[Jack_Berry]

Dear ,
I'm delighted to inform you that President Bush just signed an executive order to allow offshore drilling along our coast. This is a major victory in our effort to reduce gas prices, and it would have not happened without your help. Your petition signature allowed us to send a message to Washington that could not be ignored. President Bush's executive order will overturn an eighteen year-old offshore drilling ban imposed by President George H.W. Bush.

This is a significant victory, but we cannot stop there.

Congress still must act before Americans can start searching for oil offshore, and we must keep the pressure on them until they take action to lower our gas prices. We plan to accomplish this by collecting 3,000,000 "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less." petition signatures that we'll present to both the Republican and Democrat Conventions in August. You can help us reach this goal by inviting your friends and family to sign the petition by clicking here.

Thank you for joining this grassroots movement and helping raise awareness about this important issue.

Sincerely,



Dave Ryan
Executive Director
American Solutions

P.S. The voices of 1,300,000 Americans are clearly making a difference. Help us keep the momentum going by calling your Congressman or Senator at 202-224-3121 and urging them to lift the federal ban on offshore drilling.

[greg334]

Oh Jack, you need the link

American Solutions

By the way this is one of the few petitions I tell everyone to sign BECAUSE it is done the right way.

[arkjarhead]

Maybe this belongs in the Soap Box, but isn't it strange that all the elected officals that suppourt this are Republicans?

[late4dinner]

If George Bush really wanted this to happen, then why didn't he sige it when he had both houses of congress to back him up?

[greg334]

Originally Posted by late4dinner

If George Bush really wanted this to happen, then why didn't he sige it when he had both houses of congress to back him up?

He did but the congress didn't move on it.

The fallacy has been that the republican congress was the puppet of Bush but look carefully my friend at what actually was being done in congress for those 7 years he was in office. There are a lot of things that should have been passed that he asked for that never got out of committee, like Social Security 'reform'.

I present one comment to people who say Bush is all for big oil;

If he was truly for big oil than the congress would have revoked the laws pertaining to the environment, we would have had a lift of all restrictions for drilling everywhere and we would have had a serious change in the tax system in this country - all to favor big oil if this it was true.

[mjolnir131]

actually the way the laws are all structured now they are very pro-big oil the little guy can't compete with all the rules and regs and stay in business .it's basically a government sponsored monopoly.

the no drilling laws are not well thought out,not even close the off score area are being pumped by Mexico and Venezuela so all they did was hamstring the USA and our economy. and as for the one in Alaska the area in question is a few hundred acres in a 100,000 acre area,it might be larger actually.

[late4dinner]

There has never been enough support from either side of the aisle to overturn the ban that George H W Bush signed into law If there were it would have been overturned a long time ago. A lot of people talk big, but I really wonder if big oil wants the so called oil shortage to go away or not. If I owned a bunch of oil stock, I wouldn't.

[Falligator]

Why can't we find other sources of fuel? Whatever happened to the car that ran completely off of water? Well, I'll tell you. Bet you a barrel of oil that the oil companies have bought out the patents not to mention the auto manufacturers. What do ya'll think they do with the billions of dollars that they're making off of us? On another note: I am all for reducing our dependance on foreign oil. Yes, America desperately needs more and up-to-date refineries. Anyone read today that oil prices went down 6$ a barrel? Hmm....every election they seem to bring the price of gas down. Guaranteed if we had reduced our dependance greatly on foreign oil, we'd be shipping what oil we have to China. Gas prices would be exactly the same. Just look at Canada. They don't rely on foreign oil as much as we do, and the gas prices there are higher than ours. What gives? Give me an engine that will run on something other than oil and then you'll have my interest. Why isn't the oil companies spending the billions of dollars that they make off of us on alternative oil? If I was an oil company ceo...I would definitely be looking into this area....more ways to make money.

[greg334]

WE HAVE other sources of oil and oil replacements but the government and the environmentalist are standing in the way.

The government needs to be taken out of the picture. We need a serious tax replacement where people like me and you can modify a car to run on something else that WE feel will work for US, not the masses. I would love to get an electric car for my wife but you know with the BS tax system, I can't afford to get one. I pay so much in taxes that I can pay for a complete car if we didn't have this tax system. But that's not all, I can put up solar panels and wind power but not with the tax system.

The environmentalist are stopping Coal to Fuel, refineries, mining, drilling and all that. It matters that we put a stop to them before we can move forward because unless you want to go around from one cave to another trying to find heat, we have to solve our first problems first.

[OntarioVanMan]

It's ridiculous that we the U.S. don't drill for oil....we are the one of the most technically advanced countries and here we are starving for oil, it makes absolute no sense......the Arabs must be laughing all the way to the bank!!!

[P51bombay]

Originally Posted by Jack_Berry

President Bush's executive order will overturn an eighteen year-old offshore drilling ban imposed by President George H.W. Bush.

Daddy is gonna ground him for that one. LOL

[csands007]

Originally Posted by arkjarhead

Maybe this belongs in the Soap Box, but isn't it strange that all the elected officals that suppourt this are Republicans?

Why didn't they do it in the first 6 years when they had control? Oh not election time!!!

[MSinger]

Originally Posted by csands007

Why didn't they do it in the first 6 years when they had control? Oh not election time!!!

Probably because there was no need. Fuel increased gradually until the Democrats took over Congress in January 2007 following the 2006 mid-term elections. Liberals love high gas prices. It forces people to be unable to choose what type of vehicle to drive. The only choice the liberals want you to be able to make is abortion but other than that they are the most anti-choice of any group out there.

[davekc]

GW wanted drilling in his first term. He warned that we would be in this situation back then. Dems and the emvironmentalists shut him down. They were too worried he and Cheney might make money off of it.

[flattop40]

Originally Posted by csands007

Why didn't they do it in the first 6 years when they had control? Oh not election time!!!

In case you didn't know it there is a presidential election every 4 years!!!