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Republicans In New Push To Drill In Alaska Reserve
reuters ^ | April 1, 2011 | Ayesha Rascoe

Posted on 04/01/2011 4:19:55 PM PDT by PROCON

Not yet a year after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Republicans are renewing efforts to drill for oil and gas in a fiercely contested Alaskan wildlife refuge.

Moving one day after President Barack Obama's unveiled a plan to cut U.S. oil imports by a third over 10 years, Republicans will unveil a bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The bill would also force the Interior Department to hold lease sales for offshore areas, a Republican aide said.

(Excerpt) Read more at planetark.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; anwar; anwr; energy; opec
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Way too late to make an immediate difference, but let's see the dims vote against cheaper gas.
1 posted on 04/01/2011 4:20:05 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Drill here, Drill now!

Drill Drill Drill....


2 posted on 04/01/2011 4:24:18 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: PROCON

It’s about time someone showed good sense.


3 posted on 04/01/2011 4:24:30 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: PROCON

There should be a push to drill everywhere there is anything worth taking.

Drill Gaia like a 3 AM prom date.


4 posted on 04/01/2011 4:26:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: PROCON

Oooooh. They’re gettin’ tough now. Bet those Dems are shakin’ in their boots.

*yawn*


5 posted on 04/01/2011 4:26:34 PM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: PROCON

All I can say is its about dang time.


6 posted on 04/01/2011 4:27:58 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: PROCON

Sorry much as we all want this it will never happen. Crybaby John and all the rest of the RINOS will cry and mewl & caterwaul until the Democrats get what they want. That of course being no drilling.


7 posted on 04/01/2011 4:29:18 PM PDT by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: PROCON

Ludites unite! You have nothing to lose but your heat, light, water, transportation, food, medicine, packaging, fuel, and even toothpaste. What a bunch of maroons!


8 posted on 04/01/2011 4:30:13 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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The idiotic name “Wildlife Reservre, etc”...is a complete deceptive joke. It should be called the “God-forsaken permafrost tuhndra wasteland”..but this is how leftists inject emotion into their positions...

I mean, how could ANYONE want to disrupt the Edenic “Wildlife Reserve”?

What a joke


9 posted on 04/01/2011 4:30:49 PM PDT by Tribemike1
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To: Reagan Man

Brazil, baby, Brazil!

Oh, uh, oops

Drill, baby, drill!


10 posted on 04/01/2011 4:30:53 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine. - R.E.M.)
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Drill Gaia like a 3 AM prom date

LOL, LOL, LOL

11 posted on 04/01/2011 4:35:33 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine. - R.E.M.)
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Brazil, baby, Brazil!

Heh heh
12 posted on 04/01/2011 4:37:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Tribemike1

From the photos I’ve seen, it would only serve to “preserve wildlife” like the LaBrea tar pits did.


13 posted on 04/01/2011 4:41:36 PM PDT by Salamander (I think I need some rest......but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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The idiotic name “Wildlife Reservre, etc”...is a complete deceptive joke.

You're right, I've seen pictures of it, there's NOTHING there, frozen tundra with your occassional moose, but your right, the dims have a way of fooling their constituents because it's "for the children!"

14 posted on 04/01/2011 4:42:58 PM PDT by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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.........drill here, drill there, drill everywhere...

...Then roll back the EPA....


15 posted on 04/01/2011 4:50:51 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: PROCON
We need to use oil and gas that we produce in America creating American jobs and lowering gas and heating and energy prices so America can get back to a roaring economy. But green democrats and rinos will not allow it and too many Americans have no idea who they are voting for in their horrible ignorance and foolishness.
16 posted on 04/01/2011 4:54:39 PM PDT by kindred (Come Lord Jesus, rule and reign over all thine enemies.)
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>Alaskan wildlife refuge

It needs to be renamed, “The Alaskan Frozen Postage Stamp”.


17 posted on 04/01/2011 5:10:12 PM PDT by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we revolt.)
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To: kindred

Until he is gone - America is not getting back to a roarin economy. Loads of people who probably watch Obama TV live in a dream world thinking he is Carter. He is far far worse. The damage caused may be irreversible.


18 posted on 04/01/2011 5:11:06 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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The real problem will appear when drilling takes place in ANWR and discovers it to be like NPR-A — revealed some months ago to be empty.

That would be bad.


19 posted on 04/01/2011 5:24:02 PM PDT by Owen
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks PROCON.


20 posted on 04/01/2011 5:24:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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