'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less' Bumper Stickers

[TCCastlewood]

This is interesting given Obamas recent announcement that America is now energy efficient..

[gregjalbert]

Oil addicts are ruinous to the world. CarFree . com --- EcoCityBuilders . org --- FreePublicTransit . org --- Puppets of the automobile/oil/asphalt/sprawl/­construction industries, free yourselves. Automobile air pollution, automobile noise pollution, day after day after day. The Earth is going through the highest rate of species extinction in 65 million years due to human damage to ecosystems. Wake up! End the ruin of Earth's ecosystems by human-centric greed. Time and beauty are running out.

[ScottyHazTheSkinny]

@gregjalbert Drilling oil isn't going to ruin anything. Even if it runs out it isn't going to hurt the Ecosystem. It will replenish itself. No matter what we do the ecosystem is going to be damaged, Just like with BP. I say we take a smarter approach to oil drilling. I think Oil Companies and Environmentalists in America could work side by side to create a clean way of drilling for oil. We could put the fate of the Ecosystem in our own hands and make sure we do a better job then the others.

[gonadcancervictim]

so last time was global warming mccain and now we have some jackass that sat on a couch with pelosi and talked about how global warming is bad

How come the repubs keep coming up with these global warming is real pieces of garbage that want to tax us into never competing with the east

[rucb1alum]

How's that drilly-spilly thing workin' out for ya?

[nietzschealive]

I don't here them saying drill baby drill today, we can't drill r way out of Peak Oil and I'm pritty sure people like these to idiots have not taken enough science class to understand what Peak Oil is, if any of you do please prove me wrong

[ponybastard999]

A lame duck is an elected official who loses political power or is no longer responsive to the electorate as a result of

losing an election

[AgnesBojaxhiu2000]

the rushie neocons are sooo much like killers charlie manson and jefferie dahmer that i confuse the three ...

the rushies insist that the motion for drilling offshore was what caused the price of oil to drop ... not the chinese raising their government subsidized price of gasoline by 18% ... because they are trying to get you to eat your increased costs or steal your job ... diabolical .. the neocons spend $400M+ for show biz talk shows to dupe the dopes . but they had to knock off russert

[detroittigsbaby]

Okay...your solution? Let's here it.

[mandy26lez]

you know what people have cut their gas use and nothing has changed fucking drill it may or may not work but at least we make an effort instead of standing on the sidelines which is what congress has done i mean newt has nothing to gain here he isnt an oil man or a politician now he is an american citizen sign the petition get the ball rolling quit pointing fingers and get a job done

[plainjane6476]

Regarding the Bakken shale- What is the expected return on investment and what is the expected flow rate? This shale could very well turn out to be like Ethanol with a very low rate of net return. Will we delete the potable water in that section of the country? These are questions we must answer before we dive head first into the oil shale.

[plainjane6476]

I see comments about ANWR. The Alaskan pipeline has a capacity of 2mil/bpd. Prudhoe Bay is in terminal decline and currently produces 1.3mil/bpd. Even if we drill ANWR and turn the valves all the way up, that will only add 700,000/bpd. The US currently uses about 20mil/bpd.

[assoonas1]

If we add any bpd at least the money is not going to other countries and maybe some jobs might be created out of it

[plainjane6476]

I don't disagree and I'm not opposed to drilling here, drilling now. The point I'm trying to make is that it is not the solution they portray it as. It won't lower gas prices now, next month, next year, 5 years from now.

[plainjane6476]

Oil production has been on a plateau since about 2005. Worldwide demand has increased. The result is $4.50 gas. Yea, we should probably drill here to reduce imports, but this will NOT lower the price. Oil is traded in an international market.

[Edwardsjm]

oil/money is the root of all evil

if the white house had not killed the electric car back in the late 90's we wouldn't have been in this mess

but they knew what they were doing, its all orchestrated folks, a big charade

the car manufacturers need to, at the very least, increase the CAFE standards NOW!!

drilling for oil off our coasts will net us another few years of oil and that's about it

what an abomination of an administration

what a joke of a news station

watchdogs turned to lapdogs

[Preacherboy2002]

late '90s was the Clinton administration

[danielopusone]

Vote Yes to "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less"

Obama Says NO = High gas prices

Vote yes for our contry and Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.

Let liberals congregate in California where after outlawing cars they can hunt and gather in loin cloths... ride bicycles to work... and use old car chassis for earth-friendly huts.

Hold your nose and vote for McCain... the alternative is higher prices and more taxes.

Vote Paul Ryan! the "Roadmap for America" will get us to where we need to go

[oaklynlen]

I AM A LIBERAL! having said that,if you take my suggestions seriously, you'll be cutting consumption, therefore prices. and it would scare the bejeebers out of both the oil companies and the arabs who depend on your oil addiction!

[spockistheman]

Lets pay $7 a gallon so all the liberal scum will be happy. Don't worry about drilling our own oil, lets pay the Arabs whatever they want. All the idiots that are keeping us from drilling our own oil should be fired from their jobs and jailed. This is a national outrage.

[frellthat]

Drill here, drill now, pretend this proposal is more than just a gimmick for shoveling money into the oil corporations who fund John McCain's campaign.

[Edwardsjm]

exactly

anything out of Newt's mouth is insidious and it's garbage

its easy to determine the real news these days

take everything these crooks say, and the opposite will be true!

increase the CAFE standards ASAP and bring back the electric car

pretty simple, but the oil conglomerates don't want to hear ANY of this...

[oldcat4]

shure could use some off thouse bumper stickers in eldred PA. the tree huggers are giving hell everyday//////trying to drill joe connolly eldred PA 16731

[oaklynlen]

4. get the govt to persuade detroit to INCREASE GAS MILEAGE in new cars beginning in 2010. and 5. BRING BACK THE 55 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT.

[spockistheman]

What does that fix? We still end up buying our oil from the arabs. Obviously you are a liberal with your thinking. You think your bandaid fixes are the answer. We need to drill here and now, even if its in your front yard.

[oaklynlen]

there are 5 ways that we cut oil prices. 1. CARPOOL. if 5 folks ride in a car that usually is driven by 1, you will have 4 less cars on our highways. 2. get the govt to spend money on MASS TRANSIT. if you make mass transit affordable, comfortable and attractive, many people might get out of their cars.3. get the govt. to EXPAND AMTRAKto 48 states and call it the national rail system.

[mykol13v]

Californians wont drill. They drive the most cars, refuse to build more refineries, have the highest gas prices, use the most gas, lowest amount of mass transportation, won't build nuclear plants, highest pollution control standards and compain the loudest. Make me King and these people will be riding horses until they drill off their coast.

[razorx71]

The government collects almost DOUBLE on a gallon of gas than the oil companies make. Why would they fix anything? This is all misinformation.

[razorx71]

THE PRICE OF GAS HAS NOT GONE UP. The value of the dollar has just gone down! in 1947 a gallon of gasoline cost about 25 cents. A 1947 quarter contained 1/4 ounce of silver which is worth.. guess what! over $4.50. Which means, THE VALUE OF GAS HAS GONE DOWN. Wakeup people these are shell games.

[dbrass16]

The value of the dollar has definitely gone down, but the demand for oil has grown exponentially while supplies have changed little. Supply and demand causes oil to cost more.

[lrbball1880]

Check the WSJ 6/19. Oil profit; 8.5%; microsoft; 14%; intel; 17%.  Dumb people can't read.

[dlethe]

That is what a corporation is supposed to do .. increase wealth for stockholders.

[Notfreeloader]

Hussein obama moron what ur solution waiting untill all nigger cut my throat to steal my gas??!!

if u care about clean why u let all illegal put dumbster in border

[rmw5991]

next lets start a petition to keep computer companies from having such high prices!! Lets do it!!

hey did you even realize you replied to me using either a microsoft computer or an apple computer?

Oh and i just replied to you using a mac. I guess that means that i helped become part of the high computer price problem by buying a mac and that i need nothing other to do in order to change the problem than to educate myself...

[daudal]

This sudden urgency to lift the moritorium on offshore drilling is just political grandstanding.

The problem is not lack of supply. Oil companies have lots of leases within the US they are not developing. They can increase oil production within the US today if they want to. The moritorioum is not holding prices up.

And remember we have not nationalized our oil production, so any oil pumped out of US territory is the property of Big Oil. Why would they sell it to you at a discount?

[jarvis1211]

Actually the moratorium is in the way, right now oil companies have leases all over the world. They are developing the easiest ones that they can get the quickest easiest returns on. They aren't allowed to drill in some of the new huge discoveries of the US.

Nationalizing your oil would be the biggest disaster you could ever imagine. You think 5 dollars for a gallon of gas is bad, wait until you go to the pump and they don't have any gas. Flood the market with oil and prices will drop..

[pokerlegend2b]

Why must it be that if we drill for oil here we can not explore alternate fuels? They are not mutually exclusive. We can use oil until a reasonable alternative comes along. (Coal gasification sounds good to me)

[JamesR1969]

You know what? No. This is a temporary, easy way out, that doesn't look to the future at all. American auto makers and other oil using corps. had the opportunity over a decade ago to embrace alternative fuel sources & begin the process of weaning this country off petroleum. But greed trumped foresight. Well, not this time. We are paying the price. It's a bitter pill, but the answer this time is not MORE oil. It's less. Tough love, but this will fast track alternative fuel development even more.

[JamesR1969]

Why is the Republican Party -the party that is supposedly in favor of "personal responsibility"- have no problem forgiving corporate America for the most egregious acts of irresponsibility? These companies have dragged their feet, kicking and screaming into the 21st century, while Republicans turned a blind eye. You can't have it both ways. This is why your party is losing seats in congress. People are realizing you are the party of yesterday and now. Not tomorrow and beyond.

[greybear73]

Let's not forget that your "Party of Tomorrow and Beyond" has held power over Congress for a half year and hasn't done DIDDLY SQUAT for the American Citizen!

[JamesR1969]

We are the most technologically advanced country on earth with some of the brightest & best minds around. We put people on the moon 40 years ago! But instead of similarly trying to tackle the issue of ending our fossil fuel addiction, we have blown billions and billions on war and waste. So now, you guys want to use a 20th century technique (drill for oil!) to answer a decidedly 21st century problem? No way. Your short term solution is just more destructive 20th century Republicanism. No more.

[lctrout]

I have the ultimate solution. Render Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich and his 4 wives down into oil. That should lower the price significantly. Now who is on board with that?!

[daudal]

Big Oil corporations have no interest in lowering the price of gas. They lease these fields for a fraction of their value, enjoy tax breaks and charge whatever the market will pay.

This is not blaming the corporations. They exist to maximize profits and make money for the stockholders.

We could have promoted alternatives to oil and CAFE standards more. But policy lately has been crafted by and for big corporations for years.

Big oil has us over the barrel.

[japtoon33]

"Big Oil" is us. We are the stockholders. If you own an IRA or mutual funds then you probably have a share in "Big Oil". If you want to punish them stop driving. Here's an alternative: ride a bike.

What we need is to DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW!!

[daudal]

While stockholders do get a share of Big Oil's profits, I wuld disagree thet Big Oil is us. Corporations are not democratic institutions. "We" are supposed to be represented by our government.

To get ourselves out of this mess we ought to raise the leas rates for any new oil leases, and use the revenue to promote alternatives to oil.

Trust me. Increased drilling will not bring the price of oil down.

[Kteln]

The government is the largest corporation in the U.S. Of all the 'evil profits' that the 'Evil Big Oil' makes, 85% or more of that is taxed and sent straight to the government. "Big Oil" pays more taxes than 95% of the U.S. population combined. A new oil refinery hasn't been built in the U.S. for over 35 YEARS. Why? Because the U.S. already has the #1 highest corporate tax rate IN THE WORLD. Oil companies don't make profits = no oil production. No oil production = higher gas prices.

[daudal]

WOW! You need to do some reading. You are totally misinformed! Oil company profits are astonomical and the tax rates corporations pay are so far below what individuals pay, when you factor in deductions, it's obscene.

Now I don't say profits are evil, but corprations need to be regulated or we lose our midde class.

What's goin on now with the price of oil is similar to energy prices when Enron was pulling off their big scam. You are getting shafted, not Exxon.

[951pete]

THE MIDDLE CLASS WORKS AT THESE 'CORPORATIONS'. CHeck your parents retirement funds...they probably have oil stocks in them. So be careful what you wish for. And by the way ...corporations PAY BILLIONS in taxes..they more breaks they get ..the better. Because those breaks end up in your wallet !!! NOT THE GOVERNMENTS. EXXON gives you gas for your money...the government just takes your money.

[robo22222]

"Trust me. Increased drilling will not bring the price of oil down."

So you're saying that increasing the supply while the demand stays the same will not result in lower prices? You might as well be saying that the supply and demand model is not true.

[rmw5991]

it will definitely lower the prices but one thing is that the oil companies control the pricing and theyve been getting this much money thus far so they can still have higher prices to make ridiculous profits.

now increase in supply and same demand definitely lowers prices. but whos to say that the oil prices are all of a sudden going to be fair and give us an honest price?

[Notfreeloader]

so what ur solution let arab rip off u..liberal just talk talk but no brain

[flotatiate]

@japtoon33

happy yet?

you got what you wanted....

[Kteln]

"Evil Big Oil" doesn't control the price of gas. If they lowered their prices, they would all go out of business within years. They don't enjoy tax breaks - they pay more taxes and in higher percentage than anybody else.

"Evil Profits" are what drives America forward. From profits come investments, innovation, growth, economic progress, and eventually a better, cheaper, more abundant product.

[bjnealeigh]

Why do we pay double for our gas when we have plenty within our reach? We would not need these Arab countries. Who let them build Mosques in our country, anyway?  That was a nutty stroke of genius!!! That's why I call Democrats--dummycrats. None of them have any education==yet they call Republicans dumb. Then they tell us we have all the money. Wait, I thought we were dumb. Again, dummycrats have no common sense.

[dougnucci]

I like your term calling Dems. Dummycrats.

They are the same people that claim we are polluting our land wins fossil fuels so we can't drill here.

I don't know about you but if we are polluting our air I would prefer we did it with our own oil not some from another country. And who are the geniuses that allowed China to drill off the coast of Florida?

How come the will of the few always seem to prevail?

[BrianJConsidine]

The simple fact is that the U.S. sits upon an estimated 2 billion barrels of oil. That is more oil than all the oil produced since the petroleum age began. But we need to get it, refine it and make it available. The next step in this campaign should be to tell the Congree and Senate we will not vote for anyone who stands opposed to our energy independence; and, that we want to a national referendum voted on my Americans to do just that. Relying upon foriegn oil is a great national security risk!

[dadgramps]

The Democratic party Platform wants to control craddle to Grave ABORTION / DEATH TAX = Both evil and unfair

[jwoodswce]

We don't need a petition. We need actual legislation to reverse Congressional interference in the economy.

Congress needs to stop looking at every issue and think that it is a good place for it to impose its will upon citizens through force.

We need a separation of state and economics as much and for the same reasons that we need a separation of church and state.

[hendizy]

yep

[nickd4818]

Paul Ryan has a very bright future ahead of him