DaveC on September 4, 2008 at 10:13 AM

+1

Biden flip-flops on drilling
Biden went even further down the fringie road, too. He told his
audience that oil companies have leases on which they don’t drill now,
asking “Why do you think [that is]?” Maybe because they……

- The Cat

The answer is usually some mismash about protecting the environment…

But, have you seen China’s standards on environmental protection lately?

So it is perfectly fine to allow China to spill all sorts of oil in the Gulf of Mexico…but we can’t drill there? Has anyone produced any real data on the huge number of oils spills in the Gulf caused by Katrina? No? Of course not. There weren’t any.

Thougtful, environmentally safe, and American, off-shore drilling in American waters is something Palin can hammer home readily.

The Russians, the Saudis, the Venezualans, the Nigerians and the Sudanese pump a whole lot more oil than Americans do. That is the problem.

Terrye on September 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Slight correction – only the Russians and Saudis produce more oil than the US – we are the 3rd largest supplier of oil in the world. We just use a lot more than we pull out of our own ground.

Lots of independent voters have misguided ideas about “big oil” due to the ancient history left over from the 19th century Rockefeller days. Big Oil is still capable of abuse, but oil companies perform a vital service in today’s energy-based economy.

Sarah Palin has the RIGHT message on “big oil”, and she knows what she’s talking about. Like it or not, America needs oil and we need oil companies to extract it and refine it. If McCain is smart, he will follow Palin’s advice and say that a McCain/Palin Administration will not be bribed or play favorites, but ensure that the energy market is both free and fair, and let the oil companies do what they SHOULD be doing–supplying America with abundant energy from American sources. He should also stress that America is blessed to have PRIVATE oil companies competing with each other to bring energy to the market at the lowest possible price, while most oil-producing countries have state-owned oil companies, where GOVERNMENT sets the price, and we need to develop OUR oil at market prices, so that we don’t have to pay prices set by foreign princes and dictators. Sarah Palin also mentioned this in her speech, that we need American oil, so we don’t have to depend on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez!

Energy prices and production will be a HUGE issue in this election, and Governor Sarah Palin has it nailed. McCain should let her take this ball and run with it.

Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was Governor, then the got elected and told the US Congress where it could shove it’s wasteful spending…

ummmm… wait a minute… errrrr…

Uhhhh…. George Bush’s people wrote Sarah Palin’s speech and she can only read off a teleprompter…. whaaaa? You mean it broke and she STILL brought down the house!?!

Errr… well Sarah Palin, the 2nd female VP in history. If she wins… it’s… uhhhh… more of the same! Yeah… ummm.. wait…

Ahhh… George Bush is evil and we are going to take criminal action against him once he is ….errrr.. out of the Whitehouse… errrrr… nevermind.

…. Vote for Nader?

They just can’t want to lose fast enough. In the immortal words of En Vogue “…never gonna get, never gonna get it….”

One more nail in Team Zero’s coffin.

Until then, Drill everywhere!

Now…what are they gonna do?

It seems as though the Democrats are heading in the wrong direction. Instead of following the overwhelming will of the electorate to increase domestic production, Biden changed his position to more directly contradict it.

This is music to my ears: Dems go deaf on most decisive issue of Campaign 2008! How sweet it is!

Joe is a lot like a Lab/Chow mutt I picked up at Fort Bliss…

too idiotic to catch the frisbee I throw so he lets it hit his eyes…but man did he love chasing skunks.

sven10077 on September 4, 2008 at 11:12 AM

Now that is funny!

Big oil ain’t gonna walk away for the next decade unscathed…it pisses me off, it is absolutely unfair, and it is something we let happen on Bush the younger’s watch….

Our oil companies need to get back to work and put Americans back to work fueling the engine of our economy with Yankee Brand fuel….keep our wealth here recapitalize our industry let’s have an american renaissance.

sven10077 on September 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Angers me too. I hope she can talk some sense into McCain, though she may be on the same page as him. We’ll have to cross our fingers…

Great. The previous wisdom of the career political professional having the gravitas to provide the campaign with decades of experience, changes his considered judgment after the former community organizer and part-time state senator explains thing to him.

Dusty on September 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Joe is a lot like a Lab/Chow mutt I picked up at Fort Bliss…

too idiotic to catch the frisbee I throw so he lets it hit his eyes…but man did he love chasing skunks.

I noticed this last week. I fear McCain is pushing the business conservatives away. He might win this election, but it could hurt in the long run. Hopefully, conservatives can do to him on global warming, etc. what they did to him on his amnesty bill.

Vashta.Nerada on September 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM

he is a late comer to the AGW dance and I don’t think he is gonna do quite the same jig the sierra clubbers think….

“think token boogie”….

I am.

I understand the tactics, I just wish either McCain or Palin could get through one speech without talking about ‘fighting big oil’. Its a bit too populist, and reminds me of the carbon caps et al that made me an anybody-but-McCain in the primaries.

Think_b4_speaking on September 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM

I noticed this last week. I fear McCain is pushing the business conservatives away. He might win this election, but it could hurt in the long run. Hopefully, conservatives can do to him on global warming, etc. what they did to him on his amnesty bill.

Biden never had testicular fortitude.

O-Dub on September 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM

No. He has plugicular fortitude.

I understand the tactics, I just wish either McCain or Palin could get through one speech without talking about ‘fighting big oil’. Its a bit too populist, and reminds me of the carbon caps et al that made me an anybody-but-McCain in the primaries.

Think_b4_speaking on September 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM

Tb4S, hey I agree and I was against the guy but what we have here is perhaps finally a guy mentoring a woman who can talk sense to the American people about oil and the religion of AGW. I went from “may as well blow out my brains with my own electoral gun” to hell bent for leather and on fire to help John groom Sarah.

Big oil ain’t gonna walk away for the next decade unscathed…it pisses me off, it is absolutely unfair, and it is something we let happen on Bush the younger’s watch….

Our oil companies need to get back to work and put Americans back to work fueling the engine of our economy with Yankee Brand fuel….keep our wealth here recapitalize our industry let’s have an american renaissance.