A Movement that Is Catching Fire Across America

Blogged by: Newt

Since we launched the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign last week, the positive responses we’ve received have been overwhelming. More than 35,000 people have signed our petition urging Congress to immediately start drilling for oil domestically. If you haven't signed the petition yet, I hope you'll sign it now and join me in sending a message to Congress that we need real solutions to stop the pain Americans are feeling at the pump.

The United States has the resources to create its own fuel. For example, the largest domestic resource is oil shale, found in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to estimates, this reserve has over a trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

Existing technology and current oil prices prove that extracting domestic oil from shale is both feasible and cost effective, but the Left is blocking attempts to take advantage of this resource.

Americans truly have a choice – a choice between the Pay More, Send More Money to Foreign Dictators and Cripple America Left and the Produce More, Enjoy More, Pay Less, Stengthen American Center-Right Majority. Make your choice by visiting AmericanSolutions.com.

I also want to take the time to congratulate a principled Democratic Representative who had the courage to break with his party leadership last week on the issue of domestic energy production.

Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) told CNBC, “We also need more exploration. But we really need to get more oil to the market, particularly from our own country. The best signal we can send to OPEC and anywhere else in the world is maybe not filing a lawsuit against them but actually saying ‘we are going to start producing in our own country.’”

All Americans who are concerned about out-of-control prices and our vulnerability to energy blackmail by foreign dictators should appreciate and acknowledge Congressman Green’s stand. The only question left is the one posed to Green by the CNBC anchor: “Can you convince the other wings of your party to think like you do?”

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By Anonymous @ Monday, October 06, 2008 5:40 PM

This is a completely ridiculous argument which caters to the ignorance of average citizens. Oil is sold or traded on the world market, price determined by econ 1 principles of supply and demand. If US oil companies are mandated to sell all oil drilled in the US to only US citizens and businesses, then we "lefties" might be more open to more domestic drilling. The fact of the matter is, if the US companies were in the business of hepling Americans, they would lower their profits to a minimal and sell oil at lower prices. Corporation's sole purpose is for profit. If US companies are allowed to drill,drill, drill, and flood the world market in an effort to lower prices for American consumers, then OPEC would reduce production accordingly to lower the supply, thus keeping oil prices high. After all, what else do OPEC nations have that to sell? The truth of the matter is that iol comanies only exist to turn a profit when they control the market. Keeping Americans addicted to oil is the greatest rip-off ever, yet we are helpless because oil companies have not offered any alternative to oil. These companies know that if Americans and the world learn to use solar or wind, they will be losing control of the energy markets. Quit lying and tell the truth.

By Anonymous @ Friday, September 19, 2008 1:48 PM

quote from the Colorado Water Examiner

"On Sunday I read a rant about oil shale on a midwest blog (Sorry, I don't have the link). The author said that he was, "sick of the Left," blocking energy projects. He mentioned the estimated trillions of barrels of oil locked up in oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. As I read his post I quickly understood that he thought that oil shale technology was far enough along that the nation is being denied its benefits both for lower energy prices and independence from foreign oil.
In case there are other readers out there that are thinking along similar lines I feel compelled to let you know what I know about the current situation........"

second excerpt follows....

"I've seen estimates of total use by oil shale of 300,000 acre feet per year. Coincidentally, that is pretty close to estimates of the remaining water for the Upper Basin States (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming) in the Colorado River Basin under the Colorado River Compact. In other words, oil shale development may take all the water that is left to develop in Colorado. ..... third excerpt follows
In situ extraction is the technology that is mentioned most often now. The two projects that I've read about are those by Shell and Schlumberger. The in-situ recovery process heats the shale, kerogen (the type of hydrocarbon in the shale) it is hoped, will then pool, quickly enough to be commercial, at the bottom of the formation, so that it can be pumped to the surface. Shell plans to use electricity to heat the rock while Schlumberger recently purchased radio frequency technology for heating the rock. Both methods require electricity and would require electrical generation nearby to level costs. "

For me the bottom line is that I think we really need a lot more investigation before like lemmings we all start chanting drill here drill now

By Anonymous @ Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:21 AM

I have a cocaine problem... I need more cocaine.

This is nuts. We have officially lost our collective minds.

If the reactionary right doesn't wise up, I'm going to move to Wasilla and just live off of federal pork.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:18 AM

You're kidding me, right?

This is as Orson Wellian as we can get. The Martians are invading! Quick, drill here!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:06 PM

Delta; But, the oil companies already have thousands of acres they aren't drilling!

JD; Ya see Delta...

It's the "needle in a haystack" syndrome.

Say you were a tailor searching for 10 golden needles in a 20 foot haystack... and you had leased the haystack from a farmer for 10 days...

Well first of all, you wouldn't be doing it if you didn't think it was worth it! "Heck yea... if there's 10 golden needles in there I'll lease the whole galdarn stack and by golly I'll find 'em!" But... search as you may... through every single piece of hay... you only find one or two needles in the first 3 days!

Then you hear Ramos and Campion on the next haystack have found 5 golden needles! (While at the same time, wounding a needle smuggler while on duty in their positions as haystack guards.) So you begin to think "well, shoot, maybe I'm looking in the wrong dang haystack!" So you put in an option for the "untouched" haystack in front of the barn... and soon find out from local lore, most of the missing golden needles are supposedly... in fact... in that very haystack! But that haystack has a family of Barn Swallows nesting in it.

So, a bunch of protesters come from the "Save-the-Barn Swallows-in-the-Haystack-Society"... and start raising hell because your talking about looking into this "untouched" haystack while you still have 7 days left on your lease for the other frigging haystack! You declare "I have gone through that galdarned haystack with a fine tooth comb and there ain't no more golden needles in it!"

You take the case to the "Exalted Keeper's of the Haystacks" who say... "Well, we... the Exalted Keepers of the Haystacks have decided you cannot search that particular haystack because it rests so beautifully in front of our barn door!

A "Pastoral Scene" you know... sorry!"

Meanwhile, golden needles start becoming very scarce...there value has shot through the roof, and fewer and fewer are being found. Some claim it's "speculators" driving up the cost of golden needles! So the Exalted Keepers of the Haystacks decide "Hmmm, maybe it's time to let someone search that other haystack!"

And right about then, who comes along but 'Ex- Alted" Al Golden who suddenly says, (with a decidedly feminine lisp) "You people have been using the wrong needles all along! Those golden needles are contaminating the environment! You should be using these corn-tassel needles instead... they're natural... and don't harm the planet... and only come from my corn plantation in Key West... but I'm willing to save the planet by selling my corn-tassel needles to you... directly... and if you order in the next ten minutes, I'll double your order of corn-tassel needles and throw in an Al Golden Thimble as well!"

Next thing you know Al Golden and his "partner" have made a sensational movie about the perils of golden needles... and it wins a Fosters! Then some obscure tiny little country gives Al Golden the "No-Bell-Peas-Prize!"

Well, not only are he and his lover raking it in... but now Al has a shot at a career being either an actor or a scientist, (he can't decide which... or what to he should wear to the interviews!)

Then...

Low and behold... the populace begins to waver on the popularity of corn-tassel needles! The corn-tassel needles just don't work as well! Ya see, corn-tassels just don't have the same rigidity as golden needles, or platinum needles for that matter! And the people began to learn that, in fact, there were still many golden needles yet to be found in the remaining haystacks!

Finally, the King of the "Exalted Keepers of the Haystacks" declares, "You can go ahead and search that haystack in front of the barn... and even those in the fields over yonder!" Well... then the King really caught it for that... because protesters claimed he had started a war in a faraway country just to get their golden needles! So why was he just now allowing these haystacks to be searched? (And what about Ramos and Campion?) The King's popularity had waned!

So now, the price of golden needles had reached record highs! And you (the tailor) still had your eye on that haystack in front of the barn. But the Kings court, led by a wealthy corn farmer named Fancy Spilocy says, "No... listen to my court Jester, Harold he'll explain it all…

...as soon as we get back from vacation!"

But the people were tired of waiting... they wanted their needles... and they wanted them now! Fancy and Harold had their lowest ratings ever in the populist polls! A cry rang up through the countryside... "Needles here, Needles now! Needles here, Needles now!" Gangritch the Newt had started the movement and it caught on quickly.

And round about this time it came to pass, a savior appeared. And he said, "think not of golden needles... think not of corn-tassels, for I am the chosen one... who has come to lead you in a new direction. A different way to sew! We are tired of using golden needles. We are tired of using thread... it's time for… Chains!"

And with that another cry arose around the planet, "Chains... Chains... Chains..."

Still, some held back, and said "No... we can't sew with chains... we must search the haystacks" But the throng still bellowed, "YES WE CAN!" And a new era was born. It was the end of golden needles... it was the end of thread... even yarn was loosing it's luster...

It was…

the time…

of… “Chains!”

By Anonymous @ Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:03 AM

this is a great campaign. obama says we cant drill our way out of this problem...john mccaine should tell that fool we cant "hope" our way out of it either.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:37 PM

No Drilling = NO VOTE

Send them packing in November

By Anonymous @ Monday, July 21, 2008 11:18 AM

Harry Reed YOU really need to read this. All America has, but you just seem to be out of the loop and ARE NOT in the same zone as the REST OF AMERICA.

So why don’t your staff look into the web site and you should also. STOP KILLING AMERICA!

The Truth About Crude Oil

First Crude Oil is NOT from Dino the Dinosaur or his brothers. Logically speaking if the earth was covered with a dense primeval forest and there was a Dinosaur living in every five square mile area on the face of the earth, and all this was compressed into a sub surface space for tens of thousands of years, and produced a pool of Crude Oil, it WOULD ONLY FEED the needs of this world for the PAST twenty years, so WHAT FUELED the Industrial Age for the first EIGHTY YEARS???????????????????????????

Think about what is stated above! Science states that oil is the by product of the earths ENGINE as it rotates creating GRAVITY and super heating rock formations, that through this process release oil and this oil flows into cavities within the earth.

Now with this said, what is the reason for the excessive spike in Crude and Natural Gas prices? GREED.
In the 60’s gas sold for 35 cents a gallon, cars got 5 to 7 MPG so a 100 mile trip would take some 16 gallons at a cost of 5 dollars. Today cars get 30 miles to a gallon and that same trip would only take 3 gallons of gas at a cost of 12 dollars. Take into account the LOSS OF VALUE of the FRN and you will see that BIG OIL is KEEPING ITS bottom line HIGH as the efficiency of the engines increase.

There was a contrived oil crisis in the 70’s and there is one today. Why? It is the GREED of BIG OIL! It takes less than 20 dollars to get oil out of the ground and refined into its product and delivered. It takes from 6 months to a year for a well from the day the drill head starts the hole until it produce oil. The Russians can do it in three mounts. Today’s wells exceed 6000 barrels a day, and one off shore platform can have over 20 SLANT WELL HEADS producing oil 24 hours a day.

The United States of America is sitting on the worlds largest coal reserves; it also has more crude oil than the Middle East. Recent finds in Montana exceed what is found in Saudi Arabia, and Pennsylvania has over 3 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas yet to be pumped into the system. Alaska has extensive reserves yet CONGRESS has for years REFUSED to allow the release of this oil, because of RED TAPE and that they are under the control of ENVIRONMENTALIST groups. These groups want all Americans to ride bikes and live as the settlers did in the 1800. Congress continues to LIE regarding the time it takes to drill a well and get the oil into the system. They state that it would be ten years before wells drilled today could produce oil. This is a BOLD FACE LIE. Congress has prohibited drilling for the past two decades, if what they say is true and if they allowed drilling decades ago we would NOT HAVE FOUR DOLLAR A GALLON GAS PRICES, and HOME HEATING OIL WOULD NOT BE OVER FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON, THAT WILL CAUSE A HEATING CRISIS THIS WINTER, and SOME AMERICAN MAY FREEZE TO DEATH FOR LACK OF HEAT. CONGRESS IS TO BLAME IF THIS OCCURS.

Today’s advances in drilling insure a protected environment. The WILD CAT wells of the early 1900 are a thing of the past.

Environmentalist claim that the exhaust of power plants create TONS of CO2, HOWEVER, CO2 is a GAS and is measured in cubic feet NOT TONS. The advance scrubbing of the exhausts prevent most hydrocarbons from being suspended in the atmosphere. Most ALL the reasons given by environmentalist are not science, but an agenda to deprive Americans of their standard of living.

For MORE INFORMATION of the Truth About Big Oil visit

http://www.ilm-efx.5u.com/photo4.html

You Will Be Amazed, and make sure you click on the link GLOBAL WARMING and read what the ENVIRONMENTALIST do not want you to know about NON GLOBAL WARMING BY MAN.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:38 AM

It is absolutely vital that we drill, pump and refine NOW! All this talk and debate about global warming, carbon emissions and moving toward alternative energy technologies is great, BUT it is not just the price of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that is at stake. Every time you go to the store consider that virtually EVERYTHING you see, touch, buy and use daily was made from or brought to you by oil (food, clothing, medicines, plastic, paint, toys, packaging, fertilizer, insulation, personal care products, and asphalt to name just a few). We now import 70% of the oil we use at a cost of 2 billion dollars per day. This will soon bankrupt us and make the dollar worth less than used toilet paper. We are also at great risk of being held hostage by the likes of Iran and Venezula when they stop oil exports and we see an energy crisis that makes the 1970's seem like nothing. If we fail to act quickly and decisively on this, history will mark this as the crisis that finally destroyed the United States.

By Anonymous @ Friday, July 04, 2008 2:08 PM

This is a great campaign...I hope it generates 10,000,000 signatures. More important, I hope it wakes up the Republican Party! Anyone who would like a template for a page of labels to add to every letter you send promoting the "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" campaign and other conservative causes, check out http://declaration2009.org. It's free - no strings attached!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:37 PM

It is time for America to wake up. Oil prices are never going to go back down, EVEN WHEN BUSH IS NOT PRESIDENT. We need to stop being lazy and start drilling our own oil for our country. Democrats and LIberals, wake up, your leaders don't want to help gas prices to go down because they want us to stop using gas, and stop "hurting" the environment. Wake up, it's 2007, we will never stop driving, we will never close factories and until a demmy or liberal actually thinks of a good idea that will BENEFIT people, they will always look like the idiot party that causes more harm than good. Not cutting gas prices hurts our economy, it's all linked. Think bout it. ;)

By Anonymous @ Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:36 PM

Ask Congress and Reed, why the GULL ISLAND OIL POOL was capped?
There are a dozens wells capped that could be operational TODAY and feeding the Alaska Pipe Line. This oil could get us free from the Middle East Oil.
Go to this web site for "The Rest Of The Story"
http://www.ilm-efx.5u.com/photo4.html

By Anonymous @ Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:41 AM

BUMPER STICKERS!!!!! We need millions of them before the fall elections. More than just "Drill here, drill now, pay less" - how about "Nuclear NOW - 700 million Europeans can't be wrong"

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:52 PM

More drilling is like growing more cocaine. Let's continue the destructive, disease-ridden habit! How stupid! America needs nuclear, solar, wind, and increased mpg, not more oil! Studidity lives in the conservative mind!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:01 PM

The bleeding heart liberals and environmentalists are ruining this country. Time to get real and not beleive all the doom and gloom from Al Gore. We should have been drilling in Alaska years ago and we would not be in the situation we are in today.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:50 AM

Yes, drill now, not later. We need all forms of energy. Drill in Alaska, Drill off shore off our coasts, we need to use all forms of energy, Solar power, wind, clean coal, etc.
We need more drilling everywhere in the U.S. for natural gas, oil. Congress has been dragging their feet on this energy issue for too long (years). This should have been done 20 years ago.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:26 PM

While we're at it - let's get more refinery capability. It's about time!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:47 PM

Newt is 100% correct. The environmentalist are destroying our country and the strength of our nation. Somebody in our county wants to build a windmill for energy and some neighbors think that it will destroy the beauty of the landscape. Would they rather speak Arabic? What would our Country look like then? Drill Now and use alternative resources.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:47 PM

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:17 PM

Yes I agree with what Mr Gingrich is saying, but what about the monies that Saudi Arabia and Iraq owe the United States? Why can't they pay us back with oil? I read or heard that Saudi Arabia alone owes us 6 billion dollars, wouldn't that be a great start in helping the fuel crunch? Also that would give American oil companies time to rebuild and refit our exsiting oil refineries that are in much disrepair. Also it would it would give time to do studies on what would be the best location to drill.
In turn by making these countries (not only these countries but others too) pay up in their natural assets, it would boost our economy and out national standing in the world markets.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 23, 2008 11:29 AM

I just don’t get how the bureaucrats in Washington think or do they? We as the middle class are getting squeezed from all sides. Housing crisis, food cost, gas increases cost of living surpassing wage increases. The time to act is now before the middle class disappears and we as a nation lose faith in the government’s ability to protect and to serve the best interest of the people. We hear all the scuttlebutt about alternative fuel sources and the protection of environmental concerns in witch I agree to, but at what cost with the present cost of fossils fuels, witch we depend on so much from foreign countries. We as a nation must stand up against the machine and become self dependant in regards to the current fuel issues. If we have the potential to loosen the grip that the opic community has upon us, we must act now, quickly and decisively in order to preserve our god given rights our forefathers fought and died for. As we prepare to celebrate our countries birth, I would like to think that the government created for the people by the people is still our true mission. With our countries current financial weaknesses among the world’s leaders, can we as a nation truly state we are a global leader amongst all men. I also believe that if we were to become an independent self supplier of fossil fuels. Some of the monies that we pour into the Middle East region would not have chance to filter to alqaeda and its known terrorist groups. As parents we want our children and our children’s children to be able to enjoy all the civil liberties guaranteed through the Constitution of the United States. In closing I whole heartedly support the drill now drill here initiative. Please for the sake of us all that reside within this great nation. Cut out the bureaucratic red tape and make tomorrow a better place for our children and their futures, and insure that the United states of America is and will always be the leader in the new world global economy setting the pace for the rest of the world to follow and admire.

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 20, 2008 9:51 PM

I was in nuclear research for 8 years. I quit because politics interfered with us doing anything worth while to use the cleanest most efficient source of power in the universe. I spent the next 27 years in the oil industry, comissioned and operated the Prudhoe bay oil field in Alaska. I listened to the same lies then that are being recycled to prevent us from using our resourses. These people do not want us to use our energy, because if we did we will remain a superpower. If we don't we go down to a third world status and our enemies we now fund will be running this country. I do not want to learn Arabic or Russian, and Chinese is too difficult for a man of my years.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:22 PM

I think instead of the "Drill now, Drill here thing" America needs to re-route the Alaskan pipeline towards America and fulfill the promises which were made back in the 60's and 70's, namely, to make America free from foreign oil. But Americans should know that our national debt is directly tied to the oil problem and this is just another diversion for the public to align with.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:49 PM

I finally found something Newt is suggesting that I can support. I agree we need to start drillng for our own oil here in America. It is time we start to completely cut off the OPEC Nations and let them feel the pinch they will be in then.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:54 PM

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less is the way to go. Please deliver our petition to the
house of representatives. Thanks

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:26 AM

Please start drilling now and stop letting these greedy bastards take more of our money because their billion dollar profits arn' enough

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:25 PM

I'm all for this proposal as one alternative. I'm also willing to let Iraq pay us back in the form of oil for giving their people a chance at freedom. We've spent about $500 billion on protecting them - I would like a little in return.
I would also like to know the truth behind the escalation in prices. I've read about too much demand in Russia and China. I've read about Peak Oil supplies reaching it's maximum capacity in 2006 - others say 2030. I've heard and read that it's the speculators trading the commodity. Somewhere out there is truth and I demand it. And by the way, a little note to Congress - I can handle the truth so give it to me.
Once again our Government has failed us because they are reactionary. Are you telling me that these people didn't see this coming. I say vote them all out of office as none of them deserve to represent the people because they don't know how to.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:30 AM

Newt,
This website is greatness....reminiscant of the intestinal fortitude you had in the 90's.
What is the deal with you appearing in the global warming ads with Nancy Pelosi? I lost my lunch, and respect.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 16, 2008 11:12 PM

For those who are opposed to Newts petition, you are in denial. Think about what will happen if we continue the same policy that the environmentalist have set for more than 30 years. It has not helped to do anything except to put us in the predicament we are now in. They have not only put a halt to our building independence from foreign countries but with lawsuits increased the cost of any project that could help us. What Congress has to do along with the Drill here, Drill Now petition and bill is to ensure that environmentalists can't sue to stop drilling or building of new refineries and so forth. This of course is the short to mid-term solution and then we can begin moving towards renewable energies that are not subsidized in any way. Subsidies are simply socialistic/communistic ways to do things that the Constitution doesn't allow. However, we have to do the renewable energies in a way that doesn't harm our economy. All of this should be market driven with any hindering of this effort kept at bay as part of the legislation. I hope this petition is able to sway some Democrats. If we could get a bipartisan showing on this petition we would be able to get this pushed through and running before a new President is put in office.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 16, 2008 6:16 PM

please start drilling so we don't have to miss anymore meals just buy gas to get to work.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 16, 2008 11:24 AM

nuclear seems the way to go. we can and should drill here on a limited responsable basis but not in the oceans. We really need to protect them, It's disgracefull how humanity has used them as a garbage dump.
Ultimitaly, we still need to get going on new sourses of energy and for gods sake, buy SMALLER cars

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:07 PM

I am all for trying to drill here...we have to try and do something.

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 13, 2008 7:07 PM

My father was a coal miner from Kentucky and we grew up with coal as our heat.we have sat back for too long and let the foreign countries absorbe us.Now we must reclaim our US and make it strong and not dependant on foreign comidities so that our children and theirs etc will again be proud and FREE from having to fight for what we have @ home. " GOD BLESS AMERICA"!

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 13, 2008 1:33 PM

we need to open up the areas of the country to drilling for oil.I beleive we are like Baeney Fife shooting our selves in the foot

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 13, 2008 8:50 AM

so far nobody has touched on the real reason gas is high.
the oil companys make very little on the gas we buy .
the bulk of the money goes to the world bank and imf. the next share goes to pay our national debt if you remember back in the early 60's when kissenger started opec the agreement was that we buy there oil and they buy back our national debt . the deal has not changed if we use oil from here our monitary system will collapse. because they will stop buying our debt .witch by the way is 9.5 trillon.we got enough oil in alaska to suppy us for the next 200 years.but if wy use it the dollar will colapse and everybody who has money on paper would be broke.
oh and two countries did not sign with opec irac and iran .we fixed irac now we got to fix iran cause if they flood the market with oil (and they are capable and ready)our economy will collapse for the same reasons.as stated above.
someone above said the gov is our worst enemy thats only partly true its allso our thirst for credit we as americans live way beyond our means .that high living we do shows up as the national debt .and because we let somedeals go down in the past we are paying for them now at the pump.

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 13, 2008 5:52 AM

Dear boneheads. Forget about Red and Blue, right and left. It doesn't matter who ends up running the show. The REAL threat to the world and of course our country can be found at this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&q=&hl=en

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:35 PM

what da hell drill here in u.s.we have the necesseties ?speling?why not use them!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:41 PM

Should have drilled 10 years ago. the worst enemy we have in the world is our own government!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:46 PM

We know that oil is a limited resource. Why drill here? Why keep drilling elsewhere? If we start drilling locally, the prices may go down, but our nation is going to face this same issue a few years from now. Of course everyone would like to pay less at the pump, but it's time for change. It's sad to think our "powerful" nation can be crushed by raising oil prices. Drilling here is not the answer to helping this country succeed. It's a quick fix, not a sustainable solution.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:33 PM

You are not suggesting that the Government get into the oil business are you. Would there be a lottery to decide which company got which patch of land in which to drill?
No matter who ... (so one or two of the giants do not get an exclusive). This time just print out the bill and let us read it, so we'll know if we support it or against it.
LET'S JUST DO IT!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:21 PM

Newt, if this country doesn't get rid of the left wing radicals in this country and start doing what's correct for this country, we are going to be eaten alive by the likes of China, Russia and other progressive nations. What made this country great was productivity, and slowly but surely the leaders of this country are forgetting it. "START DRILLIN" and forget the environmental "wackos"!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:34 PM

The government has been trying for years to wean americans from their gas guzzling vehicles. Nothing has worked up till now. By raising gas prices in concert with the oil companies, americans are now for the first time being forced to buy small cars. Having come from Europe, the price of gas has always been absurd but we had to adapt and drive motor scooters and the smallest cars we could buy. America is now at the crossroads. If we do not become self sufficient and produce our own oil reserves, we will always be at the mercy of the people who hate us the most.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:21 PM

I agree 100%

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:06 PM

What the government doesn't screw up they crap on. How much longer do we need to depend on others for our way of life. Will we ever know how the price of a gallon of gas is calculated. How many gallons of gas will one barrel make? Turn around, grab your ankles cause you are fixin' to get it.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:03 PM

I fully support the proposal Mr.Gingrich's proposal. why are we paying lip service to the Saudi Royal Family,political expediency. they have not increased their oil production.
Respectfully submitted

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:11 PM

GOOD LUCK & GOD SPEED MR GINGRICH.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:23 PM

We need Atomic Energy moving our commuters and powering our homes.
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Why does this have to be a government effort...private enterprise does can do it quicker, better, cheaper and safer.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:57 PM

Recovering the shale oil will support our needs for 30 years by which we should have found a viable solution, such as hydrogen, to replace gas and diesel for transportation

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:07 AM

I support newt 100%. tell congress to buy my gas for one month and see how they like it.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:00 AM

Get rid of the EPA so we can have our companies stay in the USA. We need to drill for oil and stop letting other countires drill off the coast of Florida.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:53 AM

Newt, Get er done!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:05 AM

Newt, I applaud your campaign and appreciate your efforts in encouraging Americans to take a stand against our elected officials that are derailing this countries prosperity. I do believe we should drill here drill now; more importantly wean our dependency on foreign oil. I also believe this current situation should serve as a wake up call for all Americans on educating our youth in the math, sciences and technology fields and further focus on research and development of alternate energy sources, which in turn could set the standard for the world. Our republican nominee needs to be forward thinking and address these issues.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:16 AM

My Dear Mr Gingrich,
Drilling, while VERY important, is unfortunately not the sole message we need to get out to the American consciousness, and into action.
The "mobile fuels" need to be preserved for the industries that cannot survive without the energy density that support them: Air; Rail; Overseas Shipping; and Trucking.

We MUST get the average American's commute automobile OFF these fuels. We MUST get the American household OFF of these fuels.

To do so calls for a NATIONAL PROGRAM to develop a next generation car that is electric (not hybred) we need homes that are heated and cooled electrically, not by fuel oil or Natural Gas generation. That notion translates directly to Atomic Energy.

We need Atomic Energy moving our commuters and powering our homes.

Natural Gas, fuel oils, coal-to-fuel need to be PRESERVED for our major transportation needs: Military, Trucking, Ships, Rail and Air Travel.

Atomic energy can easily power our homes and move us daily to our jobs and back, but this goal can only be accomplished QUICKLY by a program driven at the government level that permits, through tax and research credits, grants and regulation the development of electric (or nuclear generated hydrogen) systems capable of supplying the kinds of transportation the American people need and expect to get through our daily lives.

It is difficult to anticipate the day that major air travel, overseas shipping or trucks and rail traffic can be accomplished without oil and its derivitives in the NEAR-ENOUGH FUTURE to prevent our National Wealth from being transferred to the middle east or despots like Chaves in S.A.

BUT IF WE PUT OUR COLLECTIVE STRENGTH INTO A PROGRAM TO GET THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SUBSTANTIALLY OFF OF PETROLEUM IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WE WILL SURVIVE THE ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION.

Jack Kennedy did it for us getting to the moon, we can accomplish this task to get us to work, save our national wealth, create whole new industries , reduce global warming (or at least do our part to reduce man-made greenhouse gasses, even if the two are not lock-step related). But most important, to quit sending our wealth to people we should not be financing.

This change alone can have a hugely benficial effect on the American economy. The price of oil can be reduced just by the threat of the US reducing the global demand. This puts more money into the pockets of the average Joe, a "stimulus package" that would make the last one look like peanuts.

This is perhaps the singular omission GW Bush failed to grasp; Once he stated "We are addicted to oil", had he started this kind of program THEN, the auto makers and the oil companies could already be well on the way to beat back the invasion of foreign auto makers and save the jobs here in our country. The oil companies already have the understanding and means to disribute fuels, it would be a short leap to moving hydrogen deployment. Included in such a program, they would be instrumental in its adoption. And Oil will never just "go away". GE is a world-class supplier of nuclear energy technology. As a nation, we just simply have to "get over it" regarding our fear of depolyment, T.M.I. did so much damage to our national psyche, and yet France supplies something like 80% of their electric energy with it.

Canada can still be a great alli in this economic war. Natural Gas can be the bridge and can be converted to move goods where the energy density of petroleum isn't quite required.

We HAVE to use our existing systems wisely and conserve the industries that have gotten us this far. But they MUST change with the times. Everyone needs to have a piece of the new pie too.

Everyone in America that is.

I have always respected you for your open mind and the fight you have outlined here IS essential. But we CANNOT stop there. We have to have the end goal in sight to get the process correct.

Regards
DJ Brown

Let's get America once again into the forefront of the energy game. We taught the world how to drill, now let's show them how to do the next version of powering the planet.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:04 PM

Newt, I'll put it bluntly. If you cause the country to squander what little oil we have left, then a few decades from now, my grandchildren, as yet unborn, will use your grave for a latrine.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:49 PM

Should Obama become our next President and the Democrats enjoy comfortable majorities in both houses of Congdess, look to the Democrats to become heroes by allowing drilling and exploration for oil, ironically in all of the places conservatives have been clammering for for decades.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:32 PM

Git-R-Done! Screw all these treehugging, save the spotty owl, oh my God It's global warming weirdos..... Let's do the RIGHT AMERICAN thing and take of ourselves first! If they don't like it...... MOVE!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:52 PM

Newt and Sean need to stick to politics. Besides, if this oil was as readily available and here today at a low cost, what would you do with it anyway? Sqaunder it like we have for the past 100+ years until its gone thats what. Billions of barrels of oil may sound like alot but not really, especially when you divide it by 86 million barrels per day which is the world's oil consumption (or you may divide by 20 million barrels per day for the US if we are going to assume it will not be sold to a higher bidder).

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3969

http://hubbert.mines.edu/news/Youngquist_98-4.pdf

http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/7/12/101236/478#more

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:35 PM

Perhaps you didn't notice, but "drill here, drill now" is what WE DID for decades, and that is why Texas and Oklahoma are tapped out and barely producing oil now.

If we "drill here, drill now", our children will have to import 100% of the oil they use. What is the matter with you people? Do the words "family values" mean anything to you?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:37 PM

My Energy Manifesto:

* Cease all ethanol production. It takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it. This will create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and will cease regional "boutique" blends (gasohols) which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. Ethanol blends get fewer miles to the gallon, and adds to the cost of production and transportation. Newer cars do not need oxygenated fuels.

* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.

* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.

* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!

* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Breeders are OK, but PBMR's are better. Refine spent nuke fuel for recycling. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.

* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.

* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.

* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.

If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require the dismissal of all RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider any of the above.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:04 PM

I am all for drilling for oil from our own reserves like we did many years ago. We can not keep depending on other countries. Nuclear power sounds like an intelligent choice, but we should proceed with caution. We can't afford any more accidents. We definately should look into other natural resources as well. Nothing should be overlooked...and lets not forget coal. We have plenty of that.

And may I add.....I think we need to stop letting all of these ILLEGAL imigrants into our country. They consume a lot of our energy and resources, crowd up the highways, consume our food, get free medical care when most of our citizens can't get any, have too many kids, and work for very low pay, so our citizens can't get jobs or have to settle for salaries that are barely enough to survive.

We need to tighten up our borders and focus on our own people and stop relying on these foreign countries for oil and supplies.

What happened to Independence Day!! Hello, wake up and smell the coffee!!

We are turning into a third-world country, our dollar isn't worth anything compared to a lot of these other countries and we are selling ourselves out, out-sourcing all of our jobs, We are in terrible debt and headed for trouble. I think that a lot of people would agree that this is very depressing!

WE REALLY NEED A CHANGE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! YOU HAVE MY VOTE!

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 09, 2008 4:17 PM

Thank you Mr. Gingrich. You are saying all of the right words for the salvation of this country. My representative, Mr. Cronyn agrees with you. I only wish that you had been in the race for the presidency. You sure would have had my vote, and millions of others, I am sure.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:21 PM

Nancy P needs to get with the times. We need to drill in the USA and start being responsible to ourselves. Stop sending money abroad.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:11 PM

We need to Drill for all the oil the U.S. requires and sever our need to purchase other's Oil.
Additionally we need to build refinery's to meet the need,

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:07 AM

Why would you go to a Barry Manilow concert when he is a homo, liberal idiot, right wing hand up his butt, liberal?

By Anonymous @ Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:49 PM

Its the way to go Too many of our people will be cold and not be able to go to work. Drill now so we can take care of the people in the US. This is the time , as the politions say-"It is time for change". Who was it that said we could not drill?We all know don't we.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:37 PM

Please start drilling as soon as possible.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, June 07, 2008 7:02 PM

Why doesn't the President go on tv and issue an executive order to suspend all laws regarding Anwar and immediately send in the Army Corps of Engineers along with Haliburton to start drilling immediately?

This would immediately force the price of oil down because the evil speculators would then see that the days of their greed are over and the Saudi's would realize we are for real.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:39 PM

Nancy needs to get with the times we live in at our level. Nancy often times has diarrea of the mouth.
RD

By Anonymous @ Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:32 PM

I have signed the petition. I have been a Democrat since old enough to register. My parents were Dems and no one was more patriotic that my father, a WWII vet, Purple Heart Receipent, and served in the US Army for 22 years. We have often voted Republican, due to our beliefs and faith in a candidate. This past week, after listening to radio and watching news, and after being totally disgusted with the Democratic Party, (Obama!, you have got to be kidding me!), I changed my part affilation to Republican. No, I am not rich and yes, I pay a large amt in taxes every year, because I work long and hard, but I can no longer be a member of a party that stands for the "boards in the platform" that they stand for, now.

By Anonymous @ Friday, June 06, 2008 4:47 PM

What we need is more refineries, there has not been a new one built in long time. We need to stop investing in drilling for oil and develope renewable resources like solar, wind and biomass conversion to fuel oils.
Stop subsidizing farmers to grow corn for ethanol, it is a zero sum game that takes more energy then we get back and is causing food prices to rise.
Legalize canabis and hemp. We can get more biogas from that, then corn per acre and amke everthing people need to survive from food, clothing, plastics, paints, bilding materials adn medicine, there there is no other plant so versital, that can prvide so much and needs nothing but a little water to grow!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:46 PM

You know, oil is a great substance. It is very useful as a base product to make all kinds of things from plastics to fertilizer, not to mention lubricating moving mechanical items (or people). But unless we get our act together, the prices will keep going upward.

The problem IS our government! You know, the "leaders" who are pushing up the price of oil by harming us with things such as:

* Requiring, by law, more than two blends of gasoline (unleaded and super unleaded), causing the few refineries there are to make incompatible blends (boutique fuels) for different states so that when there is a refinery shutdown, the cost goes up since supplies can't just be substituted elsewhere.

* Requiring, by law, the production of ethanol for use as a fuel, which actually consumes more energy to produce (mostly as oil), than the energy available in the ethanol produced. Of course as a by-product also requiring us to also use up more farmland, and drive corn prices up and thus meat prices, soda prices, and anything else that uses corn products.

* Requiring, by law, that diesel burn insanely cleaner than gasoline, such that the production of much more efficient diesel engines (using less oil) is reduced due to the increase of cost of said technology.

* Discouraging the use of our vast coal reserves to make oil by requiring, by law, that the oil produced burn cleaner than the real stuff.

* Disallowing oil companies, by law, to produce domestic oil reserves with off-shore drilling and Alaskan drilling.

* Discouraging the use of our vast reserves of uranium by making, by law, the start up and ongoing costs of nuclear power so high due to over-regulation, causing electricity production to instead be furnished mostly by oil, gas, and coal.

Thomas Jefferson said we need a good uprising against the Govt. every 20 years or so - we're a little overdue! Time to kick those idiots out of Govt. and get rid of so many stupid Anti-American citizen laws. Before electing someone, ask how many laws they intend to remove from, not add to, the books.

Bryan for President - 2012 :-)

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:37 PM

I don't agree with this drilling scheme. Oil is a finite resource. This country has been sucking oil out of other countries to where I believe they are finally awake to what a screwing they've taken. Most didn't think to realize the end would come sooner than later. And they still don't have the sense to say enough is enough. They don't even build nuclear power plants with all that money, all they have are high rises, palaces and highways to essentially nowhere. In the meantime our country and few others have sat on our oil resources and used this foreign oil to produce products that oil rich kingdoms (dictatorships) would buy with the oil money they earned. Hence our oil fed economy has hummed along until just recently as oil prices now creep up to exceed the price of our exports. Not good.
Now is not the time to drill, now is the time to build an infrastructure of nuclear fueled power plants, fully develop hydro systems and an electrical grid that will power our nations industry, transport systems, vehicles, ships and trains as well as urban people movers. This country should have high speed electric powered rail between metropolitan centers that eliminate the need for long distance motor freight, and air travel between cities along the east coast, west coast and other interior high density population centers.
Mineral extraction, refining, processing and the manufacturing goods can all be done with use of nuclear power. Oil is a lubricant. Using fossil fuel or oil for heating anything where electric can be used is a real waste.

It is criminal the way we are wasting time and a precious finite resource by promoting this ongoing panic about the price of oil. Hey! What's this? The bottled water generation complaining about the price of gasoline? Basic economics and common sense applied to limited resources dictate there is no way to cut the price we pay for oil by just drilling for more of this finite rescource. We are simply wasting more time and more oil by doing so. Don't wast oil energy drilling, use it for building nuclear power plants.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:36 PM

All the drilling in the world will still leave our country dependent on oil and the whims of present government and non-government parasites that claim to serve the public interest. The only resource available on this planet that can reduce our need for oil as a fuel is Nuclear energy. Until we have leadership in this country that has the vision and guts to lead and achieve replacement of fossil fueled power plants with nuclear power plants we are doomed to have a 2nd and possibly 3rd rate economy. This country is sliding backward while other nations some that were bombed into rubble in past wars are now taking the lead and have first rate leading economies. Newt, are you the kind of leader with the visiion and drive lead in making this country energy indepedent? Descendents will damn this generation for wasting fossil fuel resources for generating electricty when while knowing full well that nuclear power was a safe, clean and unlimited resource. Even a person out of high school serving on a Submarine or Air Craft Carrier knows full well how safe and efficient nuclear power is. Name one incident where some one was injured as a result of a nuclear accident on one of our ships.....What we are doing to our country is insantty. What the Chinese are doing is building not only more hydro-electric, they are building 50 nuclear power plants. No I'm not going to move to China.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:03 PM

The greatest deterrent to this Nation gaining freedom from foreign fuel is the United States Congress.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:05 AM

Dear Mr Speaker, Please convene the leaders of the Republican Party (yourself, Rudy, Mitt, Karl Rove, etc) and consider campaigning for the candidates whose Senate seats are in jeopardy. We must regain the Senate majority in this election and accepting defeat is not a solution.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:46 PM

Yes, drill now, drill here and build new refineries. Working toward new energy technoligies is great but why not use the resources given to us by our God while we need them now? This would lower energy prices and create thousands of jobs for our own citizens of all education levals. We cry over lost jobs and a solution is looking at us in the face. We should be good stewards of the world God has given up but with the new technoligies that can be done. Energy effect everyone in our country. We need it to drive, cook, keep warm and live. Do we want to go back to the 1800's life style?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:31 PM

Not only should we make the venture into producing our own fuel we also need to look at other improvements that can be made with energy. If you have not seen the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car" you should. Americans need to see this and push car manufacturers and the United States government to do what is right for the American people and not the bank account of already wealthy corporations.

By techman1 @ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:26 PM

If we would stop paying farmers not to plant crops, and give them an incentive to grow sugar beets for ethynol that would help. Dtrilling here would be the first step toward energy independence.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:47 AM

I have signed the petition.
Sir, I have one problem, the Al Gore Global Warming crowd will not let us drill for oil. They want to stop all of it. You and the rest of our leaders are buying into his rhetoric. That is hurting us to no end.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 02, 2008 2:34 PM

What ever happened to the "greater good"? Are you tired of being bullied? Come on GOP and start playing some offense! Everyone I speak to, including liberals, want to send a message to the arabs. I would be willing to bet that between 95 and 98% of Americans want to drill and dig here and now.

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 02, 2008 12:41 PM

I think it's time our Government got off it's "duff" and started drilling for oil in Alaska and off shore , also to build more refineries so as to be independant of the OPEC countries. NO MORE EXCUSES !

By Anonymous @ Monday, June 02, 2008 10:27 AM

We need to drill but we also need our government to insist on the MPG statndards we should have enforced 30 years ago

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:17 PM

YOUR KIDDING, drill here? ha. We already do and sell it overseas. Our manpower per hour is too high because of the unions. Its cheaper to buy it from Chavez. Wake up America. Your politicans are pulling on your heart strings and we're being dupped again.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:46 PM

lets do it already. what do we elected officals for if not to take care of us.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:12 PM

fOil is only a part of a national disaster that is putting us on the skids. What can we do? Who can help?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:11 PM

fOil is only a part of a national disaster that is putting us on the skids. What can we do? Who can help?

By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 31, 2008 8:01 AM

As a former and long time Republican activist I find your comments and 'solutions' re-energizing. Go for it! Tag the 'Drill Here...' campaign with measurable requirements for development of alternative fuel systems and then make the campaign a 'litmus test' for anyone running for legislative or executive office. Damn; I use to hate that term, but not in this case.

By Anonymous @ Friday, May 30, 2008 7:30 PM

Every hike in gas prices and food prices
etc; is a PAY CUT for every American.
Our congress is responsible for this because of its pandering to the wacko
environmentalists and the ACLU sueing
everybody.
Second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says, "......deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...." That's us!
We need to drill for oil and use our enormous coal reserves to releive us from the economic crisis we are in.
This is our land and our oil and coal.
Get it for us. The revinue from this will pay for all the liberal projects they love so much.
We are hurting and only a congress without any conscience or compassion for their fellow citizens will continue to hold
back this much needed product.
If they do hold back....we must hold back our vote next election!!!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:53 PM

Love your bumper stickers, but how about t-shirts or ball caps of the same slogan? I would love to see an "ocean" of people all "drillers"at all political rallies and conventions. To advocate being a "driller" is not Republican or Democrat, it's really just common sense.
If you mix blue and red together you could get some interesting colors that stand out in a crowd.
Imagine thousands of such people and send that photo to Saudi Arabia.
"We're not talkin', we're doin'."
Good luck.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:19 PM

i believe to drill here, drill now is a wonderful idea to get our dependency on oil but where will the government get the money for the project? it will coast millions and millions of dollars. by raising taxes once again? dont you think taxes are already sky high. Its a good idea but not a solution.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:58 PM

I agree we need to find other forms of energy and get away from gas, but lets face it, that technology is still at least a decade away from being available and affordable for the average person, drill here, drill now, can help greatly until alternative fuels become available. And corn is not the answer, with the dwindling availability of farmland, we can't produce enough corn to supply fuel and food. The price of corn oil based foods has already skyrocketed in order to satisfy the ethanol needs.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:14 PM

Hi Newt, I just thought I would make a few comments. I am so sick of special interest groups with their own little interest and agendas , always seeming to be able to run my life and always in my pockets. I am so sick of illegal immigrants coming into my country trying to destroy it and getting away with disobaying its laws when I cant even do five miles over the speed limit with out getting nailed with a big fine. Thank you for listening to my rants. James

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:57 AM

PLEASE, PLEASE run for President. You are our only hope! I believe it would be unbelievable the support you would receive. There must be a way to get this done.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:44 AM

PLEASE spare us ....

Just saw you on Hannity, can no one speak the truth to us, not even you...

If the 3 possible choices left for American voters don't demostrate that this whole system needs to go, I shudder to think what will come along to make that happen but my guess is Pres. Obama.

The # 1 priority of any human system(if not all sytems) is to survive - self perpetuate - NOT "do the right thing" or do what is good for us - the people-
One historical figure comes to mind who did the right thing for his people- Julius Caesar- and before him- Sulla Felix gave it a hell of a shot, until he realized he couldn't kill all the corrupt senators ,,, so he "retired" to his villa ...what political leader today is even close to that kind of thinking - the people first - or Military leader either - sadly they are all products of the same corrupt system- American "democracy" the joke of the planet...

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:26 PM

what about campaigning for conservation rather than leading people to believe that when we do exploit the oil shale everything will be ok? the oil shale won't last forever and then we'll just have to pay more in a few years anyway. i am all for domestic oil production, but we have got to do something about americas reckless consumption of goods.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:39 PM

We need someone to track the voting record of our congress, publish it prior to all future elections, (especially primaries) and we must vow to remove those from office who refuse to honor the will of the American people! After the first election their arrogant behavior will change.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:52 PM

to say we need to 'get away from dependency on oil' is naive and not based on fact and/or physics. Please read " The Bottomless Well" to gain understanding. I long for the day libs see the "light" and admit that their asinine policies are the MAIN cause of the dilemna we can't seem to understand

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:56 PM

I have the utmost respect and admiration for you Mr. Newt! Keep up the good work, I hope to see 1,000,000 signatures before this is over.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:50 PM

when is america going to wake up we are soon becoming a second rate nation we need to improve our own resourses or we will bankrupt america the middle income is feeling the burden more than most

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:06 AM

Lets drill here. is fine but the real call to action is to get away from gas/oil and into other forms of energy. And lord help leave the corn for the cows.

By Wally @ Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:16 PM

Excellent Campaign Mr. Gingrich. Like many others, I sent out the message to my my e-mail list the day you announced the campaign. ********************
I wonder if Nancy Will Sit on the Couch With You and Say, "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less"? :-)

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