I’m sure Awwnold will stand against it. He plans to run his Hummer on unicorn farts.
Precisely. This is an EXCELLENT opportunity for some conservatives to peel off some independent voters from the DemocRAT camp. RINOs OTOH need not apply.
Good we will put a California tax on our Florida oil.
McClintock may have come out with a drill now comment, but I sure can’t think of anyone else who might have in California (on the record).
Conservative intent in California might just as well be a national security issue, since it would hardly see the light of day.
If they would take the Governor, maybe we could sell California to Mexico?
Fine, California gets to pay$3.00 more per gallon than the national average.....its called the cost of being wrong surtax.
I am becoming more and more ashamed to tell anyone that I am from a state that’s run by DIMWITTS!!!! Not sure it will ever change either!!!
Good ! let the mental midgets in the Californian assembly tell the people they will be purchsing oil from Chavez and they will be paying 7 or 8 dollars a gallon. Lets see how long they stay in office.
The Cali legislature can be thrown out on their collective butts, by “the will of the people”!
All they need is opposition candidates to campain on “Drill here, Drill now!”
Beyond some number of miles (and certainly no more that 50, if that), states should have no say whatsoever in whether or not offshore drilling is allowed. Maybe when they start funding and furnishing their own Coast Guard and Navy, they might should have more say.
But, this shows once again how weak McCain’s position on drilling is: new offshore drilling only IF the states agree. And, of course, he still opposes drilling in ANWR. Anyone thinking his present position will result in a significant increase in domestic crude production needs to look more closely.
From “Three Days of the Condor” (1975)
Higgins: It’s simple economics. Today it’s oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask ‘em when they’re running out. Ask ‘em when there’s no heat in their homes and they’re cold. Ask ‘em when their engines stop. Ask ‘em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won’t want us to ask ‘em. They’ll just want us to get it for ‘em!
Something we really need is several brand new high-tech refineries to refine all our new crude or the coal, oil shale and oil sands.
What could be fairer than that?
Let the fruits and nuts run their gaymobiles on windmills and solar power...
If we had a governor with some Palin-sized cojones we could be drilling right now, and sending rebate checks to every taxpayer in the state.
But we don’t and we won’t. That’s what you get for re-electing the same socialist grafters to the legislature time after time, Californios.
I know it's not oil, but maybe we could make a methane processor like in that Mel G movie Thunderdome.
This is why I advocate taking the power to regulate oil drilling more than 25 miles away from the states. You cannot allow our national security to be destroyed by a bunch of +60 year old 60’s hippies who think that a tree has more rights than an unborn child.
Okay. Fair enough. No oil from new offshore wells to be provided to California refineries. Any products shipped to California will have a 60% excise tax applied to reduce the national debt.
“The California Assembly has taken a firm stand against the drilling, saying that the move would protect the state’s beaches.”
Total idiots that have no knowledge of history in California.
If the current off shore wells hadn’t been drilled there wouldn’t be a beach in southern California that you could go on without getting covered with tar.