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Breaking News: President Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
Fox News ^ | July 14, 2008

Posted on 07/14/2008 7:18:47 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77

Just a banner on their website:

Breaking News >> President Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; drilling; energy; executiveorder; offshoredrilling; oil
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To: RightWhale

But it hasn’t really been opened. The Congressional Ban is still in place.


221 posted on 07/14/2008 8:55:08 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Teacher317
Republican politicians should stop refering to it as ANWR or as having 10 billion barrels of oil. They should say "We have 1.45 trillion dollars worth of oil sitting in Alaska, which both Democrats and Republicans have been wisely declaring as off-limits for decades, until a time when global oil supplies started to become scarce. Clearly, prices are going up because demand is increasing, but supply is not. Therefore, now is the time to take advantage of the wisdom of our predecessors.".

It lets Congress to claim that they have half a brain, and possibly would increase their 9% approval rating. It reaches across party lines, and can wear the badge of "bipartisanship" proudly. It allows the Dems to save face and avoid getting blamed for $5/gallon gas. It lets Republicans help their e-e-e-e-evil friends in Big Oil. It reins in the speculation market (who until now had ZERO reason to expect supplies to increase), and instantly drops prices.

Seems like an all-around winner to me!

{DM rolls a d20 behind the DM screen, grins and says "Make a saving throw!"}

LOL Our problem is that we now have a Republican candidate that is going to start lamely communication that we have a global warming problem. People that believe in TW are torn between the price of gas and watching "mother earth die". My democrat dad said just yesterday, "if opening ANWR is going to bring the price of gas down to where people are buying hugh SUVs and burning gas as fast as they can, leave it closed". I asked him if it was necessary to keep gas from going to $5 dollars should we open it" to which he said "yes". I think Dems realize their constituents have reached a point where they believe some conservation will occur but we still need an economy.

I've always wondered if closing ANWR was simply a very big reserve waiting until we couldn't buy cheap stuff from the Middle East. It seems pretty smart even if it wasn't the original plan.

222 posted on 07/14/2008 8:56:48 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Obamafeld, "A CAMPAIGN ABOUT NOTHING".)
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To: Salvation

“Perhaps this will lead to a lot of congressional dimocrats losing their elections! I can pray, can’t I?”

Well, they say if you’re going to dream, to dream big. I’m with ya on that one though.


223 posted on 07/14/2008 9:00:23 AM PDT by MissouriConservative (Never pick a fight with an ugly person; they've got nothing to lose.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Great news, props to W.

Nevertheless, I can hear the lawsuits being filed already..


224 posted on 07/14/2008 9:04:47 AM PDT by MNReaganite (Bobby Jindal for President)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
Sounds like the President has a paintbrush, & is painting Madame Popbeads into a corner..........
225 posted on 07/14/2008 9:05:05 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (Prayers for Jill and the children...........)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Finally.


226 posted on 07/14/2008 9:10:04 AM PDT by octobersky
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To: DungeonMaster
*sigh*

Saving throw was a 2.

(I always had terrible dice)

227 posted on 07/14/2008 9:10:33 AM PDT by Teacher317 (Thank you Dith Pran for showing us what Communism brings)
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To: Current Occupant
In campaign 2000 one of issue was that he would review all of Clinton's land grab EO's. If he ever did he must have agreed with all of them as he hasn't lifted a single one. I'm still hacked about that.

Me, too.

I covered it long ago, here:

-That Trillion-Dollar Ripoff-- Clinton's Utah Coal Deal--

228 posted on 07/14/2008 9:12:41 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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To: thackney

The other side of the process is issuing leases. Lifting the ban would not by itself do anything. Somebody, Congress probably, would have to decide how much the leases will cost. Size, duration, and other factors involved in bureaucratic admin would be done in the Exec branch.


229 posted on 07/14/2008 9:12:54 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: octobersky

I have a question. It has been posted here in other threads that even the announcement of oil leases being had would cause a near automatic drop in the price of crude. Wouldn’t this announcement from the WH cause the same thing to happen? If so, when can we start to see the price drop?


230 posted on 07/14/2008 9:15:15 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (DRILL NOW. DRILL OFTEN. DRILL 24/7/365. PAY LESS. SUCK THE GROUND DRY.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Wooohoooo!!!!


231 posted on 07/14/2008 9:17:19 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (A Lesser Evil Is Still Evil.)
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To: backhoe

Excellent thread and links. Too bad the talkies don’t bring this up.


232 posted on 07/14/2008 9:17:41 AM PDT by Current Occupant (IF we can't drill our way out of this, then we will not survive as a NATION!!!!!)
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To: RightWhale

Agreed there are many steps, but it requires first getting started. Congress themselves would not make those detail decisions. Mineral Managament Service which is under the Excutive branch would administrate it.

But Congress has to approve releasing the area and appropriate funds for them to do the work.

Each step will bring us closer, but until Congress lifts the ban, we haven’t gotten started.


233 posted on 07/14/2008 9:18:34 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: NCC-1701

The area is still banned from exploration and production by Congress.


234 posted on 07/14/2008 9:19:22 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Current Occupant
Excellent thread and links. Too bad the talkies don’t bring this up.

Thank you.

I raised Hell from my end, but a fat lot of good it did.

235 posted on 07/14/2008 9:19:22 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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To: NCC-1701

The question is being ignored. Those who predicted that are silent.


236 posted on 07/14/2008 9:24:54 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: backhoe

I hear ya. I remember Orin Hatch promise he would do all he could to get the ban lifted. That didn’t go anywhere.


237 posted on 07/14/2008 9:25:30 AM PDT by Current Occupant (IF we can't drill our way out of this, then we will not survive as a NATION!!!!!)
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To: lormand; AU72
Green is the new red

The enviroweenies are a bunch of watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

238 posted on 07/14/2008 9:28:53 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: MrLee
When did Bush find his b*lls?

About the same time you lost yours?

239 posted on 07/14/2008 9:29:38 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Attention stattions: the heavenly edition of the Tony Snow Show is now on the air. Woof.")
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To: Salvation

Well, if Congress doesn’t lift the ban also, will the sheeple finally see that it is the Democrat majority there that has been the problem - not Bush - for this oil crisis? Duh!


240 posted on 07/14/2008 9:29:56 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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