Even Lib's'll Be Singing A New Tune Soon Regarding Gas Prices And Drilling

This oped points out the obvious, however the liberals will cleverly try to blame the republicans as they have been unsuccessfully doing thus far for the monumental spikes in gas prices recently.

This has put them between Iraq and a hard place as they know darn well that if they continue appeasing the environuts of their constituency, that continued support WILL cost them the white house and some congressional spots as many Republican senators are not up this election and are safe so to speak for now at least, although most deserve to be shi*canned and sent home for losing their majority to this DO NOTHING LOONY LIB CONGRESS that has accomplished less than the republican majority for sure.

However, if they abandon these tree huggin' nutjobs they will lose their financial "support" (more like bribery) and will be exposed as being "owned" by those wackos for all these years now which ultimately has thrust we, the American people along with the rest of the world into an entirely unneeded oil crisis. It's no secret our easily added resources to the world markets mix along with Iraq's increased oil production thanks to the invasion and toppling of Saddam will easily bring the prices down so low that democrats will be unelectable for a decade as a result of their lying and capitulating.

Playing politics with your families lives and mine is not a problem apparently for these people and they will continue to do so until called on the carpet, which this crisis may finally inadvertently do to their dismay and our benefit.

DRILL, & SAVE, NOW ...

New York Post: "Funny how quickly $4-a-gallon gas can smoke out hypocrites - as last week's Pew Research poll, citing a dramatic spike in the share of Americans demanding more energy sources and less environmental protection, shows.

The nation, it seems, now favors developing new sources over 'saving the planet' by a hefty 3-2 margin.

And get this: The biggest shift came among - yep! - liberals.

Seems sanctimonious tree-huggers and caribou-coddlers have their price: $4 gas.

The percentage of those on the left who see energy expansion as the bigger priority more than doubled, from 22 to 45 percent, in just the past four months.

We wonder how many tree-huggers will reach for their chainsaws if gas hits $5 or higher. (At six bucks, it'll be every caribou for himself up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.)

Meanwhile, Democratic pols like New York Sen. Chuck Schumer continue to pooh-pooh new domestic oil drilling - claiming it won't bring prices down anytime soon, because it takes too long to bring newfound supplies to the market.

They couldn't be more wrong.

As Reagan-era economic advisor Martin Feldstein noted last week in a Wall Street Journal oped, "We Can Lower Oil Prices Now," you don't need more oil on the market today to nudge down prices today.

All that's required (to simplify his point) is for oil producers to expect more oil (or less demand) at some point in the future.

That in itself, he says, may be enough to trigger a price plunge immediately.

Indeed, any steps to boost supplies, such as easing the offshore-drilling ban, can lower prices right away.

Why is that?

Think about it: More oil (or less demand) down the road will surely push future prices down - reducing incentives for producers, like Saudi Arabia, to keep their black gold in the ground.

If prices are going to keep soaring, after all, it may make sense to wait and collect more later. But if prices are expected to dip, or rise only slightly, why not sell now? Indeed, in that case, it's smart to unload the stuff fast - and park the proceeds in something with a better return.

It's Business 101.

Congress, it turns out, does have the power to push oil prices down right now. So much for Schumer & Co.'s claim that there's no point in tapping ANWR because it'd be years before that oil began to flow.

Alas, no number of rebuttals - or actual facts - will change some Democrats' minds. They're just not interested in lower oil prices - not if some caribou is inconvenienced.

Dems are welcome to their priorities, even if it goes against those of more and more Americans - even liberals.

But they're absolutely wrong to claim that efforts to boost domestic oil production can't bring prices down soon.

It can. As Feldstein points out, Americans won't have to wait five or 10 years; they can see immediate relief.

Fact is, there's a high price to pay for left-wing enviro-wackiness: higher oil costs and $4-plus per gallon gas.

Too bad Dems will never admit it.

Nope they never will until like I said they are compeltely exposed as the liars they are and are forced to face the virtual firing squad for their betrayal of America costing us trillions and trillion of dollars in unneccessary energy costs over the past few decades.

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