1: It takes years to build platforms, drill, start collecting oil, etc, so it won’t “tide us over” at all.

2: The US doesn’t have a nationalized oil company, so any oil that is drilled here goes on the world market, not just to Americans, so the increase in production would do us no good. US oil companies already sell 75% of the oil collected here to other countries. They go where the market is, and patriotism has nothing to do with capitalism.

3: The oil companies already have millions of acres of land that they’re not drilling, and by all accounts those millions of acres have more oil than the Atlantic Shelf. Why not drill on land they already own, and that is more easily accessible?

4: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were responsible for the spillage of 9.5 millions of gallons of oil, and over 100 platforms were destroyed. It’s hardly a risk free venture.

Other than that, I thought the ad was hysterical, and apparently so did Jonathan Sidney McCain III (who owns 9 homes, wears $580 shoes, and whose wife flies around on a private jet because “it’s the only way to get around Arizona”). I also think it’s hysterical the way that McCain accuses Obama of being the elitist.