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To: Bridge Player who wrote (69226)	5/29/2008 5:59:46 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542552

BP; Freeing up domestic energy resources will do today what President Reagan's decision to deregulate oil prices in 1981 did then: cause oil prices to fall, thereby enhancing U.S. energy security. And then we can go through all of this again. Using more oil than there is supply because it is cheap. Have we learned nothing? Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush - we haven't had oil friendly presidents since Reagan? steve

To: Bridge Player who wrote (69226)	5/29/2008 7:20:33 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542552

Eco-Gingrich says, “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay More.” climateprogress.org [EDIT: There are numerous links in the original text.] This is eco-Gingrich’s new energy strategy for America. Seriously. So much for Andy Revkin’s claim that Gingrich is part of a “move to the pragmatic center on climate and energy.” Okay, the slogan is slightly different (see here). But I changed it so it would be factually accurate. After all, the Administration’s own Energy Information Administration explained in 2004 how ineffectual this strategy is. In a 2004 Congressional-requested “Analysis of Oil and Gas Production in ANWR“: It is expected that the price impact of ANWR coastal plain production might reduce world oilprices by as much as 30 to 50 cents per barrel [in 2025]. Don’t spend it all in one place, American public! [Note to Gingrich: There are 42 gallons in a barrel.] EIA continues: Assuming that world oil markets continue to work as they do today, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could countermand any potential price impact of ANWR coastal plain production by reducing its exports by an equal amount. Curses, foiled again! But how is drilling for more oil — and exploiting shale oil and opposing the Warner-Lieberman climate Bil, both of which are part of Gingrich’s video message — and releasing more greenhouse gases part of “”entrepreneurial environmentalism,” or a call to conservatives to “embrace their inner Teddy Roosevelt”? You’ll have to ask Andy Revkin, E. O. Wilson, and the rest of the people suckered by Newt’s spin (see below). Prices are going much higher (see links below), especially by the end of the next decade — unless we act quickly to embrace fuel efficiency and plug in hybrids. If drilling is your strategy for solving the problem, then you are guaranteeing much, much higher prices for the American public. Shame on Gingrich for trying to fool people into believing he was anything but an old-style conservative. Shame on the media for being duped once again.