Gas Prices Worry People A Lot More Than Global Warming

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The Investor's Business Daily Poll shows that Americans by a 3-1 margin believe that gasoline prices is a bigger challenge than global warming. 73% thought "fuel prices at the pump" were a bigger worry. A mere 23% said climate change was the bigger problem. Even two thirds of Democrats expressed this sentiment. Furthermore, 64% of respondents support offshore drilling and 65% support oil shale development. 47% say yes to drilling in the ANWR and 43% no. As IBD point out, Bush has supported all these popular nad common sense measure as "Bush has proposed opening ANWR for drilling, lifting restrictions on oil-shale leasing in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and easing the regulatory process to expand oil refining capacity." President Bush just removed the executive ban on offshore drilling yesterday, a ban passed by his father in 1990. Now the only thing in the way of offshore drilling is the Congressional ban and the Democrats seem more in line with environmental special interests than the American people. As Bush put it, "the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress. Now the ball is squarely in Congress' court." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell put it this way: "Now the only thing standing between consumers at the pump and the increased American energy they are demanding is the Democrat leadership in Congress. We should act and act now."


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