Posted on 07/14/2008 11:49:49 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 07/14/2008 Pelosi Statement on President Bush Lifting the Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush's announcement lifting the executive ban on drilling in protected coastal areas:
“Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil.
"The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas.
"If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
"It's time to tell the oil industry: 'You already have millions of acres to drill. Use it or lose it.'"
ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.....snort...Did Pelosi say something?.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz........
She's going to wear the word out by her continual (mis)use of it.
A true dim wit diva. And all she deserves are personal attacks.
Her statement is class warfare just for the sake of politics.
The plan is not a “hoax” unless they actually do not intend to allow drilling for oil.
OK Madame Speaker, your approval rating is at 9%, wanna go for 6?
yes, let’s not have any strategic oil reserve, so if a tragedy occurs we are not prepared!
Shows how out of touch with the American people the Democrats are.
Nancy, this was done because of the demands of the people whom the President serves.
I don't know she's hit critical mass on tortured logic yet but she has to be getting close. Sucking her thumb in the fetal position on the floor under her desk can't be far off.
Why should they drill where there’s no oil?
And tapping into the SOR will not make one bit of difference. It’s not enough oil to make a difference.
I thought Grandma Meme and her lefty pals were gonna straighten out the gasoline price problem when they took over the Congress?
Well? Where’s the beef?
Did she say that with a May West Voice and Smile ?
how about bush is echoing the wants of the American people?
ooastal anwar is a wasteland where the oil companies want to drill nancy. and how is releasing oil from the spr going to help the people of this country but drilling for more of our own won’t!
So let me get this straight...Pelosi believes that releasing a few barrels of oil from the strategic reserve would help, but that the addition of a few million barrels of oil PER DAY through new production, even if it takes a few years, is a waste of time
Just how friggin’ stupid does the Democratic party think that the American people are?
This is actually none of the business of Congress. Pelosi has nothing to say about this.
and then of course it will be bush’s fault.
68 Millions of acres that nothing has been found.
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