Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/13/2010 5:03:19 AM PDT by raptor22
Top senators backed away from offshore drilling in a major new energy bill unveiled Wednesday, revealing the dramatic shift in drilling politics since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began last month.
The bill, authored by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would let a state ban drilling within 75 miles of its coastline vs. 3 miles currently.
A state also would be able to veto neighbors' drilling projects if a mandatory study indicated that an accident could harm the state's economy or environment.
This is a major reversal from late '09, when Kerry called for a bill that included "additional onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration."
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
We should use Kerry as a well plug.
With his hair it would probably work.
Has maybe ANYONE in Washington become aware that the Gulf of Mexico and waters off the USA, Cuba AND Mexico are going to be the sight of massive drilling by MANY countries far, far away. There are groups from Asia, Afica and the middle east invited in by Castro’s Cuba and other countries to drill to their heart’s content, far from the “environmental control” of the USA.
According to the wishes of the enviro-nuts in the US government the ONLY country NOT drilling for oil will be the United States. Really brilliant.
This oil spill is truly awful, but it WILL be capped and the ocean will be cleaned and the shoreline WILL become as it was. If the RISK is to be forbidden, then ground EVERY airplane to avoid the risk of crash, force EVERY car from the road to avoid that risk, stop the trains, power plants and anything else that entails a RISK.
hair plugs, not good for sopping oil ... You need real hair to do that.
I was thinking more along the lines of ramming the pipe up his arse.
And how about those fire booms? Does the tax and ration energy bill include the fire booms for Obama’s oil spill..
don’t temp them ...
And where do these clowns think we are going to get our energy? Oh yeah, we’re not while they fly around in their jets.
Pray for America
And four buck a gallon gas will just as quickly push them right back again. What a bunch of mindless lemmings!!
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