Republican stupidity on oil on Faux News
Tonight, Rudy Giuliani was on Hannity and Colmes discussing Obama and his energy policy. Rudy praised McCain for wanting to drill and explore clean coal while chastising Obama because he felt Obama would block drilling.
The first problem with McCain’s argument is that we currently have 10,000 open leases that are not being drilled in the first place. So the idea that our policy needs to include new leases soon is just plain silly.
But the major stupidity that came from Rudy when Colmes was discussing the idea that we depend far too much on foreign oil. Colmes asked him about all the domestic oil that currently gets shipped to Asia. He asked why we couldn’t just use that oil domestically. Well, Rudy’s response was that we have private businesses here and that private businesses are free to sell their product where they will make the most money.
Anyone see where I am going with this yet?
My question to Rudy is this. How will it help our reliance on foreign oil if oil companies drill for more oil and just sell that oil overseas as well?
And this is the problems with the Republican pundits. They are so caught up in trying to prevent Obama from becoming President that when making their arguments they fall flat on their faces. Unfortunately Colmes did not see the problem with Rudy’s logic, but I did. And now you do too!