Comments on: ‘Drill Here, Drill Now’ Helped End Russia-Georgia War

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:21:55 +0000

fuke russsia

By: BuckRun Outdoors » Blog Archive » The New Cold War — and How America Can Win

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:09 +0000

[...] of the Medvedev/Putin oligarchs comes from their wealth, and that is their Achilles heel. As I pointed out here the drop in oil prices is seriously damaging to Russian adventurism. Couple that with the rapidly [...]

By: Timothy Birdnow » Russia Squeezed by Georgia War, Falling Gas Prices, U.S. Economic Problems

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:34 +0000

[...] argued in Drill Here Drill Now Helped End the Russo-Georgian War, my piece at Pajama`s Media, that the slide in oil prices, started by the efforts of Republicans to [...]

By: tommy mack

tommy mack — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:20:18 +0000

Stewed Hamm thinks that the oil has magically gushed forth onto the world market and caused lower prices. Stick to blogging, not international commodity market analysis. Guess what? We haven’t touched our precious off-shore oil reserves, fouled our beaches, allowed big Oil to extract our public resource with minimal severance tax, AND YET, gas is now $2.05/gallon. Still awaiting that “clean coal technology” and nuclear (or nukuler a al “W” and McPalin) to be our immediate salvation just because they saw so. Yeah, and the budget can be balanced in 4 years. Let’s see Johnny McC pull a rabbit out of his bum first, then maybe I’ll invest in that strategy with my vote.
Hmmmmm. Hope the Wall Street bailout wasn’t premature. Maybe a (regulated) free market could solve some problems. Maybe if Newt “Drill Here, Drill Now” Gingrich had worked on consensus to promote alternative fuels and energy independence, we wouldn’t be riding this roller coaster. Oh, I suppose I forgot who his major campaign contributors were during his rollicking speakership years and how he’s now got his megaphone and pom-poms out for Exxon, Halliburton, and the like. Oh, and Mavericks crash planes and get shot. Not something I want my leader doing anytime soon, metaphorically or otherwise.

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:01:19 +0000

Mary Grabar – SOMEONE reads these pages. I now have three phrases/arguments I profferred now being used by the pundits. My latest was the phrase tangential relationships in reference to McCain’s “questionable associations”. Dr. Lamont Hill just a few days later used the phrase while discoursing with O’Reilly on his show. Sadly, he used it in defense of Obama…. :’( Me and my big mouth!

The upside is that active blogging can have a trickle up effect.

By: Robert Friedrich

Robert Friedrich — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:25:58 +0000

Drilling for oil is the only energy independence this country can have, and yes, there is oil.

As long as we are dependant on foreign oil, we will fight wars for it. We will be in Iraq for the duration – until we don’t need a stable middle-east. Once we are energy independent we won’t have to care when they act on their seemingly endless desire to kill each other. We also won’t have to tip-toe around the world when they want to kill us.

My number one issue in this election is drilling for oil. But the Democrats idea to make us energy independent is to destroy our economy with redistribution of the wealth. You don’t need gas when you don’t have a job to drive to…

Vote republican and drive an SUV! DRILL HERE AND DRILL NOW!

By: Stewed Hamm

Stewed Hamm — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:27:21 +0000

@ first history: The US consumes only 25% of the world’s energy supply, yet produces 1/3 of the world’s total GDP. Squared.
Also, the “reserves” figure changes depending on current oil prices and technologies, because it’s a measure of reserves that are economically feasible to recover at a given point in time. With the recent price drop, that 4-5% figure is now inaccurate.

More to the point of the article, “Drill Here, Drill Now” did have an effect on domestic gas prices. When President Bush rescinded the Executive Order banning offshore drilling, prices dropped around 7 to 10 cents per gallon. That’s it. The massive drop in prices we’ve seen in the last month is more due to the credit meltdown, and the relative strengthening of the dollar due to worse conditions in Europe.

By: Mary Grabar

Mary Grabar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:12:47 +0000

I hope McCain’s advisors read these pages.

By: first history

first history — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:41:12 +0000

. . . prompting Mr. Obama, in a foreshadowing of future diplomatic toughness, to complain, “This action is wholly inconsistent with the Olympic ideal” . . . .

Must have missed that robust response by the current Administration–we do have one, right? I guess I forgot the sight of the Marines fighting for democracy in Tiblisi. Or were they sent to Atlanta?

The author is right the invasion was in part to intimidate Europe by threatening one of the few non-trans Russian pipelines. But Russia being intimidated by “Drill here, drill now!”? What a joke, as much as energy “independence.” The US comsumes 25 percent of the world’s supply but has only 4-5 percent of reserves. Square that circle.

By: thegr8_1

thegr8_1 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:42:53 +0000

Drill here Drill now will only apply at the dentist’s office if BO wins.