Offshore Drilling

Add one more reason that I fall into the 80% of Americans who think this country is on the wrong track.

The House approve a bill opening waters 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural gas development.

It still has to be approved by the senate (which it probably will since the Democrats have become weaklings pandering to the desire by the public for lower gas prices in an election year).

Despite as the article points out: "But expanded offshore drilling has become a mantra of Republican energy policy that has been felt in both presidential and congressional campaigns, even though lifting the drilling ban would have little if any impact on gasoline prices or produce any more oil for years."

Hello people!!! It is not going to help gas prices!!!! All it will do is feed the profits of giant oil companies and feed our dependence on oil for even longer.

GAH!