Lorne H. Spence of Hudson wants the United States to follow Normway's lead and nationalize the oil industry. ...more

July 30, 2008

A Liberal Falsehood Regarding "Don't be Fooled by Drilling Scam" (Other Views, July 24): ...more

July 29, 2008

John McCain's positions on offshore drilling and same-sex couple adoptions are just the latest he's taken on sensitive issues by insisting states should make their own decisions. ...more

July 28, 2008

Faced with record-high gas prices and the November elections, not a day goes by without a politician's pitch to provide consumers with some relief - be it to permit offshore drilling, crack down on speculators, curb inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or grant a gas tax holiday. Yet each of these policies would have a negligible impact on gas prices. ...more

July 27, 2008

Four dollar-a-gallon gasoline has done something few Republicans thought possible a few months ago: given them hope. United behind a renewed push for offshore oil drilling, Republican members of Congress and the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, think they have found their best political issue of the 2008 campaign. ...more

July 27, 2008

Ban Lifting Gets Results According to an Opinion Research Corporation poll, 73 percent of people surveyed agree with John McCain, favoring more drilling for oil. On July 15, President Bush, who has long promoted offshore drilling, heard the people and lifted the executive branch ban on offshore drilling. ...more

July 25, 2008

Raise your hand if you actually believe that offshore oil drilling will bring down gasoline prices at the pump. ...more

July 24, 2008

The national debate over opening more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration has begged the question: Just what are the companies doing with the tens of millions of acres they're already leasing from the federal government? ...more

July 21, 2008

Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil. ...more

July 19, 2008

'Big Oil' Is Overseas Regarding "Floridians Should Not Be Panicked Into Sacrificing Their Coast" (Our Opinion, July 10): ...more

July 18, 2008