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RUSH: They\u2019ve just made a discovery: The Arctic has 90 billion barrels of oil. BBC: ‘The Arctic thought to hold some 90 billion barrels of untapped oil equal to Russia\u2019s total known reserves, this according to the U.S. geological survey.\u2019 So we have Saudi-level oil in shale out in the Western states. We have Russia-level oil in the Arctic. Yet I have news in the stack today that America\u2019s schools are thinking of cutting back to a four-day week because of energy costs. Now, there\u2019s a part of me that says, ‘Why the hell couldn\u2019t all this stuff have happened when I was a student?\u2019 Like the teachers having, you know, crushes on students? Where was that? I know they are still going to be paid for five days, but they are only going to work four because of energy costs. <\/p>\n

Now, what kind of sense does this make? The teachers are still going to be paid; the students are going to learn less. You think they are going to extend the length of the class school day? Nah. I can\u2019t imagine the students putting up with it. The inmates are running the asylum at these schools anyway. What should we do? Should we drill or should we cut back on American education? At any rate, we\u2019ve got all this oil apparently out there and guess who just continues to stand in the way of developing it? The Democrat Party. There\u2019s an interesting story in the New York Times today: ‘Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree that high gas prices are the driving domestic political issue of the moment…\u2019 Not Iraq, not Afghanistan, not Obama\u2019s trip. Gasoline prices. ‘…purring new campaign ads and maneuvering almost every day, but that\u2019s about all they can agree on when it comes to the national panic at the pump.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The Republicans have issued an ultimatum: No votes on anything until we get a vote on drilling in the Senate. And the Democrats don\u2019t want any part of it, and there\u2019s a reason why, and the New York Times has published it. ‘Democrats are worried about defections in their ranks. They are scrambling to avoid votes on expanded drilling,\u2019 because they might lose because there are a lot of Democrats who would vote for it. This week, therefore, the ‘Democrats canceled the series of sessions that could have provided an opening for Republicans. House members are increasingly bringing legislation to the floor under rules that denied Republicans the chance to counter with a drilling proposal. Some Democrats grudgingly concede the Republicans have finally gotten a little traction on an issue after struggling for months to find their footing, but they say it\u2019s far from enough to fundamentally alter the election landscape.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Yeah, well, it\u2019s only July now and if they keep this up… I\u2019m telling you. This is an issue that is made to order. The Democrats are so vulnerable on this. It is an issue for Senator McCain to draw distinctions between himself and Obama and the Democrat Party. We\u2019ve spoken about it on this program over and over and over again, and the Democrats know it and yet they are still being obstinate. In fact, Mike, I want to grab the last sound bite in the roster. It is Nancy Pelosi. It\u2019s audio sound bite number one, and this was this morning at her daily press briefing. This is Pelosi\u2019s answer to drilling and providing new resources, energy resources for the American driver. <\/p>\n

PELOSI: The president is sitting on 700 million barrels of oil! We\u2019re saying, ‘Mr. President, free our oil! It\u2019s our oil! It belongs to the, uh, American taxpayer because this is oil that we have purchased!\u2019 <\/p>\n

RUSH: This, she\u2019s talking about the strategic reserve. Trying to turn this around and blame it on the president for 700, what was it, 700 million? It\u2019s 700 million barrels of oil? It wouldn\u2019t affect the price. It would not affect the supply. It\u2019s something you could do one time. So now the effort is to blame Bush. Free our oil? Free our oil? It\u2019s, Pelosi wants oil now but she doesn\u2019t want to get any new supply of it? This is for genuine emergencies, what\u2019s in the strategic reserve, and there isn\u2019t an emergency because there is not a supply shortage. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back to what Pelosi said with that Pelosi sound bite. Here, listen to what she said. This is at a presser, might have been this morning, probably yesterday. Here it is. <\/p>\n

PELOSI: The President is sitting on 700 million barrels of oil. We\u2019re saying, Mr. President, free our oil. It\u2019s our oil. It belongs to the American taxpayer because this is oil that we have purchased. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, she doesn\u2019t know how she stepped in it, and the McCain camp, I\u2019m going to give a little assistance here on how to react to this. What are the Democrats saying? The Democrats say we can\u2019t drill our way out of it. ‘In five years, it will be 10 years! We can\u2019t drill our way out of it! Ten years.\u2019 Okay. So she wants to release 700 million barrels in a one-shot deal which wouldn\u2019t mean anything. But nevertheless, billion, million, whatever, she wants to release 700 million barrels. But I thought we couldn\u2019t drill our way out of it. What does drilling our way out of it mean? More supply. Well, if drilling our way out of it with many more than 700 million barrels is not going to get us out of the problem, then what the hell is a piddling little 700 million barrels going to do? It\u2019s staggering. Oil from the Saudi fields and these tanks, the strategic reserve, that\u2019s apparently fine. That oil, that\u2019s cool. But only our own American oil is evil. Maybe we ought to sell Alaska back to the Ruskies and then go drill there or at least buy what they drill. That\u2019s the way to do it. Sell Alaska back to the Russians. Let the Russians drill the oil; buy it from them. Pelosi will love it. She sort of stumbles before she says the oil belongs to the taxpayers. It sort of chokes her up since, you know, all things are property of the government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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