“Barack Obama thinks the U.S. should tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to alleviate high gas prices..” (August 4th, 2008, Fox News)

Ok, so will someone please explain to me how this works……one day a bigger supply of oil would not help us out of this problem, and the next day, “The campaign today said Obama now believes that the current oil prices constitute the same affect as an emergency.” and he now says that we should tap into our strategic oil reserve. How does this work?? How is pulling more barrels of oil out of our reserve any bit different than DRILLING for the billons of barrels that we have at our disposal at a pinpoint of land (2,000 acres out of millions, to be exact) that we have in ANWR and the thousands of miles of stretches of offshore that we have available to us far beyond the visibility of ANY enviromentalist wacko walking the beaches in ultra-liberal California or Florida…etc. Even if the visual aspect doesn’t play in to their opposing the offshore drilling, for crying out loud, as if Katrina wasn’t enough proof that those rigs are spillproof! The largest, most destructive hurricane that area has possibly EVER seen, and not a drop spilled into the pristine waters off the shores of our southern states. The point is, (going back to my original subject) Obama is ridiculous if he thinks the American people are dumb enough to not catch his ever growing list of flip-flops. They are (his interesting attempts at moving towards the middle), at every turn, becoming more and more blatent and more and more obvious! It is as if he isn’t even trying to cover up the fact that he and his campaign hold (on average) 2-4 different positions on every issue! Obama is trying to bring extremism to this country….and is quickly failing.

“We can’t drill our way out of the problems we’re facing,”

….does this mean absolutely nothing now? All it took for gas prices to soar down from their current highs these last two weeks was a word from the president indicating that he would LIKE to drill offshore in ANWR. Suddenly he admits that it is the SUPPLY of oil that just MIGHT be the cause of this problem? A person can’t sit there and say that we can’t “drill our way out of this problem” and then go “Oh, go get some of that extra oil out of the storage unit….looks like we are in a ‘real’ emergency.” Does he really think we are THAT STUPID? If he thought that a bigger oil supply wouldn’t help, then why is tapping into our reserves ANY DIFFERENT FROM DRILLING? Our reserves, even if we used them now, would literally act as a band-aid….helping for just a moment…….while we CONTINUE to SIT on billions of barrels of oil on a PINPOINT piece of land in ANWR (2,000 measly acres out of millions)?? Good grief.

I DO NOT WANT MY 4 YR OLD DAUGHTER TO NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD GAS IN 13 YRS WHEN SHE IS DRIVING, IF WE DO NOT START NOW IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AN ISSUE IN THE FUTURE!

So quit worrying about now, and worry about BOTH, TODAY AND TOMORROW!!!!!

Morons