64% Of Americans Support Off-Shore Drilling

• August 12, 2008

Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) support going ahead with offshore oil drilling, an issue that John McCain seized on in early June as a way to help lower gas prices and has since forced Barack Obama to at least partially agree with. . . .
Forty-two percent (42%) said that offshore oil drilling would have the biggest impact in terms of reducing the price of oil — a far higher percentage than believe that for several other options now being floated by the two major presidential candidates. . . .
Only 20% of Americans now oppose offshore drilling, which Obama initially opposed but is now willing to consider in conjunction with development of alternative energy sources. . . .
Ninety percent (90%) of likely McCain voters support offshore drilling along with 37% of potential Obama voters.

Opposing the expansion of domestic oil exploration is now, officially, a political loser for Democrats.
The only question remaining is how they’re going to manage a 180 on this issue without looking like a bunch of wrong-headed opportunist panderers.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left

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Maybe they can avoid looking like “wrong-headed opportunist panderers” by letting people know how long it will take for this new offshore drilling to have impact on the price at the pump.

or

maybe the fact that McCain flip flopped on this issue also?…

it’s “flip-flopping” when it is the otherside. It’s ‘changing your mind” when it is your own side.

either way, this is not a comprehensive NRG plan in any way shape or form. It is just rhetoric.
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imagine – Maybe they can avoid looking like “wrong-headed opportunist panderers” by letting people know how long it will take for this new offshore drilling to have impact on the price at the pump.

That presupposes that it is all about ensuring price.

It’s not.

It’s all about ensuring supply.

jobe – The we have right now is infrastructure. We don’t have the capacity to take in all of the crude oil and natural gas that’s being produced. There’s plenty of natural gas and oil available for consumption right now.

This nation needs to build pipelines, build refineries, and drill.

Let’s dispense with the lies and just tell the truth. Geeeeezzzzzz people. How much money is enough?

What are you going on about here?

watashiwa – The only thing the oil companies want to do is make it worth their while to do more by raising the cost of crude. This past fiasco of high gas prices…

For close to 70 percent of Americans who are invested in the market, much of that in the form of diversified holdings in such recognizable forms as 401(k)s, the “high prices” are anything but a “fiasco”.

…has shown where the oil companies really stand. They want money.

Naturally. That is their purpose: to provide a product at a profit.

The American people are supremely ignorant to believe all the media crap. We are so apathetic.

What are you going on about here? Why are you pathetic?
ollie-B

Jobe is right. We have been off-shore drilling for years. The only thing the oil companies want to do is make it worth their while to do more by raising the cost of crude. This past fiasco of high gas prices has shown where the oil companies really stand. They want money. The American people are supremely ignorant to believe all the media crap. We are so apathetic.
jobe

Oh, bears ass! I’ve worked in the petroleum industry for 32 years. The we have right now is infrastructure. We don’t have the capacity to take in all of the crude oil and natural gas that’s being produced. There’s plenty of natural gas and oil available for consumption right now. Let’s dispense with the lies and just tell the truth. Geeeeezzzzzz people. How much money is enough?

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