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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Kaw1000 on August 27, 2008, 08:56:12 AM
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Found this on Drudge report...is it true that drilling will only save us two cents on
a gallon of gas? Also, Last night it was stated that we do not have enough oil to
supply our own countries demand..is this true?
House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”
Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”
She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would reduce gas prices by only a couple of pennies a decade from now, she referred to the demonstrators as the “2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.”
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word "thinking" and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.
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Well, By what I've seen at the dem convention, Looks like they already have....
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Found this on Drudge report...is it true that drilling will only save us two cents on
a gallon of gas? Also, Last night it was stated that we do not have enough oil to
supply our own countries demand..is this true?
Not really since it completely ignores the part about speculators... The same speculators which the Dems say are a big part of the problem and should be regulated... but you can't regulate them since it's a global market, not a U.S. one...
From all appearances, the Dems are stuck on the stupid idea that if have incredibly high energy prices, the market will miracle new technologies into place. It makes about the same amount of sense that if plant democracy in a region, it will flower. Sounds like it works on paper.... never has anything to do with reality.