Off-shore drilling is a stunt because there is no shortage of oil. The idea that there was a shortage of oil has been artificially fabricated by the Bush administration, who has made every effort to sabotage development of better alternatives and who has prevented market mechanisms from setting the prices.
The Bush administration has deliberately distorted the market for many years and has manipulated politics to stop oil prices from reflecting the political and environmental cost of taking oil from countries such as Iraq and Iran. We've been made addicted to oil and this constitutes one of the biggest threats to national security, while the price we pay for this amounts to trillions of dollars and is obscured by the fact that it is paid for with borrowed money. Also, as said, the harm inflicted on the environment and our health isn't reflected in the price of oil. In an effort to hide this, the Bush administration has manipulated the EPA and many other organizations that have proposed a more responsible approach.
Instead of remaining addicted to oil and transferring our wealth to politically volatile regions, we should invest in clean and safe ways to produce energy at home, in the process creating numerous new domestic job opportunities and build up the skills and expertise that will also provide numerous opportunities to patent and export new technology.
Off-shore drilling won't make oil cheaper, because there is no shortage of oil. We don't need more oil! We need to reduce the practice of burning fossil fuel, and not just in the US, but worldwide! We need better alternatives and we need to stop this market distortion that the Bush administration has been practicing for so many years.
Will this make oil more expensive? Probably not, since a shift to better alternatives will reduce demand for oil and this reduced demand will lower the price of oil, even when fees are added to better reflect its environmental harm. As the prices of oil and of better alternatives will be allowed to be set more by market mechanisms, those better alternatives will become ever cheaper, especially if compared with this insane plan to drill off-shore for oil that is to reach consumers more than a decade from now. Off-shore drilling is a stunt that shows McCain's inclination and intention to use the same deceptive policies of the Bush administration.
By making this the cornerstone of his policies, McCain shows to have no intention to reduce the practice of burning fossil fuel. That is the point Obama should focus on! Obama should point out that oil is currently more expensive than better alternatives because of the market distortion by the Bush administration. If market mechanisms would have been allowed to set the price, there wouldn't have been any energy "crisis" in the first place. This idea of a "shortage" of oil and an energy "crisis" is something that has been deliberately fabricated by the Bush administration. There is no shortage of oil, there is a shortage of good politics. There is a crisis within the Republican Party, because they fail to come up with policies that make sense. But there is no shortage of policies that make sense - ideas are free, please feel welcome and encouraged to copy this message widely. Cheers!
Sam Carana
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I DO NOT VOTE FOR PARTY----POWER CORRUPTS
NOT IDEOLOGY-----THEY CHANGE
NOT FOR THE CANDIDATE ALONE
I VOTE FOR WHAT IS BEST FOR AMERICA AS A COUNTRY
McCain is a fraud...set him in a room without preparation and he will fail miserably
His ignorance and ambition are competing for the highest price: to call himself a president.
Has he stated in his book, he was not running for some high ideal to do great things for the country but because he wanted to be president.
What a poor judgement to even state that.
What a poor character who achieved what he did but push and shove of others and the pow cross he carries around his neck.
The man is to pitied at this time not honored because he sold his soul long ago.
Country first from him is an insult to all american.
If voting for him is the best we can do that says alot about our reasoning ability and our judgement in a time when our country is failing on all counts.
We will be the laughing stock of the world if we vote for this man.
We will be at war with 3 countries....maybe 5 bomb bomb Iran will bring along Russia and North korea....and we have no soldiers to spare.
Get out of your embrionic brain and go read the world news, republicans of great character and experience are registering as democrats to vote for Obama.
The military 6 to 1 are donating to Obama.
Why? They are all stupid and you are the smart ones?
You talk abot drilling? we need all avenues to start the country on a different path.
But we use 25% of all oil and we only have a 3% reserve in this country, so how long would that last? We need a president who is willing to committ to green energies development and do it now...no McCain he vote against green energies development. He got an F on his voting by an independent energy agency. He has no clue.
The president needs to have vision, the ability to motivate people in large numbers, able to read people well, and choose the best for the job and the best advise.
Let's see McCain economic adviser is Graham, the guy well known for enron loop hole, the guy that cause the mortgage melt down by passing legislation to deregulate commercial banks? or maybe him again the guy pushed for deregulation of commodities like ....oil maybe? Yes, so the speculators could drive up the price.
Check him out and tell me why he is the economic adviser for McCain and best friend, in fact he has written his economic plan for all the whiners in America.