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To: cc2k

Why don’t they ask Obama to cut red tape so we can build more refineries? Building them will create jobsd and running them will create jobs, and all of it will be in the interest of national security via energy independence.

Offshore drilling at these prices is a no-go. It is a stunt.


4 posted on 03/03/2009 2:25:09 PM PST by Puddleglum (Freedom works/socialism steals)
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To: Puddleglum
"It is a stunt"

Two weeks from tomorrow MMS is leasing 33.5 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lease Sale 208

Last year at this time the bidders were shy because there was a shortage of rigs. This year, as you said, price will make them shy.

9 posted on 03/03/2009 4:26:11 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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