McCain: Drill Here, Drill Now

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Drill Here

The opponents of drilling like high prices because they think it will spur on alternative energy development. This logic applied to medicine would be make everyone pay for thier own chemo and this will spur on other cancer research.

If you think this analogy is too pointed just wait till winter when the North East starts reporting the death toll from people trying to conserve heating oil to the point they freeze to death in thier own beds. I remember when the last oil crisis led to the electric grid failing in the NE and with the coal supplies frozen under a sheet of ice people started dying. Drill Here, Drill Now, Save Lives.

Robert West of CO @ Jun 19, 2008 16:53:56 PM

Drilling

If we would have started policies from 7 years ago to drill than we would not be in this mess now. I don't care if it takes 5 years for supply to be effected. Speculators will be effected and price will drop knowing that supply will increase in the future. This will create a sense of stability in the the oil futures and price will go down. This is simple economics 101. Our economy cannot keep on going with growth when the average american is paying such a large portion of their income towards gas. Drill here, drill now, pay less!!!! This is a huge problem for the democrats as they have been catering to environmentalist special interests for years and that is the reason why we have high gas prices. If they don't do something than democrats won't be able to afford to be democrats anymore.

Justin of FL @ Jun 19, 2008 12:29:18 PM

DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAYLESS

IF THE MCCAIN CAMP WOULD REALLY PUSH THE ABOVE SLOGAN AND MAKE AVAILABLE BUMPER STICKERS, IT WOULD CARRY HIM INTO A SHARP RISE IN THE POLES AND PERHAPS THE WHITE HOUSE.

AS SMOOTH AND SLIPPERY OBAMA CONTINUES SPEWING HIS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE TO HIS NON-THINKING FOLLOWERS, MCCAIN COULD BURY HIM ON THIS ISSUE.

SEND ME A DOZEN BUMPER STICKERS, PLEASE. GET THE PRESSES ROLLING NOW !!

James Romer of TX @ Jun 19, 2008 01:09:14 AM

He's No John McCain On Oil

What else is there to say – it appears these folks will do anything to win the white house. It doesn't matter whether they believe the gas tax holiday is a gimmick or that we cannot drill ourselves out of an oil dependant economy that causes national security to deteriorate just a little bit more each day. Individual integrity be damned - it's all about winning the presidency, not improving our country and the lives of our citizens. You know, I have had just about enough of this political rerun; I’ve seen it all too many times before.

Anyway, at the risk of sounding just a little too “elitist” - it's obvious for McCain and the United States of America, McCain’s will be a "pyrrhic victory" if he takes the white house intending to achieve his apparent desire to drill our way out of our national oil fixation. The simple fact is we are at the mercy of those nation states that possess the oil, and even if we begin drilling off our coasts tomorrow, we Americans will still be at their mercies for many years to come. Not to mention, after the oil companies successfully drill new holes at the bottoms of our oceans does anyone really expect that these free market oil companies are going to sell that new oil only to us citizens of North America, and at a reasonable price?

Do you ever feel like your intelligence is being insulted by these people who constantly say they are going to represent us when it often appears they are representing anybody but us? A long time ago, somebody said something akin to "the American electorate gets what it deserves," - don’t we deserve better than the last seven years?

So what’s it all come down to? Well, I remember John McCain of the year 2000, and I believed I knew that John McCain; I believed I could trust that John McCain. But this new John McCain, to him I say, “You’re no John McCain.” So if this new John McCain is what we can expect during a new republican presidency, we deserve better than John McCain, regardless of whether Barak Obama is that "better."

D. Daniel of CA @ Jun 18, 2008 14:48:47 PM

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