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The Left vs. The Right vs. Oil Prices

June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Power Line via The Rottweiler:

For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don’t seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that’s because most people don’t realize [...]

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Tags: Energy · Government · Technology · The Left · The Right · The US

Random Thoughts On Gasoline Prices

June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

ANWR is larger than the combined areas of five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) and drilling along its coastal plain would be confined to a space one-sixth the size of Washington’s Dulles Airport. Why aren’t we already drilling there?
39 Democrat Senators, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republican Senators, including John McCain, [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Energy · Government · The US