Today's TRMS
Doesn't McCain just have the most wicked sense of humor?! And yes we mean wicked, not in the Bostonian way, but in the "of the West" kind of way. Especially now that he has publicly tried to persuade his wife to compete in a topless beauty pageant at a biker rally in South Dakota. Now, what would Nancy Reagan do...?
On today's show Rachel will be talking to Greg Sargent from Talking Point Memo about the thousands of dollars Hess Corporation-- an oil company-- funneled into McCain's campaign just around the time of his pro-offshore drilling announcement.
And then Paul Rieckhoff from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America joins us to talk about the $300 million granted to study post-traumatic stress disorder
No, things would not be
No, things would not be different today. Because there was nothing *to* do differently in the 70s. This moratorium was not enacted until the 80s.
HR, we have 3% of the world's oil, but we use 25% of the world's oil. There is no way we can significantly reduce our dependance on foreign oil just by drilling more. No significant difference.
You're still missing my entire point. I'm not saying that less dependance on foreign oil is a bad thing. Talking about how the world could have been different in the 70s is irrelevant. Talking about how the price of oil is somehow controled by the amount we buy overseas and not set on the world market, that's beside the point.
My point, which was clear from the beginning, is that this *particular* proposal isn't going to provide enough oil to do jack squat about gas prices, yet it's dominating the discussion about the economy.
If you want to actually discuss that, please be less theoretical and actualy provide some numbers showing how a less than 1% change is going to affect anything.
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By Jason M. BryantAugust 5, 2008 - 7:25pm