Assuming that there is logic in congress, the higher the price goes, the higher the chance that drilling will begin.
I doubt the dems will ever allow it.
And I was just starting to like that guy......
They better wise-up,,,the gulf coast can only put out so
much home heating oil for the NE US,,,we don’t use a drop in
Louisiana,,,80%+ comes from/goes through my state,,,
The main thing that is needed is to increase storage and
refinery capacity all over the US to buffer this problem,,,
AND,,,Drill where the oil is,,,No matter where !!!
Of course "they" do. So do a lot of republican "cut our oil dependency" people. The thought is it will make renewable and alternative fuels more competitive.
It's absolutely retarded to cut off future domestic oil supplies however. We ARE going to need it, and probably a lot sooner than the idiots running this country realize.
It’s crazy not to be drilling it.
Starving people of the world: take diet pills please!
-the Democrats
I don't see how $5 a gallon gas is going to help a democrat house and senate. Especially if the republicans hammer the point.
Oh wait, we're talking about republicans. Invertebrates don't have spines...
Democrats aren't very bright and tend not to think long range
As long as the Dems control Congress, there will be no drilling.
"We won't be getting any oil for TEN YEARS!" they howled.
So they stopped it. And now it is almost 7 years later.
We could have been 3 years away from a massive influx of new oil. Please remind your fellow citizens that it was the Democrat Party which made sure we would be importing the same amount of oil from Saudi Arabia instead of from Alaska. Ask them if that is something they admire or disdain. Ask them to remember that on Election Day 2008.
Trust us good people of Alaska, we Democratic Politicians know better than you what’s good for you and your state—even though most of us have never been there.
Your friends,
Hillary and Chucky
ping.
It is a bread and butter issue....where the GOP could make the DEMs splinter themselves.....Either support their fringe enviro whacko base.....or anger the general public via higher gas prices...
The case is there to be made (easily) by the GOP/WH!
If I were a politician, I’d argue that we have a national emergency, a crisis if you will. And as such we need to drill and explore for oil in our own backyard to make us energy independent, to keep gas prices from hurting the American people. At the same time we need to develop alternative fuels and energy sources that will one day replace oil and natural gas as our primary energy sources. Give us 10 years of drilling an exploring for oil in the United States, and by that time we’ll have the technology and resources available, at affordable prices, to make a transition from fossil burning fuels to cleaner energy. In the short term however, we have a national crisis and we must do what we can to help lower the cost of oil and gas.
Alaska wants the bill defeated. That’s saying something.
Hope this puts an end to the Lieberman is a fellow conservative and a Great American hero. He is a liberal through and through - except for WTO.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980) established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In section 1002 of that act, Congress deferred a decision regarding future management of the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain (”1002 area”) in recognition of the area’s potentially enormous oil and gas resources and its importance as wildlife habitat. A report on the resources (including petroleum) of the 1002 area was submitted in 1987 to Congress by the Department of the Interior (DOI). Since completion of that report, numerous wells have been drilled and oil fields discovered near ANWR, new geologic and geophysical data have become available, seismic processing and interpretation capabilities have improved, and the economics of North Slope oil development have changed significantly.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) commonly is asked to provide the Federal Government with timely scientific information in support of decisions regarding land management, environmental quality, and economic and strategic policy. To do so, the USGS must anticipate issues most likely to be the focus of policymakers in the future. Anticipating the need for scientific information and considering the decade-old perspective of the petroleum resource estimates included in the 1987 Report to Congress, the USGS has reexamined the geology of the ANWR 1002 area and has prepared a new petroleum resource assessment.
Bush could simply sign an executive order then congress would need a 2/3 to override