Drill Here, Drill Now, Vote Smart
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 11:19AM I received an email recently from the American Petroleum Institute (apparently they read this blog) regarding New Hampshire voters opinions regarding access to domestic oil and gas reserves – as in, are ya fer or agin drill’n fer the oil we already have!
At this point I have to admit I don’t know that much about the American Petroleum institute. Did the Gore family business, Occidental Petroleum, belong to API when they were middle-maning and lobbying for Armand Hammer and his Russian Cold War pals or just drilling in the Elk Hills?
Did the Bush family belong to API when they were drilling wildcat wells in the Caribbean?
I’ll have to research that.
In any case API has sponsored a poll and sent me the interesting results:
“The New Hampshire state poll was conducted by telephone between July 10 and July 20, 2008 by Harris Interactive and commissioned by API. The survey of 500 registered voters in New Hampshire who are likely to vote in the upcoming presidential election found 63 percent of those surveyed said they somewhat or strongly support increased access to domestic oil and natural gas resources. Only 23 percent of respondents said they opposed increased access. An overwhelming 97 percent said they are somewhat or very concerned about the price of gasoline.”
I’ll bet I know some of the grumpy, anti-petroleum, moonbat, 23% poll respondents who live in Luddite, NH. I stop by their tofu yard sales when I am in the area. Luddite, NH is wedged between Hanover and Vermont. It’s the town with the 97% Phd’d population. They don’t need gas for the trust fund powered hybrids they drive and assume no one else does either.
But the other 63%, you know, the taxpayers with jobs, these voters seem overwhelmed with the prospect of affordable energy produced here in America – the America Obama and his wife are so ashamed of, our good old United Sates of Anthracite.
Imagine if private oil companies in America could drill between the layers of coal here on our own soil, as well out to sea where you can’t SEE them or the Chinese oil companies already on site, and provide gas for our own cars and heat for our own homes.
It all makes so much sense there had to have been a catch. I know what it is.
The 63% has been letting the moonbat left win election by not showing up or even supporting pro-business, pro-energy candidates.
For some reason, maybe laziness, or a feeling of not wanting to confront the ugliness of the lefties and their nonsensical socialist dreams, we have brought much of this problem upon ourselves.
Funny how $4 per gallon gas and a $3,500.00 heating bill can drag people out to vote.
The Bella Pelosi Twins and Jeanne Shaheen are sipping lattes with the Sierra Club hoping you forgot where they have stood on this issue.
Now’s the time folks. Are we going to let the liberals show us the rest of their expensive plans for sunflower power or are we going to step forward and keep NH a frugal, sensible, affordable place to live?
Reader Comments (34)
No offense. I always supported drilling in the U.S. and in fact I supported drilling in the Arctic when it was not popular.
However, the energy talking points the mainstream Republican leaders are pushing down the ranks are going to backfire. All the other side has to do is point out the similarities between Enron and the California blackouts and the current issue with oil prices. Obama is smart enough to see it, and he will eat us up for lunch.
This crap will cost us the election.
I have no Republican talking points. I am a registered Democrat.
The Enron/California connection I am not sure fits, should be far outweighed by the head in the sand connection voters attribute to liberal Dems.
So you are a Democrat who thinks that manufactured chaos in the California electrical grids creating skyrocketing prices has nothing to do with manufactured chaos in the Middle East and our oil markets.
Actually, that sounds about right because most Democrats are just about as clueless.
Actually I think that the best defense from the actions of a cartel or monopoly is more supply.
That is Conservative Republican thinking, something lacking in the Republican Party these days.
Democrat thinking is to ration and control.
Talk about selling out...
Is there a price involved? What are you and Andrew Cline and the rest of the Conservative establishment getting for standing with those who have ruined our country? I hope it was alot because I would hate to think you would all sell your souls for the privelege of belonging to the world's newest fascist franchise.
Thanks for blowing the lid. Those who benefitted most from our War in Iraq, those written about by Alan Greenspan, those who benefitted from the loss of life, from the loss of our national wealth, and from the destruction of the middle class are actually now calling the shots in New Hampshire.
Do they call you their puppy or their pit bull? Just curious.
I was contacted through email by the American Petroleum Institute who apparently had someone employed by them stumble upon this blog. I guess they google their issues and see what comes up. NHInsider did. (I have a following in Manchester, England as well, so I hear from Mr. Demura. They Googled "Manchester" I suppose now find this stuff amusing.)
The same day, I was contacted by a Japanese gentleman, by phone, who wanted help with his news agency's efforts to track McCain in NH. I imagine they were fishing for help as well.
Neither offered or paid anything. I don't charge nor does CNHT. Sorry for the bubble burst.
I admit there is an oil cartel. It is called OPEC.
If there was more oil they would not have a cartel which would function very well.
So I say drill here in the USA and use what we have. Did you notice I mentioned coal in my blog? Why would the Petroleum Institute want me to do that?
There must ne a logical conspiritorial answer.
I am guessing by your last line that there is some point you would like to make regarding my suspicion of conspiracy in the oil cartels and in the halls of power in Washington. I would love to be informed where I may be wrong. So please, help me out as to where I may be too suspicious.
Maybe I am too suspicious of our central banks and the way they created this credit crisis. If so, please show me where I might trust them some more.
Maybe I am too suspicious of our president and his father, who have had a dark cloud of chaos and human misery follow them both around wherever they go, irregardless of the winsome smiles on their faces.
And yes, maybe I am too suspicious of the oil cartel, not just OPEC but the cartel that exists in our own back yard, the one you alluded to when you suggested that the best way to deal with cartels is to increase supply.
Tell me I am too suspicious of the Bushes, of big oil, and of the Fed, and the IMF. Tell me how. Tell me I should roll over and tell everyone I know that it was not Iraq, or Iran, or the complete absence of Middle Eastern diplomacy, and that it wasn't beligerant announcements highlighted by the public disclosure of a hitlist in the form of an "Axis of Evil" that caused oil to jump so high. Tell me how the suspicion that one president pretending to be an idiot and creating enough havoc in the energy markets to produce historic profits for his friends in the oil business is being just too darned suspicious.
Tell me that the greatest swindle of a generation was just a really convenient mistake by Bush, which just happened to make him and his family and their friends pretty much the only remaining economic power on the planet.
Tell me, Ed. I'm waiting.
Or do you need to check with the oil guys before you respond?
I will email back to the office lady at the American Petroleum Institute who sent me the Harris pol and check out all the details about the Bush family.
Being part of the conspiracy she will probably have all my answers for me so I can repeat them here for BIG bucks.
I am sure she will get back to you quickly. But what details do you need? You have been robbed, America has been robbed, and they looked you in the eyes and smiled while they did it.
And now I am part of the national conspiracy. It happened so fast I almost didn't notice. Guess that how it works.
I feel so important.
The conspiracy handbook is in the mail to me as we speak, the one with my further instructions. But I bet you already know what is in the secret plan - right?
Of course I do. It goes like this:
I will say whatever the oil companies want me to say. And if anyone catches on I will call them a conspiracy theorist.
They like to keep things simple.
Exactly!
Now the part where I get a big fat check. Can you tell me when that will show up.
You have me tied to the Bush murder machine and caught me red-handed being a shill for Occidental petroleum and Citgo.
When do I get my cash?
Everyone has their price. For you it seems to have been the American Petroleum Institute's "Defender of Freedom" badge. Personally, I would have taken the cash.
As for the question, "when do I get my cash?" Ed, I am pretty sure all you have to do is ask. They'll find a way to cover you for being the oil interest's defenders on the last vestige of freedom in America...the blogosphere.
Sorry to tell you but I never even got the badge.
This insider oil industry/Bush murder plot business doesn't pay very well.
Now that you busted my only cover I probably am worth even less to my superiors.
Maybe I can work for the windmill cartel.
I am sick of this garbage and won't be tolerating it in the months to come.
So, as a lowly mush-mind I am thrilled to hear you will not be tolerating this. What's your grand plan to overthrow the cartels and the eeeeeevil Bush clan? Will you..... vote for anti-energy luddite moonbats? Blog like crazy until the cartels give in? Continue to assess the mental state of those who disagree? I am sure any of these brilliant strategies will return the middle class to its former glory. I feel so much better than Dave is on the case!
I was supporting drilling in the arctic back when it was an unpopular position. I thought, and still think, that we should be pulling out all the stops to make ourselves energy independent asap. I never had a problem with that.
What I have a problem with is this "after the fact" cover story about why energy prices are so high. If your memory is bad then maybe I should remind you that up until last year there was only one real story on energy prices, that story was Iran. If supply issues are the real reason oil is through the roof then the conspiracy is that we were lied to for four years up until the last year, and that "excess speculation" regarding war with Iran is what boosted prices up.
I have no problem with anyone talking about the need to drill. I have a big problem with people lying to me about why prices are so high. And it is a lie.
If current prices reflect current supply and demand issues and not the THREAT of supply issues in the event of a war with Iran then the war in Iraq and the lives lost were used by Ed's new friends in the oil cartels to boost up prices and bilk the American people of their wealth. If I am right and threat of war with Iran was the main catalyst threatening future supply then our current administration and his friends in the oil business were guilty of either by plan or by incompetence bilking the American people of their wealth.
The point is, you cannot call current oil prices the product of current supply and demand issues without disrespecting the lives of our military in Iraq who have been sacrificing so much for us. The popular "supply and demand" argument to justify came strait from the mouths of those who benefitted most from a devastating foreign war...a war whose original intent is now shrouded in deception and a war that Alan Greenspan has said was always about oil.
To me, that is selling out. To me, calling our current oil prices the product of common supply and demand issues after all that has happend is tantamount to feeble mindedness.
If either of you think that this crap argument being spread around by the oil industry will bring you more freedom then really it is a sad moment for this country.