Oil man George Bush wants to drill our way out of our current energy problems.

For a quarter-century, drilling for oil and gas off nearly all the American coastline has been banned in part to protect tourism and to lessen the chances of beach-blackening spills.

Then gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon this summer. Drivers and others began clamoring for federal lawmakers to do something about the record price of oil, much of it produced in foreign countries.

In response, President Bush is renewing his call to open U.S. coastal waters to oil and gas development, arguing that it's high time to battle high prices with increased domestic production. He is planning to ask Congress on Wednesday to lift the drilling moratoria that have been in effect since 1981 in more than 80 percent of the country's Outer Continental Shelf and to let states help to decide where to allow drilling.

Our high gas prices have nothing to do with lack of supply.

Drilling more holes in our planet to look for oil, that once found will not reach the gas pumps for twenty years, is not a solution.

The future of our energy needs is to move away from oil. We should know that by now, and many automobile manufacturers are already doing research and making progress in those areas. The faster we free up money for alternative energy research and take it away from oil exploration the faster we will solve our energy crisis.

The only people how cannot release their deathgrip on the idea of oil, are oil companies themselves , and the politicians who line their pockets with their kickbacks.

I am ashamed to mention that the politicians in my state are still sucking at the oil companies teat.