Dems Against Drilling … Not Even At $10 A Gallon? - With Shock Video
I happened to catch this clip on Fox and Friends very early this morning. It SHOULD go viral ASAP. It MUST go viral, so everyone NEEDS to email it to everyone you know … no matter what their political party leaning.
The democrats are above nothing when making it politically advantageous for themselves.
They did it with the war(s) and our troops. They did it with Homeland Security. They did it with the President’s firing of judges. They did it with a no name, non-covert CIA agent that only sought a name and publicity.
They are NOW doing it with our economy’s lifeblood.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell asks that the Senate consider a bill to allow offshore drilling, but Democrats, led by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) object.
Sen. McConnell then asks if the bill could be triggered when gas reaches $4.50 per gallon, then $5 per gallon, then $7.50 per gallon, and finally $10 per gallon. All objected to.
So how high does the gas price have to be for Democrats to agree to more oil drilling?
Dems Against Drilling
Saving the Earth — from America’s domestic energy supply.
By Charles Krauthammer (NRO)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won’t even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because as she explained to Politico: “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.”
A lovely sentiment. But has Pelosi actually thought through the moratorium’s actual effects on the planet?
Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it’s 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47 percent. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day; the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy. Where does it come from?
Places like Nigeria where chronic corruption, environmental neglect and resulting unrest and instability lead to pipeline explosions, oil spills, and illegal siphoning by the poverty-stricken population — which leads to more spills and explosions. Just this week, two Royal Dutch Shell pipelines had to be shut down because bombings by local militants were causing leaks into the ground.
Compare the Niger Delta to the Gulf of Mexico, where deep-sea U.S. oil rigs withstood Hurricanes Katrina and Rita without a single undersea well suffering a significant spill.
The United States has the highest technology to ensure the safest drilling. Today, directional drilling — essentially drilling down, then sideways — allows access to oil that in 1970 would have required a surface footprint more than three times as large. Additionally, the U.S. has one of the most extensive and least corrupt regulatory systems on the planet.
Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off-limits, the planet is less injured as drilling shifts to Kazakhstan and Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea? That Russia will be more environmentally scrupulous than we in drilling in its Arctic?
The net environmental effect of Pelosi’s no-drilling willfulness is negative. Outsourcing U.S. oil production does nothing to lessen worldwide environmental despoliation. It simply exports it to more corrupt, less efficient, more unstable parts of the world — thereby increasing net planetary damage.
Democrats want no oil from the American OCS or ANWR. But of course they do want more oil. From OPEC. From where Americans don’t vote. From places Democratic legislators can’t see. On May 13, Sen. Chuck Schumer — deeply committed to saving just those pieces of the planet that might have huge reserves of American oil — demanded that the Saudis increase production by a million barrels a day. It doesn’t occur to him that by eschewing the slightest disturbance of the mating habits of the Arctic caribou, he is calling for the further exploitation of the pristine deserts of Arabia. In the name of the planet, mind you.
The other panacea, yesterday’s rage, is biofuels: We can’t drill our way out of the crisis, it seems, but we can greenly grow our way out. By now, however, it is blindingly obvious even to Democrats that biofuels are a devastating force for environmental degradation. It has led to the rape of “lungs of the world” rainforests in Indonesia and Brazil as huge tracts have been destroyed to make room for palm oil and sugar plantations.
Here in the U.S., one out of every three ears of corn is stuffed into a gas tank (by way of ethanol), causing not just food shortages abroad and high prices at home, but intensive increases in farming with all of the attendant environmental problems (soil erosion, insecticide pollution, water consumption, etc.).
This to prevent drilling on an area in the Arctic one-sixth the size of Dulles Airport that leaves untouched a refuge one-third the size of Britain.
There are a dizzying number of economic and national security arguments for drilling at home: a $700-billion oil balance-of-payment deficit, a gas tax (equivalent) levied on the paychecks of American workers and poured into the treasuries of enemy and terror-supporting regimes, growing dependence on unstable states of the Persian Gulf and Caspian basin. Pelosi and the Democrats stand athwart shouting: We don’t care. We come to save the planet!
They seem blissfully unaware that the argument for their drill-there-not-here policy collapses on its own environmental terms.
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Good God, is that for real?
August 1st, 2008 at 7:04 amThe Dhimoids don’t need any help being stupid. They are doing a fine job all by themselves. Sooner or later people are going to wake up and get tired of the Dhimoids. Best way to do that is by keeping gas prices high.
High prices, taxes and the oil embargos of the 70’s have led to several rejections of the Dhimis over the last 40 years.
Dhimis can fool some of the people some of the time; and all of the people some of the time; but they cannot fool all of the people all of the time….not when gas prices are so high.
So while the American people feel the pain at the pump, the Dhimoids will reap what they’ve already sown in the voting booths come November.
Dhimis never learned the hard lesson that when you sow to the wind, you can only reap the whirlwind.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:11 amBeat me to it. About the only difference with what I was about to write is that I call them Dhimmicrats.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:48 amThanks Drilnwr!!!
August 1st, 2008 at 8:11 amholy shit. I’m speechless…a “phantom solution?” What the fuck are they smoking? These people are evil. Being complicit with the fact that every American of every race, religion, and political leaning is suffering at the pump (needlessly) is just plain evil.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:26 amAll the poeple who work for Polaris, Yamaha USA, Jayco, Forest River, GMC, Dutchman, all the people in the snowmobile resort towns, the boating industry et all can just apply for a dhimmie job training program and move into a Chicago housing project now. (so Hussein can take car of them)
America better wake up now or after the economy is destroyed we’ll be hunting dems with guns and dogs.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:02 amWell according to the Dhimmis, you aren’t suffering at the pump “needlessly”.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:15 amYou are doing your part to bring down the American economy to the level where you will trade your so called liberty for government Central Planning. You folks of the ‘middle-class’ with your economic prosperity from free markets have been frustrating their Marxist designs. Many have already seen the light and support TheOne who will bring them Utopia.
The ‘upper class’ are behind them because they are obviously smarter (more equal) and have already ‘gotten theirs’ and the ‘lower class’ are in dire need of ‘economic justice’, so the only thing standing in their way is you.
It is time for you to assimilate as well.
“The price of fuel can be laid on the d’rats. Continue to offer legislation to expand the development of our own fossil fuels and when the majority donkeys defeat it, get out on the steps in front of the Capital and pound them with it. Repeat.”
- Steve in NC, June 12, 2008
(is that self aggrandizement?)
August 1st, 2008 at 9:59 amGo Republicans. The House may have closed their doors but some Republicans are shooting Pelosi the bird.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:09 amhttp://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/01/floor-revolt-no-vacation-for-house-republicans/
If the RNC could coordinate a strong protest this weekend in Washington,one the MSM could not ignore,it would help them in November with a land slide.
Go Republicans.
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August 1st, 2008 at 10:28 amEARTH FIRST… we’ll mine the other planets later.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:20 amSham-WOW!
August 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
WTF is going on? we have been invaded from another planet. the dimmies are fkn aliens 
August 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pmEveryone here remembers the Million Man March very well. I’m sure that we all have tried to forget it, but along those same lines, this is what i’ve had in mind for some time now.
A march on Washington like they’ve never seen before.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of conservative blogs out there. Pro- Troop, Pro-American etc. etc. Each has it’s own following, whether it’s ten people or hundreds of people that check in on a daily basis like here with Pat Dollard.
Almost all of these blogs link to many many others and make it very possible to spread the word quickly that we plan to march on DC to let the Do Nothing Politicians know that we’ve had enough.
I know i’m fucking fed up to my eyeballs with the bullshit that has been taking place in our Capital the past five years and it’s time to do something about it instead of venting our frustrations here in the comments section.
Don’t get me wrong, i admire everyone here for what you do and say. I have the utmost respect for Pat and what he’s done for our Troops.
All i’m saying is that it’s time to shit or get off the pot.
After what’s been taking place with Pelosi and her hoard of mental patients shutting down the House today and turning the lights out, it’s clear that if we as citizens do nothing other than bitch amongst ourselves, well ladies and gentleman, we’re screwed. No doubt about it. We’re freakin’ screwed.
That’s the way i see it.
I really believe that this thing can be pulled off. A million folks just like us getting out there and demanding that these mother-fuckers start doing what we want and not the other way around.
I saw today that 81% of Americans want us to drill.
81% !!!
That’s a lot of pissed of people.
WTF is Pelosi thinking by pulling this damn stunt today???
Well, that’s the main problem. Thinking. She doesn’t fucking think logically.
Last year Gathering of Eagles came together the same way. In about 6 weeks time, 30,000 mostly Veterans came together in DC to protect The Wall against the Anti-War, Commie , Anarchist groups. I was there and it was outstanding.
With the political climate the way it is, i don’t see why a million of us couldn’t come together in a matter of a few months also.
What do you all think ?
August 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pmApparently he has no objections to being a Douche Bag.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm