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 ...
Well, one RINO gets it.
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.
Paging Sen. McCain.
IDK that Roscoe Bartlett was a true RINO; he is pretty conservative on most things, just off on this issue.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
ATTENTION: Norm Coleman.....
See, it’s OK to change one’s mind when one discovers that one is WRONG!!!
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.
“Bartlett acknowledges that drilling would have an environmental cost,....”
Polar bears before people...
Why isn't President Bush pushing ANWR drilling in a national address from the Oval Office? This is the time to do it.
Swell, Roscoe. But what do we do for the next 8-10 years until such oil reaches the consumer? Jackass!
Whoa what is this 2 Rino’s seeing the light on the same day? Amazing. We really do live in weird times. /sarcasm
"Looms"? I paid $ 4.06 today for 93 octane at Cumberland Farms in MA. Regular (87 octane) was $ 3.86.
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