John McCain Is the Top Flip-Flopper
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U.S. Oil Exports
Won't a lot of the "new" oil drilled off our beaches and in ANWR be exported to Asia?
According the CIA Factbook, more than a million barrels per day of our oil was being exported in 2004.
US Dept. of Energy
The Dept. of energy recently released a report that said that it would take about 20 years for any new off-shore oil drilling to have any impact on the price of oil or gasoline.
There are no off-shore oil platforms waiting in the wings to be pushed out for use, they will have to be built from scratch at the cost of millions (for the cheapest type of platform) or billions. Who assumes that this cost will NOT be "passed on" to the consumer?
The US has no new refineries for oil. Currently, all US oil refineries are running at full capacity to meet current gasoline demand. It would take anywhere from 1-3 years to build new oil refineries, again at the cost of billions. Who assumes that THIS cost will NOT be "passed on" to the consumer?
These are yet more inconvenient facts that Sen. McCain refuses to acknowledge.
The best alternative for the US is to begin moving to a new energy source: ethanol, sugar alcohol, fuel-cell, compressed air. Once we eliminate the hold that OPEC currently holds over the US, the better off we are. Any other action is to increase the control that OPEC has over the US.
Oil Lease Rights
Did you know that the oil companies now hold the lease rights to 64 million acres of potential oil producing American property? What are the oil companies doing with this government land? NOTHING!!! The only thing the call for drilling in the gulf is is another diversionary tactic by the Republicans to make it appear to their feeble minded followers that they're actually trying to do someting to solve the oil crisis, when in fact they've sat back and watched us suffer for the past seven years. How else can you blame the problems that your Republican controlled government caused during the Bush regime? It must be an election year. Promise them pie in the sky and watch them flock to the polls.
McCain Did a Oil Flippidy
McCain tops the Flip-flops but Obama is for Changing.
Changing and flipping are not the same because one involves hoping and the other doesn't.
Obama is the Real McCoy. We just don't want to flip around what Bush has done, McBush style, but we want to change it. Real Change. Not flippant change but hopeful open minded change. You flip-you slip. You change-no pain.
Obama '08 The Changer
Flip Flop on oil
The typical Liberal excuse "it takes 10 years before off shore drilling impacts gas prices and there are not enough refineries to process the oil". Liberals and environmental wackos told us the same story 10 years ago and for 10 years or more have prevented any meaningful oil exploration. For 30 years no refinery has been built in this countries because it was blocked by the environmental wackos.
Instead of taking care of our own needs through off-shore drilling, ANWR drilling, oil shale and tar sand production, the president flies to Saudi Arabia with hat in hand and falls on his knees begging the Saudis to drill more. It is the height of hypocracy.
It appears that the only goal of Liberals is to destroy this country.
Last time I checked...
I am trying to find an issue McBush has NOT flip flopped on. I cant find a single one. The iraq war- how long we will stay, how safe are the streets, the bush tax cuts, are we better off than we were 8 years ago. I am a republican from Arizona. If anyone will give John McBush a fair chance its me. I supported him as long as I could but to see this kind of flip flopping on such key issues, then to see them go after Obama the way they is unacceptable to me. Obama 08
Obama is the Real McCoy
It doesn't matter what Obama says or does...
He is the Real McCoy and if you don't think so it is probably because you have some hidden racist sentiment, the kind only Republicans have.
It doesn't matter if he flipped because it won't matter when he wins.
Hey Rui!
Only a fool would think that "new oil resources" would benefit anyone other than oil companies. Ten years to get it out of the ground and no difference to the price of oil afterwards.
Ten years could have us well on the way to saying goodbye to oil forever.
To do otherwise explains conservatives.
Obama's generosity
Barack Obama's flip was a very generous, but unappreciated gift to Senator McCain. Senator Lindsey Graham and his fellow Bush Sycophants (BS'ers) should appreciate that Barack Obama is using financial support ONLY from his own political supporters. McCain, by contrast, gets approximately half his Federal support from Democrats -- if Lindsey were truly indignant about Obama's choice, he'd urge McCain to return half of the Government's campaign largess.
John W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.