Posted on 03/23/2009 12:03:27 PM PDT by kellynla
The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.
Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps.
But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.
Back in June, President George W. Bush lifted an 18-year-old executive order banning new offshore drilling that had been put in place by his father, President George H.W. Bush, and extended by President Bill Clinton.
At the end of September 2008, Congress – then in the midst of crafting a $700-billion financial bailout and facing nationwide pressure to lower gas prices and remove the ban – allowed a 26-year-old moratorium of offshore oil drilling that had been annually attached to the Interior Department funding bill, to expire.
Since then, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed bidding on leases for oil exploration. But some Democratic members of congress have indicated they would like to see the ban restored.
The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department.
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“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium...”
Good, let the environmental moonbats in Washington secede then.
That is, a few years after all those power and desalinization plants come on-line.
:-)
...or call us terrorists.
Yep, I’m one of those sport fisherpersons who fish those rigs. Caught a 50 lb. cobia last year, plus red snapper, mangrove snapper, king mackeral. The water is beautiful out there!
Woohoo! And this is a bad thing how? 10th-amendment cheers!
Rep. Jay....have you selected a headstone?
Might be prudent
“I can assure you that Madam Dufarge continues to knit...”
I pray to the gods that is true!!!
Well now. Will the voters in this 'tard's district return this ummm...person to Congress in 2010? When gas bumps up to $5.00/gallon again?
“One way or the other, it will be reinstated,” said Inslee. “One way or the other, by any means necessary.
“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”
"We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army"
- Obama Organizer, Chris DeHaven, Hoover, AL
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It was some young dude named Herb Moses who was the number two guy at Fannie. That esplains why Bawney loves fanny. Bawney claims he was his because he found him in some bullrushes in the Potomac.
Illinois, eh? You a Roe Conn fan?
Shhh! Don’t give the commies any ideas. Next, they’ll be trying to impose a 90% tax on Texas’s surplus!
Inslee is nothing short of a leftist punk from Seattle.
True, but Mr Obama wants to bring this country to it’s knees first so he can push through the Nationalized Health Care.
“Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. “They are opportunities to do big things.”
Oil is going much, much higher... let’s see how long the Democratic Senators hold out against the public...
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