This commentary by Chuck Norris is definitely getting some of us off our gasses and doing something. Get the word out and paste this into an email and sent to all your contacts. We can make an impact!

Courtesy of Chuck Norris and World News Daily.

In my column last week, “Congress, get off your gas, and drill,” I called upon Americans to sign Newt Gingrich’s petition “Drill here, drill now, pay less,” mandating Congress to do something now to immediately bring down gas prices. As a result, several hundred thousand people signed the petition. That’s a fantastic start, but we need more – lots more. And we can use your help.

Are the rest of the 300 million Americans actually enjoying doling out $50 to $100+ for a fill up? It’s time to wake up the remaining Americans who are snoozing in our petroleum nightmare. If we are going to drive down gas prices, we’ve got to get this country as mad as hell to do it. I got so riled up this past week that I went on Fox News to send out a battle cry to all Americans, and I just filmed a new YouTube bit for Newt, titled “Chuck Norris drills Congress.” I think you’ll like it.

Our government has done very little as a response to this energy crisis. They’ve stopped filling our emergency oil reserves with the 70,000 gallons a day, but won’t draw from them in order to drive down costs. The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates seven times, but gas prices continue to rise. And while the Energy Department reported it will cut gas prices 3.5 cents per gallon, you’ll be saving only a whopping 60 cents off what it now costs you to fill up your tank. To add insult to injury, a congressional subcommittee voted a week ago to continue to prevent drilling off the coasts of America. Are these the best solutions these elected knuckleheads can come up with? Are we done telling them that we don’t like their solutions? Are we going to wait until our blood and gas boil to $6 a gallon?

This past weekend, in a great USA Today article on our gas crisis, two dozen energy specialists were asked what could be done to reduce gas prices. There was no one unified answer, but one thing was obvious – doing nothing will only drive costs higher. Some say drill domestic oils. Others say tap into our petroleum reserves. Still others say we must pull all the stops from developing alternative forms of energy. I say do it all, do anything, and do the most obvious, which is drill here and drill now. The solution isn’t “either … or” but “both … and.” Everything helps when Americans are being chocked at the pump to the tune of $4+ a gallon.

The Energy Policy Research Foundation concludes that aggressive new drilling and development of our oil shale reserves and withdrawing 200 million from the 700 million barrels of oil in our Strategic Petroleum Reserve could in a relatively short time cuts costs 37 cents a gallon. And that doesn’t take into consideration the price reductions that would result in the market when oil price controllers realize they don’t have an oil monopoly over us.

And if we are even more aggressive with drilling, we can drive down prices like a pile driver. More than 100 billion barrels of oil are available off the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts and under Alaska, and that’s not counting the oil shale reserves across the Midwest that rivals the reservoirs of the Middle East. It alone could satisfy America’s need for gas for 13 years! But it’s going to take those political pantywaists in Washington to get off their gas, get a little backbone against environmentalists (who now prevent 85 percent of drilling off our coasts), and pass an emergency resolution to drill here and drill now. Even President Bush consented this past week before he left to Europe, saying, domestic drilling will “give this country a chance to help us through this difficult period by finding more supplies of crude oil, which would take the pressure off the price of gasoline.”

For the complete article you can read it here.