The position held by John McCain and Elizabeth Dole on oil drilling is ignorant at best and dishonest at worst. Combined with the position that they hold on global warming policy, that is, they favor a federally enforced cap on CO2 emissions, the implication is that they are in favor of finding new oil but against using it. The cap and trade program that they both favor would put a limit on the amount of oil that Americans are allowed to use, and then force us to ration that amount through a government devised and enforced trading scheme.  At the present time we have a government created scarcity of oil due to legal restrictions on  oil drilling and exploration. Dole and McCain would eliminate those restrictions but continue the government contrived scarcity by limiting the amount of oil we can use. It should be made clear that Obama’s position on these issues, from the perspective of consumers , is no better, but it is more consistent. Like McCain and Dole, he is in favor of a CO2 cap and trade plan, but he doesn’t use slight of hand to try and make us believe that he really wants us to have access to more oil.