Posted on 05/02/2008 4:35:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Senate GOP uses ANWR to attack gas prices
STEVENS STUMPS: Oil exploration in Alaska gets senior senator fired up.
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@adn.com
Last Modified: May 2nd, 2008 10:13 AM
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, continuing a national GOP push to hammer Democrats on gas prices, unveiled a domestic oil exploration plan Thursday that includes a call for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
The Senate Democrats who control the chamber summarily dismissed the idea -- and the others in the Republican proposal. Drilling in ANWR is also opposed by all three of the presidential candidates: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
But that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of Sen. Ted Stevens, who got almost as excited at Thursday's news conference as he did in 2005 when the Senate rejected his plan to drill in ANWR and he described it as "the saddest day in my life."
The Alaska Republican lashed out at Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., saying that the senator who represents stock exchanges should consider more regulation of commodities speculators who have driven up prices. Alaska can manage affairs in its own backyard, Stevens said.
**SNIP**
Said McConnell: "We think we should produce the American energy right here at home, to bring gas prices down."
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Once pressure mounts, that mind can be changed.
Problem is that since the left has stopped all building of new refineries for the past 30 to 40 years (no new ones have been built) that it is required to import 55 million gallons of gasoline every day in the summer and around 25 million gallons every day in the winter. So even though we may think that it is American Gasoline the evidence points in the other direction.
So as long as we have the anti-humans in control of our building and drilling process (they will not allow us to drill for our own oil in our own country so I consider them traitors and supporters of the destruction of this great nation) we will be required to buy more and more gasoline from the Middle East and South America.
The elite of the Royal 100 Club in Washington are idiots and should have allowed drilling in Alaska and on all federal property and building of new refineries so that we will not be slaves to the oil cartel but they will not, and unless we the people take back our government and repeal the 17th Amendment and get some real Americans in the Royal 100 Club to do what the founding fathers said they should do we do not have much chance to survive. They are the ones responsible for the oil shortage and their henchmen are responsible for the futures market where the price is raised on a daily basis.
They keep saying new fuel will take over but what they do not say is that it will take 100 to 200 years to completely get rid of oil as the basic necessity of life on this earth. Without oil there will be NO food and no way to harvest it or transports it or can it or anything else.
Drill – Drill and keep our country safe from total destruction. Tell your member of the Royal 100 Club to stop and allow drilling and the building of new refineries.
About time.
I heard McCain say on Glenn Beck that he would no sooner want to see drilling in ANWR than he would in the Grand Canyon. Does this dolt understand that ANWR is a wasteland with no real redeeming value other than the oil located below the permafrost?? McCain is too ignorant to be President.
I wonder what liberal mantra McCain won’t holler.
I am not sure it would lower oil prices much. The worldwide supply is very tight, and this would add only a couple of million barrels a day at most.
Been there twice. Nothing but mosquitoes in the summer, and a bunch of snow in the winter. Once a year some reindeer come through and thats it. These people are suicidal idiots.
“opposed by all three presidential candidates”.
WE got 3 Democrats running for President this year. We are going to be a 3rd world country before my grandson is grown. Nobody is going to have a future here.
I don’t understand the need to NOT drill in a place where nobody lives, but it’s fine to drill within the city limits of a US city, especially if it’s located in Texas or Lousiana.
It happens all the time.
It’s about time!
President Bush sign emergency executive orders:
1. Waive restrictions to drilling in ANWR.
2. Order three permits for new refineries be issued within four weeks.
3. Eliminate all biofuel supplements.
4. Waive summer gas formulas, and order an investigation into the value of the seasonal formulas.
You’ve been thinking about this!
You have to wonder how many constituents of those RATS are standing at a gas pump right now complaining their butts off about the price of gas and yet are too clueless to understand that they're to blame for supporting these clymers.
Oh, and
5. Make the state gas taxes uniform, and make the states cough up the numbers and evidence for the highway work they claim the taxes fund.
Yes, but I’m turning blue holding my breath....
Windmills, solar, clean coal technology has been around for years. It's the control of the money from these industries that everyone wants.
P.S. Using a food crop for fuel, particularly corn, is an absurdity. It's failure is already obvious.
And stop making "cars" the big problem. I heat with gas and cook with electric. My bro has an oil tank.
Personally, I'd like to see a ban on plastics and utilizing our forests instead of promoting the burning of millions of acres via enviro-nuts.
McNut is a real sad nut case and he will be a pain in the a@@ in trying to convince him he is working for the American people, not his stupid ego. But what hope do we have.
Unfortunately, all three of them are. The United States is in quite a predicament. I'll vote for McCain, because he's the most viable conservative candidate. I know he's not that conservative, but compared to Hillary and Obama, he's a Bircher.
love your username btw.
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