Do we get it now?

Gas was, what? Close to $5 a gallon this past summer? As a result, people scaled back. They travelled less, they got rid of their SUV's. They conserved. I believe the numbers are between 5% and 10% the reduction in consumption.

Look at what happened.

Gas is at a low we haven't seen in years!

That's good. Conservation is good. But, the point is, look at how the market reacted.

Now, imagine what would happen if we announced we're going to start drilling for more of our own oil.

Can you hear me now?

Pelosi is dumber than Paris Hilton

From Meet the Press:

MR. BROKAW: Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.

REP. PELOSI: No, it isn't, but you could--again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with...(unintelligible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That, that is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels. So, so there is a way to transition this instead of doing more of the same. The Bush administration, two oil men in the White House, they want us to believe that the status quo is what we should do and more of it--and more of it, when it will just only keep us in the same place that we are now.

Uh, Nancy . . . ?

Natural gas IS A FOSSIL FUEL, YOU DUNCE!

YOU HAVE TO DRILL FOR IT, YOU PUTZ!

TRANSPORTATION USES BETTER THAN 50% OF EACH BARREL OF OIL, ASSWIPE!

AND THE DON'T RUN ON NATURAL GAS!

Our wonderful government leaders.

Pelosi. A Class Act

(The Politico) House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”

Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”

Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”

She went on to refer to the protestors, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would only reduce gas prices two cents in 10 years, she referred to the demonstrators as the “two-cents-in-ten-years-crowd.”

Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word "thinking" and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.

Never mind for a moment how stupid this is, I love how libs just make up figures and expect us to believe it. Doyle tells us tens of thousands will be disenfranchised with voter ID, Barrett tells us millions will be generated with his choo choo train, and Pelosi tells us gas will be reduced by 2¢ in 10 years with domestic drilling. Never are these people pressed on their figures. Instead, it becomes part of the taking points. Rattled off as though it's gospel.

But, "can we drill your brains?". Why? Is she looking for one?