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Saturday, May 17, 2008 --- 147 days ago http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/speaking-of-energy-its-time-the-gop-showed-
| I have been watching the news and the reports on how high the gas
prices are. All the networks followed the same pattern in their coverage. The report shows prices at $6.00 a gallon and higher, they interview people who say that they can’t handle the prices that it is now a choice of gas in their car or food on the table.
They cut to various government and Wall Street experts who opine on how high the prices might go and then attempt to explain why. It’s China and India’s economic expansion, or it’s some madman in one of a hundred countries who threatened to cut off oil to get even with
us or some slight.
Then they go to a Democratic congressperson and the finger gets pointed to the administration for not having an “Energy
Plan”! The networks all put the focus on how we should be conserving more, using less oil and energy and finding alternate ways of making energy. Only one of the networks, PBS , even bothered to ask a Republican what his response was.
He said the word I was waiting for—Drilling.
That’s right, gas is at six dollars a gallon and the media doesn’t even consider asking why we are not drilling for more oil. We know there are billions of barrels of crude oil under the ground in Alaska, The Gulf of Mexico and in areas like the Dakotas. Not one person interviewed mentioned that we should just drill for our own oil. I don’t know if that’s because the producers of the news report cut the people who s ... |
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