Opinion
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay LessACTION ALERT
By Newt Gingrich
May 28, 2008
May 28, 2008
Fight Back Against High Gas Prices And the Politicians Who Will Make them Higher Still. There must be something about springtime in Washington that makes Senators forget where they came from.
Next week, the Senate is set to begin debate on a bill that will raise the price of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and aviation fuel.(view this Heritage Foundation state-by-state breakdown to find out how much Warner Lieberman will cost you). It’s theWarner-Lieberman global warming bill, and its supporters are as misguided and out-of-touch with the American people as the supporters of last spring’s immigration amnesty bill – and we all remember how that turned out.Our Goal: 100,000 Voices the Senate Can’t Ignore
There are two things you can do now to fight back.
First, call or email your Senator and tell him or her to vote “no” on Warner-Lieberman – “no” on raising the cost of driving to work, heating your home, and feeding your family.
Second, visit American Solutions and sign our “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” petition. The petition is simple but powerful.
It Says
We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.
In just a few short days, over 45,000 Americans have signed the pledge.
And with your help, as the Senate begins to debate Warner-Lieberman, American Solutions will present the names of 100,000 of their constituents who will hold them accountable if they fail to allow America the freedom to use its own energy resources instead of relying on foreign dictators.
Americans truly have a choice – a choice between the Pay More, Send More Money to Foreign Dictators and Cripple America Left and the Produce More, Enjoy More, Pay Less, Stengthen American Center-Right Majority.
Make your choice by visiting American Solutions.
Facts about U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Resources Closed To Development
- 38 Billion Barrels of U.S. Oil Resources Inaccessible.
- 1 Trillion Barrels of U.S. Oil Shale Illegal to Develop.
Research
- Economists dispell myths about the effects drilling in ANWR would have on gas prices, but are rejected from leading economic journals
- Majority of Floridians Favor Increased Exploration for Oil and Natural Gas Off Florida’s Coasts
- Rasmussen: 67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices
- New Poll: 81% of Americans Support Greater Use of Domestic Energy Resources
- 73% of the American people agree that with appropriate safeguards to protect the environment, we should drill for oil off America’s coasts to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
- Get the Facts: Why a Drill Here, Drill Now Approach Will Help America Pay Less at the Pump
Kudos to Congressman Green
I also want to take the time to congratulate a principled Democratic Representative who had the courage to break with his party leadership last week on the issue of domestic energy production.
Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) told CNBC, “We also need more exploration. But we really need to get more oil to the market, particularly from our own country. The best signal we can send to OPEC and anywhere else in the world is maybe not filing a lawsuit against them but actually saying ‘we are going to start producing in our own country.'”All Americans who are concerned about out-of-control prices and our vulnerability to energy blackmail by foreign dictators should appreciate and acknowledge Congressman Green’s stand.
The only question left is the one posed to Green by the CNBC anchor: “Can you convince the other wings of your party to think like you do?”
Reader Comments
√ There is more oil to be had in our own country, then there is in the middle east. Why do we continually send billions of dollars overseas to people who want to do us harm? We can be energy independent now, if only we have the fortitude to step up and be counted on these issues.
~Bob Ryan
June 3, 2008 at 1:30 p.m.
√ We should expand our resources and quit dependancy on foreign oil.
~Kenneth Ray Harris
June 4, 2008 at 8:14 a.m.
√ Another fine example of the government creating a redicules problem to get the publics blood boiling to distract us from the real problem. Supply of oil is not, and has not been the problem for over a year now. The problem is that the oil companies are shutting down refineries to limit production and drive up prices. The major news networks reported on this some time ago for a very short time until someone in power noticed, than suddenly the reports ceased… Check out the links/sites below, it’s thievery on a national scale.
~Jim Nisbet
June 4, 2008 at 9:10 a.m.
√ I’ve always maintained that OPEC would drop their prices or rather, raise their production which would bring prices down if we would just drill for oil where we already know we have it. And it would happen before we even got a hole in the ground. This just shows who the allies of the oil Barons really are. The all mouth environmentalists who can’t think past the end of their noses and the press that tells the stories that they figure will boost ratings. Too many people will, like sheep, just go ahead and believe anything they are told without researching or even giving it a thought. The notion that we are going wipe out the polar bears by punching a few holes in the ground is scarily short sighted and shallowly thought out. I know, they’ll die off if we drill at the equator. For oil that is. A few years ago, the problem child was CO. That’s carbon MONOXIDE, for you elitist intellectuals or to be blunt, educated idiots. Now, it’s CO2, something that is going to happen on this earth as long as the sun shines and it rains and organic decay takes place. Climate change is also a natural occurance and though the cycles may last longer than some people’s patience can endure, grade school science, if applied lightly, says that the pendulum will come back through the “comfort zone” and then we can all listen to the same crybabies tell us how all the whales will be dead in a block of ice. Of course, that will be all our fault too.
~Kim Williams
June 5, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.
√ This is a joke, congress doesn’t care about the price of gas, or about social security! They don’t pay for the gas they use, we do! They don’t care about SS, because they won’t use it. We need to drill oil here, and we need to fast. I believe that there’s more oil in N. Dakota, then Saudia Arabia. The evionmentalist nuts need to change their point of view.
√ This is a joke, congress doesn’t care about the price of gas, or about social security! They don’t pay for the gas they use, we do! They don’t care about SS, because they won’t use it. We need to drill oil here, and we need to fast. I believe that there’s more oil in N. Dakota, then Saudia Arabia. The evionmentalist nuts need to change their point of view.
~Brent Good
June 6, 2008 at 5:21 PM
√ It is not just the price of gas. It is the price of everything else that is causing more issues on everyones budgets.
√ It is not just the price of gas. It is the price of everything else that is causing more issues on everyones budgets.
~Geer Whitney
Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:37 PM
√ Please try to get other congressmen of your party to understand that what we need is to produce more product (domestic). In my state Tom Allen and Mike Michaud can’t seem to get it. We are paying their salary and they are letting us down. Thank you for your common sense.
√ Please try to get other congressmen of your party to understand that what we need is to produce more product (domestic). In my state Tom Allen and Mike Michaud can’t seem to get it. We are paying their salary and they are letting us down. Thank you for your common sense.
~Rich Gallop US Army Retired
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
√ Lets band together and stop this nonsense that our politicians continue to play. Send a clear message to the world oil producers, political leaders and our fellow citizens that AMERICA is sick and tired of being held hostage to Dictators. We,as Americans, have more to worry about than lining the pockets of dictators and bowing down to the ENVIRONAZIS. Lets begin drilling ASAP and start putting this country back on the prosperous path.~Tom Connolly
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM
√ What in the world are these liberal congressman and Senators thinking or not thinking. I fought for this country and I would appreciate the representives of this country to quit being so greedy and sticking dollars in their pockets.
~Jack Tucker
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM
√ drill here drill now pay less for DISEL.
~Frank Green
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM
√ Please do something about our gas prices. Please get some drilling going here.
~Sue Stovall
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:31 AM√ We, the American people(I know) want the politicians to address the current energy crisis on our behalf. DO SOMETHING RIGHT!
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:31 AM√ We, the American people(I know) want the politicians to address the current energy crisis on our behalf. DO SOMETHING RIGHT!
~Chuck Deluca
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:15 AM√ If elected official FOUGHT for their constituant. . . . for the desires and ideals of “the majority”. . . and if the elected properly informed voters, , , , that the most valuable “alternative fuel” we have are our own “reserves”. . . we diligence and resolve. . . . the facts would sway even the dumbest of the “dumbed down” voters to understand. . . and the groundswell of the “general Public”. . . . . would hand the “GREEDY ENVIRONMENTALIST” their own verbal feces – on a silver platter ! ! !
~Stephen Gwaltney
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:52 PM
√ We need to find a short term solution, which involves using the US natural resources. But more important, we need a long term solution, and what are we doing towards the long term solution? Nothing!
√ drill hear, drill now in the USA!!
√ Please allow drilling and usage of oil anywhere we already have capped wells and also in Alaska.
√ I agree wholeheartedly!!! With the caveat that the U.S. have a specified date for alternate energy sources — like we did in the 60s for putting a man on the moon.
√ We need to find a short term solution, which involves using the US natural resources. But more important, we need a long term solution, and what are we doing towards the long term solution? Nothing!
~Angier Jackson
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:43 AM
√ drill hear, drill now in the USA!!
~Dawn Amato
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM
√ Please allow drilling and usage of oil anywhere we already have capped wells and also in Alaska.
~Dave Nelson
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:57 PM
√ If it were as simple as it sounds, wouldnt that be nice. Drill a hole in the ground in wyoming and problem solved. Everybody wants the quick fix, nobody wants to feel pain. We created this monster now we must figure out how to defeat it. We all wanted big heavy duty high horsepower SUV’s and we did not think of the consequences cause it felt good at the time. Its really expensive to dig holes in the ground and pull oil out not to mention the difficulty in doing it. Everybody here sounds like a friggin oil engineer and expert. If it is so easy to do, and since it is so profitable to do it dont you think the oil companies would lobby the american congress and basically buy their way into American produced oil. We do it over there for a reason, its easier and cheaper even at 137 dollars a barrel. Where the heck are we going to come up with the capital to build the infrastructrue that would have to exist to become independant. Has anyone seen a satellite image of what the infrastructure of these fields looks like? Where are we going to get the capital to explore in our country? Our banks are now controlled by Arab and Chinese Sovereign wealth funds, you think they are going to allow investment to compete with themselves. I dont think so. What is done is done and we cant undue it. The housing market fiasco weakened our banking system just enough to allow foreign interest to potentially control our re-distribution of capital. If our housing mrket weakens further that will mean more weakness of our banking system and more inflows of foreign money to further control our banks. See the viscious cycle. Our strategy as Americans needs to be the following:
1)Pull out of Iraq and save a few trillion more dollars to potentially re-invest in our infrastructure, we just cannot afford to be there no matter how noble the mission of making people who hate us potentially only hate us less
2)Block foreign investment into our Banking system of more than 20%, or some other non controlling number
3)Consume less petroleum period, forei
~Jason Hirsch
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:25 PM
√ 38 billion barrels of oil is 1% of total world supply. At current rates of consumption, we will consume this much oil in about 5 years. The cost of extraction of the 38 billion barrels is not disclosed in this report. Based upon the small fraction of the world oil supply, developing this domestic oil supply will not affect prices, which are set globally not domestically (oil is a WORLD commodity market). Nor will this lead to energy independence for more than 5 years. Allowing this supply to be developed does not mean that it WILL be developed, since if the free market is determining the development, if the cost of extraction does not allow sufficient profits at current prices, no company will develop the oil resource. Our government should be providing incentives for energy conservation and alternative energy sources, particularly renewables, rather than chasing an illusion of oil independence.
~Bill Snow
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:00 AM√ Why do we always wait for crisis to act? We are a nation of great inventors/inivator and minds for success lets use our own resorces to get us out of this mess and stop fooling around! Do it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Linda Stumberg
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM√ having spent the last 6 mths in the US we couldnt believe the daily rise in gas prices, now weve arrived back in the UK to find gas is 6 GBP per gallon and food prices etc out of the roof, to be expected in the UK , but very frightening to see it happening so quickly over there , im afraid for my kids who live there , something must be done and soon
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM√ having spent the last 6 mths in the US we couldnt believe the daily rise in gas prices, now weve arrived back in the UK to find gas is 6 GBP per gallon and food prices etc out of the roof, to be expected in the UK , but very frightening to see it happening so quickly over there , im afraid for my kids who live there , something must be done and soon
~Judy Wharton
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM
√ SUPPLY AND DEMAND.. WHAT’S THE BIG MYSTERY..
~David Sexton
Jun 12, 2008 at 3:26 PM√ We can be energy independent. WE can drill our own oil in this coungtry and invest in alterantive fuel. Stop sending our dollars and freedom to the mideast
~Cebbie Kerr
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM
√ I HONESTLY FEEL THAT WE THEPEOPLE ARE THE ONES SUFFERING. NO REASON WHY WE CAN’T DRILL FOR OUR OWN OIL WHEN WE KNOW ITS OUT THERE. WE DO GOOD FOR OTHER COUNTRIES AND SEEM TO OWE COUNTRIES ALOT, LETS DO FOR OURSELVES FOR A CHANGE! NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE TO GET THE OIL PRICES DOWN BUT ALSO FOOD PRICES ARE GOING UP. PEOPLE CAN NOT AFFORD TO GO ANYWHERE WITH THE PRICE OF GAS. GET THE OIL FROM OWN OWN COUNTRY~Virginia DeMichele
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:15 PM
√ I HONESTLY FEEL THAT WE THEPEOPLE ARE THE ONES SUFFERING. NO REASON WHY WE CAN’T DRILL FOR OUR OWN OIL WHEN WE KNOW ITS OUT THERE. WE DO GOOD FOR OTHER COUNTRIES AND SEEM TO OWE COUNTRIES ALOT, LETS DO FOR OURSELVES FOR A CHANGE! NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE TO GET THE OIL PRICES DOWN BUT ALSO FOOD PRICES ARE GOING UP. PEOPLE CAN NOT AFFORD TO GO ANYWHERE WITH THE PRICE OF GAS. GET THE OIL FROM OWN OWN COUNTRY~Virginia DeMichele
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:15 PM
√ Easier said than done, but it’s going to take time. OPEC is going to keep raising the price, while the exploration is taking place, and the minute we actually pull the oil out, they’ll dump a boatload of it. The government loves it though, no matter what the price is they take their cut. It’s sad how the gov’t makes more money off the oil with taxes, corp taxes than the oil comapnies (actually the shareholders, 401k plans, pension plans, mutual funds, etc.) Damned if we do, damned if we don’t…
~Carlos Perez
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:53 AM
√ I agree wholeheartedly!!! With the caveat that the U.S. have a specified date for alternate energy sources — like we did in the 60s for putting a man on the moon.
~Tulah Vatalro
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM√ Because Congress has not developed a comprehensive energy program, we have had our economy adversely affectd. We must not only utilize our own oil, natural gas and shale oil resources, we should also build additional nuclear power facilities which would thereby lessen our requirements for oil. Additionally, additional refining capacity needs to be developed. If an accelerated program were initiated now, the effects would be realized in as little ass two years.~Frankie Donald
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM√ Because Congress has not developed a comprehensive energy program, we have had our economy adversely affectd. We must not only utilize our own oil, natural gas and shale oil resources, we should also build additional nuclear power facilities which would thereby lessen our requirements for oil. Additionally, additional refining capacity needs to be developed. If an accelerated program were initiated now, the effects would be realized in as little ass two years.~Frankie Donald
Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:05 AM
√ I think alternative energy is the only way to go. Have you heard of Peak Oil? The earth will only give us what we are pumping out of the ground now no matter how many holes we put in it due to a little thing thing called gravity.~Kimberly Lahar
Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM
√ LETS DRILL NOW
~Donnie Cherry
Tue, July 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM
√ Lets drill here and now….start yesterday…. We need to stop this nonsense and inform “those” that are not “already” koolaid drinking, tin foil hat wearing, man made global warming, “slobering treetards”. Has any of those kooks ever herd of the SUN?????!!!!!…maybe??? Oh and for the record plants need co2….this “al gore fiction” is nothing but a way to control the sheep of the earth..yasar arafish sucker fish… got the bumbbell peace prize….think about it ….you just have to hate the USA ….to get that worthless award …..Can I interest anyone in any carbon offsets….maybe a bridge or two in New York city????? ….contact me as they are all for sale ..got some air for sale also …thats on Ebay …..and come with a free box of natures pudding….. which represents the global warming hoax…. that is all..
~Jacques Bautts
Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM