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The Right And Oil Prices

By The Daily Dish

Aug 11 2008, 3:14 AM ET

Bob Wright logically dismembers Eli Lake in this clip. If you want to accelerate the private sector's investment and research into alternative energy, why would you want to ease gas prices at the pump? Eli all but concedes that the McCain position on drilling and a gas tax holiday is pure politics, and not conservative economics.

Btw, great neologism, Bob: "the artists formerly known as neocons." Heh.



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