Pelosi coming around?

I really doubt that San Fran Nan is really serious about allowing a vote on drilling. I wonder how she is going to avoid the slamming that Dems are going to get in November in a year when Dems had super majorities seemingly locked up in both the House and Senate. The Republicians , the five dummies in the Senate not included, have an issue that they can take to majorities in the House and Senate as well as the White House. Here is SF Nancy's "maybe" on drilling:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House.

Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf, where drilling is currently blocked by a moratorium. Until now, Pelosi (D-Calif.) has resisted the idea as a “hoax.” But in an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live, she indicated that she was open to a vote.

“They have this thing that says drill offshore in the protected areas,” Pelosi said. “We can do that. We can have a vote on that.”

She indicated such a vote would have to be part of a larger package that included other policies, like releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which she said could bring down prices in a matter of days.

“But it has to be part of something that says we want to bring immediate relief to the public and is not just a hoax on them,” Pelosi continued.

She even indicated that she might support a package that includes drilling. She said her decision on whether to support such legislation would depend on how the policies are packaged.

“It’s not excluded, let’s put it that way,” Pelosi said.

I know that drilling is only part of the answer, but it is part of it and we better get going now. We send way to much money to people that really do not like us.

We need an "All of the Above" type of plan. Oil drilling, shale oil, coal to gas, nuclear, coal fire plants, tidal electricity, wind, solar, biofuel (as long as its not burning the food supply), all of them. Our needs are just going to grow. The "alternative energy" sources are way off. We can't plan on having them and stop traditional energy methods. The day will come, if we do, that we do not have the new sources in place and are in no shape to get energy the old way. Look past today!