Bush asked to call Congress back on off shore drilling

Leave it to the Republicans to twist the truth and change the rules. They say, we won't see a decrease in oil prices for 7 years if we start drilling tomorrow. So, how much difference will five weeks make??

All the Republicans are shilling for the oil companies. These clowns are trying to take the biggest concern of the American people, the costs associated with the high cost of fossil fuels, and make the Democrats problem. This little blame game is just a distraction from the real issue. Which is, How do we solve the fuel problem intelligently? More of the staus quo won't do the trick.

I hope Congress protests and chants Hell no we won't go.

Congress, please come back as fast as possible so we can all save a few cents/gallon in 10 years. Hurry!

We have an "oil man" in office so what should we expect? Bush is gonna try to bleed us dry until he leaves office.

I hope that the Pelosian's stand their ground this time!

They should tell the republicans that, "if we are called back to special session, the judiciary committees will start impeachment hearings the next day!"

Congress should ask Bush to go home permanently.

The problem with this article, and so many others, is the false statement "the democrat controlled congress''. A simple majority does equal control. Control would can be defined as a veto and filibuster proof margin. There are no surprises in what the gop is calling far. There are on the ropes and swinging blindly. Stay tuned for more political circus.

Great point bluestranger.

· Repealing unnecessary subsidies for the top five oil companies earning record profits — four times over the last 18 months. [91percent, Vote 84, 2/27/2008; 93 percent, Vote 1140, 12/6/07, HR 6; 95 percent, Vote 835, HR 2776; 81 percent, Vote 40, 1/18/07, HR 6]

· Cracking down on price gouging oil companies that artificially inflate the price of energy. [74 percent, Vote 448, 6/24/08, HR 6346]

· Requiring oil companies to drill on 68 million acres they already control. [94 percent, Vote 469, 6/26/08, HR 6251]

· Responsible drilling in Alaska in the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A). [86 percent, Vote 511, 7/17/08, HR 6515]

· Releasing a small portion of the government’s oil stockpile, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to bring down gasoline prices. [81 percent, Vote 527, 7/24/08, H.R. 6578]

· Recouping royalties that oil companies owe American taxpayers for drilling on public lands. [86 percent, Vote 832, 8/4/07, HR 3221; 81 percent, Vote 40, 1/18/07, HR 6]

These are all bills the republicans in congress blocked. So as I see it the best tactic for rebuttle of this media blitz against the Dems is to go on national television that these Repub. voters are so fond of and list these attempts at easing the pain at the pump. Show the people these politicians are obviously in the pockets of Big Oil.

The Republican "Specter" of strong-arming Congress rears it's ugly head once more.

Scumbags.

I wonder how much Specter took in from exxon/unocal etc etc to propose this one...

Nothing like a congress that gets NOTHING done to go on so many vacations while the hard working Americans get ZERO vacation because they have to work harder and harder---longer and longer to pay for rising food cost let alone energy cost.

They pretend they actually care and it matters not what party they whore for....they're all blood guilty for their lack of urgency in the matter.

DRILLING WILL NOT LOWER THE GAS PRICES!!!!! why do people continually act like this is the solution to high gas prices? this reminds me of 2003 leading up to the Iraq war when the majority of Americans believed that we were invading Iraq because they attacked us on 9/11.

I was suggesting that a replacement arbitration type party step in and create energy policy while Congress was on vacation. The Republicans seem to have taken it in a different direction.

The US does need energy policy reform, and that is the job of the government, so therefore I don't understand how they can just go on vacation for an entire month without solving any of the problems they are employed to solve.

If I were running this country, they might not have when they came back.

And, btw, it CAN'T just be increased offshore drilling. It has to be leveraging the bait of allowing offshore drilling to force the development of clean, renewable energy solutions.

I understand making everyone come back to get their work done before going back to the even more luxurious life than they already live, but they better be coming back for the right reasons.

They must force the oil companies to invest all short-term oil profits into the development of long-term, renewable clean energy technology. No ifs, no ands, no buts.

No No No Specter, ask Bush and Co. to stay in China for the duration ofhis life and take his entire family with him. It would be a great relief in every department.

The responses to this article is a bunch of crap! 22 responses, all negative. Do you refuse to publish the positive responses, of which I'm pretty sure, there are many?
The liberals are a bunch of sawdust brains, that is, if there is anything at all upstairs in the first place!
Everyone is for alternative energy, we are all living on this planet and there is no where else to go, but alternative energy is going to take many years to go into production. Are you going to run your cars on wind????
You are idiots. We need to drill offshore, because the area that is already open for drilling, ????
I wish all you stupid liberals would come out of your fantasy world and face reality.
I'd be willing to bet that this, my response will never see print. I'll keep watching!

Well, although you did print my response,you cut out part of the third paragraph.
This is it:
We need offshore drilling because the area that is already open for drilling, HAS NO OIL!
If there was oil there, the petroleum companies would have already drilled it out !
WAKE UP!

It is funny that the same liberals that complain about oil speculator driving the price up do not understand that if the congress were to allow new oil drilling it would start to drive the price down immediately screwing the same speculators they complain about, that is how a market works . It is a stupid idea to drain oil off our strategic reserves, with the state of the world it is obvious we may need that small stock pile, in fact we should have more reserves.

Come on Bush didn't come back to Washington d.c. on this date 7 years ago when he got the PDB Ben laden
to hit U.S. with terrorist attack. Do you get the connection another repugnant terror stunt. Remember
this date 8-6-2001 a day I can't forget. The day your president let America down

I think some people are very uninformed about the progress that alternative energy sources are making. Some people should read more and talk less.

Neither party can be trusted, which is unfortunate considering our need for leadership.

I see the usual idiots are still posting ignorant spew. What are you still doing burning oil? I thought I told all of you hypocrits to put a windmill on your house, otherwise stop complaining.

OH YEA, economics taught us that increase supply and price goes down, KEEP DRILLING so you can all keep complaining.

Quit burning fossil fuels and just stop posting, so I can drive and be happy

God bless big oil
God bless mo-mo's like most of you who keep me working.
God bless america
GOD BLESS AL GORE AND HIS HOUSE BOAT! it does not run on solar is gas powered baby!