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Remember when Barack Obama downplayed the idea of domestic offshore oil production and recommended Americans simply “inflate your tires” or have regular car tuneups?

Remember how he was ridiculed by John McCain, Rush Limbaugh and the GOP?

The facts show why.

Motorists could save more than 1 billion gallons of fuel a year, right now. But expanded offshore drilling would eventually produce even more.

But we also figure that expanded offshore drilling is projected to produce far more oil eventually than can be saved by proper tire inflation – nearly three times as much even by the conservative estimate of government experts, and more than 10 times as much if an industry-endorsed estimate is correct. And even taking into account additional fuel savings from tune-ups, which Obama also mentioned, he greatly exaggerated.

Americans want (as demonstrated in the polls) more domestic oil production. It is a national security issue.

Barack Obama’s energy solutions are naive and simplistic.

There is little doubt that America will need to increase domestic oil discovery and production if America wishes to maintain its quality of life. The facts are facts.

Speaker Pelosi will return to the House in September and place some PORK laden energy bill on the floor and dare the GOP to oppose it.

But, will it be too late?

The GOP has already won the “DRILL HERE - DRILL NOW” issue and has forced Barack Obama to flip his position on offshore domestic oil drilling. Nancy Pelosi has been rolled on the issue while on her unsuccessful book tour.

Watch the Democrats run for ENERGY cover after “The One” is nominated in Denver.

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The Washington Post debunks the ad running in their own newspaper. Jim Geraghty over at National Review has a summary.

The “DEBUNKED” points:

• 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
• Drilling is environmentally dangerous

There is little doubt that Americans WILL support MORE domestic oil and gas production if they want to preserve their lifestyle of today’s big vehicles either commuting,tourism or towing their boats to the oceans, rivers and lakes. Truck transport will continue to require fuel for the business community.

The increasing economies of China and India will bid up the price of offshore derived oil.

So, what does the United States do?

Americans WILL support environmentally friendly domestic oil, shale oil and natural gas production while the market develops alternative and renewable fuels. The waiting game and stall of the radical environmental movement has been exposed and is not credible. Beating up on President Bush with a caricature may make the radical Lefties feel good about themselves and their BDS, but is irrelevant.

It is time to move forward with a comprehensive energy plan that maintains the American economy and our quality of life.

Barack Obama’s former Pastor Jeremiah Wright:

“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. Those are two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician”"He’s a politician, I am a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician….”

Well, Jeremiah Wright certainly had that correct because less than a week after the Springfield, Missouri speech where he called offshore oil drilling a scheme Obama is now embracing it.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said today he would be willing to open Florida’s coast for more oil drilling if it meant winning approval for broad energy changes.

“My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,” Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

“If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage - I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done,” Obama said.

Flap supposes Barack Obama reads polls and the latest ones, including the latest Florida poll, say that American voters DO support some offshore oil drilling.

But, this was NOT Barack Obama’s position less than a week ago. Flap realizes people can change their mind. But, sheesh…..

With a politician like Obama who has a thin resume, lacks extensive government experience and voting record, Americans will ask:

• What are Obama’s “TRUE” positions on the issues?

• On what other issues will or might Obama flip-flop?

• “Can we trust a FLIPPER Obama with the Presidency?”

If American voters think today’s oil and energy policies are grand with soaring prices and the dependence on countries who do not like the United States, then they will love the “NEW” policies of a President Obama.

The Democrats have blocked meaningful domestic oil exploration and development for decades. They have blocked the development of nuclear power plants. They have blocked the development of shale oil.

They have been good at regulation, taxes and demagoguery about oil company CEO’s.

The Democrats and Obama have stayed in the nihilistic past and will lead America into gasoline shortages reminiscent of the Jimmy Carter years.

Just wait……

Barack Obama is enjoying a bounce in the polls but Flap feels the election slip slidding away from John McCain.

An example, with domestic offshore oil drilling much in the public discussion, Team McCain schedules an environmental conference in Santa Barbara, California next Tuesday. Granted McCain is traveling to California to fundraise but he has NO chance of winning “blue” California and where would a Presidential candidate NOT want to talk about offshore oil drilling?

Yeah, you guessed it - Santa Barbara where they had a massive oil spill in 1969 and ugly decades old oil rigs mar the scenic coastline.

McCain better shape up his campaign or he will be blown out early by Obama.

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President Bush today has called for an end to the offshore oil drilling ban.

President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.

There really is NO reason to delay new oil and natural gas exploration unless the American people wish to change their lifestyles.

If America had taken these steps ten years ago we would not be having the problems with $4 plus gasoline today. And, who is to blame? Guess who?

The Congressional moratorium was first enacted in 1982, and has been renewed every year since. It prohibits oil and gas leasing on most of the outer continental shelf, 3 miles to 200 miles offshore. Since 1990, it has been supplemented by the first President Bush’s executive order, which directed the Interior Department not to conduct offshore leasing or preleasing activity in areas covered by the legislative ban until 2000. In 1998, President Bill Clinton extended the offshore leasing prohibition until 2012.

It is time for the Democrat controlled Congress to do SOMETHING. The GOP in Congress and now the President have made concrete proposals.

Over to the the Democrats.

Think they will do anything?