McCain's Oil Drilling Gimmick

MoveOn has a new ad out calling McCain on his offshore drilling "gimmick" (personally I'd call it an oil company-sponsored scam to boost corporate profits while lying to the voters about wanting to help them). I think it is an effective spot, since it is the first ad that actually drops some facts about how the scam does nothing, and it actually comes out and calls it a gimmick. Sure, there are a lot harder hitting facts out there, but you can't fit all that into an ad, so, all in all I think it is good:



Oh yes, did I mention that Exxon just reported the biggest quarterly profit ever by any US corporation in US history? Yep, $11.68 billion in PURE PROFIT, in just 3 months. Yeah, wrap your head around that figure. All the while gas prices are hurting American families coast to coast while they help throw our economy into a tailspin. And Exxon is getting record profits. And John McCain wants to pursue a gas tax holiday scheme that will do nothing for Americans but give oil companies an extra $10 billion, and offshore oil drilling, which would do nothing but give oil companies more money. I'll hand it to McCain though, he knows who writes his checks.

Update: I'm not sure how I missed this, but I just came across a video of Obama nailing McCain on his offshore drilling deception, using the facts that seem to be excluded from the media coverage of the issue....which is probably why we never saw it. Check it out:



Update #2: Obama puts two and two together, as I just did, between record profits and McCain's big payday:

Perhaps the only thing more outrageous than Exxon Mobil making record profits while Americans are paying record prices at the pump is the fact that Senator McCain has proposed giving them an additional $1.2 billion tax break. While Senator McCain’s plan has succeeded in helping his campaign raise over $1 million from oil and gas company executives and employees just last month, it won’t lower gas prices or end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Instead of an energy policy that reads like an oil-company wish list, it’s time to create a new American energy economy by investing in alternative energy, creating millions of new jobs, increasing fuel efficiency standards, and ending the tyranny of oil once and for all.