Memo To Rep. Jay Inslee:
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Posted on 03/23/2009 12:03:27 PM PDT by kellynla
The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.
Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps.
But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.
Back in June, President George W. Bush lifted an 18-year-old executive order banning new offshore drilling that had been put in place by his father, President George H.W. Bush, and extended by President Bill Clinton.
At the end of September 2008, Congress – then in the midst of crafting a $700-billion financial bailout and facing nationwide pressure to lower gas prices and remove the ban – allowed a 26-year-old moratorium of offshore oil drilling that had been annually attached to the Interior Department funding bill, to expire.
Since then, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed bidding on leases for oil exploration. But some Democratic members of congress have indicated they would like to see the ban restored.
The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department.
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All these people against drilling on the pacific shelf should ask themselves what terrible things has drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico done to the ecosystem or economies of the gulf states?
Translation: Government face and control will be restored by any means necessary.
Big Brother doesn’t want it known that it was wrong about oil and the RATs don’t want their “green” plan to control America to be shot down before it can be shoved down our throats.
“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”
Don’t Worry , congressman Inslee.....Civil War is coming and it will be anything but civil......
DUmb Idiots .. DemocRat support cartel against dirlling available resources domestically..
The GoP can kick itself in the arse for not riding dirty when they had the reins in their hands..
Any means necessary huh? Has a nice ring to it.
Somebody needs to audit Jay's financial records, but first spread the word he has taken money from OPEC nations.
Just when you thought they couldn't get any dumber.
Maybe Inslee forgot that Washington (and Oregon too) is a red state with a strip of blue along the I-5 corridor. We have them surrounded.
What melting ice caps? This is news to the scientific community.
Memo To Rep. Jay Inslee:
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before the november election i had a bumper sticker:
>dems won’t drill oil.
just north of los angeles, in slow and go, a guy in $100,000+
mercedes pulls ahead of me on the right,
and spits across the front of my car.
I would not promise that all our energy would come from internal to our borders. I don’t see that as necessary (to reach 100%).
But decreasing our dependence from where we are today is the right thing to do.
We are going to spend the money for our energy. We should spend more of those dollars here at home.
Obama that the reason for our anger is the rapid increase in prices, not the prices themselves.
So as gasoline prices rise, we shall see $4 gasoline soon again.
“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”
And it is the Inslee’s of this world that are making secession and civil war more and more likely.
“Don’t Worry , congressman Inslee.....Civil War is coming and it will be anything but civil......”
I hope to God it is true. We only have to get rid or 545 crooked bums. It should be very quick.
Who will volunteer for the job of Madame Defarge?
When will applications be opened for the job?
If you missed it:
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545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does..
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 535 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security, but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper
They’d be left swimming in that Pacific within an hour if they want to play rough...they are nothing but playground bullies that haven’t had realization sink in that everyone is waiting for the right time to take chunk out of their asses.
...also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a "gold rush" for oil uncovered by melting ice caps. But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases... At the end of September 2008, Congress -- then in the midst of crafting a $700-billion financial bailout and facing nationwide pressure to lower gas prices and remove the ban -- allowed a 26-year-old moratorium of offshore oil drilling that had been annually attached to the Interior Department funding bill, to expire.
With HALF of Americans dependent on the government for their livelihood and HALF of Americans who don't pay ANY federal income taxes and gerrymandering; I'm not optimistic. But a 10% switch would give the GOP a majority in the House & Senate. And hopefully the Gelding Old Party will get a testicle & spine implant before next year!
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. Rino Republicans also have a horrible record on supporting policies that would have made us less dependent on foreign oil. Maybe the party will begin to take a strong pro-domestic production stance now, but it sure didn't in the past. It just wasn't too noticeable until crude oil prices began to skyrocket.
A favorite refrain. It sounds just like San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's claim "whether you like it or not!"
-PJ
Yep, remember McPane was against drilling in ANWR!
obama said he would redistribute wealth. He didn't say he would destroy livelihoods and incomes for hard working Americans and corporations. I have never read at any time in my life that government could or would destroy a corporation to fund one more to their liking. And as it appears any new jobs created will only go to Unions or minorities.
And Californians have this idiot saying we need a fuel tax on top of the fuel taxes we already pay. Where do these politicians get the nerve to speak for citizens when they never asked?! If they say it enough it becomes true. Thank Bill Clinton for that political ploy.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bloomberg-geithner-is-kind-of-guy-id-want-2009-03-22.html
“There are so many innovative ways to use the tax code to get private investors involved in this,” he asserted. “The American people aren’t against spending; they’re against spending they can’t see.”
Schwarzenegger said that one option for financing infrastructure projects would be a fuel tax of some sort.
“I think one has to look at it,” he said of the taxes. “But I think the important thing is that there is a willingness among the people to pay for it.”
Fish love the oil rigs. The rigs become artificial reefs and attract fish and sport fishermen.
Inslee must not think the economy is in bad enough shape, and wants to put another torpedo in it.
Where can one find out how many different committees and titles the congress and senate have ?
Seems like a new secret squirrel club is popping up in congress every friggin minute !
So called intellectuals like T. Friedman already advocate a price of five bucks a gallon, since they drive around in limos.
Obie himself said it wasn’t the 4 bucks last year, but how fast it zoomed up.
They want to destroy the internal combustion engine all for the sake of their theories about the evilness of man’s presence on Earth.
I have heard some people bemoaning the relative cheapness of gas, so this angle is working.
And he was double and triple talking about his 'support' for more offshore drilling. All I ever saw him commit to was new offshore drilling if the state involved approved. That would have eliminated all the West coast and much of the East coast.
Juan definitely threw away one of the best issues ever handed to a Republican nominee on a silver platter. And gas prices were still very high right up until election day.
Since Obambi was elected oil has gone from $34 a barrell to almost $54 a barrel. The Dollar has gone from 1.26 to 1.36 to the EURO.
There are no melting ice caps, nor is there oil being “uncovered” by melting ice caps.
Of course, with oil down significantly, and gas prices below $2, the american public may be less interested in drilling than they were 5 months ago.
I can’t argue with you stats. Very depressing indeed.
Thank you...or maybe not. ; )
Yep, its like the Rose Parade...they dream up a trophy for every participant! LOL
I think Inslee’s biggest supporter is Microsoft.
Yup, the congress bought a paid for with foreign money, directly and thru hundreds of other organizations (inc. environmental), _must_, MUST, continue the outflow of USA wealth to foreign nations. Otherwise, USA may be remain sovereign and powerful.
The Asylum of our Era.
Well, for one thing, the fishing is so fantastic around the rigs we have had a bunch of people move here, we have several fishing tournaments each year that brings thousands of tourists and millions of $ pumped into the local economy, we have many thousands of people who depend on the off shore rigs and local refineries for a living. They pay millions in state income and sales taxes.
Gee, now I see the problem now! Success is no longer to be tolerated!
Besides, Chevron has spent millions to preserve and enhance a wildlife sanctuary on THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Somebody needs to remind Congressman Inslee that the hyper-environmentally-conscious Scandinavians have allowed drilling in the North Sea (a far more tempestuous body of water that the West Coast Pacific) with zero negative environmental effects. Technology has changed since there were oil spills off the California coast.
In other words, the American people are idiots. The Politburo knows best.
And if these democrat party oligarchs keep this up We The People will remove them by any means necessary. We are not their serf yet, but they keep trying to make it so.
Once their constituents started queuing up for gasoline supplies, you could see how long their popularity lasted.
Well, maybe for the next two years till we kick their asses out.
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Will $4.00 per gallon gas wake up these fools that thought the chosen one was going to solve this problem.
“arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps”
yeah, let the russians have it huh.
these people are OWNED by foreign interests.
that, plus the 1-note media, makes for the WORST national security crisis America has ever experienced.
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