Posted on 10/23/2017 9:54:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said it is “no surprise” that Republicans are trying to permit oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, calling the President Trump’s cabinet “the Big Oil all-star team.”
Markey led an effort to oppose any attempts to allow oil drilling in the as part of the fiscal year 2018 federal budget. The Senate passed a budget on Thursday that could pave the way for drilling in the refuge since it requests that the Energy and Natural Resources Committee craft a bill intended to raise $1 billion in revenue over the next decade from oil drilling.
“This Republican budget scam to hand over the wildest place left in America to Big Oil should be removed from the budget and put on ice, and we will stand and fight on the Senate floor to make sure that this does not happen,” Markey said Tuesday during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
“Rick Perry, to [Ryan] Zinke to [Scott] Pruitt to [Rex] Tillerson, it’s the Big Oil all-star team and the Arctic refuge has always had a bull’s-eye on it, so it’s not any surprise that they are coming for it even as we’ve reached a point that we are exporting oil,” he added.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said Republicans knows that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a controversial topic that would not see the “light of day,” so slipping it in the budget would be the only way to move it forward.
“This is the last wildest place we have in America, and the tribes there and the species that are there are counting on us to make sure that this doesn’t happen,” he said.
Bennet said the U.S. does not need to permit drilling in the Arctic since oil prices are low.
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It would destroy the oil and gas industry and put thousands of people out of work.
Then when prices are high they say, “It will take years to bring that oil to market, so it’s not worth the effort. We can’t drill our way out of this.”
Typical demo-rat. Drill, baby, drill. Let’s get prices even lower.
JoMa
Exactly.
All we heard when gas was + $4 was, “Even if we started tomorrow, it would take 10 years to see any oil”. Let’s do it.
Since not a single member of Congress seems to be investing in the oil exploration & don’t really have a dog in this fight, They can bow out.
I don’t get my transportation for free——they do.
I don’t get my medical for free-—they do.
Since they have a built in bias, they can shut up.
This is the time to get in there and begin the infrastructure needed to do the drilling. Only those who have opposed drilling for oil, like the Dems and their radical environmentalist allies, refuse to see the logic in this.
Drill baby drill....
The only obvious solution is to drill our way out of the next energy crisis long before it hits.And to be sure of doing that, we must drill NOW. For all we know for sure, there may not be a moment to lose.
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