Shocked Baby is Shocked That Domestic Drilling Doesn’t Lower Gas Prices!

Shocking! WASHINGTON — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show. A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil…

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“Drill Baby Drill” is “Dumb Baby Dumb”

Well, it is a Republican idea so is anyone really surprised that “Drill Baby Drill” is “Dumb Baby Dumb?”  I know I’m not. On the campaign trail, Newt Gingrich keeps insisting that if America drilled for more oil, we could return to the days of $2.50-per-gallon gasoline. Michael Conathan says this is dubious, noting that drilling…

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Ron Johnson’s greatest BP hits

Watch for yourself: Something tells me it’s gonna be a long campaign for Ron Johnson.

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Ron Johnson flip-flops on Great Lakes oil drilling

Remember when Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson said he wanted to drill for oil in the Great Lakes, if oil could be found under the lakes? Well apparently Johnson, who’s finally figured out that supporting drilling for oil under the Great Lakes is a losing position, has flip-flopped on…

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Ron Johnson: “Drill those Great Lakes dry!”

Despite the fact that the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill still hasn’t been stopped nearly two months after it first started, leading to an environmental disaster the likes of which our nation hasn’t seen in its history, Republican U.S. Senate Ron Johnson thinks it’s a swell…

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