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August 12, 2008

WaPo Destroys Dems Argument For Not Drilling

Topics: Oil

Finally, there's some common sense and truth in print from the major print media on the drilling issue. It comes from the editorial board of the Washington Post today and destroys the Democrats' (particularlly Pelosi's, Reid's, and Obama's) claims that drilling is pointless because the United States has only 3 percent of the world's oil reserves; the oil companies aren't using the leases they already have; and drilling is environmentally dangerous. The WaPo piece makes mince meat of the myths about drilling propagated in the latest anti-drilling full page ads put out by the the Natural Resources Defense Council (best known for its extreme liberal positions and alarmist rhetoric) that decry offshore drilling for oil as "George W. Bush's Gasoline Price Elixir" that is "100% Snake Oil, and shows their ad to be nothing less than pure "poppycock" (my use of the word, not WaPo's)

Redstate suggests that with the Washington Post taking this line on new drilling the chances improve that the Congress will actually act on this issue, and indeed, that may be beginning to happen already as a result of the House oil party.

Posted by Richard at August 12, 2008 9:29 AM

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