Petroblogging: Another Senator Drillmore

Senator Voinovich was in Mansfield today commiserating with constituents on the high (oh so very high) price of oil. The senior senator from Ohio has a multi-pronged approach to getting us out of our oily predicament. He's all for the ever popular "Manhattan Project" for developing new energy sources as well as using less of the black crud. The crux of his plan though is the "drill the shit out of the North America" strategy that resonates with conservative lawmakers and oil tycoons alike. From his remarks carried by the Mansfield News Journal:

Of the President going to Saudi Arabia asking for more oil, Voinovich said he remarked, “If I were King Abdullah, I would have said, ‘Mr. President, you have this great source of oil in ... Alaska — why haven’t you looked into that? And how about the shale oil out west? You’ve got 800 billion barrels of proven reserves. You’ve got vast amounts of shale oil.’ Then I would say, ‘Mr. President, you can get tar sand oil from Canada. And by the way, don’t you have a lot of coal in the U.S.? Why not turn coal into liquids?’"

George starts out sounding good but his talk usually degenerates into the safe for GOP prime time talking points pulled right from the day's memo. He's done the very same with Iraq at times. All very predictable. Why can't our congress peoples, regardless of party, stand up and say there will be no more additional large scale drilling. Furthermore we are all being punished for being shortsighted and letting the thirst for oil money drive our civilization into the ground. That would be refreshing.

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