RE: House Votes to Keep Offshore Drilling Ban

And yet, these politicians will complain the loudest when energy prices go up.

The problem is that residents of coastal states don't want to see this happening on their own coasts... just someone else's. Representatives of those states must keep that in mind if they're to truly represent the will of their state's residents.

And, as I stated before, there are silver linings to energy price increases. It can only encourage the development of new energy sources as well as encourage the practice of energy conservation among Americans too preoccupied to do so otherwise.