An America-First Energy Plan

[Terri]

By Lawrence Kudlow
July 3, 2008

President Bush was on message Wednesday in a Rose Garden news conference, when he kept up the pressure on his a drill, drill, drill offensive. He said he knows Americans are worried about gasoline prices and wants them "to understand fully that we have got the opportunity to find more crude oil here at home in environmentally friendly ways."

He specifically mentioned opening up ANWR, the outer continental shelf and oil-shale exploration. He also took a whack at lawmakers, saying, "The Democratically controlled Congress has refused to budge."

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[STEELMAN]

America First should be the rallying cry. We have the natural resources to become the Saudi Arabia of coal and the Saudi Arabia of oil. Lift the moratoriums. Stop attacking our own businesses. Put technology to work. Put venture capital to work, with rock-bottom capital-gains and corporate tax rates. Stop being mau-maued by the extremist greenies who have prevented energy production for over three decades.

A plan McCain needs to jump on and stay there if he'll just listen.

[MrJLDoug]

Why can't McCain wake up and get with it?
As Dick Morris stated, he's sleepwalking through this campaign. He needs to be countering all the BS Hussein is spouting.
All I seem to see on TV is Obama's ad's.
There will not be a bigger issue this November than the energy crises and the way it is dragging down the economy and hurting the populace.

[Suomi]

As usual, Lawrence Kudlow has clearly articulated the path the USA should follow.

Muttonheads such as Senator Harry Reid should be held up for the scorn and derision they deserve. Let us all hope that the country and our new standard bearer will listen to Mr. Kudlow.

[GreggLD]

Hell, even when you DO say "OK, let's develop wind and solar power," the Democrats and environmentalists say "NO." They really do want us to live like rural peasants. Actually I think they want us to go back to the old tribal hunter-gatherer days.

[cltvcoyote]

It would be absolutely great if someone in McCains camp should read this article by Kudlow and forward it to McCain with the implied need that the very strong and truthful words be seriously thought about and mulled over by the aspiring POTUS, so that he can put them in his mind and heart with the relish that is needed to free his mental images of a strong, free and producing America, like the one he remembers. Kudlow shows by his written images, just how great a country this place was, and could be again, by merely shifting the mental focus a person has to a new focus that is positive using the resources we already have in this country.

Hopefully McCain will see the light.

[Colonel_Flagg]

This is a wonderful opinion piece. If we only had a conservative nominee to embrace it, this election campaign would be over before it began.

[bcorp]

North Dakota is drilling, also rumored is a way to bypass congress in refinery building, the Tribal lands are exempt from the regulations and are interested in having this industry built on their lands. So what we have going here is not government addressing supply, but "We The People", private industry, on private property, going after natural resources to supply the rest of us with energy. This is a good example of how NOT to depend on the jokers we have elected to handle our needs, and to trust in each other. This may only be a small supply, could be huge, but at least they are moving instead of just discussing.

[cgretired]

He specifically mentioned opening up ANWR, the outer continental shelf and oil-shale exploration. He also took a whack at lawmakers, saying, "The Democratically controlled Congress has refused to budge."

It's about stinking time!! We've been stepped on, lied to AND about, and had our noses rubbed in crap by this hate filled house and senate for 8 years now. It's about time someone told them AND the American public what's going on.

If we can press home the message, there won't be a liberal left in office from within 2000 miles of Washigton DC.

[FlaJim]

Why McCain isn't pushing this issue in every single speech is a mystery. the more people know about how we could be energy self sufficient today if not for Dems and RINOs (like McCain, sadly), the more they'll embrace drilling.

Floridians are already starting to change their misguided views and mostly endorse offshore drilling for the first time. Allegedly, the tourist trade might have been affected by offshore rigs. But those would-be tourists won't mind because they can't afford to fly or drive here.

Simply the announcement that offshore field in the eastern Gulf and/or ANWR would depress the market price of oil by 20% to 30% overnight. It seems that everyone knows we're sitting atop of a sea of oil but can't touch it. The jackass party simply wants our dependency.