GOP: Drill here, drill now, pay less, vote McCain

The choice in November is very clear, as AP explains:

President Bush plans to make a renewed push Wednesday to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain.

Congressional Democrats have opposed lifting the prohibitions on energy development on nearly all federal outer continental shelf waters for more than a quarter-century, including waters along both the East and West coasts.

With oil prices soaring and motorists paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, political pressures have been growing for more domestic oil and gas production.

Gas prices are $4.30 a gallon where I live, and slightly more in Barack Obama's Hyde Park neighborhood. I wonder if he has noticed?

Oh, about Obama...here's what he said last month, channeling Jimmy Carter no doubt, about what his energy policy will be as president:

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Nor will Jimmy Carter's second term, if I can help it.

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