Major Garrett on Fox said yesterday that the GOP members that are against the drilling in ANWR said that if it is put back in...they won't vote for the spending cuts....
Besides...why should we drill for oil....when Congress will just haul the oil companies in front of a hearing and berate them for making any profits...
Exactly. We hate oil and we hate those who sell it.
Really, isn't that absolutely ridiculous. They have no time for confirmation hearings before January, but they can smack around some oil execs for making a profit in a capitalist society.
For me, being against drilling in ANWR is just about as hard to understand as being against PBA bans - there's absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. The locals want drilling for the economic benefits, we want drilling for the fuel cost benefits, Congress SHOULD want it so we're less dependent on foreign oil, and the animals don't care because it's a vast wasteland where they don't hang out anyway. Utter silliness that we haven't started this ball rolling by now, five years into Bush's administration.