President Bush and over 70 Percent Of Americans Are Right

It's the Democrats that are trying to give the same old tried and incorrect information.

Hey folks

You know, this really is getting sad. It's pathetic that the Democrat Leadership continue to fight, not only against President Bush, but YOU. They are the ones standing in the way of us getting and using our own resources. In light of the fact that most of you, most polls are now showing like 70 percent of you, NOW agree that we need to DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS. 1,323,189 of you have now signed the Petition.

The President keeps calling on Congress to stop playing games and do something. They, keep giving us the same old rhetoric and lies. They keep giving us pipe dreams and wonders. No real solutions. No details of how to bring them about. NOTHING. According to the AP - Bush, Democrats bicker over soaring energy prices By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 55 minutes ago

President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.

He did not TRY to pin the blame on them Mr. Hunt. They ARE to blame.

"It's time for members of Congress to address the pain that high gas prices are causing our citizens," the president said. "Every extra dollar that American families spend because of high gas prices is one less dollar they can use to put food on the table or send a child to college. The American people deserve better."

With gasoline prices above $4 a gallon, Bush and his Republican allies think Americans are more willing to allow drilling offshore and in an Alaska wildlife refuge that environmentalists have fought successfully for decades to protect. Nearly half the people surveyed by the Pew Research Center in late June said they now consider energy exploration and drilling more important than conservation, compared with a little over a third who felt that way only five months ago. The sharpest shift in attitude came among political liberals.

PEW is a more Liberal group. June? Today more than 70 percent and climbing with most surveys.

Democrats say they are for drilling, but argue that oil companies aren't going after the oil where they already have leases. So why open new, protected areas? they ask. Democrats say there are 68 million acres of federal land and waters where oil and gas companies hold leases, but aren't producing oil.

YOU, Mr. Hunt are asking this as well. But if YOU, Mr. Hunt, did your job you would know that there really is NOT all this area leased and even less if ANY that actually HAVE oil.

"Americans are fed up every time they go to fill up and they're right to demand action. But instead of a serious response, President Bush and his allies simply repeat the same old line more drilling," Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in the Democrats' radio address.

"Democrats support more drilling," he said. "In fact, what the president hasn't told you is that the oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands with the potential to nearly double U.S. oil production. That is why in the coming days congressional Democrats will vote on 'Use It or Lose It' legislation requiring the big oil companies to develop these resources or lose their leases to someone else who will."

{Sigh} Where is the oil on these acres?

"But we know that drilling by itself will not solve the problem of high gas prices," Van Hollen said. "We cannot drill our way to energy independence."

That is the script right there. "We can't drill our way out of this." Just keep saying this without offering any possibilities, real solutions, and or, DETAILS of how, when, and why, we can use. Maybe if you say it enough, they will believe you.

He cited Democrats' calls to tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, because it is full and "America's rainy day is now." And he said the country must focus on new energy policies that focus on alternatives to oil.

WHAT? HOW? WHEN? CAN WE? WHY? Details are good.

Bush said that Democrats are at fault and that "Americans are increasingly frustrated with Congress' failure to take action.

"One of the factors driving up high gas prices is that many of our oil deposits here in the United States have been put off-limits for exploration and production. Past efforts to meet the demand for oil by expanding domestic resources have been repeatedly rejected by Democrats in Congress."

Absolutely.

Bush repeated his call for Congress to lift the restrictions, including a ban on offshore drilling. A succession of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the current president have sided against drilling in these waters as has Congress each year for 27 years, seeking to protect beaches and coastal states' tourism economies.

(This version CORRECTS that Bush and allies think Americans `more willing to allow' drilling. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.)

Folks, just the mention of us drilling brought the price down. The Speculators freaked a little and the price went into a nose dive. Then Congress stood up and blocked this, price went UP. This is Congresses fault. We can Drill and find alternative sources of energy at the same time. We really can. As long as the Democrats get the hell out of the way.
Peter

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AP - Bush, Democrats bicker over soaring energy prices