Energy Bill Saved For Next Year (Daschle stalls ANWR)

news.yahoo.com ^ | 11/27/01 | H. JOSEF HEBERT

[finnman69]

Here comes the stalling.

[ChadGore]

Dammit Dachle ! Shut up and DRILL !

[gulfcoast6]

So now we know, pro arab oil.

[Brian Mosely]

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy...allowing oil drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge is a national security issue!!!

[Eva]

Here comes the stalling? Daschle has been stalling this bill for a month, at least. Bush should simply open the ANWR with an EO, take it off the table and get on with the rest of the energy bill.

[Defiant]

Time for an executive order. Clinton bottled up whole states with 'em. GW can open up federal lands in the same way.

[finnman69]

True he has been stalling but this seemed like an 'official announcement' of a stall till the war news is not so pro-Bush/ anti-Dem.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the post showing the loyalty that Da$$hole has to the Opecker countries.

Hopefully, one day we find out how much money the Opecker nations have donated to the enviral organizations since 1973. Those donations then help demonicRat senators, congressits and governors to be elected to be enviral hand puppets. Besides donations to their selected demonicRat candidates, these envirals then tell their cult members who to vote for!

Since 1973, these enviral organizations and their political hacks like Da$$hole have worked 24/7 to make us more dependent on Opecker oil. This blatant stunt by Da$$hole is just the latest Anti American legal stunt to keep us dependent on Opecker oil!

Judas Da$$hole obviously gets more than a simple 40 pieces of silver to betray Americans on a daily basis!

[Praxeologue]

Time for an executive order. Clinton bottled up whole states with 'em. GW can open up federal lands in the same way

Can opening the ANWR for drilling be accomplish by an EO? Can an EO alter statute law?

[Penny1]

They don't have the time....even though they know full well that they already have the votes necessary to pass it in both houses of Congress.

I am so sick of their nonsense...

I notice they haven't mentioned putting Bush's judicial nominees on the front-burner either, not even for January...

I sure hope everyone's taking notes on this to pull out for next year's elections, because this is really making the Democratic party look bad...

-penny

[Psalm 73]

Daschel is trying to show America that HE is the one who will be running things, not Bush.
Daschel - Big Man, not little shrimp like people think.
Remember the little talk that W had with him shortly after Inauguration?
W seemed to say to Daschel: "Try to screw me, and I'll gut you like a fish".
Let the gutting begin!

[RetiredArmy]

"Here comes the stalling?"

Naw, it is already here.

[Texbob]

Screw Daschle, I hope ND runs out of gasoline and heating oil to see it they are smart enought to blame Daschle.

[San Jacinto]

Another reason to hate Benedict Arnold Jeffords of Vermont.

[DancesWithTrout]

what a Dasschole!!! Don't bother protecting the ANWR on my behalf. There's a 99.9% chance I'll never plan a vacation there to see it, but a 100% chance I'll need to fill up my gas tank.

[FairWitness]

"Since then, energy prices across the board from oil and natural gas to gasoline and electric power have declined dramatically with plenty of supplies, easing the crisis atmosphere that prevailed less than a year ago."

I wonder if supplies will still be high, and prices low, in January? Bringing this up at the coldest time of the year could affect the public perception of the issue (I can hope at least).

[mlocher]

this is really making the democratic party look bad

understatement of the day! however, i am not sure that democrats see it that way; i can only hope that the independents are paying attention.

[Stand Watch Listen]

ANWAR…

• ANWR total area: 19,600,000 acres
• ANWR designated wilderness part: 8,000,000 acres
• ANWR coastal plain (not part of wilderness area) designated long ago by Congress for oil exploration study: 1,500,000 acres
• Coastal plain area needed for oil extraction: 2,000 acres (0.01% of the total ANWR area)

In 1998 the USGS did a study that concluded that there are between 5.7 billion to 16 Billion barrels of recoverable Oil in the "1002" Area of ANWR.

An exploration rig seen damaging the tundra and disturbing the abundent wildlife on the costal plane of ANWR

Beautiful Spring day in "Americas Serengetti"

That is a LOT of oil!

and it dosent even take into consideration the nearly 200 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas there (over 150 years supply at the current rate of use in the U.S.)

A little perspective on the size of ANWR development:

Only 2,000 acres out of 19.5 MILLION are even under consideration for drilling. And those 19.5 million acres are but a FRACTION of the total land mass of Alaska. Also, contrary to dire predictions of the devasting impact on wildlife that would occur when we ran the pipeline in Prudhoe bay, the caribou herd there have actually grown to record numbers.

For REAL information on ANWR, let's use science, not the knee-jerk, anti-reason "precautionary principle": click here for info on ANWR and here for an excellent article by Linda Chavez about how Alaskans themselves view it. The Heritage Foundation also has an article which simply and plainly states the case for drilling here. Also read The National Center for Public Policy Research Press Release entitled "Bush Is Right: Opening ANWR To Oil Exploration Would Help Consumers Without Hurting Environment"

[what's up]

Strategist Hillary Clinton sits behind closed doors with Tommy Daschle and plots how to slow down ANWR, Economic Stimulus, Trade legislation.

I know it's her. She's a master at it.