(CNN) – As House Republicans continue to focus on energy policy, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas launched a new Web site Tuesday that highlights October 1 as the day the congressional ban on offshore oil drilling will end unless Congress takes some action to continue the ban.
The site prominently features a YouTube video clip of DeMint and Hensarling discussing energy policy and encouraging the public to contact their representatives in Congress about lifting ban on offshore oil drilling and oil shale recovery. The site also contains a clock-like widget counting down the time until October 1. Visitors to the site can copy the HTML code for the widget so that they can embed the countdown clock on their own blogs or Web sites. Visitors can also sign an online petition on the site and read a blog about energy policy.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, also recently launched a Facebook application that allows users to add a gas-pump-shaped October 1 countdown clock to their profiles on the popular social networking site.
These online developments come on the heels of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement Monday on Larry King Live that she would be open to holding a vote on offshore drilling if it were part of a larger energy package. Pelosi’s change in position echoes a similar change in position by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Since August 1, House Republicans have been staging a protest against Pelosi’s refusal to hold a vote on an energy bill before Congress’ five-week recess began.
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What a bunch of IDIOTS!
ok, paid rnc bloggers...
ready, set go!
Lame.
But, but, Pelosi promised to save the world!!??
Drill Here Drill Now!
You need to make a website about drilling on the land you currently have leases to. 70 plus million acres and not a drill on a single piece of them.
Why give you more if you can't make even handle what you already have. Pathetic losers to deny that this is nothing but a ploy to give ALL of our lands to the oil companies, just so they can continue to sit idly on their hands doing nothing but pumping us for all our money.
Get your oil rigs our of our pockets, drilling us for all our money, and into the ground that you already have leases on, you sleaze balls.
I want to hear more about McCains $520 loafers. How many pairs does he own?
I want to hear more about how many 4-star meals McWarmonger and Botox Barbie have had. Or can they not afford to look elitist from one of their 8 homes or their private jet?
I want to hear more about McCain mispronouncing everyone's name and declaring all of us citizens of Georgia (the country – he certainly isn't my president and will never speak for me).
How much more can CNN cover up his gaffes? Is this a relay between FAUX Noise and CNN to see which can push harder to get McCain crowned King to take King W's place?
I want to know.
WE ARE NOT GEORGIANS. WE ARE NOT IRAQIS.
WE ARE AMERICANS & WE ARE TIRED OF SLEAZY
WARMONGERS LIKE MCSENILE OF SELLING US OUT.
If I hear this Republicans pushing for energy policy one more time I am going to scream. These are the people who have been in Washington for ages or at least in control of Congress and House for the last 7years. All of a sudden they remebered what they knew all along because they are running for re-election. Can someone please gag these people. I am upto my neck with these people. They had two oil big guns in the white house and they have benefited in every way from this oil hike and now you want to reward them again? What do we get as members of the public? Nothing but price hike. Can some please give me a break.
The new McCain add called 'Fan Club' is a riot! The McCain adds are so much better that Osama's.
The time for "Energy Freedom" was in the late 1970's, when President Jimmy Carter tried to put the country on a path that moved away from oil and the Middle East. Jimmy Carter promoted solar power, even putting a solar collector on the White House. Then Ronald Reagan came along, telling us that we could stick our head in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong. The solar collector came down, and we began the long slow march of U.S. dollars to Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Sorry, DeMint and Hensarling, but in the words of your fearless leader, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, fool me... won't get fooled again!"
Nancy Pelosi has been playing political games with important issues since she became Speaker of the House.
She has abused the trust of the American people, who voted Democrats into the majority in 2006.
She has failed us all and, when we're done securing the electoral humiliation of Barack Obama in November, she will be one of the first to go.
pelosi also advised dems who are up for re-election to say they were for off shore drilling to fool the voters into supporting them. if they get re-elected they will again refuse to do what the people they work for demand. just say no - no obama, no pelosi, no lying dems. drill now.
Jack, Why do Republicans want to drill so suddenly? The have been the majority untill 2006 and why do they want to drill now? It is so disheartning that Americans are suffering and the oil companies and making record profits.
And by the way, the House Speaker said "she would be open to holding a vote on offshore drilling if it were part of a larger energy package"
The is a difference between WOULD and WILL and most reporters always confuse us by saying that Nancy Pelosi has changed her mind on the drilling. Understand the ENGLISH before publishing. CNN is the worse offender.
mccain stop wasting your time on a state thats not a battleground state
I dont want off shore drilling, but then I am not an uneducated moron, and I am also not being paid much by any of the big oil companies. Like our government, my support can be bought. Just give me a number.
This is a scam!!!! Watch out people of USA.
That's great, but offshore drilling isn't going to help. It won't help in the short-term, and it's not enough oil to make a long-term difference.
Why aren't BOTH parties discussing some REAL solutions?
So are they going to start a countdown of days until the environment is even more destroyed when these areas are drilled?
Or is there going to be a countdown to when oil companies actually start drilling the areas they are allowed to drill?
Good! We should be doing EVERYTHING within our power to address our dependence on foreign energy sources. Drilling offshore, using the reserves, exploring new energy sources that are more friendly to the environment.
If we as a country get serious about this, the price of oil will fall due to decreased speculation on the future price of oil. We need to throw everything we have at this problem. Also, we need to forget whether we're Democrats or Republicans – just when discussing this issue
I can't believe how stupid these people are.
Go home you pitiful republican politicans. Spoil children have far more creditability than any of you. Try reducing the deficit, bring our troops home. Do something USEFUL Morons.
This kinda crap is insulting. Take down the stupid websites and make me a frigging hybrid car that gets 50 mpg. Gimme Electric! Gimme zero forgien energy dependency. Stupid Republicans have kept the lid on all sorts of tech that could have been helping us years ago. I know they are out there! I saw, "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
Nice to see that the OIL Companies act so blatant thru their puppet I mean friends at the "Heritage" foundation.
The intelligence seems to be a problem of texanian leaders...
Quacks like a duck.
It's about time the Republicans higlighted the Democratic Congress and Nancy Pelosi for their Opposition to oil and gas drilling..
Lorna, NY took the words right out of my mouth/keyboard.
It has been reported that it will take 10 years for anything to happen. 10 years to show results. To wait another 10 years until we began this process is rediculous. we better get with it ASAP because one day it will be bad enough/high enough to demand it. Then it's too late. The cream for your latte will get so high you might give a crap.
It is easy for a bunch of ignorant non-driving people to say no...no...no. When was the last time Obama or Pelosi filled up their vehicle to go to work? When was the last time any of the bleeding hearts that don't live along a subway line, depending on their vehicle to put food on a table filled up???? It is easy to cry about the environmental effects too when it doesn't directly involve you.
We should be doing everything we can to bring down the cost of fuel and provide for ourselves, including using our own resources.
Stop stalling!
Lorna, NY
Yea... why would they want to vote on something 65% of America supports... How dare they do what the people want... what kind of democrat congress would that be!
McCain/Clinton 08
the entire nation(USA) can only pray that this Anti-American has no use for a Veep. McCain is not a prime choice to be sure, however, a blatant socialist such as Barack Hussein Obama should not even have a squeeky voice in this election. The fact that Obama is a contender for the oval office is an outright disgrace. All ye Democrats!; Please bring Hillary Back!!!!! Atleast she and her family speak highly of the greatest nation the history of the world has ever known.
CNN media in all areas have done nothing but be negative
toward Obama every since the primary.General election it is
even worst. The seem to be racist more so than w.virginia
and Kentucky.Please Fox CNN let the two candidates face
off with you all making matter worst by false information just
to get rating and money.Now fair to the america peoples we
donate to much money into ours candidate.
All Congress has to do to repeal the ban on drilling is to do what Congress does best: NOTHING
Let it expire.
Also leave the Edwards family alone,give them their privacy
and stop beating up on his family to make money. American
men and women cheat at some point,do you put all american in the
news.Back of this family,it can to someone in your family and you
woudn't like them in the news.
I, personally, support the ban on off-shore drilling. No one has convinced me that it will make a significant difference in the supply or price of oil. We know it will not get into the pipeline for 7 – 10 years. In that time, Obama's (or Pickens') plan will have had time to make an impact. It is a 'gimme' for the oil companies from their buddies the Republicans.
The oil companies would have to prove to me that they can:
a. drill in an environmentally friendly manner with minimum impact.
b. demonstrate that they have an effective and immediate disaster response plan in place.
c. commit to being responsible for all clean-up and restitution, in a timely manner.
Their response to the Exxon Valdez was abysmal and they're still fighting it in the courts. So I don't see a change in attitude and, therefore, see no reason to allow them additional drilling rights.
Besides, why are they drilling on the 68 million acres they currently hold leases on ?
Great. That's what we really need....another Republican gimmick. Have the Republicans recently looked at the National Debt Clock website to see how their out-of-control spending is doing?
If they want a countdown clock... they should make kissing clock for the November election. When it gets to zero, the big spenders can kiss it goodbye.
Why is it that Republicans can get news items for posting some of their BS on a web site? In 2008, who could still view that sort of thing as news?
Ya
how comes when dnc does the same thing, it doesnot get attention from the media?
I guess the Shrub/Chinny secret energy plan needs a little retooling, unless you are one of the big shot oil boys. These two war-for-oil draft dodgers really have done a number on the good ole USA. But then again we asked for it didn't we, I mean we asked for it TWICE. The public got oiled all right, didn't even hurt after they greased us first. Their energy plan put in place with a nod and a wink from the Rebulican Congress has worked wonderfully. Now it's time for the right-wingers to start carping about the do nothing Dems.
; paraticularly amusing is mac's whining about all this pork ear-mark spending. 26 yrs in Senate and this dude never filabustered one time.
Shrub never vetoed any big time spending , even the war is off budget, can an entire nation handed a great Republic be so STUPID? YES!!!!!
We are disgusted with the lack of action on the part of Senator Clinton and the rest of the Democrats that are trying to undermine Senator Obama. Senator Clinton needs to step up to the plate, admit she lost fair and square and publicly denounce the efforts of Mark Penn and the like. Until she does that, she can not be trusted and she can forget ever getting our votes. She won't even be elected dog catcher!! We will not forget the backstabbing folks that are and have given the Republicans ammunition to try to use against Obama. You don't air your laundry outside the family and that is the oldest rule of thumb that has and is still being violated.
Also, why is the media not talking about the lack of unity in the Republican party. Bush & McCain and having worst problems that Obama and Clinton. Why is there no mention of the Republicans for Obama? Also telling Republicans not to attend the Convention speaks to the problem of loyalty. But I understand the ratings game all too well.
CNN you have lost Americas trust as a leader in news!!!
"Conservative think tank"... is that like military intelligence, jumbo shrimp, and rap music?
It's amazing. The oil companies get everything they want from the Republicans. They have leases, they don't use them. They want more.
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Guess what happens when the drilling brings more oil?
They'll tell us prices are STILL high because we lack refining capacity!!!
WE CAN'T WIN against Big Oil!
Senator DeMint? Isn't he the one who recently confused sub-committee and full-committee hearings?
Perhaps Senator DeMint should heed the efforts of a bipartisan energy compromise his fellow SC Senator Graham negotiated with 10 other Dem & Rep senators, which Obama is willing to consider as part of a comprehensive energy plan for Americans. McCain has unfortunately expressed slight opposition to the compromise.
as long as the drilling takes place off the coast of Texas and South Carolina
*This website paid for by Exxon-Mobil.
"American Energy Freedom Day"
Are these guys serious? Something that represents a very small increase in domestic oil production a decade down the line is "American Energy Freedom"? I wish I lived in Texas or South Carolina just so I could vote against these idiots.
At least they are going to get some thick headed peoples attention. No one seems to understand how drilling and oil independence are a huge part of our economy and security. Why should we be paying the billions to other countries when we have so much use for that kind of cash here. The list is to long to go into but look at Obamas list. anyone think that isn't going to raise taxs is living in the same dream world as he is. Then we also have to pay back all the money idiot Bush borrowed. Stop and think people.
Count down till Christmas for the oil companies. Can't wait to get their greedy hands on all that land and then sit on it.
Please continue the ban! This will do nothing but prolong our addiction to oil! Its worse than heroin or cocaine. Continue the ban on offshore drilling! Rehab is for junkies but Oil-Addicted Americans have no way to cure themselves except banning offshore drilling!
Are we so ignorant of global markets and likely price trends in the next decade that Americans will buy this? Really a shameful indictment of our understanding of the energy economy. I am seriously considering Europe when I retire. Americans are simply becoming too unsophisticated and jingoistic in their thinking.
By the way, Representatives, oil is fungible. That offshore oil will be in the world markets, not some little USA boutique. Many of us Americans are not the fools you take us to be.
I guest the american people caught on to their terror attacks fear schem now they are messing with the gas prices another fear tactic the Republican party trying to fear us with. america you been step on by the Republican party for so long you should catch on to when they are scheming the american people 1. why all of something we are winnig the war in iraq 2. Why are the food an gas prices are going up. the Republican party are in with Big Oil Company AN IT AINT NOTHING BUT A FEAR CARD THEY ARE PLAYING ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE ARE TO BE TIRED OF THESE THUGS WALKING ALL OVER US AN PLAYING MIND MUNIPLUTIVE GAMES. WHEN THEY GOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO SIDE WITH THEM ON OFFSHORE DRILLING NOW THE PRICES ARE FALLEN. AMERICA WE ARE BEING DUP BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Here we go Demos are going to cave. Keep it up Republicans grind the Demos. Stuff it to them it is payback time.
Apparently $1,500 a second profit was not enough for our 'Legislative Brokers'. So the propaganda campaign for big oil kicks it up enough on the web. I have news for the House and people like them (read Heritage Foundation) On Oct 2nd – we will STILL be dependent on foreign oil. George Orwell was right "Freedom IS slavery!"
We have been warned about such actions by Naomi Klein in her book "The Shock Doctrine: Disaster Capitalism." Powerful interests take advantage of a traumatized public to circumvent the majority will. In this case high prices provide the trauma to overcome the American public's sensible, well-established desire to protect the environment in which we live.
Off shore drilling will not have an immediate impact AT ALL. Do the research. Stop being sheep!!
Good for them. The sooner the Democrat party realizes that their respective jobs as elected representatives is to do what their constituents tell them to do, the sooner this country can move forward and eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.
We should start building nuclear power plants next, and then build some more coal fired power plants. Combine that with more efficient vehicles and we could become a net energy exporter like Brazil. The problem is, Democrats don't want a strong America, that goes against their socialist ideals.
Apparently $1,500 a second profit was not enough for our 'Legislative Brokers'. So the propaganda campaign for big oil kicks it up a notch on the web. I have news for the House and people like them (read Heritage Foundation) On Oct 2nd – we will STILL be dependent on foreign oil. George Orwell was right "Freedom IS slavery!"
Im Gonna start one too to see how much time we got till republicans are out of office.
Come on! Domestic oil isn't the solution for foreign oil. We need hydrogen, electric, or something else powered things! I bet opening up off shore drilling might even raise oil prices as the oil companies will need us to pay for their new derricks. Really beating a dead horse here...
Jane Fonda,is the real leader of the democratic party and we know what she is!!! Shame on them.
This is a political scam. All the oil available in the shelf and protected areas won't be online at the gas stations or in our heating oil tanks for another 5 to 10 years so it isn't going to effect fuel prices one way or the other. The real culprit is our foreign policy that has cut off supplies from Iraq and disrupted the peace in the middle east causing undo speculation which has driven up the price of Oil. The speculation is being driven by a poor dollar to euro or pound thus driving investors out of dollars and into oil. The recent improvement in the dollar relative to other currencies has dropped the price of Oil. The housing loan fiasco caused by poor regulatory over site was a big contributor to the poor performance of the dollar as investors fled the US and went else ware (read oil).
This stuff isn't really the hard people but your first task is to always doubt what these guys say and do your own research and thinking.
Don't be scared.
THE 13% LEAD THAT DEMS HAD OVER REPUBLICANS LAST MONTH IS NOW 8%.
THE DOUBLE DIGIT LEAD THAT OBAMA HAD IN IOWA,,,MICHIGAN...AND WISCONIS IS NOW DOWN TO 4-7..
MCCCAIN DOWN BY 2 NATIONALLY
OFFSHORE DRILLING IS FAVORED BY 65% OF AMERICANS
BY THE WAY,,WHEN IT COMES TO POLLS...I DONT READ THE PROPAGANDA BY THE MAJOR NETWORKS,,I GO TO INDEPENDENT POLLING SOURCES....
HEY OBAMA SUPPORTERS...IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY NOTICED..YOUR MESSIAH IS FALLING RAPIDLY FROM THE SKYS
AND YOUR CRONIES PELOSI AND REID ARE PAVING THE WAY FOR A MCCAIN WIN
The Republican clown car never gets empty, does it? One stunt after another and unfortunately, there are folks out there who lap it up. As Obama said, "It's like these people take pride in being ignorant!"
Why are we discussing oil? The US has been @ the forefront of so many revolutionary technological surges. What's the point of sticking with oil? It's expensive, and hard to find.
Wind is where it's at... and solar... and hydro-electric. Oil is old. Like the GOP
There's a blog over on that site as well. I suggest the real American people (and not the brainwashed, mindless followers of their backward, repressive, evil-minded policies) go tell them what we really think about continuing our dependence on oil, be it foreign of domestic.
Or just thank them for keeping up the ridiculous decisions that have put this country where it is today so we will be sure to vote them all out in November.
I still say Congress's low approval rating is because there are ANY republicans in it.
Awesome, $1 gas here we come... I'm not filling my car until October 1!
There was a good reason for the ban on offshore drilling.
Protect our oceans. NO OFFSHORE DRILLING.
Right on guys! Show Nancy whose boss!
I notice there is no link to the Countdown Website but only links to Democrats activities. What irresponsibly biased news reporting. CNN, your reputation for balance continues to slide. I'm not a devotee to either party, but in this case shame on elected officials and their constituents standing in the way of American independence by blocking off-shore drilling and securing our dependence on the Middle-East. New technologies in drilling make this a safe alternative for the present time and all off-shore drilling sites are so far out to sea they aren't even visible from US shorelines. Democrats won't have to worry about they're coastal property values going down.
That's too general, we don;t know who you're talking about. Even though you're from NY, I wouldn't presume to guess.
I've heard all the Dem's excuses for not drilling, and they all fail miserably. Especially the "it wouldn't have an effect for five years." The threat has ALREADY had an effect, or haven't you been watching the price of oil lately? Besides, if you'd started SEVEN years ago, when we told you to, we'd be at minus-2.
"Windfall profits" tax? Yeah, like we'd EVER see that money back in our own pockets. No thanks. Russia and Mexico tried that plan. It worked good until the cost of getting oil out of the ground went up. Now, it's failing, their production is plunging, – one of the reasons oil is expensive, declining production – and they're repealing those taxes. Intentionally advocating a failed plan... there's a word for that, and it ends with "tupid."
There's no one solution, and BOTH the D-s and R-s need to wake up and realize that. It's going to be a combination of efforts – drilling to decrease the price while we conserve, increase efficiency, and find new and better sources of power. (Hint, there's a HUGE, safe, non-polluting fusion reactor in the sky! And it's never dark in orbit!)
Coastal states will never allow off-shore drilling, Arnold already flat-out opposes any attempt to drill off CA. It's easy for people who live away from the coast to want drilling, but if it was in their backyard i'm sure they would feel differently.
Funny how these Repubs who claim to love America so much are so ready to destroy it's nature and wildlife just so they can sound tough.
The site should be called COUNTDOWN TO THE TRIUMPH OF IDIOCY DAY
"If you still believe offshore oil drilling will reduce gasoline prices and set America on the road to energy independence, you've been badly bamboozled.
Even the politicians and pundits espousing the plan don't believe it will do anything of the sort.
They're counting on the fact that you don't understand the oil market and can be suckered into mistaking slogans for solutions to the very complex energy problem."
Read the article: http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2008/08/an_energy_plan_for_suckers.html
this is as repulsive and short sighted as most everything the republicans have done for eight years. it should be a count down clock to their going away party. is there some magic drill they have in their possession that will immediately bring the gas to the pump? if they have THAT they should have used it long ago.
Jim DeMint is the king of the poison pill. He is a thoughtless obstructionist posing as a conservative. He hates America. He hates freedom. And sadly, he is the poster child of the the majority of so called conservative republicans, not only in the senate but the house too –the whole party– all the way to the Nazi Bush.
He and his kind need to be beaten up and banished from American politics once and for all. For ever. Fascist lunatics.
Can we please put an oil rig or nuclear power plant in each of their backyards?
Truly. What a bunch of idiots. Only the ignorant and absolutely non-cerebral will not be insulted by this infantile display of laughable politics. Drilling offshore will not produce enough oil to make a dent in our dependence on oil imports. There are things we could do that would make a difference but I don't hear these boys even hinting at them. One has to wonder why drilling offshore is sooooo darn important and nothing else is worth talking about. We produce 41% of the oil we use now. Increased efficiency in the use of the resource and shifting to alternatives is the most immediate way to reduce or eliminate our dependence on oil imports. So the question that come to mind again is "Do they just want to drill offshore or do they want to become energy independent?" Now don't get me wrong. I'm not necessarily opposed to drilling but I just see ways to become more energy independent more quickly. So what's the goal here?
"Physician, heal thyself." And I am giving these greedy handmaidens to plutocracy a lot of credit calling them "physicians". Truly they are just greedy oil people. Willing to ignite our atmosphere into sterility for a few more shekels.
'Pathetic, dishonest and greedy. But hey, Thanks CNN, for giving them credence where none is deserved. I'm sorry.... did I say thanks? I meant "Thanks For Nothing!".
What about the millions of acres the oil companies already have leases on that aren't being drilled?
Finally, movement! Doesn't it feel good?! Let the Games begin!!
God what a ridiculous stunt.
What's more ridiculous is that over half of America is falling for it.
Drilling offshore lines pockets, not gas tanks. By the time this "gold mine" is opened...there'll be two customers on the block with MORE demand than we have...(India and China). That means we'll be third in line for any preferential treatment, folks.
Someone care to explain to me how WE'RE going to save a thin dime if our revenues and supplies AREN"T nationalized?
We HAVE to get off oil...period! Republicans are getting to be a real pain in the you-know-what!
Pelosi and Obama are agreeing to a COMPROMISE that is greatly needed...alternative energy. The Republicans who don't like that should go take a cold shower.
Oh, thank heavens! They have finally found the awe inspiring answer to our nations energy woes at last...
....a widget.
84 days
or
2018 hours
or
121111 minutes
or
7266700 seconds...until the election. Can you put "Job security" into a widget, too?
Good maybe that stupid ban will go away.
And Pelosi changing her position after Obama flip-flopped is what is scary. We just seen what 6 years of a rubber stamp congress did with a Bush presidency. A Democrat president and a Democrat rubber stamp congress will be jusy as bad. Either way it is unbridled power. That is not what this country needs. A Democratic congress certainly won't keep Obama in check, they are too afraid of a black backlash. Our only hope is stopping Obama.
PUMA - Vote McCain
Countdown to......... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
I feel bad for any poor fool who actually downloads this and thinks it means something. Better increase that clock to 17 years, bucko.
Whatever they decide to do should be part of a larger energy policy because if they don't we are going to be in more serious trouble than we already are.
oBoama's an idiot:
c'est moi, moi et moi says Obama. Obama's worldview as expressed in Berlin is much closer to the whining, hand wringing critics of Truman, Kennedy and Reagan than it is to the views of these three stalwarts of freedom.
Obama's response to evil in the world is not "We are staying in Berlin, period," "Ich bin ein Berliner" or "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
His response is "everybody hold hands and sing Kumbaya, cuz golly gee if the world will only 'act as one,' all our troubles and all the bad guys will go away." Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Obama
Just amazing to me how, when the republicans had the majority and a lazy, compliant President, off shore drilling was never brought up as an issue. But now that the republicans need an issue to divide and manipulate ignorant voters at election time, off shore drilling is the most important priority of the ages.
Yawn.
Shriek louder little girls, throw your tantrums, no one is taking you serious.
Instead of really facing the problems inherent in a lifestyle/economy based on a dwindling finite substance, these guys are pimping for Big Oil. Losers.
Political compromises aren't "changes of position." If the dems have to agree to a little bit of entirely pointless drilling in exchange for, say, a few billion dollars of development money for clean and renewable energy, go for it. Did I mention that drilling is nonetheless entirely pointless, as the government's own energy website suggests?
They need to go home and enjoy what vaction they have left, most of them will be voted out in Nov.
Things younger than John McCain:
Howdy Doody
Area Codes
FM Radio
Peany Butter & Jelly sandwiches
Automatic Car Transmissions
40-Hour Work Week
I'm leaning towards voting for the presidential candidate NOT endorsed by the worst president in American history.
Drilling is just plain stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. We need high energy prices to properly incent business. We do not need environmental catrastrophie to further destroy God's earth, which care we are entrusted.
If Pelosi is smart and has the gonads she'll jerk these grand standing repugs around until they are dizzy with Parlimentary procedures until Obama gets in the WH so he can include some form of reasonable off shore drilling concepts in a more comprehensive energy independence policy. Drilling for drilling's sake is NOT in this countries best interests at this time – only big oil interests...
what a bunch of tools!!!
how dare they take us for such fools; to think that we are stupid enough to believe their offshore drlling scam will lower prices now-that is a COMPLETE LIE!!!!!!!!
people, they played you for fools for EIGHT YEARS, dont give them even one more day-THINK AND READ FOR YOURSELVES!!! you OWE the rest of us for the past 8 years of the destruction of our country and our constitution-if you dont CARE about either of those things, then vote mccain, he's your man!!!
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN DECEPTION GAME. THIS WILL INCREASE OUR DEPENDENCY ON OIL AND PROFITS FOR BIG OIL ALONG WITH MAJOR CONTRBUTIONS TO THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. WE NEED A PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE NOT B IG BUSINESS LIKE EXXON.
The old ways die hard don't they......
if the price of oil stays down, watch everyone run out and get another SUV.
It's time to move forward, come up with a prudent plan but know that coming off oil has to be at the top of the plan.
ENERGY FREEDOM WILL BE THE DAY WE DO NOT HAVE TO RELY ON OIL FOR ENERGY!
But if we want real energy freedom, we will never get it by voting republican.
We need to turn the page and start moving America in the right direction on energy and all other issues.
And that starts by voting for OBAMA in November.
What the Republicans are calling "energy freedom" translates into more obscene "energy profits".
If the Republicans are serious about energy they will work with the Democrats to make a comprehensive bill. Let's hope. But don't hold your breath people because there is a lot less money for Big Oil if we were to have a sound comprehensive plan. Don't be fooled by the Republicans who so far only want a Drill Bill. I say NO WAY.
ALSO PEOPLE VOTE ONLY DEMOCRAT THIS TIME AND YES WE CAN OBAMA.
That bill does not have all the energy alternative and things that are needed to help with oil independence. It just has that oil ban lifting. That alone will do nothing to help. Republicians are trying to spin this recess in Congress into their own politicial gain. Don't fall for it. It's pandering at it's finest.
Idiots!
Which uneducated Americans actually think offshore drilling is the answer? Do they not realize that there are roughly 600 MILLION, yes MILLION, acres in the sea that they can already drill on that have not even been touched. Why, when they have 600 million acres available, are they wanting more? Because the oil companies know that after they open this up, they will own the offshore ocean, and that will lead to more money in their pockets. Why does no one else see this?
Energy independence? Seriously? It'll take a lot more than that to make the United States "energy independent." Nice spin, Republicans.
The Republican Party: A minority of selfish and greedy slugs who pander to the lowest educated of America with fear mongering and wedge issues in order to make more profits for themselves and their financial backers (lobbies).
Who cares about our fragile ecosystem when we can ride our SUV to the mud haul!! GO USA! Bomb everyone else and carry a bible!
Big oil owns these guys too I guess. Lets just finish wrecking the earth so we can get pennies off our gas in ten years when the cost will likely be $7 or more. How stupid and ignorant.
Ignore the fact that they haven't done anything in the last 8 years, it's "whinning" about it now that counts.
The sooner that ban is lifted, the more prices will continue to drop. Bush announced 25 days ago to lift the ban and voila prices dropped like a stone...
DUH!
They are STILL howling at the moon!
DeMint and his republicans friends would give the deed to the country to the oil companies that own them lock stock and barrel if they thought for one minute they could get it done.
The oil companies own the republican party and 90 percent of the republicans in the party.
If you do not believe that then why do not they ask the oil companies to drill on the 68,000 million acres they already have leases on and 10,000 of those acres are in Alaska.
Hooray, energy freedom! Nope, no Orwellian code-wording here, loyal republican voters! Nothing to see, no sirree! Yep, just move along to energy freedom and even bigger profits for ExxonMobil!
Maybe republicans just like insulting the intelligence of their constituents.
Funny Rep. Jeb Hensarling, is from My District witch is a very impoverish area where a lot of People are on fixed incomes and suffering Financially and no big oil controls on him! and as Far as integrity, why do you think he ran un opposed? Because both Partys in his district are Happy with the job he is doing! so critics rethink! Bush sold us out to O.P.E.C and let them Price fix and should be prosecuted for it, and neither party stopped it ! so its great to see someone acting!
These guys are doing what 80% of Americans want, whereas the Wicked Witch of the West, Nancy Pelosi wants to hold American hostage to high gas prices and wants us to conserve while she flies around the country in a PRIVATE jet burning fuel and adding to the GLOBAL WARMING that she claims to oppose.
Pelosi's motto "Do as I SAY, not as I DO"
Yo, Obama is wrong in his numbers.
It isnt a few cents in ten years. Its 20 percent immediately. Or did you forget the huge drop oil prices just took when the executive ban was lifted?
Are you really that blinded by what your candidate says as versus facts right in front of your face?
What a surprise. Big Oil expects the government that it's bought and paid for over the last eight years.
If the Dem's vote to extend this ban Obama is toast. On the other hand I do believe it should include some alternative energy pieces.
Look, there's only ONE WAY to stop an addiction: You have to stop taking the drug.
There's only one way to stop America's addiction to oil. And drilling for more is not it.
T. Boone Pickens has offered up a true alternative solution. We are blessed with huge reserves of natural gas. Presently, we burn much of it in power plants to make electricity. Instead, we should start switching our cars over to burn natural gas. This has been technologically possible for decades!
Then we should start building wind and solar power plants to phase out the coal and natural gas burning power plants.
We could cut our foreign oil dependency in half in ten years!
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
A vote for McCain is a vote for continued oil addiction.
VOTE BARAK OBAMA FOR CHANGE!