The fact is that the Bush Administration is sitting on 700 million barrels of oil, purchased with our tax dollars, in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That oil was purchased for an emergency, and with gas at $4 a gallon, it is an emergency for America’s families, for America’s business, and for our country.

The first President Bush released oil from the SPR. President Clinton released oil from the SPR. This President Bush released oil from the SPR. We want him to do it again. In 1991, the release of oil from the reserve caused an immediate reduction of oil prices of $8 per barrel.

Americans convinced the Bush Administration to not keep filling the SPR a number of weeks ago. We are calling upon them now to free our oil, call the White House, e-mail the White House so that we can increase the supply to reduce the price at the pump. The President’s number is (202) 456-1414, and his e-mail is comments@WhiteHouse.gov.

Who is she kidding?

Nancy Pelosi blocks onshore drilling.
Nancy Pelosi blocks offshore drilling.
Nancy Pelosi blocks new “leases” for drilling on land that she doesn’t own.
Nancy Pelosi blocks scheduling for permitting new oil refineries.
Nancy Pelosi blocks construction of new refineries.

Instead, she wants to tap the SPR, something that is supposed to be for national emergencies, not 4 dollar a gallon gas.

Nancy Pelosi, and most of the rest of the dim-bulbed Democrats for that matter, are telling us that billions, if not trillions, of barrels of untapped oil will have no affect on the market, but 700 million barrels will.

The woman is either incredibly obtuse or incredibly calculating. One thing is certain, and that is the latch-key Democrats who run around calling everybody else “stupid” truly own that label.

On the plus side, Nancy Pelosi commits to “achieving energy independence within 10 years”, whatever the hell that is supposed to mean considering that she blocks all efforts at energy independence.

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There you go Meathead, now crawl back into your hole.

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As for the oil, the Democrats honestly do not want good things. They don’t want ANYTHING good for this country. If they can make people miserable, they can make more people depending on them — giving them more power. They want gas prices to rise in the short term so they can win elections. They want them to rise in the long term so people won’t have the freedom to move about in their cars — again, giving more power to Democrats.

With this group, it’s more than “follow the money,” it’s “follow the power.”

President Bush has lifted an executive order banning the drilling for oil off our coasts. Better late than never. It should have been done 10 years ago (during Clinton’s watch, but it wasn’t).

It is realy something that liberal politicians have provided road blocks

Drilling in proven oil reserves will not immediately provide more oil. Officials say it will take about 10 years to get the new oil to the market. But here is a fact: Ten years from now we will still have an oil shortage if we again fail to begin solving the problem!

Congress still has a ban on offshore drilling and must lift that ASAP.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) want to keep us at the mercy of foreign oil for another 10 years. They are more concerned with playing politics than your paying $4 a gallon for gasoline!

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In her usual demure style, Ann Coulter comes out blazing today against Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in response to their energy plan.

Writes Coulter: “Announcing the Democrats’ bold new ‘plan’ on energy last week, Pelosi said breaking into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ‘is one alternative.’ That’s not an energy plan. It’s using what we already have – much like ‘conservation,’ which is also part of the Democrats’ plan.

“Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It’s as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: ‘Just eat a little less every day.’ Great! We’ll die a little more slowly. That’s not what we call a ‘plan.’ We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death.”

Says Coulter of the Democrats: “They don’t want drilling. They don’t want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die.”

Read Coulter’s entire column now at WorldNetDaily.com:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69786

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I would normally think of this as a mistake. He made a mistake which people do. But this is Meathead so he is a liar. He lied about what the President lifted. He, according to his definition, is a habitual liar.

BTW, OPEC says:
There is no standard answer to this question, but as a rule of thumb it can take 3-10 years from the decision to explore, through to discovery, testing, development and the delivery of oil from a new field.

I have read that we know where some reserves are already (the exploration was done in the past). If the water is not very deep it will be sooner, if it is deeper it will be longer.

We can have oil by 5 years which certainly fits in 2 to 5. A lot will depend on the states and how far out they say we must drill.

Next that same report you link also lists that the OCS has more oil than the ANWR which the Dems are also seeking to block any exploration and drilling from taking place. Ironic isn’t it?

Every time you try to refute you only dig a deeper hole.

I stand corrected. However, Big Dog’s claim that he was not referring to ANWR remains a crock. Note that he does not bother to cite any factual backing for his “2 to 5 years” claim.
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They were doing little more than sucking one another’s d**ks (pardon the crude analogy but I can’t describe it any other way) while the media present didn’t bother to ask them any difficult questions challenging their position and ideas.

I’d agree that releasing oil from the Strategic Reserve would have an impact of reducing the price a little, but without increasing the long term supply the impact it will have will only last until we bleed it dry. Then we’ll be in a worse quandary than we are in now. Oil prices would soar as our (meaning American’s daily usage) demand remains constant or increases and our National demand increases as we buy oil to refill our Strategic Reserve. Who knows what the demand from the rest of the world will look like?

Next their plan of replacing the “light sweet” crude we use with cheaper “heavy sour” crude also has issues that are also directly related to liberal and environmentalists, refining. Heavy crude takes more refining and produces less gasoline than light crude oil. So in effect they will cut the amount of fuel our strategic reserve can provide in a future emergency. “Sweet” crude oil contains less sulfur and has fewer environmental problems than the cheaper “sour” crude which requires more refining to meet today’s sulfur reduction standards.

All they did was repeat themselves over and over and politicize the whole ordeal. They repeated Gramm’s (emphasis on his association with McCain) “whiner” statement numerous times, then repeated how releasing 500k to 1 million barrels form the reserve would help Americans and solve this whole problem at the pump.

There was no though for the future, no mention of increasing future supplies by opening drilling in other areas. They did mention the current land set aside for exploration and drilling, however neglected to mention that an independent study showed that those areas have little value for oil and natural gas extraction.

We need Congressional term limits badly, and Congress needs to be changed, in fact we need a way to fire our elected officials before their term expires even if it requires a 80% majority vote.