Where would we be now without Prudhoe Bay and the other North Slope production that TAPS made possible?

TAPS won in the Senate by one vote – Spiro Agnew’s. Senate opposition included the illustrious Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden.

Should we be working on alternatives to coal, oil and gas? By all means. But the fact remains that fossil fuels plus nukes comprise 93% of the nation’s fuel use.

Staking our future on wind, solar or dilithium crystals while forsaking traditional energy sources is foolhardy. Alternative energies could grow exponentially and still not keep up with population growth, much less allow for a growing economy.

As conservatives, we must keep on the pressure on politicians to promote domestic supplies. Don’t let the fact that gasoline is $1.75 a gallon fool you into thinking that energy is not a top priority. It’s not today’s price that matters; it’s the price 5 years, 10 years from now that we can do something about only if we are willing to do something now!

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time to plant it is now.

to the kool aid drinking Liberal Social Democrats of this country.
They would, obviously, much rather the people of the country lie some imagined 14th Century agrarian life, however limited that life was.
Worse, IMO, the decades long evidence that no matter what concessions are made, they are never enough, has become the very core of the environmental movement.
And the LSD has adopted the tactic, massaged and refined it, made it the core of their methodology, and renamed it “Bi-Partisan”.
I can but hope that the power and influence of the DBM is blunted and confounded by the so called Alternative/New media.

We’re all focused on the economic crisis, believing that it resulted from mortgage foreclosures. Part of the reason for that was the massive jolt to our economy and our own personal expenses that $4/gal gas brought on.

The Governor is right–now is the time for action. Developing more supplies of fossil fuels now prevents our economy from being restrained from external sources. It is both an economic and national security issue (if those two things can be separated).

is going to happen in Alaska and probably not anywhere in the Country as long as the Communist in Chief reigns. Even though Gov. Palin is saying stuff about ANWR for a national audience, here, she has backed away from Alaska’s agressive move to cancel Exxon’s Pt. Thompson lease on State land and is giving Exxon a permit for two wells this winter. We have to keep production up and the only way to do that is on State land where the rights of way are either over State land or over existing ROWs. Even on State land or State Coastal lands, it is going to be very tough once they get the Polar Bear declared endangered, something that shouldn’t take more than a few weeks or at most months. If they get the Polar Bear or any other arctic marine mammal declared endangered ANYTHING that the AGW cultists can aver causes CO2 or otherwise contributes to GW or Climate Change or melting icecaps is going to be stopped. It’s a brave new world.

…..Obama, in one of the debates, and in which he delivered yet ANOTHER about face, said that offshore oil drilling woudl be considered in his administration. Guess we have another about face going on right now.
When Governor Palin says that OPEC is asserting its market force, this is why we got in the mess of $3.50-$4.00 per gallon of gas in the first place. They run the oil supply, and there’s very little, if any, competition. Notice what happened when President Bush announce he was lifting the ban on osshore oil drilling; the cost went down. Imagine what would have happened had President Bush decided this at the beginning of his second term, and we started the process with Republicans still in power. Gas prices might not have gone up as high as they did.
What Governor Palin feels, as well as I do, that just because gas is at $1.75 a gallon NOW doesn’t mean that OPEC can’t screw with us and drop their output so signifigantly that the number of barrells produced is so skewed with demand that it will cause the price to shoot back up. This is what liberals want.

And there are many of us.

we will send the end of sub-two-dollar gasoline very quickly.

- JP

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…again and again until it is drilled in the minds of the people all over the country so that they understand who stands for what. It will not be easy given the mainstream media distorting and ignoring the facts. But if we succeed in making the message clearly associated with gov. Palin and the conservatives, it would be very effective not only for Sarah Palin’s future but for the conservative movement too.

This issue, unlike some more complex economic strategies, is so obvious that it can be understood by the population at large. So it is worth investing in repeating and ‘advertising’ it in all possible ways; because, it will be very clear to the minds of the voters in 2012 (after 4 years of ineffective energy policies) who was right and who was wrong on energy, and, by extension, on other issues affecting the economy.

Many people think the idea of secession is ridiculous but the Federal government is being taken over by doctrinaire socialists. Not only our elected officials but more importantly, within the byzantine bureaucracy where most of the life choking regulations are written. Conservatives loathe government so by default we have abdicated the bureaucracy to Liberals. It is absolutely absurd that a bunch of latte` sipping liberals in San Francisco and their comrades up and down the Left coast can dictate how the rest of the nation lives. What would happen if an important state had a serious drive for independence? Would the Politburo take any notice? These people are far more dangerous to us than any external enemy because they are US citizens with all the rights and privileges thereof. If they were foreign agents acting as they do now they could be arrested for sabotage.

Yes, in an ideal world we could power the world without using oil, but in the meantime we’ve got to use what is in our own yard! Liberal environmentalists are HYPOCRITES! How many of them use candles for light and heat up their homes with fire, ride a horse to work and make their own clothes?

Why are insane people running our country? Whatever happened to common sense?

“Throw the bums out! All of them!” We need leaders who actually have a clue!

Palin 2012

What part of the word “refuge” don’t you guys understand?!

ANWR was designated EXPLICITLY to be exempt from drilling. That is the what the R is for. Refuge. Get it?

As people have noted elsewhere, there are a ton of leases already held by the oil companies that they’re not using – and even the oil companies seem ambivalent.

So where does the ‘demand’ come from?

I suspect 2 camps:
1) the camp that wants to drill there precisely because it is a refuge. After all, if you let it happen there – what logic could you use to deny drilling -anywhere-? Nothing would be off limits – and THAT of course, is the goal.

2) there is also the ‘dominionist’ wing of the evangelicals who believe that man was put on this earth to exploit its every little nook and cranny – so sez God.

Also, I wonder how come no one has commented on “young Earth creationist” Palin and her love of fossil fuels. That’s right, Sarah! Oil is called fossil fuels because it came from flora and fauna millions of years ago. Not 6,000.

Anyways, thank goodness you guys lost.