Lately the Puckett for Congress team has been promoting the American Solutions’ “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less” campaign that is focusing on putting grassroots pressure on Congress to open up access to American oil resources and expand domestic refinery capacity.  (Click here to learn more about Luke’s approach to domestic drilling.)

Congress has dallied about energy independence for years.  Even as late as last year the new Democratic majority was staunchly opposed to allowing energy companies to drill for American oil in environmentally friendly ways.  Although other countries that posses large oil resources are drilling for their own oil (think of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Venezuela, and on the list goes) the United States is not tapping into its own massive oil resources even as the price of oil and refined fuels climbs higher and higher and as citizens feel more and more pain in their wallet at the pump.

Fortunately, our work here in the 2nd Congressional District has had something of an impact on our sitting congressman.  He recently came out in favor of drilling for oil in ANWR.  But isn’t it frustrating that it he didn’t have the foresight and the vision to lead on this issue last year when he cast at least 4 votes to block our access to our own oil resources?  High gas prices didn’t start this year, they’ve been going up for several years now and any leader would have recognized the need to drill for American oil.

If you have not yet done so, take a moment to sign the American Solutions “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less” petition and watch the video below.

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