Obama campaign statement on Bush administration move on offshore drilling

[Hope And Change]

Obama campaign statement on Bush administration move on offshore drilling

By http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/person/gGxtkQ">Sam Graham-Felsen - Jul 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm EDT

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton on President Bush's plans to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/washington/14drillcnd.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1216051609-kDVvZxEv4yag4mfxIIIKbA">lift the moritorium on offshore drilling...

If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks. But most experts, even within the Bush Administration, concede it would do neither. It would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for thirty years. Senator Obama believes Americans need real short-term relief, which is why he has proposed a second round of stimulus with energy rebates for working families. And over the long-term, Senator Obama understands that our national security and the survival of the planet demand a real strategy to break our dependence on foreign oil by developing clean, new sources of energy and by vastly improving the energy efficiency of our cars, trucks and our economy. He is ready to lead such a transformation.

Visit http://www.newenergyforamerica.com/">NewEnergyForAmerica.com for more on Obama's plan to provide Americans with real relief and long-term solutions for a clean energy future.


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[Avalux]

1. Even if we start drilling now, will take many years to get it in our tanks.

And it doesn't change anything; only would prolong the inevitable and fuck up our shores.

I heard little monkey man blame the Democratic Congress for the current gas prices this morning. Ack.

[didact]

2. Define "working families"

[scheming daemons]

4. You know.... as opposed to those ones that are non-working

Lazy stiffs sitting around waiting for the welfare checks.... right? That's the subtle statement politicians are trying to make when they say "working families".


It's what the Hillary campaign was hinting at with "white working families".....



It's code.

[karynnj]

3. Very nice statement

hits right at the idea that removing the ban would have a big immediate effect on oil prices.

[movonne]

5. Not that our oceans are fucked up enough...lets add some oil and

kill off our ocean food supply...