The righties loved the way John McCain's Annie Oakley corrected Joe Biden at the VP debate. You betcha. Yeah, drillin' along all our coastlines can be done safely... Here's what the Gov. said:

"The chant is "drill, baby, drill..."

"Barack Obama and Senator Biden, you've said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. You even called drilling -- safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the outer continental shelf."

Here's what happened to the "safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore" when Hurricane Ike hit:

"At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_on_go_ot/hurricane_environment

Somebody needs to open up and EIGTH GRADE EARTH SCIENCE BOOK for these ignorants to catch up on their climate knowledge......
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I think McCain's Palin handlers used that one prepping her on global warming.

yeah but I'll bet they used one from the 70's....

It was probally banned,you betcha.Can't have folks getting educated,then joe six pack will figure out that Palin/McCain talk smack.

I would SOOOOO not be surprised.... education is BAAAAD for the ticket.....

The "Drill Baby, Drill" crowd is kinda quiet on this one. Yeah, nobody wants a 500K gallon oil slick on their beach, not even the hater righties in Jersey.

It is rather pleasant to shut them up for a change.

guess we should just cap them all and buy foreeign oil huh?

how's $15/gallon grab ya?

how's about bankrupting the nation as soon as possible with zero money supply left for greedy American businesses that bring you everything you libs need to feel coddled enough to bite the hand that feedsya.

right where it hurts, ya betcha!

let's all just bury pour heads in the sand and cry foul because a hurricane made a mess of a pretty beach.


Gee!! tell that to those dems running New Orleans and leaving that blight laying around for rats and vermin to breed and host some more diseases, fer ya'all.

I know, it's Bush's fault.

wah wah wah.

here, have some KOOL AID.

Please they just changed the Middle School Science Standards in Arizona, along with the Social Studies Standards. Don't ask them to do it again. Science just got new textbooks and the Social Studies Department is suppose to adopt a new one for next year.

Part of the problem is new oil can be sold at a higher price then old oil (that which has been found). We have a number of "capped" oil wells, because of this pricing difference.

Not at all. I'm sure we can supply our 25% of the world's consumption with 3% of its reserves... I do think we need to tap our oil and natural gas, but Simple Sarah made it all sound so... simple. It isn't.

well, by all means, let's just give up without a fight and not try, huh?


sounds like liberal talking points coming out of obama.

there is just this annoying little gap between what is and what will be.

this isn't Camelot and obama is not Kennedy, not that such romantic notions have ever enjoyed any real traction, though.

Do you dispute the numbers on consumption and reserves?

no

I don't.

the oil is not going to last much longer anyway.

the Saudis are peaked and are producing less too.

this is no joke.

this is it.

we have a very short time to adapt or we will be ground to a halt sooner than people want to believe.


time to wake up to that.

Wrong. The Liberal/Progressive view is to use more renewable and alternative forms of energy. If expanding the knowledge of possible safe and renewable energy is the definition of giving up...respectfully suggest a revision of your definition.

better hurry up then.

in the meantime, drill baby drill.

or only the military will have oil.

don't be so smug.

this is a crisis.

and political games are not going to accomplish any more than what has already been done to stem the tide.

What has been ddone?

NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!


drill now.

and get to work on the alternatives now.

you know nothing.

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts is a good read.

I didn't know that happened to the Gulf of Mexico.

That is terrible!!

AP story on how the environmental impact of Ike is just being realized.