Drill this

Rarely does one come upon such pure, eloquent common sense in a relatively few paragraphs.
The Naples Daily News really came through this morning:

President Bush is following through on trying to lift bans on additional potential offshore sites for oil and natural gas.

In an election year, with $4-plus gasoline and a Republican president pushing a Democratic Congress to let each seaboard state decide for itself, politics is involved.

So is the potential for windfall profit — before the first drop of new oil is produced, thus driving up prices of whatever is produced even further.

That is why there is more sizzle than steak — or more slick than solution — to the president’s plan.

Democrats rightfully point out there is a substantial inventory of potential oil and gas exploration sites going unused.

Further, it is important to separate a sustainable long-term energy strategy from today’s panic mode. The United States cannot drill its way out of trouble. Oil is not the future. A combination of energy, including solar and biofuels as keenly advanced by Florida, is more in sync environmentally and economically.

It is vital for Florida to have its beaches and marine life intact long after the panic subsides. That is more important than profiteering and politics today.

Almost impossible to add anything.

Way to go, NDN.

Just hope all those blind Republican puppets around here actually read it. Any chance?

Naw.

Most just puppet the Shrub's (& John McSame's) talking points.

Please, don't mess my mind up with facts. Oh, the horror!

And so it goes.