{"id":2844,"date":"2008-06-01T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/01\/drill-here-drill-now\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T16:53:39","slug":"drill-here-drill-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/drill-here-drill-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill Here, Drill Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121184146283621055.html?mod=opinion_journal_federation\" target=\"_blank\">Human Events<\/a> | Jed Babbin | May. 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker Newt Gingrich\u2019s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats\u2019 do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices.  <\/p>\n<p>Actually, labeling Congress a bunch of \u201cdo-nothings\u201d is almost right, but not quite.  They\u2019re doing their best to create more obstacles to growing our energy supply.  And while the price of energy is already unreasonably high, they\u2019re working hard on a liberal agenda that will raise the prices consumers pay for gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas and home heating oil. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>With the summer upon us (and the November election fast approaching) the price of gasoline should be on the mind of every member who wants to keep his job after November.  There is a conservative approach to the problem:  relieve government burdens on the energy market.  But Congress isn\u2019t controlled by conservatives:  the Democrats rule both houses of Congress and \u2013 even with gasoline prices reaching all-time highs almost daily &#8212; the Dems are doing their best to raise the burden on the voters. <\/p>\n<p>As Speaker Gingrich told me in a Wednesday interview, \u201cEvery time I turn around I see Congress and bureaucracy making it harder to produce energy, increasing the price you and I are paying, reducing the amount that\u2019s available, and then trying to find someone else to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right:  while many Americans are paying more than $4\/gallon for gasoline (add another 75\u00a2 for a gallon of diesel fuel), Congress is coming back on Monday to try to pass legislation such as the Warner-Lieberman \u201ccap and trade\u201d anti-global warming bill which &#8212; by itself, and without the costs added by other Democratic initiatives &#8212; would boost the price of a gallon of gas to levels paid in Europe.  (Yesterday, the price of a gallon of gas in England was about $6.23.)  <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121184146283621055.html?mod=opinion_journal_federation\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Events | Jed Babbin | May. 30, 2008 Former Speaker Newt Gingrich\u2019s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats\u2019 do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices. Actually, labeling Congress a bunch of \u201cdo-nothings\u201d is almost right, but not &#8230; <a title=\"Drill Here, Drill Now\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/drill-here-drill-now\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Drill Here, Drill Now\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}