Dems Block Energy Independence Since Clinton Shuttered Anwar

And they continue to do so throughout the Bush administration at the country's peril bringing us to this point of no return now, where had we started drilling Anwar then we would be extracting 1 million barrels a day from the wells that would be there producing. Ironically this is exactly as much as Charles Schumer, lib loon senator from New York demanded that Saudi Arabia do for us what we won't do for ourselves only a few weeks ago!!

Typical liberals, they're always looking for someone else to do the dirty work, heavy lifting and taking the risks that they are too scared and or lazy to do themselves. They only risk their own lives when it comes to continuing their beloved same gender sexual relationships regardless of the risk for spreading and catching AIDS, as society pays the price for that too for the most part.

The country must make a decision to expand our use of natural resources available to us right now and today or we will soon be rendered a world laughing stock, becoming a 2 1/2 or 3rd world nation in less than a decade. Even sooner if Obama becomes president you can be sure as his version of "Big Daddy Fixes all" government takes our tax dollars at a rate never seen before in mankind's history. This WSJ oped states this dilemma wonderfully.

Wonder Land

WSJ.com: "Charles de Gaulle once wrote off the nation of Brazil in six words: 'Brazil is not a serious country.' How much time is left before someone says the same of the United States?

One thing Brazil and the U.S. have in common is the price of oil: It is priced in dollars, and everyone in the world now knows what the price is. Another commonality is that each country has vast oil reserves in waters off their coastlines.
Wonder Land columnist Daniel Henninger says America needs to get serious about its oil and gas resources. (June 11)

Here we may draw a line in the waves between the serious and the unserious.

Brazil discovered only yesterday (November) that billions of barrels of oil sit in difficult water beneath a swath of the Santos Basin, 180 miles offshore from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The U.S. has known for decades that at least 8.5 billion proven barrels of oil sit off its Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with the Interior Department estimating 86 billion barrels of undiscovered oil resources.

When Brazil made this find last November, did its legislature announce that, for fear of oil spills hitting Rio's beaches or altering the climate, it would forgo exploiting these fields?

Of course it didn't. Guilherme Estrella, director of exploration and production for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, said" continued here

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