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President Bush telling Congress- DRILL! LIVE THREAD- Rose Garden press conference at 10:30 AM
Multiple media sources | 18 June 2008

Posted on 06/18/2008 6:59:13 AM PDT by SE Mom

The president is holding a live press conference in the Rose Garden @ 10:30 (eastern) to make very public his desire that we DRILL. He will ask Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling in coastal US waters.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; bush; energy; environment; offshoredrilling; oil; presidentbush; presser; putrid
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To: mysterio

I think he said he would issue an executive order to complement a Congressional action...(I think th eimplication is there that he could do it without them) Also touting drilling in ANWR and increasing refinery capacity...speed up the permit process. Good stuff but he’s said most of it before...Congress is the ‘just say no’ to all of is proposals. We need to flood the Washington switchboard again (ala immigration reform)


61 posted on 06/18/2008 7:45:02 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: Dead Corpse
wasn't it GHW Bush's Executive Order that put some of this stuff off limits? Can't the President just sign an EO rescinding the former EO?

See #19

62 posted on 06/18/2008 7:45:50 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Mr. K

WE KNOW!!! NOT IN MY BACK YARD! Another so called freeper rino.....


63 posted on 06/18/2008 7:45:54 AM PDT by captnorb
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To: mysterio; Miss Marple

See post #19 by Miss Marple She rightly explains that Congress needs to act also!


64 posted on 06/18/2008 7:46:32 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Mr. K

ANWR has about one fifth of the reserves we have offshore. The offshore ban is the much bigger supply restriction. Ultimately, we need ANWR too. But this is a great start.


65 posted on 06/18/2008 7:47:25 AM PDT by Texas Federalist (Fred Thompson 08)
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To: SE Mom; Fiddlstix; PhilDragoo; Liz; onyx; potlatch; devolve; MEG33; Grampa Dave; Lady Jag; ...

Give ‘em he**, Dubya !!!


66 posted on 06/18/2008 7:48:31 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: devane617

Maybe we oughta all start shootin at some food and maybe up through the ground will come a bubbling crude. Gotta think outside the box.


67 posted on 06/18/2008 7:48:54 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Izzy Dunne

Yeah... I read that. After posting of course. Why bother reading an entire thread when one can just jump right in the middle and restate things already said... ;-)


68 posted on 06/18/2008 7:48:59 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: taraytarah

Oily Ping


69 posted on 06/18/2008 7:49:13 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: normy; Mr. K
ANWR makes more sense from all angles. Weird.

Not really. Offshore drilling rigs are mobile, float, can be shippied/moved easily from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world in a very short period of time. Drilling in frigid wilderness has to have supply roads built, fuel dumps, etc.

Once you strike the oil, you have to truck it out or build a pipeline in subfreezing temps...viscosity problems, etc.

Offshore, you just unroll your pipe on the ocean floor and go wherever you want, and the ocean keeps your pipe at a nice comfy constant temp.

Offshore drilling and production would seem to be a much easier, quicker solution.

70 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:02 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: All

One of the reasons I am so infrequently here is the absolute frustration at people posting who either DO NOT READ the previous posts or DO NOT LISTEN to what the President said.

There are two components: the executive order and a law Congress passed. The President said he would lift the executive order concurrently with signing the law Congress will hopefully pass.

He also did a good job in blaming democrat opposition to drilling offshore, drilling in ANWR, using oil shale, and constructing refineries for the rise in gasoline prices.

It is now the job of Congressional Republicans and intelligent Americans to repeat this over and over again.


71 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:32 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: SE Mom
I actually think the dynamics of oil may change if we really DO start drilling.

Even having debate about it has got the Saudis a bit uneasy...this is good in and of itself.

72 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:33 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: SE Mom

Thank goodness for FR.

One of the Marine helicopters has been circling outside my window for the past half hour. I wondered what was going on. Presidential Rose Garden Press Conference must be it!


73 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:38 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: McGruff; PhilDragoo; potlatch; Fiddlstix; devolve; y'all
He should use a chart like this.

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EXACTLY !!!

A picture is worth a thousand words ...

74 posted on 06/18/2008 7:50:59 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: bill1952

“If he was REALLY serious, he would declare our oil to be a matter of Strategic National Security and open drilling by presidential order.”

Interesting. I didn’t know he could do that.


75 posted on 06/18/2008 7:51:16 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: SE Mom
So, once we drill and get all of that black gold out of the ground, what are we going to do with it?

Will we ship it out the country for refining and then import our own oil back into this country?

Or will we build more refineries on our own soil and become energy self sufficient?

76 posted on 06/18/2008 7:51:46 AM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: Cobra64
I guess you weren't around in the 1970s. Gasoline shortages, lines, locking gas caps...

Bingo! so many "tree huggers" of today have no clue what the country went through during Jimmah Carter's presidency.

Of course all they teach at school is the "air brushed" version.

77 posted on 06/18/2008 7:52:17 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
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To: SE Mom
We need to beat the Dems over the head with this issue; as seal hunters do to baby seals.
78 posted on 06/18/2008 7:52:38 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: All

Does anyone have the phone numbers for Congress that they could post here?


79 posted on 06/18/2008 7:53:42 AM PDT by FlashBack (www.proudpatriots.org/www.woundedwarriorproject.org/www.moveamericaforward.org)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I’ll believe him when he unilaterally rescinds the order regardless of what Congress does. Order it open and let the Supreme Court decide whether or not he has the power to do it. Let’s see if someone sues and tries to stop him.


80 posted on 06/18/2008 7:54:38 AM PDT by mysterio
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