Touché !!!
I just got done hearing the clips of Obama spewing off about the GOPs 3 point plan. Drill, drill and keep drilling. Well, WTF do you propose else we do, you ignorant mother fscker!!!
I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out how that ANWR pipeline is not on the fast track to DONE!!
Leftists in general and Obama in particular hate oil. Obama said even while campaigning that he wanted gas prices to rise, just not so abruptly (and presumably with the additional money going to government, not to oil producers and foreign nations.) His major problem with high gas prices is political, otherwise this discourages consumption which limits greenhouse gases, stretches the supply of oil, limits drilling (often environmentally very damaging), and provides yet another political opportunity to "spread the wealth around" via government confiscation and redistribution. Even this political problem is due mostly to people's erroneous assumption that the President runs the economy and the nation, and therefore controls gas prices. In reality the President mostly controls access to drilling offshore and on public lands, and neither leases nor drilling permits are likely to seriously affect gas prices during a President's term because of the long lead time in reaching the market. Obama's biggest technical hurdle is the current lack of effective alternatives to oil. If we had better and more affordable batteries and solar arrays, Obama could have his cake and eat it too, with high fossil fuel prices driving people away toward alternative energy sources as liberals desire. (A movement by the way that HAS to take place at some point.)
That said, while I'm in favor of drilling in ANWR I'm not at all sure it will be any kind of panacea. In the end, the market sets the price of everything, as it should. Oil production and distribution cost a LOT to get into and there aren't all that many players. I suspect that if we flooded the market with an additional 10% oil, we wouldn't see the theoretical market response of drastically lower prices to avoid being the one whose oil didn't sell, but rather we'd see oil companies and OPEC nations reducing supplies (perhaps without actually admitting it) to keep the price at the new stable level of $80 to $100 per barrel.
In the end, nobody owes us cheap oil. Oil companies and oil producing nations will act in their own best interests, as they should, and while this will damage our economy which is built on cheap energy much more so than is that of most nations, it's the way the market is supposed to work. We can and should develop our own fossil fuel supplies and alternative energy supplies, but in the end oil, like every commodity, costs what a supplier agrees to take and a buyer agrees to pay.
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