Posted on 07/10/2008 11:47:41 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Drilling in protected areas ‘a hoax’ By Jared Allen Posted: 07/10/08 01:28 PM [ET] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday shut the door on expanding oil and gas drilling beyond areas that have already been approved for energy exploration, drawing a clear distinction from her counterparts in charge of the Senate.
“This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. “It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
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$3.56 is an old figure. It’s now around $4 or higher, depending on where you live.
The classic Communist tactic of blaming the opposition for some bad thing that for which you're orders of magnitude more guilty.
Lenin invented this classic move: blaming the Tsars for jailing and torturing hundreds of Russian political prisoners at the same time the Cheka was rounding up and torturing tens of thousands.
Nancy! you have been BLOCKING Bush’s energy policy.
So really - it is YOUR policy that has resulted in $4/gallon.
Everyone should be viewing this website...
In addition to stopping drilling for oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, refineries, coal to oil liquefaction etc., Democrats have banned companies from getting the the 1 trillion barrels of oil in oil shale in the western United States.
With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further. Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States. The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia:
"Yet, buried in a Department of Interior appropriations bill passed in December 2007 was an amendment that prevented establishing regulations for leasing land to drill for oil shale. The House passed that amendment, proposed by Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, on June 27, 2007, by a vote of 219-215. "
It was an amendment to a large bill, buried in some kind of huge horrible energy bill that put all kinds global warming regulations on us ,including higher mileage for cars etc. Of course most Democrats voted for this amendment and the bill too. Here is the roll call vote:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll574.xml
The only thing that would increase oil supply significantly is if Congress would repeal the ban that Democrats put on developing shale oil in Colorado.Congress and Democrats must allow oil companies to get the trillion barrels of oil in oil shale in the western United States. But we know Democrats/Communists will not allow this. The only way is for the public to find out about this and make them do it.
This amount of oil would power every car and completely power the U.S. for hundreds of years or at least a hundred years.
I am going to email this to all the radio talk show hosts and everyone I know. If you value your way of life maybe you can also spend some minutes emailing. This Democrat Udall who introduced this ban on shale oil and the Democrats in Congress want to kill us. This Democrat Udall is a traitor.
What further proof do people need to see that government is the enemy of the people? Democrats and McCain want to bring in hundreds of millions, hordes of 3rd world foreign people and not allow us Americans to get a trillion barrels of oil in our own back yard. And we have everywhere even on this site people calling for government to further regulate the speculators and our economy .How will these evil villains in government "save" us from that which has created our great civilization , capitalism. Government surely hasn't created this civilization and surely not the government educated public which are dumb enough to trust government. When will people get it that government is the enemy that government is the problem not the solution to any problem?
RBOB gasoline also back to within 6 cents of its alltime high. This isn’t going away.
GM’s Wagoner says GM did not foresee the price of gasoline doubling, but then, who did. He says GM has $24 billion cash and is not taking the bankruptcy route this year.
That skank wouldn’t tell the truth if her life depended on it. How did she ever get to the position she’s in? Her constituents must be dumber than dirt.
This is like The Family Circus, when the vase gets knocked over, and you see “I Dunno” and “Not Me” slinking away while the kids look all innocent.
She and her ilk just don't have a clue as to why their appoval ratings are so low.
YOU WISH and so do I. It's not going to happen before or after the election. The Democrats and the "moderate" Republicans have been well paid to make certain this does not occur.
"The Dems are blocking any additional oil expploration and refining simply to destroy the economy and win the White House."
They're going to destroy the economy, but it's not to win the WH. It's to prove that capitalism doesn't work and to insure this country, or what's left of it, caves in to Marxism with them in charge.
I have a great idea. How about you put that damned spam image on your Freeper page and link to it?
Keep up your threats and it will guarntee Obamanation wins!
To really drive the point home, a vertical line should be added at January 3, 2007 & labeled something like: “Democrats form Majority in Congress”.
Still the same concept...why some people can’t see fault with the Democrats, is beyond me...ugh
All it will take is one 'ivory-billed red-crested yellow-bellied flycatcing titmouse' on the Endangered Species list getting mangled in a windmill to get the entire Sierra Club/Nature Convervancy/Audubon Society crowd in front of a federal judge demanding every windmill in America be shut down.
Speaking of dry holes...
Democrats and Piss Poor Republicans say...”Screw America”. Now, how the hell am I supposed to get “up” for a vote?
I got it, they don't give a shit about the people or their vote.
Free at last, free at last...Thank God almighty, I'm free at last. Now, who stole my money?
How do people like this achieve positions of power? That’s a rhetorical question, BTW.
I am becoming favorable to an access tax that is placed on all hydrocarbons produced in my state of Texas and shipped out of state. The tax will pay for the cost and expenses of our state suffering from the ravages of oil and gas exploration and development.
I think those states who do not wish to have their precious land or coastal waters undergoing oil industry
exploitation should and would pay for that privilege.
This seems fair to me.
For all you guys who live in states that punish the oil industry, you should know that you already pay far more in taxes than you need to. We here in Texas have some of the lowest unemployment rates, no income tax and have had our home equity preserved during the nationwide housing debacle. We also need many more thousands of people to work in the oil industry here.
Does anyone here have proof to the contrary that the Republicans are whipped?
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