Posted on 07/26/2005 9:11:17 AM PDT by mission9
How would you like to see gasoline at $5.00 a gallon? Freepers! call this list to advocate for more energy production. This is a letter from Rep. Jim Davis, who is retiring from Congress to run for Governor of Florida. If these clowns really wanted to help the environment in Florida, they would concentrate Government resources to fight the "Red Tide."
Dear Constituent:
As you may be aware, Congress is currently considering legislation that could open Florida's pristine shores to the hazards of offshore oil drilling. The energy bill, which is being finalized by a House and Senate conference committee this week, may include language to allow for an inventory, or pre-drilling activities, in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, weaken our State's ability to fight drilling activities off our shores and redraw state water boundaries, handing control of waters just off Pensacola's coasts to Louisiana or Alabama.
Over the last several months, I have been working with my Florida colleagues to fight these proposals. On Friday, Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez and Congressman Jeff Miller and I sent the attached letter to the energy bill conference committee expressing our opposition to any energy bill that threatens the moratoria that have blocked drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
For more information on this issue, visit my website at www.house.gov/jimdavis. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone else you think may be interested.
July 22, 2005
The Honorable Pete V. Domenici
Chairman
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Jeff Bingaman
Ranking Member Senate Energy and Natural Resources
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Joe Barton
Chairman
House Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
The Honorable John D. Dingell
Ranking Member
House Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Sirs:
We appreciate your dedication to enacting a comprehensive energy bill. We share your interest in enacting a comprehensive bill that will ensure our country's energy security for decades to come. For this reason, we strongly urge you to not include any provision in the Energy bill conference report that alters the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) moratoria. Alterations to the moratoria that threaten our coasts include policies that allow for a costly and harmful seismic inventory of the OCS, especially in moratoria areas, and that weakens a state's influence in the Coastal Zone Management appeals process or a state's role in the siting of Liquified Natural Gas facilities. The inclusion of any language that accomplishes any of these objectives will threaten our support for the Energy bill conference report.
We believe we can provide for our country's energy needs without altering the 24- year-old OCS moratoria, performing a duplicative, expensive and invasive inventory using seismic technology and weakening a state's say in issues affecting a state's coastal zone. We look forward to working with you to meet our country's long-term energy needs and hope that you will consider our concerns when negotiating the final energy bill.
Thank you for your consideration of our views on these important subjects.
Sincerely,
Jim Davis
Member of Congress
I would start gathering twigs now, just in case the rats retake the House in 2006.
You never know.
The Conference Committee did keep the language to take an inventory. And I hope we do drill offshore. We need the oil, you idiot!!
This bi-partisan attack on our oil independence needs to stop. Jim Davis will never get my vote for FL Governor. We need to drill for our own oil. We also need to build nuclear plants. If it's off my coast, then so be it. I'd rather have the risk at home than support the terrorist Arab scum any day.
Florida's Gulf Coast should be opened up for production, not just inventoried.
Once you get past the 12-mile limit...there isn't alot that congress can do to regulate it. And I suspect that everyone has already figured this out. The guy who figures out that he can run his own development zone, and his own refinery...all on a platform 20 miles off the coast of Miami...can get rich overnight. Bring in cheap Russian labor and plenty of booze...and this operation will bring in tons of money.
Think globally. Drill locally.
Right. And an inventory will help them. The environmentalists (and their dupes and cronies) never want us to know what's there. Yet they're all for numerous studies on whether the habitat of some worthless insect or fish is being disturbed.
I hope the high prices of gasoline and heating oil and plane tickets make these congressmen and senators feel the heat to get this passed.
Bypass Florida's "pristine coastline" entirely, and build the oil pipeline to Georgia. I'm sure they'd be glad for the jobs. And make Florida pay a premium for domestically produced gasoline.
These people should be put on the vegi-bus with Jane Fonda.
And we need the refineries to handle the capacity! That's where the problem is!
LOL - the congresSCUM feel nothing but their own self importance. Why would high gas prices affect them? You and I, the taxpayers, pay for their every whim. And, they just gave themselves a raise.
No one can get to the "pristine shores" if they can't afford gas.
People have a different attitude now.
Jeb is like an old Harley - you have to kick him to get him started. Yes, he is clearly wrong on this issue. I have written the Fla. cabinet.
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