John McCain has been running an ad the past couple weeks in the Pittsburgh market (and presumably elsewhere) that starts by showing a lone gas pump, a voice-over says that prices are high because Congress has refused to open up more land to drilling, and then asks “who should we thank”, at which point the image shifts to a picture of Barack Obama and a crowd chanting “O-bam-a! O-bam-a”
Nice ad. Completely without factual basis, but nice. Tends to ignore that drilling is a 10 years down the road solution. So if today’s gas prices are because we don’t drill enough, it is because we didn’t drill enough 10 years ago. Barack Obama was nowhere near being in Congress 10 years ago. John McCain, on the other hand, was part of a Republican majority in both houses of Congress 10 years ago. I don’t recall him lobbying for more drilling back then.
