Yesterday I filled up with regular unleaded at $3.78 a gallon… the cheapest I had seen (if you can call that cheap) in a while. I found out a few miles away, another service station actually had it for $3.69. Wish I had gone there.
What caused the drop in crude futures and thus the price of gas at the pump? Certainly President Bush’s repeal of an executive order banning drilling off the coastal shelf had something to do with it. Now imagine if Congress actually acted and allowed drilling to start. How much more could oil (and gas) prices fall?
Its funny to me that Democrats are always whining about how much the rest of the world likes us and if we are being fair to them… yet they don’t see the hypocrisy in their opposition of drilling here for oil. To take their argument… how fair is it to the rest of the world to take their oil when we can produce our own? If they think its so bad for the environment (its not) then how fair is it to destroy the environment in other countries in order to (falsely) protect the environment at home?
That’s not my argument though. My argument is why continue to put money in the pockets of other countries, some of which have evil leaders who use the profits for evil purposes, when we can keep the money here? Why continue to prop up oil prices unnecessarily, which has allowed dictators like Hugo Chavez to make threats, the Iranians to develop nukes and the resurgence of a Russian Empire? At a time when our economy is struggling, why not kill two birds (or three)? We can lower the price at the pump, decrease the income of some very bad people, AND CREATE AMERICAN JOBS if we start drilling at home.
Just because you are starting to see a decline in gas prices from a few weeks ago… DON’T STOP THE FIGHT. Remember how bad it was when gas prices broke the $3 barrier? Now we’ve seen it break $4. We can’t be satisfied at $3.50 or even $3 as its still much higher than it needs to be. Any price is too high as long as we aren’t using what’s available to us now.
We must double our efforts and keep the pressure on congress. Our economy and our national security are both at stake. There is no excuse. Don’t let this fight leave our consciousness because prices are starting to fall. They won’t fall enough and we won’t lesson our dependence on foreign oil until we act.
Drill Here. Drill Now. There is no other choice.
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