Colorado's self-proclaimed "moderate" Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar, screams like a wounded elk whenever anyone questions his moderate credentials. Conservative nationally syndicated talk show host Rush Limbaugh, in his morning commentary yesterday, fingered Salazar for keeping oil shale lands from being leased in western Colorado, despite their 800 billion barrels of oil--badly needed in the current energy crisis.
Salazar shot back that the technology isn't developed yet to exploit them, and reverted to the liberal Democratic mantra of attacking the oil companies. The voters are getting wise to Salazar and the other liberals, however.
Having seen that President Bush's lifting of his ban on off-shore oil drilling has peeled $27 a barrel off oil prices in two weeks, they can see that it is the threat of new supplies, not actual oil, that scares the Middle East sultans of the oil trade. Full-speed-ahead development of all possible sources of oil, not the actual oil itself, brings down the price of energy.
The latest presidential preference polls in Colorado have John McCain pulling out ahead of Barack Obama for the first time, largely because he has advocated drilling and exploration as the answer to high gas prices, while liberal Democrats like Obama and Salazar dither about the environment, oil company profits, ad nauseum--with no answers.
The voters are up in arms about $4 gas and $5 diesel. Democrats are thrilled to see it, to cut consumption. Voters see what the answer is, as they are strapped to meet the high fuel prices, and are moving to vote that way.
I wonder if Obama and they boys will wake up and smell the coffee, before its too late.
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