Remember the good old days of the ’08 presidential campaign?  McCain and especially our darling of the Right, Sarah Palin….used the cute little slogan of “Drill Baby Drill”….trying to promote more domestic drilling for oil which would let the gas prices drop in price……I covered it then….and I covered it when I saw bumper sticker saying the same thing…well basically the same thing……

And now, in a recent interview presidential hopeful Newt when trashing the Prez on his finally four picks….gave his idea of the real final four……typical non specific lame-atude….but let me say this one more time and see if it can get through the clutter and the snooze factor…….

The idea of more domestic drilling has a couple of holes in the theory…….first, any oil taken out of the ground in the US will not make it to market for about 2 years and that is after the drilling part is done and that could take 3-5 years…..second, Newt boy said that it would take gas from $4 a gallon and drop it to $2…….third, what in this would lead you to believe that Exxon (one of many) would drop the price of gas?  You truly believe that Exxon would give up 50% of its profit to help the country?…..fourth, does his estimates include the Federal, state and local taxes that are tacked onto the price of gas?…….fifth, what about the cocktail of gases that are being pumped in the country….how would his proposal effect the price of the additives……

Finally……stop believing these people when they start their creepy and misinformed promises of cheap gas….if only we would drill here in this country……nothing will change…you will still be paying through the nose for the gas…..no matter where it is drilled up!  BTW, you still pay a whole lot less than our friends in Europe…..here is another idea…conserve and stop buying the status symbol vehicles that get 2 gallons to the mile!