Obama’s Drill Ban May Trigger Job Losses, Slow Gains

This is what you do when you have no idea what you are doing..just stop doing anything.

The BP thing was an accident...stopping drilling will not change that...
What it will do is raise energy costs, costs a whole lot of jobs, and that's it.

Sorry liberals, you might not like it, but we need oil..thats a fact.
So Obama campaigned saying we have to lower our dependence on foreign oil, yet he stops us from drilling.
If you don't like drilling in the water, then how about in the Dakotas? How about in Alaska where no one lives? Why not there?

Because you don't want to drill anywhere..

Drilling expansion dead in US Congress -Sen Nelson

That's why you can not give into what Obama wants when it comes to huge tax increases and further distruction of our economy and way of life when he says he will give you more drilling and nuclear power plants.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

And the master speaks:

Highlights:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, "the worst speaker in the history of Congress," explained the cause of high oil prices back in 2006: "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect."

Is that why a barrel of oil costs mere pennies in all those other countries in the world that are not run by "oilmen"? Wait -- it doesn't cost pennies to them? That's weird.

What a disaster having people in government who haven't spent their entire lives in politics! That explains everything. A government official with relevant experience or knowledge about an issue is obviously a crisis of gargantuan proportions. This must be why the Democrats are nominating B. Hussein Obama, who finished middle school three days ago and has less experience than a person one might choose at random from the audience of "American Idol."

Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It's as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: "Just eat a little less every day." Great! We'll die a little more slowly. That's not what we call a "plan." We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death.

But there's more! Pelosi announced that the Democrats also plan to push for "an historic investment in biofuels, efficiency, conservation and the rest." The "rest" is apparently what she called our "important and essential" investment in alternative energy. That certainly would be historic: We would make history by throwing our money away on unproven energy boondoggles that have eaten up untold billions since the 1960s without producing a single net kilowatt of power while we all starve to death. The proposal to use energy sources that don't yet produce any energy is like the old New Yorker cartoon with Obama in Muslim garb -- no wait, that was a different cartoon. The cartoon is: A scientist has written out his extremely complicated theory on a blackboard and is showing it to another scientist. The theory consists of numbers and characters and takes up the entire blackboard. About two-thirds of the way across, reading left to right, appear the words, "then a miracle happens," followed by more numbers and characters.

Democrats are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill -- presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don't want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry.

If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they'd allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil. But they don't. They don't want drilling. They don't want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears. It's good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we're fantasizing about "alternative" energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats' lies.

Bush Says Drill, Drill, Drill — and Oil Drops $9!

Perfect quote from the article...and it shows why we need to keep Dems out of power...unless you want to pay 10 bucks for a gallon of gas, cause a depression and the loss of millions of jobs:

Democrats keep saying that it will take 10 years or longer to produce oil from the offshore areas. And they say that oil prices won’t decline for at least that long. And they, along with Obama and McCain, bash so-called oil speculators. And today we had a real-world example as to why they are wrong. All of them. Reid, Pelosi, Obama, McCain — all of them.

The congressional ban on offshore drilling expires September 30, so that becomes a key date. A new report from Wall Street research house Sanford C. Bernstein says that California actually could start producing new oil within one year if the moratorium were lifted. The California oil is under shallow water and already has been explored. Drilling platforms have been in place since before the moratorium. They’re talking about 10 billion barrels worth off the coast of California.

You want to talk about "talking points"

This is amazing.
Dems come on here and simply throw out comments that we just say whatever Rush or Hannity says and we can't think for ourselves...

All of a sudden, every single liberal is saying the exact same thing about drilling, EXACT SAME THING

Something like this:
Well, oil companies already have leases for xxx acres of coast line and they are only drilling in xxx. Why do they need more acres to drill???

And you know what...if oil companies have access to viable land that has available oil and are not drilling, that would be wrong.
However, I'd like a few questions answered first:
1. Are there so many lawsuits, protests and regulations that it makes it impossible to drill in some of these places?
2. What is the availability of this oil as opposed to other areas that are "off limits."
3. What evidence is there that drilling destroys the environment (I mean, something a little fresher than 1965).
4. What is the reason oil companies would not want to get all the oil they can and sell it at the insane prices we have right now. The argument that they are not drilling on purpose makes no sense.
5. Why did the Dems sign a letter to the President trying to get Saudi Arabia to produce more oil? Why do Dems think we need more oil, but want us to depend on other countries to get it.

Again, it is insane. We handcuff ourselves in ways that hurt our country. In the history books countries searched the entire Earth looking for resources, we have them and we have morons blocking us from using them

Let's see if any liberal, or anyone for that matter, can answer any of my five points...
I'll wait until some liberal web site or the DNC type up your talking points.

Bush calls on Congress to lift offshore drilling ban

That's great...
Republicans are on the right side of the issue finally...
But where have you been all this time...
Liberals, as usual, are still and will forever be on the wrong side of another issue