… or maybe I have that backwards. It’s honestly getting so hard to tell McCain and Bush apart these days.
It was just yesterday that McCain flip-flopped on his opposition to offshore drilling, in an effort to send billions of dollars to U.S. oil companies while saving Americans pennies at the pump.
Now the Associated Press reports:
Bush wants to allow offshore drilling for oil
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush plans a renewed push to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling.
With oil prices soaring and motorists paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, political pressures have been growing for more domestic oil and gas production.
White House press secretary Dana Perino tells The Associated Press that Bush believes Congress shouldn’t waste any more time. She says that on Wednesday the president will urge lawmakers to lift the ban on offshore drilling.
Congressional Democrats have opposed lifting those prohibitions. The ban has been in effect for more than 80 percent of federal Outer Continental Shelf waters for more than a quarter-century and includes both the East and West coasts.
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Saying that that some oil from ANWR or offshore may be exported or it wont lower gas prices is a very stupid reason for not drilling there! Take an class in economics. If we export a million barrels from ANWR and import a million barrels from somewhere else, it costs us nothing. If we import a million barrels and export none it costs us 140 million dollars! Research and development of alternative energy sources is great and we should do that, but as long as we are useing more oil than we are producing we need to drill as much as possible. If we end up with more oil than we need we can sell it to China to pay for all our imported lead painted toys!
Democrats say drilling would not help because we wont get the oil for 10 years, a great argument they have been making for a decade – jay Leno