Bush to press Congress to drop offshore drilling ban

afp ^ | June 17, 2008

[Red Steel]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — President George W. Bush will call on US lawmakers Wednesday to pass legislation lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling, the White House said.

"With gasoline now over four dollars a gallon, tomorrow he will explicitly call on Congress to also pass legislation lifting the congressional ban on safe, environmentally-friendly offshore oil drilling," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in a statement late Tuesday.

The announcement came just hours after Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for the federal government to scrap its 27-year-old moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

His demand tapped into voters' anxiety about sky-high fuel prices but his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, dismissed it as "political posturing" that would not help gas prices and might do much to ruin the coastal environment.

Perino said the president had long pushed Congress to expand the United States' domestic oil supply but blamed Democrats for blocking any action.

"The president believes Congress shouldn't waste any more time," she said, while adding that he "is not taking any executive action tomorrow."

[stravinskyrules]

All the Republicans need to do is emphasize environmental safety while pushing for an end to the ban.

The public gives a damn about avoiding oil spills and the like, so while pressing ahead with drilling keep couching the arguments GREEN.

[Jo Nuvark]

DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW! ... PING!

[richardtavor]

You are absolutely right. However, it is laughable about the fact that most of the drilling will occur more than 90 miles offshore, and I do believe that we can contain any spill before it reaches the coast.

[Jo Nuvark]

The Environmentally Ill are hypocrites. All other
countries drill at will without a care for habitats.

DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!

NO AMERICAN OIL! NO CONGRESS PAY!

[blackbart.223]

"The public gives a damn about avoiding oil spills and the like, so while pressing ahead with drilling keep couching the arguments GREEN."

It's a pity so many have become so ignorant. They bitch about gas prices but balk about solutions. Public education I guess.

[HerrBlucher]

Drill Gaia’s brains out, drill here, drill there, drill everywhere, suck the earth dry then kick a liberal in the arse.

Oh, and one more thing, wind power machines off the coast of cape cod.

[stravinskyrules]

However, it is laughable about the fact that most of the drilling will occur more than 90 miles offshore, and I do believe that we can contain any spill before it reaches the coast.

It may be laughable, but the fact is that somehow, someway anything can happen and I don't think it unreasonable to demand extreme measures be taken to prevent an environmental disaster from occuring.

We expect the same of the airline industry and impose stringent safety regulations.

[HerrBlucher]

We expect the same of the airline industry and impose stringent safety regulations.

What environmental disasters are from airliners?

[blackbart.223]

"Democratic rival, Barack Obama, dismissed it as "political posturing" that would not help gas prices and might do much to ruin the coastal environment."

Of course he is an expert on such matters.

Barack is another poverty pimp socialist asshole we just can't afford to be calling any shots. If we could turn his ears into windmills and capture the hot air from his mouth we might produce a few watts of power but it wouldn't much.

[SAJ]

Agreed, generally. Except that I should prefer to kick a Marxist's arse FIRST -- any Marxist, of which there is sadly no shortage -- on the grounds that it would take a LONG time to 'drill Gaia's brains out', and I should hate to deny myself that pleasure for X number of decades.

As Mr. Shakespeare once noted, ''If 'twere done when 'tis done, 'twere well 'twere done QUICKLY''.

FReegards!

[umgud]

What environmental disasters are from airliners?

How many ships sunk in WWII? How much oil/fuel was spilled? It had to be a whole bunch and somehow the oceans survived.

[rahbert]

Big neutron belching nucular power plants in all the hippy havens *and* cape cod!

[stravinskyrules]

What environmental disasters are from airliners?

I was referring to safety.

[NutCrackerBoy]

You go, W., give ‘em hell!

[Cobra64]

It's interesting that few mention COAL. It's not your father's coal burning plant.

A coal plant can be built in a matter of a few years to supply electricity to stationary structures like homes, offices, etc. While a nuke plant can take twice as long, and as always there are the issues of spent fuel rods that libs keep screaming about.

Oil is not the sole solution. It's the solution for mobile objects: trains, planes, autmobiles, and ships.

Too manty people are myopic and only focus on one energy source and realize that multiple energy supplies are needed.

[bray]

If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Salvation]

Keep going, W. Congress will buckle.

[Peacekeeper357]

Welcome to FR. You may be in the wrong house, just like a Liberal you mix apples and oranges. We are talking about drilling off the cost and maybe getting some oil in the water and you compare this to airline safety.

[Salvation]

And we can do our part by contacting the Congress critters and telling them to DRILL NOW!

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