Make no mistkae about it, John McCain wants to drill. And now, even Obama is open to "compromise" on this issue, despite the ecological pitfalls. Americans must make a critical decision, save a few extra gas dollars now, or face ...
We need it. We buy it even when we can’t afford it. And, we even went to war over it.
Oil.
As the sparring presidential candidates collide intellectually over the issue of resuming domestic offshore drilling in the coastal states, we as Americans are faced with truly dire options. Of course, the price of gas, now heading near $5 per gallon, is a factor of paramount proportions. The average citizen just can’t afford to meet these skyrocketing prices, especially at a time when the economy has taken a severe downturn of its own.
A recent Rasmussen Reports survey concluded that 67 percent of voters believe drilling should be allowed off the coasts of California, Florida and other states. It went on to report that nearly all voters are worried about rising gas and energy prices, with 79 percent being "very concerned" and another 16 percent being "somewhat" perplexed.
Barack Obama has decided to give in just a bit to the idea of opening up our coasts to such activity, while stressing his plans to continue the search for safer, alternative energy production strategies. And, of course, John McCain feverishly supports the idea of extracting the nearly 18 billion barrels of crude oil that lie beneath our coastal waters.
"...We have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done," Obama recently said.
Yet there remains fierce resistance to the notion of such drilling in this country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been steadfast in ruling against any vote on the practice, even as Democratic support for the idea seems to be rapidly expanding.
We’re all aware of the gaping taxes and ecological pitfalls oil production and distribution may ultimately have on our environment. We also know how much less cheddar we carry in our wallets these days. It’s our call.
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