From The Raw Story
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

On Wednesday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took on Senator John McCain’s insistence that offshore drilling is the answer to our energy problems.

“We need to drill here! We need to drill now!” McCain recently demanded.

“The administration’s own Department of Energy says the effects of drilling now wouldn’t even be felt until 2030,” Stewart objected. “Unless we could somehow whittle that figure down?”

“Oil company executives say that it could be as short a time as one to two years,” McCain has stated. On another occasion, he suggested it could be just “a matter of months.”

“Drilling offshore has already saved us!” Stewart exclaimed. “Cyborgs from the future have been sent here to drill offshore to prevent Osama bin Laden from killing John Connor!”

Stewart acknowledged that even Barack Obama, who was insisting in June that “my job is not to go with the polls,” has now announced that his own plan “does include a limited amount of new offshore drilling.”

“Damn!” said Stewart, but he added, “To be fair, Obama released an energy plan that included a comprehensive list … touching on everything from investing in alternative energy to turning off your lights to making sure your tires are inflated.”

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