Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Posted on 07/14/2008 2:23:41 PM PDT by tobyhill
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on Monday rejected a call by U.S. President George W. Bush to lift a moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
Bush announced on Monday that he lifted the executive branch's restriction on offshore exploration, saying only Congress stood in the way of opening up America's untapped oil riches.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Since ex-democrat politicians, operatives, and once elected representatives are running Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, you have a pretty good idea of how quickly and with what incompetence the Maxine-Harry approach can work to destroy that industry.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Thanks for posting kc! ;)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071401049.html?hpid=topnews
Last paragraph on the second page of the WaPost article above.
Also here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045230/posts
Yeah, but the GOP has to hammer the Rats night and day and shout it from the rooftops. No more playing nice with the Dems, even if it goes against McCain’s reaching across the aisle philosophy.
“The congressman is shockingly retarded.”
Yepper! Just because you have a bingo car, you don't have a bingo.
Nonetheless, I shall still bet against the OCD drilling ban being restored.
To bastardise Shakespeare a bit: ''There are more means of perverting law in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Pelosionia.''
;^)
car = card.
Sometimes I’m as brain dead as Dingy Harry Reid.
McCarthy is one of the biggest libs in Congress, yet even she can see which way the wind blows. She doesn’t want to follow Pelosi and Reid off the cliff on this issue. She’s probably feeling the heat.
Here is a great website, with all 50 states, governors, senators & congressional representatives phone numbers (both in Washington DC as well as their home locations), addresses, emails, etc. Simply click on the state, and then select either the senator tab or representative tab, click on the contact, etc. Very easy & simple to use. From the Rightmarch.com website.......
http://capwiz.com/sicminc/dbq/officials
What is this result supposed to be, ''tie favours the runner''??
Tell me exactly WHICH oil company is going to commit ONE dollar of capital to drilling the OCS from 1 October through 3 November, even if the bisexual Marx brothers Nancy and Harry cannot manage to ''pass'' some sort of fraudulent continuation of the OCS drilling ban?
Answer: not a single one. The issue will be stalled until AT MINIMUM the election, and, given the Rats' propensity for lawsuits after a close Presidential race, probably for a minimum of 6 weeks after that, and conceivably for years and years longer.
The older I get, the more I should be highly approbative of an actual occurrence of the ending of Clancy's novel, Debt of Honor.
Take it easy on the poor guy. It took him four days to memorize that line.
"Congressional attacks on speculation do not alter the oil market's fundamental demand and supply conditions. What would lower the long-term price of oil is for Congress to permit exploration for the estimated billions upon billions of barrels of oil domestically available, not to mention the estimated trillion-plus barrels of shale oil in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Some politicians pooh-pooh calls for drilling, saying it would take five or 10 years to recover the oil.I guarantee you we would begin to see a reduction in today's prices even if it took five to 10 years for us to get the first barrel. Put yourself in the place of an OPEC member knowing there would be a greater supply of U.S. oil five or 10 years, hence maybe driving oil prices lower to say $40 a barrel. What will you want to do now while oil is $130 a barrel? You would want to sell as much oil now and OPEC's collective efforts to do so would put downward pressures on current oil prices. Right now the U.S. Congress is OPEC's staunchest ally."
— Walter Williams
1. A hundred or so of these off the shores of Florida, California, and Georgia won't even be noticed by most Americans. It's not like they are placed 5 miles off shore and are visible.
2. The oil companies only need access to 2,000 acres at ANWAR in order to drill! Using slant drilling techniques, they can go miles in each direction.
The real reasons are two fold why the Democrats will resist domestic drilling:
A. They want the economy and the American people to suffer up through the fall elections in the hopes that further suffering will translate to votes for them because they know the MSM will put all the blame solely on Republicans.
B. The Democrats are slaves to the radical "Environmentalist" religion.
Remember to only use your one square of toilet paper today.
They took the bait.
One of the nearby Congress critters, Jan Schakowsky, who leans so far to the left a good breeze would topple her over, was all over the airwaves in Chicago yesterday bemoaning this action.
Solar, wind, geothermal. Yeah, that’s the ticket! How did the senator get to the press conference where he dissed the American people? Was he riding his wind powered bicycle?
Please feel free to do so yourselves:
http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/email.shtml
With offshore combined with ANWR that is enough oil to eliminate all OPEC oil for 14 years. Some estimates go as high as 90 billion barrels, not counting ANWR, and oil shale and coal could alone make us energy independent.
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