Posted by
ngoc8or on Friday, June 20, 2008 12:00:00 PM
That's a quote from Red Cavaney of the Petroleum Institute in response to Democrats' suggestions that domestic drilling will not affect our energy supply for 10 years, so it is not an answer to our energy problems. Such short term reasoning makes no sense. If a farmer never planted his fields because it will take a whole season to harvest a crop, we would starve. Are the liberals saying we should never look for anymore oil? How, then do we heat our homes, drive our cars, plow our fields? Alternative energy is also years away, even more so.
President Bill Clinton vetoed legislation from a Republican congress allowing drilling in the ANWR. That was 13 years ago. If he had signed it instead, we would not be having this conversation.
The talking heads that say increased production in the U.S. will not affect gas prices, are the same ones who want us to beg Middle Eastern oil producers to increase their production, so it will lower the price of gas. Go figure.
The liberals are so steeped in talking points, they forget to analyze what they say. These arguments coming from otherwise intelligent and educated people are truly bizarre. We are intelligent and educated, also, and we're not buying it.