Posted on 09/14/2008 11:26:14 AM PDT by kellynla
Amid the growing silliness of the political campaign – including all that inane wackiness about lipstick on pigs and sex education for kindergartners – there appears to be growing consensus on at least one major issue.
Republicans and Democrats appear to be agreeing that somewhere, sometime in the not-too-distant future, more lands beneath the sea will be opened to offshore oil drilling.
On Tuesday – in seeming response to all those boisterous chants of “Drill, baby, drill” and “Drill here! Drill now!” at John McCain rallies – the House of Representatives is slated to debate a bill that would allow oil drilling 100 miles off the U.S. coast and would let coastal states decide whether to allow drilling as close as 50 miles off their shores.
For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, this bill is a painful compromise. Although she is pushing for the bill – which includes conservation measures and higher fuel efficiency standards, among other things – she personally opposes offshore drilling and says the idea that it would reduce gasoline costs is “an absolute hoax.”
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
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RATS becoming nervous? They smell fear because the American people are fed up with their BS.
More like anchor chains.
drilling offshore in the gulf and Atlantic is less appealing than drilling in Alaska. Hurricanes wouldn’t shut down most of our refineries if we had more assets in Alaska, and there would be less inclination for oil companies and speculators to gouge us every time the wind blows.
The democrats are a “jump on the bandwagon” kind of party. They wait to see where the public at large is heading to determine their “stance”. Of course, they have to throw in a little protest, so it doesn’t look like they are the “wussies” giving in, but eventually, they cave. Leaders, they are NOT!
Okay.
Then let's all ask Obama to stop playing monkey see, monkey do with Republican policies like tax cuts and offshore drilling.
Bush was ready 7 years ago when he submitted an energy bill.
Democrats blocked its passage; they are to blame.
The authior is trying to make it sound like both parties are equally to blame.
more like “one party catching fire, the other nearing room temperature”
LOL.. “both parties”??? These people are shameless.
Both parties warming up to winning in Iraq
Both parties warming up to cutting taxes
“Prediction: Pelousy will be replaced in January as Speaker.”
right.
Why settle for a bad bill now, when we’ll be able to pass the real deal in January?
What else should be hammered home is the many jobs produced by exploration, drilling, transporting, refining, etc. It’s a win/win situation all around. I just don’t get all of the resistance.
Forget new bills. Just let the current moratorium expire.
This article is very slanted. It starts out misleading people about derval issues proven to be true cincerning ‘the one’
Gee, when the RNC and GOP elite find a pair, and push gun rights, drilling, welfare reform.....what happens? Dems cave.
Pssst. Don’t tell any of our limp wrist, RINO, lawyer go along to get along types.
In the Democratic plan, who will be allowed to drill between 12 and 50 miles off the US coast? Only Russia and China?
Day late and a dollar short.
Fifty miles off our coast in Southwest Fla. in the GOM it’s only 50 feet deep, think about it, crude oil in shallow water, quickly. Makes sense.
Drill everywhere now!
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