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If Obama nominates a senator for VP, McCain should pick DeMint.
The news of American Energy Freedom Day is spreading. Keep it up, and continue to encourage your friends and family to sign the petition!
Here’s CNN’s profile on EnergyFreedomDay.com:
As House Republicans continue to focus on energy policy, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas launched a new Web site Tuesday that highlights October 1 as the day the congressional ban on offshore oil drilling will end unless Congress takes some action to continue the ban.
The site prominently features a YouTube video clip of DeMint and Hensarling discussing energy policy and encouraging the public to contact their representatives in Congress about lifting ban on offshore oil drilling and oil shale recovery. The site also contains a clock-like widget counting down the time until October 1. Visitors to the site can copy the HTML code for the widget so that they can embed the countdown clock on their own blogs or Web sites. Visitors can also sign an online petition on the site and read a blog about energy policy.
ATR Calls for the Preservation of “American Energy Freedom Day”
Domestic energy resources will no longer be off-limits on October 1, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), along with 39 other national and state free market organizations, publically supports the expiration of federal bans on domestic energy supplies on October 1, 2008, fittingly labeled “American Energy Freedom Day”. ATR urges Congress and the White House to oppose any new moratoriums, temporary or otherwise, on increasing domestic energy supply.
American consumers need relief from the increasing burden of high energy prices. “When President Bush repealed the executive ban on off-shore oil drilling,” stated ATR president Grover Norquist, “Congress was left with no one but themselves to blame for the high energy costs that continue to cripple the economy.”
As energy prices have fallen in recent weeks, Congress’ last remaining barrier to greater energy independence is the temporary ban on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, which contains estimated reserves of 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
On October 1, 2008, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008 (Public Law 110-161), prohibitions on energy exploration will expire, immediately making vast amounts of American petroleum and natural gas available for leasing activities, to the benefit of all Americans currently coping with high energy costs. Allowing for this expiration will give states the autonomy to determine whether or not to allow off-shore drilling. “The federal government has no role creating blanket mandates on how citizens of every state can use their own resources,” stated Norquist. “What we need is less regulation, not more.”
Recently, House Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Chairman of the Senate Republican Steering Committee came together in a bicameral effort to protect American Energy Freedom Day and called on their colleagues for support.
Americans for Tax Reform commends the GOP leaders’ commitments and continues to encourage all Members of Congress to follow President Bush’s lead and vote to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling so that “American Energy Freedom Day” could come before October 1st.
Signed also! Keep this going..
This promises to be a most entertaining process.
If I understand what they describe as the likely chain of events the Dem. leadership in the House will insert a drilling ban renewal into one of the omnibus appropriations bills or continuing resolutions. These are considered “must pass” items since a “government shutdown” hinges on the outcome.
Well, I say bring it on.
Republicans in Congress should fight tooth & nail to stop passage until the offending language is removed. What a great time to have a “real” filibuster that’s tied to a simple popular cause.
There will be huge pressures to pass the bills - not only to avoid the “shutdown” but also because 435 Congressmen and 33 or 34 Senators want to hit the campaign trail.
The President should get out front and brandish the veto pen. Everything that can be done to raise the stakes for the Dems should be on the table.
Pass the popcorn.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.