obama for offshore drilling

Obama has now come out in favor of offshore drilling. He changed from his original stance of being against it. The house and senate parties were at a deadlock fighting over the rights to overturn the presidential mandate. I for one am happy that Mr. Obama is for this and believe that it was very well said why he is now for offshore drilling.

“We can’t drill our way out of the problem,” he said. But, he added, “I also recognize that in the House and the Senate, there are Republicans who have very clear ideas about what they want, and at some point people are going to have to make some decisions. Do we want to keep on arguing, or are we going to get some things done?”

I am glad to see that he is willing to come to a compromise. Someone has to step forward here and cross the isle to bring people together. I also agree with Mr. Obama when he says that this should not be the only solution. We should start expanding other renewable sources of energy and stop this dependence on oil.

Of course the McCain party has come out taking credit for leading the way in offshore drilling. Now I would not go that far I believe that it was President Bush that had the idea Mr. McCain.