He tried to make america more suffered by higher taxes, higher gas, cost of life ZOOM UP... look at past two years that D has been control the congress, now look at it.... Before that, gas only nearby 2 dollars, now 4 dollars?!?!?!? who fault is that? it is D....

NOBAMA!

Drill and increase the world supply...which simple economics tells you will lower costs(just the possibility of doing so lowered the cost) or we could follow the democrat's plan which is, well, um....nothing...there is no democrat plan. Oh wait....they do have a plan....raise taxes!

The real plan is to get as much land freed up for the big oil companies before George Bush and Dick Cheney leave office.

So what this poll is saying is that we have a bunch of naive Americans willing to believe the lies coming from the Republcan party. Haven't they fooled us enough? How much more of beating can we take?

Do we really want the poster boy for this 'Congress' running the country?

The smart Americans are voting NO! on Obama.

DONT TRUST WHAT THE REPUBS TELL YOU...

OBAMA .08

It is not in the best interest of the oil companies to drill off-shore. It is in the best interest of the oil companies to hoard as much land area where they are allowed to drill. To increase their potential inventories of oil, while everyone runs out.

Whether or not they actually drill off-shore is another issue. In light of the fact they are hoarding millions of under utilized acres right now speaks volumes.

Mole People! MOLE PEOPLE!

Anyone with a shred of intelligence knows the only long term solution is alternative energy. Its possible if we fund research and develpoment instead of subsidizing big oil. Of course, Ted Stevens might need another addition to his house from his buddy ,the oil exec. But as many of his colleagues said, " He's as honest and updstanding as anyone I know" WHAT??? Looks like our so called leaders are just as dumb as the average American.

We need a campaign of ads from our top economists out there educating people about the true benefactors of off-shore drilling, how much it will actually impact or gas prices and how off-shore drilling does not solve our dependence on oil.

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BTW, who gets the oil that is piped down through the Alaska Pipe Line?

Anyone?? Anyone??

Polls are stupid. I can ask 3 people if they're for offshore
drilling, and if 2 of them say yes, than does that mean I
can say that "twp-thirds of Americans are for offshore
drilling?"

McCain received over $900,000 from oil company this year alone. Politico.com re: lobbyist money

I am disappointed that the media and CNN have not done a special report on drilling so that you can educate people!

McCain knows, as I do, that it will take years to affect the price of oil!

ALSO, LOOK HOW THE PRICE HAS DROPPED WITHOUT DRILLING IN OUR FRAGILE OCEANS.......... SIMPLY BE WE, THE PEOPLE, CONSERVING!

IF THERE IS SO MUCH OIL ON OUR COASTS, DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE OIL COMPANIES WITH ALL THEIR POWER WOULD HAVE BEEN CLAMORING FOR DRILLING ON OUR COASTS LONG AGO????????????????????????????????????????????????

SEEMS SUSPICIOUS TO ME. THIS IS BIG TIME PANDERING BY THE GOP & MCCAIN.......... BUT NO ONE 'SEES' .......SCARY!

" NOT THIS TIME" –NOT FAlling in LINE.
Country over Party
MC Cain 2008
Hillary 2012

Question #1: If offshore drilling rigs are perfectly safe from storms as people were saying two weeks ago, why were energy traders holding their breath when Hurricane Dolly swept through the gulf last week?

Question #2: How much should we charge oil companies for the oil they extract from public lands? How about $25 less than the spot price of oil? Otherwise we are providing windfall profits to oil companies at the expense of the American taxpayer, sometimes referred to as corporate welfare. Increased supply will still bring prices down and the charge would go down accordingly.

Many Americans shoot from the hip, they are followers. This is why Bush got elected twice, and why McCain is where he is right now in the polls. Americans are voting for like minded individuals to tell them what to do, and what to think.

Look, I despise paying $75 for a tank of gas as much as (or, given my long commute, probably more than) the next guy, and I'm certainly not rolling in the dough. But the reasons why offshore and ANWR drilling are BAD IDEAS haven't changed. Gas prices ebb and flow, and are mostly up due to a current, probably brief, speculative bubble. But extraction of oil from offshore fields and ANWR will do IRREVERSIBLE damage: and I'm not talking just about the namby-pamby, "elitist", tree-hugging concerns like, oh, plant and wildlife health and the "purity" of nature.... I'm talking about increased pollution, degradation of fisheries and tourism, INEVITABLE oil spills fouling our waters (sorry, McCain, no such thing as "safe" new drilling technologies).

Plus, the problem we have right now isn't just that our oil comes from abroad, its that we are so dependant on oil regardless of the source. We are no better than addicts, and we are poisoning ourselves in the process. All of our energy investments at this point should focus on developing efficient and practical electric cars, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, filling our electric grid (that will charge those cars) with electrons from renewable, non-warming, non-polluting sources like solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric.

And, lastly, the example of the oil companies' laziness in pursuing oil drilling on the MILLIONS of acres already authorized shows that (a) oil won't be flowing from offshore and ANWR drills for DECADES, at best, and (b) it probably still isn't economically viable, anyways.

There is a big sucking machine that is grabbing googles of oil from the market. It is called the Iraqi war. Are all these tanks, HVs, vihecles, and military airplanes running on sand? It seems to me that one way to lower the American demand for oil is STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ.

Nope! Let's just expand the war in Iraq and blame it all on Barack Obama. Why not? That's the McCain answer for our oil problems.

If there is one thing that the American public has made clear over the last 8 years, it is that they are dreadfully incompetent at selecting the correct path forward. The same people who want drilling in new areas off the coast because they think it will affect gas prices now, tend to be the same people who will vote for McCain, who tend to be the same people who voted for Bush. These people are PROVEN idiots when it comes to chosing what's best for America - they think short-term, and they vote based on fear. And for these reasons I view these people as cowardly Americans. They are a shameful bunch, that repeatedly put at risk the very national experiment that our forefathers started and many people have since sacrificed for - one need only look at what has happened to our government and our nation over the past 8 years. These people are proud of their lapel pins, but they are empty of true patriotism. These people wave the constitution, but continually vote people into office that trample on it. These people glorify the current mess we are in as the correct way forward, and thus they have no intention of creating or supporting solutions to the real problems that plague or country.

Quite simply: a vote for a [R] this fall is a vote to continue this country's backslide into the Dark Ages.

The offshore drilling issue is a false issue put forth by the Republican party to bamboozle easily fooled voters; the Republicans are always very good at exploiting voters' ignorance–and they may get away with it again. This is a false issue not only because opening up currently banned areas will not lower gas prices due to not be able to even come close to America's demand for oil, but because there are miles and miles of non-banned areas open for drilling right now that are not being drilled. Why should banned areas be opened for drilling when the non-banned areas are not even being drilled? And if the Republicans actually thought drilling would lower gas prices why didn't they press the oil companies (that support them all the time) to drill in the non-banned areas for the last 20 years? To score political points, McCain is arguing dishonestly that Obama and the Democrats are preventing drilling by not opening the banned areas when that is not the truth because the open areas could be drilled right now–and much to my pain Obama is allowing the issue to be framed that way. Obama should argue he is in favor of drilling–just in the non-banned areas and he should raise the questions I have noted above–forcefully.

Louisiana has terrible beaches, but it's not from big oil. It's from the silt flowing out of the Miss. River Delta.