More Bush Oil Lies

June 18, 2008

Today, Bush, an oilman from way back, asked Congress to clear away laws and policies impeding off shore drilling and went on to lay the blame for the lack of drilling and high gas prices on the Democrats. He forgets that his father banned the off shore drilling in 1990 and he (Dubya) did nothing about high energy prices or oil drilling since 2001.

He asked: "How high do gas prices have to rise before the Democratic Congress will do something about it?"

Well, why didn’t Bush and company “do something about it” in 2001 through 2006? They knew about the problem and ignored it. During that time, the Republican Party and the White House were in total and absolute control of the government and could have easily lifted the ban on off shore drilling, opened up ANWR and removed any impediments to building refineries or nuclear power plants. They didn’t. They failed America again.

Bush’s announcement is just another political ploy to help McCain and the Republican party win this Fall by blaming others. His energy proposals will mainly help oil companies and solve nothing in the short term for Americans. Further, if more oil production were to happen instantly, it would not solve anything but delay the inevitable. There is and never will be enough oil at a low price to keep our economy functioning like we want.

As a practical first step, Bush should ask the "big oil companies" to stop exporting American oil. Though the amount is only about 350 million barrels a year it would would help and be available immediately. Now THAT would help Americans now.