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Bartlett drops opposition to oil drilling in Arctic refuge
Baltimore Sun/AP ^ | May 22, 2008 | staff

Posted on 05/22/2008 12:13:35 PM PDT by saganite

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett says high oil prices have prompted him to drop his longtime opposition to oil and natural gas drilling in a national wildlife refuge in Alaska.

The Maryland Republican has co-sponsored a bill that would allow for oil and gas production on part of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 110th; anwr; congress; drilling; energy; environment; roscoebartlett
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1 posted on 05/22/2008 12:13:35 PM PDT by saganite
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To: saganite

Well, one RINO gets it.


2 posted on 05/22/2008 12:15:59 PM PDT by calex59
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To: saganite

Related story posted below

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019824/posts


3 posted on 05/22/2008 12:16:29 PM PDT by saganite
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To: saganite

That’s a nice start. But I’m more concerned about the Seante where such bills come to die. We’ve passed this several times in the House only to face a filibuster in the Senate.


4 posted on 05/22/2008 12:16:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: saganite

Paging Sen. McCain.


5 posted on 05/22/2008 12:17:40 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: calex59

IDK that Roscoe Bartlett was a true RINO; he is pretty conservative on most things, just off on this issue.


6 posted on 05/22/2008 12:17:47 PM PDT by CollegeRepublican
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To: saganite

The Sand Kingdoms are staking money on pallets in warehouses. U.S. families are getting squeezed and stressed more so than in decades, and this guy FINALLY comes to terms with reality. Pardon me for not being more appreciative. No watch the Eco-terrorist go nuts and start redeploying all the hyper scare stories within their manifestos, er, with the MSM.


7 posted on 05/22/2008 12:18:28 PM PDT by Obadiah (I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.)
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To: saganite

Sen Stevens and Sen Murkowski had a Bill to allow leasing in ANWR when the price reached 125. Seemed a long way off at the time, which was two weeks ago.


8 posted on 05/22/2008 12:18:41 PM PDT by RightWhale (You are reading this now)
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Well, whoop-de-doo!! Pin a rose on that guy. It just so happens, that most of the reasons why we have NO DRILLING or being built refining operations is due to a DNC controlled Congress and some totally nut case GOP members who allow the crackpot environmentalists to call the shots. We should be putting the blame where it belongs and no matter what they say, CORN and WIND power isn’t the answer!! There is NO SHORTAGE of oil.


9 posted on 05/22/2008 12:19:39 PM PDT by cousair
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“Bartlett acknowledges that drilling would have an environmental cost,....”

Compare these costs (about 2,000 acres of land for the drilling rigs, plus access roads and pipelines — none of which will harm the Caribou) to the environmental costs of biofuels (millions of acres of good farmland diverted to growing fuel, water depletion, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.).

10 posted on 05/22/2008 12:19:58 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Oh great, well it only takes like 10 minutes to get it out of the ground and into your fuel tank, so it should have an immediate effect on those high prices. Sorry, way too late.


11 posted on 05/22/2008 12:20:25 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: calex59

ATTENTION: Norm Coleman.....

See, it’s OK to change one’s mind when one discovers that one is WRONG!!!


12 posted on 05/22/2008 12:20:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: saganite

As the election and $4/gal gas looms, the RINOs, who helped the Dems defeat ANWAR drilling all these years, are falling into line.
Now the voters ought to go after the Democrats in their districts, who are the main culprits. Let them know that if they and Pres. Clinton had let drilling commence 10 years ago, there would be an additional 1,000,000 barrels of oil available for the US every day. Their dancing to the enviro-nazis’ tune is costing every family approximately $3,500 in extra fuel costs this year...the Gaia-worshiper tax.


13 posted on 05/22/2008 12:22:25 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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“Bartlett acknowledges that drilling would have an environmental cost,....”

Polar bears before people...


14 posted on 05/22/2008 12:22:32 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Ronald Reagan Fought Regulation, John McCain Brought Regulation...)
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To: americanophile
Or we cut oil consumption by 4% and we can have the market impact of ANWR tomorrow.
15 posted on 05/22/2008 12:22:49 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: saganite
Finally!! A congressman with common sense.

Why isn't President Bush pushing ANWR drilling in a national address from the Oval Office? This is the time to do it.

16 posted on 05/22/2008 12:23:24 PM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: saganite

Swell, Roscoe. But what do we do for the next 8-10 years until such oil reaches the consumer? Jackass!


17 posted on 05/22/2008 12:24:16 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: saganite
I don't know how it would work, but a caller into a radio show today suggested that since 80% of the domestic oil we produce in the US is actually exported to other countries, maybe it is time that the congress introduces emergency legislation to stop that. If we kept 100% of our own oil, that would increase supply at a time we desperately need it.
18 posted on 05/22/2008 12:26:14 PM PDT by codercpc
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To: saganite

Whoa what is this 2 Rino’s seeing the light on the same day? Amazing. We really do live in weird times. /sarcasm


19 posted on 05/22/2008 12:26:17 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kittymyrib
As the election and $4/gal gas looms

"Looms"? I paid $ 4.06 today for 93 octane at Cumberland Farms in MA. Regular (87 octane) was $ 3.86.

20 posted on 05/22/2008 12:26:45 PM PDT by pabianice
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