Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Let's not forget the efforts of the "no drill" Democrats to deny Americans, and American businesses the fruits of honest labor. The minority Republican House members have spent their summer vacation on the floor of a darkened, and silent House Chamber. This was done to emphasize the need for the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to reconvene Congress that it might get on with the development of a comprehensive energy plan for all Americans. This has not been done, and the reasons beg for some kind of explanation.

Colonel Edwin L. Drake's first oil well, dug to a depth of 70 feet, or so, in Oil Creek, Titusville, Pennsylvania, is accepted as the first commercial oil well ever built in the United states. The product, known as "rock oil", sold for about 40 dollars a barrel, and was used for medicinal purposes, there of course being no automobiles in August, of 1859. Colonel Drake's discovery was replicated around the world, but it was the United States which perfected the refining techniques, and gave as a gift to the world, this new product which ushered in a new age of commercial development. With it all, national economies grew significantly. The world was moving ahead, and societies changed radically. Fortunes were made, and were lost too, but still, there was no turning back the clock on the powers unleashed. A review of this period in history offers a look at unprecedented growth, and a substantial rise in standards of living for average people. This continued well into the second half of the twentieth century, then, something changed.

Congress has impeded the search for oil since 1980, when it imposed a moratorium on drilling off the coast lines of America. The first President Bush made it two out of the three branches of government to ban drilling, with his executive order issued in 1990. Since then, a crisis began to brew in an unwatched pot of congressional stew. Today, the pot is boiling over, and yet, the Democrat Congress is unrelenting in it's opposition to allowing America to seek out meaningful ways to achieve energy independence. An unwitting byproduct of this obstinacy, is the falling value of the US dollar, and much higher prices for the gas, and oil products Americans need just to maintain a suitable standard of living for themselves. The American dream has become the American nightmare for many, and there is plenty of blame to go around.

Why do Democrats want to destroy the American dream? What reasons are there for such an arrogance associated with simply supplying ourselves with the needed life blood of our economy?

On Monday, September 15, 2008, the Minerals Management Service will decide what the five year plan for size, timing, and location of federal areas for off coast drilling, will be. These considerations for leasing are of the greatest importance. We must support them, and can do so by visiting the Partnership For Energy This is very important, and we must stand with those who share our concerns for the future of America.

Now, back to the children, they are learning quickly what it means to be here in the land of the brave, and the home of the free.