YOU CAN'T FUEL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME
by Ann Coulter
June 25, 2008

Liberals dismiss studies that show a link between abortion and breast cancer, claiming they are biased because the people promoting the studies are "anti-choice."

For the same reason, no one should believe the Democrats' "energy" policies.

Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we can all start pedaling around on tricycles.

Environmentalists are constantly clamoring for higher gas taxes as the cure-all to their insane global warming theory. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas. John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Gore endorsed the Malthusian proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The Population Explosion" that gas taxes be raised gradually to match prices in Europe and Japan.

The result is consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes. That's not including taxes paid directly to the government by the oil companies and passed onto consumers. As the inestimable economist John Lott has pointed out, in the past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times in taxes what they have made in profits.

B. Hussein Obama's response to soaring gas prices is to have the oil companies collect even more money from us at the pump, proposing a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies. "Corporate taxes" sound like taxes on rich people, but all they do is force corporations to collect taxes on behalf of the government.

Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this crisis."

What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!" "You can't water your way out of drought!" "You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!" "You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!"

Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil?

It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race. It's the only solution they can think of to deal with the beastly traffic on the LIE (Long Island Expressway).

How do liberals propose we acquire the energy required for the economic activity and production that results in light appearing when they flick a switch? The larger enterprise involved in producing that little miracle eludes them.

Liberals complain that -- as B. Hussein Obama put it -- there's "no way that allowing offshore drilling would lower gas prices right now. At best you are looking at five years or more down the road."

This is as opposed to airplanes that run on woodchips, which should be up and running any moment now.

Moreover, what was going on five years ago? Why didn't anyone propose drilling back then?

Say, you know what we need? We need a class of people paid to anticipate national crises and plan solutions in advance. It would be such an important job, the taxpayers would pay them salaries so they wouldn't have to worry about making a living and could just sit around anticipating crises.

If only we had had such a group -- let's call them "elected representatives" -- they could have proposed drilling five years ago!

But of course we do pay people to anticipate national problems and propose solutions. Some of them -- we'll call them Republicans -- did anticipate high gas prices and propose solutions.

Six long years ago President Bush had the foresight to demand that Congress allow drilling in a minuscule portion of the Alaska's barren, uninhabitable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In 2002, Bush, Tom DeLay and the entire Republican Party were screaming from the rooftops: Drill! Drill! Drill!

We'd be gushing oil now -- except the Democrats stopped us from drilling.

Drilling on only 0.01 percent of ANWR's 19 million acres was projected to produce about 10 billion barrels of oil. From all domestic sources combined, we currently produce about 1.8 billion barrels of oil per year. To a layperson like myself, 10 billion barrels seems like a lot of oil.

The other party -- plus John McCain -- ferociously opposed drilling in ANWR, drilling offshore or drilling anyplace else. Instead of Drill! Drill! Drill!, their motto could be: Kill! Kill! Kill!

They refuse to believe our abortion studies? I refuse to believe they care about Americans having to pay high gas prices.

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Ann Coulter... lol I'd rape that skeletonbag, I got her autograph too

So you're saying John McCain opposed drilling in ANWR? So doesn't that make him a flipflopper now that he wants to drill there?

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I believe McCain wants to open up drilling virtually everywhere except ANWAR. I wish he would support drilling in ANWAR.

I would call it a reasonable and timely response to an issue which has moved to the forefront of our national security. I wish Obama would 'flip-flop' on this issue as well.

Changing your mind is just that. Every intelligent person is entitled to one change of mind.

Changing your mind, changing back, and then changing back yet again is flip-flopping.

Changing your mind after vowing not to do so is lying.

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McSame was opposed to drilling in ANWAR, (go read his voting history in the Senate) now is is in favor...King of the Flip floppers and always has been. He is just saying things to get elected.

Get your John McCain Wafflehead doll here for $39.95 plus shipping and handling.

I'm no friend of the environmentalist agenda.

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As the situation, the real world situation, changes, only a fool would not contemplate the situation, and their position, anew. This applies as often as the situation changes.

It's true that he officially opposed drilling in ANWAR. It is NOT true that he officially changed his position on ANWAR. In fact, McCain has taken a LOT of flack from the right precisely because he is perceived as unwilling to extend his new found desire to expand all domestic exploration & drilling to include ANWAR.

This is the closest I could find:
John McCain Willing to Reconsider Drilling In ANWR

If Bill Clinton had not vetoed the exploration of ANWAR in 1995, we would be getting better than one million barrels of crude oil out of ANWAR today. Perhaps he can be forgiven because gasoline was around $1.20 a gallon back then.

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