Turns out he was responsible for the election of American-friendly leaders in France, Germany, the UK and Canada and he wants to be sure he gets credit for repairing the trans-Atlantic alliance!

That’s what I get for not reading the newspapers anymore… I just don’t have a clue about how truly wonderful the Obamessiah really is!!

And, sure, drilling doesn’t pump any gas for 7 years, but it does send a message to the commodity speculators we’re in it to win it. Obama’s plan won’t pump any gas ever.

I am sorry, I don’t get what you are talking about.

McCain has to distance himself from Bush to some extent, they are not the same men after all. And the truth is McCain has been more respectful of Bush than a good many other people in his party, including a few right wing bloggers I can think of. And pundits. Even Newt Gingrich has taken a whack at Bush. For no reason than the sheer nasty fun of it.

“This Obama position is no longer available”

Another way of getting hydrogen is by electrolysis of water, but if the electricity comes from fossil fuels (coal or natural gas), it’s a net energy loser. Hydrogen only saves fossil fuels if the electricity comes from a NUCLEAR power plant–now which candidate wants to build nuclear power plants?

Seven years from drilling to marketable oil is probably longer than reality. But no matter what the real timeframe is, the sooner we start, the sooner we’ll get the oil.

We could have had ANWR oil by NOW if the Democrats hadn’t filibustered it in 2001. They got all bent out of shape over what Cheney might have discussed with the EEEEEVIL oil companies, but where is THEIR energy?

With tax breaks?

What an idiot.

Don’t forget the middle class bribe. “vote for me and I will give you a $1000 tax break.”

That sounds just like a juvenile high school student council pledge, “if you vote for me, we’ll have coke machines in every classroom!”

And the sad part is that people WILL vote for him because of promises such as this. It goes to show you how short sighted and shallow democrats are – the only thing their interested in is how the government can further line their pockets.

sheesh.

That’s like one of those sneaky “sales” in which a store raises the price of something by 30% the week before they put it on sale for 20% off.

Ed, You forgot something. They are also doing photo ops!
terryannonline on July 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM

That photo of pelosi needs to be viewed at the same time as this chart.

You forgot something. They are also doing photo ops!

Chakra Hammer on July 8, 2008 at 5:24 PM

My “ship in a bottle” will take at least 2 months to complete. Why start now?

wise_man on July 8, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Destroying all the cars in America will take at least a year. Why start ever?

An Obama flip-flop on negative ads?

BHO, the anointed Islamofascist hugger is in denial!

Now, sending a signal that oil production will increase in the future (i.e. OCS and ANWR drilling) will cause speculators to stop buying future oil at higher prices, as increased supply will lower prices. In the future. Thus, the speculators wise up and dump their overpriced oil futures for a loss, bringing down the price of present day oil.

I don’t expect any congresscritters to understand this, and thus I am sad. Wery, wery sad.

What did Obama and the Democrats do about it while they had the opportunity?
Oh, that’s right. They held hearings, accused speculators of evil, and did exactly squat to bring more supply to market. And nowhere in this list of Obama’s policies does he mention anything — anything at all — that addresses prices by increasing energy supply any faster than the seven years he assumes it will take to bring new oil to market.

Well, they did float the idea of nationalizing big oil companies. Doesn’t that count for something?

Hydrogen fuel-cell technology is not going to come to fruition for at least 10 years. Why start now?

VolMagic on July 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM

My retirement will take 30 years to build why start to worry about it now?

Hydrogen fuel-cell technology is not going to come to fruition for at least 10 years. Why start now?
VolMagic on July 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM

Excellent question. In fact, we can drill oil that will work on day one faster than we can come up with something like this that requires we destroy every car on the road and replace it with a new fuel cell car. And they won’t be cheap.