Posted on 08/24/2008 10:25:13 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that expanded oil drilling in federal waters could be included in a broader energy bill if advocates can prove its viability as a solution to America's energy problems.
Pelosi, a California Democrat who reversed her outright opposition to expanded offshore drilling earlier this month, said the oil industry and its allies in Congress must also agree to royalties on oil profits to fund the development of renewable energy resources.
She criticized President George W. Bush and other Republicans for presenting offshore drilling as an answer to the recent rise in U.S. gasoline prices, saying expanded drilling would not affect prices for a decade and then only by a small degree.
"I don't think that's a good alternative. But if they can prove that it is, and they want to pay royalties to the taxpayer ... then we have something to talk about," the top congressional Democrat told NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
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Case? How’s $3.70 gas for a case?
What if I, the ‘taxpayer’, don’t want ‘my royalities’ going down the dark hole of ‘renewable energy’ Ms. Pelosi?
Pay ROYALTIES to the taxpayer? Royalties are paid to the owner of some property, usually intellectual property. Exactly what are the taxpayers providing to the oilcos, since we’re talking about drilling in INTERNATIONAL WATERS that the rest of the world already drills at will?
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What an idiot. We need gasoline to power our cars and she offers the wind and the sun.
Sounds like pork.
If she had to pay for her own gas she might find a case.
If the DNC had any sense, they would hide this woman for the next 2 months.
Lies, of course. Even the threat of new drilling immediately and sometimes greatly affects gas prices, as speculators are driven away from the futures markets.
The fact that Nancy and her boys are against it is evidence that it’s a good idea.
Why does insist on DESTROYING her own party?
This election was set up to be a Democrat rout, but now it’s a toss-up - essentially over a single issue.
In any case, I love it!
....incompetent, bug-eyed moron.
Ummm....
It’s called demand vs. supply....
You ignorant 9% ninny.
...and you know that the Democrats are praying every day (probably for the first time in their lives) for the gas price to go down, so this issue goes away (for now).
There must be a hidden agenda lurking beneath the surface
Pelosi is a perfect example of what happens to your brain after viewing Algore’s “movie” way too many times and then standing around all day wringing your hands and thinking that YOU are the only one who is standing in the way of the destruction of the universe and baby ducks by Dick Cheney and Haliburton. The woman is nuts!
Might as well stop AIDS and other medical research, stop space exploration and shut down public schools and colleges because none of them pay off immediately either.
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U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) reacts as she takes the podium for the first time after being elected the first ever female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington in this January 4, 2007 file photo. When the next U.S. president moves into the White House on January 20, 2009, he shouldn't be surprised to get a call from Pelosi on Capitol Hill with a list of legislative demands. REUTERS/Jim Young/Files (UNITED STATES)
Or, $10.00, at that level you will not be able to build your “we’ve got a planet to save” environment. It’s the economy stupid.
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" in Washington, DC. Pelosi urged Obama to add Texas congressman Chet Edwards to his list of potential running mates. (AFP/ABC News/Lauren Victoria Burke)
sounds like a load of hot air
“...she offers the wind and the sun.”
One can assume as she is on vacation that her mind is on other than the issue. Last nights bowl of chilli, and her tan for example.
This Nancy woman would be ahead of the game if she could figure out how to hire Americans at a living wage to work on her farm and in her restaurants. As it is, she, like all slavers, can't be trusted.
All this commie witch is trying to do, is defuse the energy issue as a MAJOR Repub campaign issue. You can bet any forward movement would IMMEDIATELY be killed by a Obama White House and a commie-dominated Congress.
She knows very well what America’s oil dependence is doing to our economy and our defense posture. That is EXACTLY what the socialist libs want. And they have no remorse about feeding the terrorists that benefit from our oil dollars — none at all. That is not what is important -— only the pursuit of POWER AND CONTROL is important to these maggots.
How about reaming you a new one Nancy? I think the case has definitely been made for that!
I paid $3.499 this morning, so, there’s no more reason to drill, right??
Geez.
Drill already!
“When you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.”
She is the most power-hungry, ego-maniacal, self-centered bitch on the planet. I sure hope the people of CA wake up some day and realize it's all about her and she could care less about the American people.
Case Closed.
What Nancy describes is not democracy, but autocracy. We may still elect senators and representatives, but rules in each body can, and currently do, prevent the operation of representative rule into something that is more like Putin's Russia. We get votes, but the ones at the top are in charge, game the process, can't be removed, and don't allow dissent.
I’d make the case that since about 80 percent of voters want drilling,the group of ingrates known as the Democrats could all be turned out come November.
“U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that expanded oil drilling in federal waters could be included in a broader energy bill if advocates can prove its viability as a solution to America’s energy problems”
Maybe Ms. Pelosi ought to simply sit in on one session of Econ 101 in any college classroom?
Would that help?
Pelosi is an oily piece of slime.
“I find it really hard to believe Pelosi is this colossally stupid.
There must be a hidden agenda lurking beneath the surface”
I imagine the Saudis can be very persuasive.
It’s hot, but a little squishier than air.
Her proposal is a poison pill. If adopted, private investors will not invest. She wants to continue the Rat Oil Blockade (ROB), an immoral policy designed to create an artificial shortage of a vital resource.
She is proposing nationalization of the energy industry. This talk about public ownership is an opening for nationalization. She wants to seize private property in an offhand manner. Effectively, she is proposing a policy in which private investors bear risk with greatly reduced rewards. The public is the silent partner skimming the proceeds. If the private owners play according to rat rules, the rats will make life easier.
The rats are just one step removed from organized crime. This arrangement is similar to organize crime infiltration of an industry. Organized crime provides protection from other pillagers while skimming most profits. Organized crime will eventually take over an enterprise if it looks reasonably profitable.
The rats are delusional about the impact of oil exploration on the market for oil. The rats do not want competition for their favored energy sources. The rats proposal to plunder the strategic oil reserve is treason. When it comes to elections, the rats will say and do anything.
When she said Natural Gas was so wonderful, he should have commented that 70% of offshore drilling in America is used to extract natural gas. So, preventing offshore drilling prevents the extraction of natural gas.
Pelosi should resign. Pelosi is a total failure. The will and needs of the people of this great country her ill planned, radical and delusional agenda. She is a pathetic “leader” and a total embarrassment to the United States of America.
How about: Increasing supplies reduced prices?
What a dumb*ss! They already do pay 'royalties to the taxpayers' who INVEST in the company!
Is she saying they should pay DEADBEATS royalties too?! As if they aren't getting enough of our hard earned tax dollars to sit on their butts!!!
Hey, Queen Nancy, How about a tax for every stupid word that comes out of your pie hole???
That would raise some cash.
She is either stupid or playing one on tv.
I think we should ad a 'windfall profit tax' to the grapes on her vineyard and give that money to the TAXPAYERS.
...but the case expensive alternative solutions that don’t work right now doesn’t need to be presented?
Get rid of these idiots already!!! FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY!!!
There always is with Democrats. It's called money.
I agree. She's a total embarrassment to women as well, even if many of those liberal women don't know it. Is this how the first woman with this much power is supposed to act? She's a setback to women's advancement in politics.
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
The Democrats are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
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