Sooner or later, we will have to find other sources of power, but oil isn't going anywhere anytime soon. We have over a trillion barrels, completely untapped, here in the US alone.
Drilling would bring down the price at the pump; as we saw a week or so ago, when Bush simply implied that he may, well, kinda sorta, y'know, maybe, wellllll.....maybe he'll rescind the order against offshore drilling. That's all he had to do, and prices dropped. Imagine if he actually did it.
Imagine if Darth Pelosi and her minions of evil, illogic and idiocy actually gave in and let us drill on a mere 2,000 acres of the 20 million-acre ANWR, or here in the Continental States, or offshore, or......what we need to do is vote in people who's hands won't be so firmly and deeply in the pockets of the Environmental lobby. That might not be so farfetched a thought as it seems; their 9% rating actually gives them little hope for November. And literally turning out the lights and leaving, rather than vote on a drilling measure, didn't much help their chances.
Castro's guests, the Chinese, are sucking oil out of the Gulf as fast as they can get it.
How much do you think they care about the environment?
No, we need to be drilling here, there and everywhere, and building new refineries to process it. Estimates are that gas could even drop back to a buck and a half a gallon. I don't know if I believe that or not, but I'd sure like to give it a try.
