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Kinder cares about off-shore drilling
Lt. gov. stops in St. Joe twice today
Lt. gov. stops in St. Joe twice today
Missouri’s lieutenant governor promoted off-shore drilling during a parade around the Midland Empire today.
“Drill here. Drill now and pay less,” Peter Kinder repeated to the Northwest Missouri Republican Club at an evening meeting at the Moila Shrine Temple in St. Joseph.
Mr. Kinder, who’s seeking re-election, faces two other Republicans in the Aug. 5 primary.
The incumbent is serving as acting governor this week while Matt Blunt is in Europe.
Mr. Kinder left Kansas City this morning for a noon address to local Lions Club members at the Benton Club in St. Joseph, where he promoted the 2008 Tour of Missouri bicycle race that kicks off from Civic Center Park on Sept. 8.
He then traveled to Bethany, Mo., and Maryville, Mo., for town-hall meetings that focused on senior issues before returning to St. Joseph for the Northwest Missouri Republican Club meeting.
He plugged the bike tour, but centered most of his address around the need for relief at the pump. He called on Congress to permit off-shore drilling and the state to continue to incent alternative energy programs.
He said those efforts would drop the price of gas to below $3 a gallon — a point he said the Republican party should be driving home in the November general election.
“It’d be the equivalent of a tax cut,” he said.
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Just political pandering from a guy who doesn't have a drilling rig in the race. The Saudi's increase production by 500,000 barrels and what happens, the price doesn't go down. Unfortunately there are far too many people who believe drilling is the answer. There have been no new applications for refineries in the U.S. in over 20 years, so if use has increased there is likely to be a knot at the refinery level. Drilling = munipulated prices in the control of the oil companies and speculators vs decreased consumption = prices on the decline. Will drillers every get that-I doubt it! Economics 101 should have a new formula: supply-manipulation and demand. Trust the oil companies to do the right thing-I don't think so!
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