Drill, Baby, Drill: Breaking Down Sarah Palin's VP Speech

"Drill, Baby, Drill."

"Drill, Baby, Drill." - I haven't heard the chants, but the saying sums up many bad things about the USA - a stereotype for chauvanistic, polluting, lazy, simplistic and stupid people who love their cars, are fixed in their mindset and don't care for the environment or logic.

I don't think this is what McCain/Palin stand for.

Good luck America.

Simon @ Sep 17, 2008 14:11:50 PM

Drill Baby Drill

So if we spend billions of dollars drilling off Alaska or Anwar (whatever) then we get enough oil to last us 1.5 years. I kinda see that as a very pitiful 'long' term plan.

Also, I've read "1984" and I'm kinda freaked out by the automatonistic chanting of "Drill Baby Drill"

Jaime of TX @ Sep 12, 2008 00:18:50 AM

Palin will be Mao Zedong in America

From wanting to ban books, firing resisting staff, to drilling the mother earth until no more blood left. Stand up America, stand up for your children, your next generation...

Fema of MA @ Sep 10, 2008 12:07:47 PM

Palin's Energy Policy of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" is the Irresponsible Way to Solve Our Energy Crisis

I understand that a lot of people are hurting badly at the gas pumps, which makes it easier for some people to embrace Palin's plans to drill in Alaska. However, her message about "drill, baby, drill" is a bit mis-leading. First of all, she mentioned the 40 billion dollar pipeline in Alaska, but she forgot to mention that it's not due to be completed until 2018. She made it seem like if we accept drilling as the answer, it would solve the energy crisis right away.

To those that support this idea, step back a second, and think about it for a second - this will not happen overnight as she made it sound to be. Even if the ban on drilling in ANWR is lifted, it will still take a while to find the oil, get the rigs set up, and start pumping. It might take years, and no studies have even been done on how much oil is up there anyway.

By the time we really get that up-and-running, we'd be better off funding ways to find other sources of energy, which would be much cleaner, more responsible, and would also free us from oil dependency. Just think, if the car manufacturers were able to spit out a bunch of new, gas-saving hybrids in just a matter of months, since the time gas has skyrocketed, imagine how quickly other ways can be found to solve our dependence on oil.

Our country has never really been pushed, like we have now, to tap into alternative sources. Not much focus has been placed on it, because oil has been fairly inexpensive for such a long time, and those that have the means to do so, have been complacent.

I think Palin's plan is very short-sighted, would cause more damage to the environment (especially in Alaska), and would really just benefit the oil companies the most. We have now hit the tipping point, and it's forcing those that have the capability to find ways to alleviate the problem to find new technology, which they have not done in the past. We should let this movement continue, and not look back to focusing on more drilling, only to become dependent on oil again.

John of MO @ Sep 09, 2008 04:18:10 AM

Start Drilling

All the "expert" idiots keep saying "why drill, it won't come online for 10 years, so it's of no use to us now". What a stupid thing to say! This is the same idiot comments that were said during the Clinton administration and if we had started drilling then we'd have it now...

Every barrel of oil we develop here in the US is one less were beholden to from some unsavory countries. Were also transferring 20 billion dollars a year to other countries coffers which to a large extent could stay within our own borders as good wage paying jobs for americans.

Drilling is safe and clean, when hurricanes hit the gulf every year, where's the huge oil slicks? There are none. Did the caribou disappear when the alsaka oil pipeline was built as some idiots said would happen? No.

Quit listening to these idiots you elect to the congress and senate for life that have no intrest except their own greed.

START THE DRILLING!

Ron of WA @ Sep 08, 2008 01:10:16 AM

Health Care

I am always hearing about our great health care. What is a correct measurement other than the health of the country. We are about 29th yet "we are no 1" Sounds like students from a small small college after beating an even smaller college in football. The only thing we are number one in is costs. Our health care is double the next most costly system. Being a Rolls Royce is great but for most people it is sitting in the garage.

Walt of OH @ Sep 07, 2008 11:20:16 AM

We tried to drill 14 years ago in ANWAR

But we were prevented! In ten years, the enviro-wackos will STILL be saying it will take 10 years to get it, then they'll say it ten years after that.

Environmentalists would prefer that the US be brought to it's knees and that we have to go back to the stone age. There's no realization that oil products and by products are used in 90% of everything we use, from the paint that protects the Golden Gate Bridge, to the lubricants that keeps their hybrid's wheels greased.

Even if ALL cars were solar powered (like that could happen), we would STILL need to drill for oil because of the 10,000 other products that are manufactured from it.

Wake up people.

Ron Haynes of AL @ Sep 06, 2008 22:58:16 PM

Stongest Leadership REQUIRED

We must not elect a weak leader in this time. We have troops in Iraq right now fighting to serve our country. Don't let this be another Vietnam. Don't let our nation be turned over into the hands of someone who, though sincere, is sincerely misguided, and is, what I believe, a blank slate in the hands of puppeteers who would propel this nation into DEPTHS of darkness, and entrench us in corruption and danger we can't even begin to fathom nor understand. For those of us who still believe in the necessity of, the sacrifice in, and the commitment to VICTORIOUS wars - We MUST WIN!!! We MUST act now!!!

We have two heroes on the ticket - and only two. I see the good heart in John McCain, and the willingness to truly serve, even though differentiating from the conventional "party wisdom" (I truly do NOT agree with him on every point). But I am glad that he still retains some of that old school "get-it-done", "don't-give-up-even-through-unbelievable-opposition" attitude that has stuck out to me in a man, whose lifetime of experience, sacrifice, and perserverance have crafted a warrior.

Speaking of conserving energy and rescuing the economy, check out the modest stage used at the DNC - it looks like it came straight out of Vegas. Now you know where your tax dollars are going. You won't have to worry about anything if we have a liberal, *ahem* socialist White House - the government promises to care of everything for you. If that's before or AFTER we get blown up with nukes, you'd have to ask them.

What IS important, is that we learn to conserve, be modest with spending, and take care for our decisions - build a fence at the top of the hill, instead of putting an ambulance at the bottom of the hill. Also, FOLLOW THROUGH - don't start out on something without the intention to finish it - and finish it right. DON'T LET OUR TROOPS COME HOME IN DISGRACE, as if their sacrifice has been an unavoidable mistake because of the president (oh, please). God forbid.

Every bit of everyone's efforts count in this war, and this IS a vital war, and WE MUST WIN. We must not switch horses mid-stream, switch plans, and decide to put better jobs, healthcare reform, and the lovely environment above COMPLETION and VICTORY in our worldwide battle for national safety and security. In a hierarchy of psychological human needs, safety and security are fundamentally at the base of the pyramid. Being able to have better jobs and more affordable schooling are not even the third or fourth layer up!

And, Lord have mercy, left-extremists are scared to death of Sarah Palin. Well, she's confident, she derides all of their faux stereotypes - and even better, she's very tricky to attack (unless you want to be go through torturous and painstaking explanations the the 58% of Americans who LOVE Sarah to death - or look sexist - or look spurned - or look like you're jealous, which you probably are - or look like you really don't have the best interests of women in mind (maybe just yourself), after all this IS a victory for women all across the board). She tops Obama and McCain, both at 57% approval .. Biden's down there at 46%, honorable mention. As Newt Gingrich said, liberals MUST destroy Sarah, because she belies all of their most integral messages - which aren't true, of course. And she proves the opposite, which makes them look TERRIBLY bad.

Elise of CO @ Sep 06, 2008 14:43:55 PM