Dave’s Quote of the Day
Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!
In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”
What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, “You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!” “You can’t water your way out of drought!” “You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!” “You can’t drink yourself out of dehydration!”
Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil?
It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.
-Ann Coulter
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Mo K.
I’d be willing to allow drilling if we tie it to plans that actually push towards making it more affordable to buy hybrids/electric vehicles, dispersed money to the states to create more/better mass transit and/or carpooling programs, and investing in new forms of energy production. Otherwise, why don’t we just throw all leverage away on something that won’t show dividends for years?
Meanwhile, keep going for those leases in Florida. It’s an election year. How many ads showing what oil rigs on the coast of California look like do you think it’ll take before that state goes blue? How bout some footage of the oil spills following Katrina/Rita?
Wes
29 Jun 08 at 11:47 pm
Wes wrote:
So, you’d rather restrict the supply of oil to use high prices to push for your political goals if you can’t get them legislated, huh? Would this be the Robert Mugabe School of Economics?
I really like your last sentence, though. After all, why go to college, since it won’t pay any dividends for at least four years, and even then might be saddled with high debt?
Dana
30 Jun 08 at 4:39 am
College is something that prepares you for a much better future. Drilling for oil is like the full-time job you can get after graduating high school working retail. You’ve gotta at least take some classes part-time if you want to make it beyond assistant manager in your life.
There is no reason NOT to push for more adoption of hybrid auto technology and alternative energy in general. For one thing, that is one of the only options that even has a prayer of lowering costs within the next year. If we can figure out a way to make hybrids cheaper and convince more and more people to buy them, then even if not everyone buys a new car, at least we’d see SOMEWHAT less demand. Workable electric vehicles would help even more. As would better mass transit.
Don’t get me wrong, it makes sense to start drilling now if we’re going to do it. But the last thing we need to do is pass a bill that makes a big production of pretending to accomplish something it won’t.
Wes
30 Jun 08 at 5:56 am