Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Baloney. Are you telling me groups like Greenpeace and the Seirra club are rightwing organizations? Is it the right who opposes more drilling. Is it they who oppose building new refineries and nuclear plants.Lets have a little intellectual honesty here shall we.
Ok, I'll give you some brutal honesty. This seems to have gone so far over your head that it is comical. You still don't get it. Refineries aren't the issue (We can and do add capacity as we need it. The lack of a big gap between refined products and oil refutes the refinery bottleneck theory.) Opposing drilling isn't it either, drilling our way out doesn't stand up to scrutiny. You are busy chasing wild geese rather than looking at the problem with intellectual honesty. The easy to extract (and refine) oil is being depleted faster than it can be replaced, meanwhile global demand has accelerated.

Man speaking of hypocracy. Hows that? You mean weve been using your policy for a longtime. It has led to the higher prices and thats the point. Come gentlemen at least admit its hypocrital of the left to complain that Bush has caused oil prices to rise when one, they want higher prices and two they are the cause of it and three they continue to limit supply through legislation.
Considering the Republicans have had control for several years and have set the "energy policy" without input from the other side who they clearly snubbed, we'll just label this theory: MYTH BUSTED. Myopia, that's the problem. Consumers of all political affiliations think they gave some Constitutional guarrantee of cheap gas, somewhere in the Bill or Rights perhaps. Short sighted thinking has been the norm and political leadership plays to that. Those presently in charge are doing a great deal to illustrate the evils of short term thinking. Look at oil, look at Iraq, look at the national debt, look at the trade deficit, look at health care costs.

By the way, it is spelled "hypocrisy."