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Originally Posted by ERD50 Thanks for the link/quote, but there is more to the story: Congress and Bush admin push hard to open offshore areas to drilling | By Amanda Griscom Little | Grist | Muckraker | 03 Mar 2006 Sounds like they were pushed into abandoning drilling by the environmental groups, which may be a good thing. At any rate, I'm still confused. You seem to criticize Bush for not drilling, then you say drilling won't affect prices much (probably true). I agree that the govt should control spending, but I'm not sure what you are saying about energy policy? -ERD50

No you were critcizing environmentalist for curtailing drilling in the Gulf and I pointed out the the Bush's had something to do with it.
I don't always have links because sometimes I remember something that happened and then I bring it up for discussion.
As for links, most are opinion pieces and if you look hard enough you can find one to fit your agenda.

It will take decades for drilling in anwr or the gulf to have any effect on prices if it does at all. Gas prices shoot up due to the instability in the ME and speculators trying to cash in. Then everyone screams we have to drill more to bring the prices down. Propping the value of the dollar up will have an immediate effect on bringing gas prices down.
I use about 5 gallons a week so it really is no big deal to me except for the effect it has on everything else..

As for an Energy policy, it seems to me the oil lobby and the politicians in their pocket controls the energy policy in this country.