Posted by
AFIS Guy on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:31:14 PM
My two biggest fears of an Obama Presidency was (1) he would stop drilling and (2) pull out too quickly from Iraq. Looks like he is already working on number one. This week the transition team of Obama's came out with plans to undo some of President Bush's executive orders, one has to do with stopping drilling in Utah. This is just the first step. Today Utah, tomorow the rest of the continental shelf.
We, the people, need to keep contacting our representatives, both Republican and Democrat, and let them know we do not support this this and that drilling must go on! I fear that four or eight years from now (if Obama is re-elected) that this country will be that much behind in our energy independance. If Clinton did not veto ANWR drilling in 1995, we will not today be saying "if we only started ten, thirteen years ago we would have that oil by now!" And for those who say drilling will take ten years from now, remind them of ANWR and that ten years is the high number. It should only take two to three years of actual exploration and extraction, most of the time is spent trying to get permits and through all of the red tape involved. That also needs to get streamlined as a precursor to drilling.
I urge everyone to keep calling, emailing, whatever it takes to contact your Congressman and Senators and let them know what we want! We also need to keep writing letters to your local newspapers editorial boards, keep blogging, leaving comments on all of the major newspaper and internet sites, do all of these things to let our voices be heard. Let Obama and the Democrats fear being a one term President and losing control of Congress if this doesn't happen. The media will not report this, we have to get the message out ourselves.