Posted by
Dave on Monday, July 21, 2008 10:48:31 AM
Here are some facts if you are willing to take the time and check them out. Trouble is I feel most Americans are not willing to take the time to get the facts. They listen to the nightly news and believe everything they here. Then when the facts are do come out they ignore them because they are lazy. A good example of this is when I asked some friends of mine did they here what Senator Obama said; I was told I don’t believe this did you hear it? When I said yes I listened to his speech and this is what he said. The answer I got was oh. They still did not believe me because it did not fit what they heard on the nightly news. I even told them where to go and read his speech for them self’s. I do not believe that they would go and see for them self’s. America needs to wake up of we are lost.
Senator Obama and a gaggle of liberal legislators started stumping for a windfall tax on oil... a strategy guaranteed to do only one thing... raise the price of gasoline.
A generation ago, the Carter Administration imposed just such a tax and the results were disastrous: a reduced incentive to drill for oil, a drop in domestic production, severe shortages, and long lines at the pump.
Obama was a teenager at the time, but you'd think he'd remember.
Hamish McRae published an article with a title that says it all: "Oil at $100 a barrel will do more to save the planet than all the wind farms in the world."
Amid soaring gas prices, President Bush rightly announced on Monday that he would lift a long-standing executive order banning offshore oil drilling in an effort to increase domestic production.
And, he essentially dared Congress to do the same!
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded by telling us the American people to drop dead. According to media reports, Reid also came right out and said he would block any amendments to lift the ban on off shore drilling. Rather, Reid is vowing to ram through legislation that could add 30 Percent To The Cost of Crude.
One last thing, I hear that Reid and others are claming that the Oil Companies have leases they are not drilling on and he does not see why they should give them more. What he does not tell you are that the Oil Companies have explored them and reported that there is either no oil or the cost to drill is prohibitive.
Do yourself a favor and check the facts before we send a novice and Socialist to the Presidency.
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