Bush on TV blaming Dems for High Oil Prices: Says we Must Drill OCS

[Chimichurri]

Oil shale in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming is his answer to the sudden surge in oil prices. He also wants to drill in Anwar. His shilling for big oil never ends.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Oh yeah, right.

Let's forget the weak dollar, the federal deficit, the speculators, the wasteful consumption of oil by this country, etc.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. And Bush's many B.J.'s on Saudi officials didn't sway the arabs, either.

[nykym]

3. Check out this posted a few days ago

Sen. Jeff Bingaman lays out in detail exactly why and how the recent push to increase domestic oil production leases is a scam:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=154997

[lpbk2713]

4. Rethuglican mismanagement and outright corruption for the past eight years is responsible.

And he knows it. He talks like the voters haven't shown that they
know by now what evil and corrupt SOB's the BushCo truly is.

[erpowers]

5. Will He Ever Take Blame

When I heard him start blaming the Democrats for everything I was thinking will George Bush ever take responsibility for anything. If Bush cared so much about reducing oil prices and ending America's dependency on foreign oil why did he give a 100% tax rebate on Hummers, but only gave a few thousand dollars in tax rebates for hybrids and only for a certain period of time.

In addition, Democrats need to work hard to make it know that drilling offshore is not an immediate fix. Even if Congress allows for drilling offshore it will take another five to ten years before any drilling can occur. What will happen in the mean time? I contend the Democrats need to come out and say what really needs to happen now is for there to be an effort to make speculation less important to oil prices and to prevent hedge funds from buying large amounts of oil stock. A number of experts have said that even with the high demand for oil, oil prices should only be $60 a barrel. Clearly, not drilling offshore is not the real reason for high oil and gas prices.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. No mention of the role of the crumbling U.S. dollar I see

or of the impact of speculators. And no one seems to be calling him on it on cable television this morning.

[nels25]

7. We may not like to admit it as progressives

but he could be more on the popular side of this issue with the public than we like.

Consider that a gallup poll I heard referred to cites 67% in favor of drilling, you may doubt the veracity of the poll, I don't.

Just talk to people around you, the higher the price at the pump, the more popular the drilling option becomes to the public at large.

We can act arrogant if we so choose (one of the things we tend to do as progressives a lot) and lecture that it means nothing in the short term, but the public may not see it our way.

If McCain is successful to tie this to us via the Carter days (say what you will most of my Democrat friends do not remember the Carter days from an economic stand point with fond ness) then the argument finds traction.

THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE, AND IT IS ONLY GROWING.

I fear we will find ourselves on the wrong side of it.

We may need to find some room for compromise, it could do us some electoral good in the long run.

[lpbk2713]

8. Let's get it right, shall we.

April 2007 link from Gallup (not Limbaugh, not O'Reilly, not Beck) website: http://www.gallup.com/poll/27100/Most-Americans-Back-Curbs-Auto-Emissions-Other-Environmental-Proposals.aspx


Question:

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration

Favor .... 41%

OPPOSE .... 57%


:eyes:

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I say drill all you want in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and along all the coastline you can find. But

leave ANWR alone.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Yep--run the country for eight years, triple the price of gas, help out your

oil cronies from the Executive Branch, and then blame Democrats.

[GoneOffShore]

11. Doesn't matter where we drill

The oil will go on the spot market. And we won't produce enough to bring down the price.

It's time we got used to paying a realistic price for oil.