Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis (Paperback)

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New York Times bestselling author, former Speaker of the House, and Fox News political analyst Newt Gingrich has a plan for slashing gas prices and reducing our long-term dependence on foreign oil.

Gingrich is famous for taking big, visionary ideas and boiling them down into practical solutions as demonstrated in this year's earlier release, Real Change, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for eleven weeks. His new book Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less does just that. Dealing not only with spiraling gas prices, but with the energy crisis as a whole, Gingrich shows how we can safely reap the benefits of America's own natural resources and technology in gas, oil, coal, wind, solar, biofuels and nuclear energy.

Gingrich argues that the pinch Americans are feeling at the pump is not a blip in the economy but a looming crisis--affecting not only the price of gas, but the price of food, the strength of our economy, and our national security.

To meet this crisis, Gingrich lays out a national strategy that will tap America's scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, and require Congress to unlock our oil reserves and remove all the impediments and disincentives that unnecessary government regulation has put in the way of American energy independence. The energy crisis is solvable, as Newt Gingrich's plan makes clear. His handbook, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less is sure to become the talk of the presidential campaign season.

From the Back Cover

Newt Gingrich Presents a Bold Plan for America's Energy Independence:

Do It All. Do It Now. Do It for America.

America is unrivaled in our ability to solve tough problems and create bold, powerful solutions. That's exactly what we need to do with the energy crisis we now face. We CAN become energy independent, while lowering prices at the pump today and developing innovative and effective energy alternatives for the future. We CAN produce an overwhelming supply of oil and natural gas here at home, and break the stranglehold that foreign (often hostile) countries have on our energy supply, and by extension, our economy. And we CAN be responsible stewards of our environment, protecting the grand beauty and richness of our country without sacrificing our robust engines of growth, expansion, and entrepreneurship. As Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author, spells out in stunning simplicity, when it comes to developing domestic energy resources, we CAN do it all. Isn't it time we relied on American energy for America's security and prosperity? With your help, your citizen action, and Newt Gingrich's plan as laid out in this handbook, we can solve this energy crisis--and slash gas prices, too.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Press (September 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596985763
• ISBN-13: 978-1596985766
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #307,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Newt Gingrich to the Rescue !, September 27, 2008

By	Jo Ana Starr "Mind-Body-Spirit" (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I think Newt Gingrich is a wonder - a true American statesman who has certainly earned the right to hang out at the golf course and relax, but who continues to invest considerable time and energy in helping America to get it right. Many of us, including Newt, believe that the current oil crisis is just a harbinger of related difficulties headed our way and he has written a book that outlines some revolutionary rescue efforts to make the US energy independent within the next 10 years.

He's a solution-oriented gentleman and so is this book, which should be required reading for anyone who heats a house, drives a car, buys anything produced outside of his hometown or hopes to be President. His belief in American ingenuity, tenacity, and determination is imprinted on every page of this book.

Drill Here, Drill Now isn't a green approach to US energy independence and I don't fundamentally support some of the methods he proposes, but I do recognize a crisis when I see one. We're in trouble on so many fronts at this point(many that stem from our overseas oil dependence), that I think we need to compromise on the methods that will free us from dependence on those who promise to destroy us.

Drill Here, Drill Now is a step-by-step instruction manual on how we can again become an independent nation, safe within our borders and doing business only with those who support our beliefs and our well-being.

This is an exceptional book that is highly recommended.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get it, Read it, and ACT!, September 27, 2008

By	Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

You should read this book and get yourself up to speed on how the enviro-lobby (yes, they ARE special interests, too) has worked their agenda to box up oil, gas, coal, and nuclear. The point is these forms of energy are lower cost than their "clean" methods of "renewable" energy. So, they had to raise the costs of the traditional fuels to make their preferred methods cost competitive.

The problem is that these "clean" energies are not only not as clean as you are led to believe, they are so costly that developing countries refuse to use them. That means that our energy intensive industries will follow not only cheaper labor, but cheaper energy, less costly regulation, and lower taxes. And you wonder why the factories where your dad and grand-dad worked are gone.

Speaker Gingrich lays out how producing more energy, our own energy, and using it to bridge to a time when the wind, solar, and hydrogen become more cost effective makes sense. The book reads very easily and is a call for us to take back our government and provide common sense balance to the enviro-lobby. No one wants to destroy the environment, but we also don't want to destroy our economy. Market prices reflect not only the current demand, but factor in a sense of future demand and supply, as well. When we show real determination to produce more of our own energy, oil and gas prices will fall around the world. This is explained in chapters one and two.

Chapter three explains why America has the energy in our domestic resources to make a profound difference in our balance of payments, our industrial and economic might, and the price of we pay for our energy. Chapters four and five provide a sensible roadmap to getting more and less costly energy ASAP while also protecting the environment.

Chapter six lays out the choice by describing a future scenario where America does drill here, drill now, pay less. You will understand the difference between what the enviro-lobby has in mind for you and what we can make for ourselves if we have the gumption to take political action and make it stick. Chapter seven and the conclusion tell you how to take that political action.

There are five appendices that lay out the political platform for energy independence, facts and figures about American energy, how to counter the arguments of the enviro-lobby, and some tables showing how our current gas prices are impacting your family budget.

Fine book, timely, needed. Get it, read it, and put pressure on your elected officials from your town all the way to Washington. Don't let them force you into an impoverished future where their costly enviro-dream becomes our nightmare reality.

Heck, they even provide you with a bumper sticker!

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Geologic Nonsense, December 6, 2008

By	R. E Westgard "Viking" (Bay Lake & St Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Newt's ignorance of oil geology is evident from the title. There is a reason oil companies are called E&Ps with the exploration part first. You don't take a $400,000/day drill ship out to sea and start poking holes in the ocean floor. We have little knowledge of the structures off the east and west coasts or in the Beaufort and Chuckchi Seas. We have better data in the Gulf, but the good new stuff is under allochthonous salt at great depth, not economic at current prices. The Green River oil shale is a 35 year joke. For one thing it isn't oil.
The U.S. has about 3% of the world's oil reserves despite nonsense from Gingrich and his ilk.
Rolf Westgard, member Geol Society of America and the AAPG.