, thus appealing to swing voters, the business community and big oil donors.

Former VA Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat running for Senate this year, once vetoed a bill all...

Drilling Down

Despite his state’s scenic rural tradition, Sen. John Sununu, R-NH, stood firm with McCain and Bush. “He is supporting offshore drilling,” said Sununu spokeswoman Liz Chamberlain. “As far as whether the senator supports Sen. McCain’s proposal to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, he does.”

Not only does the issue reinforce the environmental schism within the Republican Party, but McCain’s announcement provided an opening for Democrats running in moderate states to agree with the GOP contender, thus appealing to swing voters, the business community and big oil donors.

Former VA Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat running for Senate this year, once vetoed a bill allowing offshore drilling. But Kevin Hall, a Warner campaign spokesman, said Warner’s decision turned on a technicality and that the candidate is now open to exploration.

“Mark Warner stands with Republican presidential nominee John McCain in opposing drilling in ANWR, and he stands with Republican U.S. Senator John Warner and Democrat Jim Webb in supporting bipartisan legislation to allow exploration for natural gas only 50-miles off the Virginia coast,” Hall told On Call.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, issued a statement last week after Bush announced his support for McCain’s proposal, headlined: “Welcome to the Offshore Energy Fight, Mr. President ... We've Been Waiting For You.”

“Throughout her Senate career, Senator Landrieu has been a staunch believer that the U.S. needs to expand domestic production and pull back on counterproductive moratoria both onshore and offshore,” Landrieu spokeswoman Stephanie Allen told On Call today. “She plans to soon introduce legislation on this topic.

So did McCain, eager to seem proactive in trying to solve the nation’s energy crisis, raise a matter that could potentially hurt a number of his Republican colleagues and hopefuls in the fall?

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/06/drilling_down.html

Watch the Dems squirm. Watch'em!

Green initiatives are good. Getting away from petrochem (or as Bush likes to say recently, the Hydrocarbon Age) is the best idea to perpetuate our species (my nationalistic streak aside). However, until the green alternatives are economically viable for the common (read as poor and proletariat) man, we will need the consistency of oil as an energy transport medium.

What needs to stop is the cramming of political dogma down our throats. The democrats see it as our way our the highway, attempting to enforce unrealistic legislation upon the populace "for their own good." Now I am not saying that the ol'boys clubs of the Republicans are not much better, stuffy,...

Watch the Dems squirm. Watch'em!

Green initiatives are good. Getting away from petrochem (or as Bush likes to say recently, the Hydrocarbon Age) is the best idea to perpetuate our species (my nationalistic streak aside). However, until the green alternatives are economically viable for the common (read as poor and proletariat) man, we will need the consistency of oil as an energy transport medium.

What needs to stop is the cramming of political dogma down our throats. The democrats see it as our way our the highway, attempting to enforce unrealistic legislation upon the populace "for their own good." Now I am not saying that the ol'boys clubs of the Republicans are not much better, stuffy, wasp affairs, and theological rhetoric.

Democrats make a living by lying about a better future and taking our money, where as Republicans don't tell us crap, and then take our money.

The argument over drilling could have been settled eight years ago. Bush wanted to start this exploitation of our natural resources at the start of his first term! Again, I do believe in green, but the dependency of America upon the oil cartels of the world has backed us into an unstable corner.

Ancillary petrocehm industries have been weaning themselves. Hybrids, new methods of producing plastic, alternative power incentives for ones home, all forced by rising price of energy. In the long run, perhaps people will see the boon that these high prices has brought. Automotive industries are one of the prime consumers of fuel, we must break their stranglehold in order to truly free ourselves.