While the Senate debates the Warner Lieberman bill which will raise all energy prices and do nothing to create more energy, some people are saying, “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.”
Newt Gingrich was back on the Glenn Beck program this morning describing our governments hobbling of American oil production while begging our enemies to increase their exports. Gringrich’s group American 
Solutions has undertaken a petition campaign with the drill here motto and has quickly passed the 100,000 mark. You can sign and participate in the drive by visiting the non-partisan American Solutions website.
Beck spoke about his appearance the evening before at a Toronto benefit forum with Newt and Dick Gephardt. Glenn related how he found Gephardt downright rational now that he isn’t beholden to the party’s left. And Gephardt confided in Beck that many of his fellow Dems are in fact, reasonably sane. But how would anyone discern this? We can only judge by the actions of the House and Senate, and those actions indicate otherwise.
In any event, no matter how you judge the sanity of your own representatives, let them know your opinions anyway. Most of them do understand polls and numbers.
We have a political crisis. So stated a caller to Herman Cain this morning, who is sitting in for Neal Boortz. If anything, that is an extreme understatement. I would call the government criminally negligent, except that most of these elected criminals are deliberate in their obstructions.
The headline to Herman’s column this week states it pretty well – “Oil Abounds in America, but Democrats Vote to Keep It In the Ground.” Of course its not just Democrats. Here in New Jersey local Republicans don’t want a liquified natural gas transfer station built off shore. Other groups here and elsewhere don’t want windmills altering their beach views. Florida and California don’t want new drilling off their coasts. And the Demoncrats egged on by the envirocrazies keep blocking new drilling in Alaska, even though that would have negligible impact on anything.
The U.S. imports somewhat over 10 million barrels a day. Cain’s column states, “It is estimated that there are two trillion barrels of unexplored oil shale right here in the United States. That’s trillion with a “t”.” America is a nation rich in natural resources and technology. Between oil, coal, shale oil, natural gas, nuclear, thermal, solar, hydro and wind, the U.S. should not need to import any energy product. All that is needed is for these political criminals to get out of they way.
If you don’t like spending 50 to 100 dollars for each fill up at the pump communicate that to the politicians in Washington and at home. Listen carefully to what they say and what is between the lines. Nearly everything they propose will make energy more scarce and more expensive. And remember that many of these leftist domestic enemies of America still don’t think we’re paying enough. Remember that at the polls as well as the filling stations.
