Cumbersome And Confusing

We all know that we need to get oil. The problem comes because there is a President that is beholden to the environmental lobby.

Being so beholden to them, he reuses to even think about drilling.

Then again, he will sometimes give off a vibe that he is willing to talk about this. On this, like many other things, he is schizophrenic.

He may say that he wants the people’s thoughts on the issue but he makes it difficult for them to get a hold of him.

There is a ten step bureaucratic process that one must go through to ger his or her voice heard.

According to former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich, this is it:

1. First go to http://www.regulations.gov. Notice that there is no link on that page about submitting comments on offshore drilling.

2. Instead, the next step is to click the link next to “Advanced Docket Search” under “More Search Options.”

3. Then, you have to click the drop-down menu labeled “Agency” and select “Minerals Management Service.”

4. Then, if you aren’t frustrated enough by this tedious process, you have to manually enter the identification code for offshore drilling. How do you find that? Go to the Department of the Interior and look at the Minerals Management Website.

5. Once you’ve found the code -- the easily memorized “MMS-2008-OMM-0045” -- go back to www.regulations.gov and enter it into the “Docket ID” box.

Fed up yet? You’re only halfway there.

6. Click “Submit” and wait for the system to retrieve the right regulation for you to comment on. Hopefully you entered the 16-character code correctly or else you will have to start over.

7. If you entered everything correctly, you have to click the link for the code you entered. That code again is “MMS-2008-OMM-0045.”

8. Then, you will probably see a list of results (although the system doesn’t work correctly every time and sometimes you have to resubmit everything.) In those list of results, at the top of the list is the docket ID “MMS-2008-OMM-0045-0001.” Click the yellow balloon under “Add Comments” on the same line as that ID. (Notice, too, that the ID you are commenting on isn’t even the same complicated code that you had to enter to get to this page.)

9. If you still have enough patience, fill out all of the required fields.

10. Finally, submit your comments to the Department of Interior about offshore drilling.

That is way to complicated for the simple, uneducated, ignorant folks that supports him.

I will end as I began, by saying this WE NEED THE OIL!!!