Until then, we need to stop any notion of the Fairness Doctrine and keep our guns safe.

–it makes no sense to prohibit drilling for our own oil,
–globalization is here to stay, and so is free to trade. It makes no sense to prohibit a vote on free trade agreements with countries like Columbia, South Korea, etc. This is only hurts the American jobs which Dems claim they can increase.
–it makes no sense to take away the secret ballot from workers, in votes on unionizing. Even George McGovern, in an op-ed piece for the WSJ last August, pleaded with labor not to push the so-called “Free Choice” Act.

That list is just for openers. Bottom line, BO’s 53% last November was not especially impressive. In a year when the Republican incumbent had approval numbers in the 20′s….and an unprecedented meltdown on Wall Street….and with our own Republican nominee running a fairly awful campaign tactically….Obama should have gotten +60%.

The bloom is already off this rose….unfortunately, un-doing the damage he and his crowd are inflicting will take a long, long time. But it will start in 2010.

You don’t suppose there have been any advances in technology, construction or methods since then have there?

The first time someone tried to break the sound barrier, he died. And that was right about that same time. So we haven’t ever tried it since.

Of course.

Red for drilling rigs searching for natural gas, green for oil.

Prices peaked last July. The brakes are on.

The unfortunate truth is that even though we’ve got lots of oil, much of it is heavy high-sulfur crude oil and is difficult and expensive to get to, transport, and refine.

Sweet oil like West Texas Intermediate (Cushing) is going to have to be in the $80′s before it’s viable to do much of anything with a lot of the other crude out there which is more costly to get and sells at a lower price.

You’re going to see wells being shut down and pipeline projects canceled in the near-term whether or not Obama cancels offshore drilling and/or the DOI shuts down leases in Utah. There’s just too much supply and not enough demand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaY3LhJ-IQ

I live in California and I saw first hand how $4.00 per gallon gas affected people. and please don’t get me started on all the other problems we have here in California. Calgon take me away!!!!

So they basically tried to sneak this in while the headlines covered their mangling of our economy. Disgusting, but not surprising.

But once we start to get recover and demand for oil increase, then we’ll get sharp price increases – and we won’t be able to do anything for years to change the U.S. supply sources, which means we’ll be paying through the nose and won’t be able to profit from the higher prices.

Of course the Democrats will blame oil companies, nationalize them, and then they’ll start a crash drilling program, environment be da*ned because it is the corrupt cronies of Congress who will cash in and then have money to feed back to protect he Democratic one-party state, destroying long-term supply but cementing their power.

This is what happenes south of the border when tyrannical government nationalizes commodities – won’t be any different here.

Not sure if Obama and company actually are planning this, or whether it’s ideology driving them, but the end point is ruinous.

Wonder how they explained the collapse of prices from $147/barrel to $34 just last month……