It’s easy, so easy that no intelligence is required. Take whatever John McCain proposes. Declare it to be a continuation of a failed Bush policy that will do nothing for families and will help big business. An Obama spokesman with the delightful name Hari Sevugan ran Senator McCain’s call for lifting the federal ban on offshore oil production through that sense-shredding machine and came up with, “John McCain’s plan to simply drill our way out of our energy crisis is the same misguided approach backed by President Bush that has failed our families for too long and only serves to benefit the big oil companies.”
Well, President Bush does back that approach, but how has it failed? It hasn’t been tried. Since 1970, U.S. oil production has fallen by over three million barrels a day even as world production has nearly doubled. Those who have “failed our families for too long” have been the liberal politicians who have refused to allow the opening of new oil fields or the mining of oil shale within our borders.
Why, too, I wonder, would expanded drilling “only serve to benefit the big oil companies”? Are Big Oil executives the only people who drive cars, fly on airplanes, use electricity or buy products made with plastics? Viewed from Obamaland, I take it, America is a country of peasants from sea to sea, to whom energy prices are of no concern.
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