With eight Republicans breaking ranks with the president, the decisive vote probably ended, at least for this year, the longtime dream of many Alaskans and conservatives in Washington that the protected wilderness could be opened for development, an issue that has pitted Democrats and environmentalists against Republicans and petroleum interests for more than a decade."
You want to blame somebody for America's failure to drill for oil in America, then put the blame where it belongs. On leftists and RINO loons.
The president has not used the power of the office to campaign this issue. He has lead us toward hydrogen. How many nuclear plants has he spoken for? His WH turned down the opportunity to mandate flex-fuel at $100 per car. Of course the dems do what they do, nothing. It takes to same cajones on fuel as he showed on the WOT.