Posted on 08/03/2008 3:01:56 PM PDT by Delacon
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because, as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet."
A lovely sentiment. But has Pelosi actually thought through the moratorium's effects on the planet?
Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47 percent. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day, the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy. Where does it come from?
Places such as Nigeria, where chronic corruption, environmental neglect and the resulting unrest and instability lead to pipeline explosions, oil spills and illegal siphoning by the poverty-stricken population -- which leads to more spills and explosions. Just this week, two Royal Dutch Shell pipelines had to be shut down because bombings by local militants were causing leaks into the ground.
Compare the Niger Delta to the Gulf of Mexico, where deep-sea U.S. oil rigs withstood Hurricanes Katrina and Rita without a single undersea well suffering a significant spill.
The United States has the highest technology to ensure the safest drilling. Today, directional drilling -- essentially drilling down, then sideways -- allows...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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Before we bomb Iran, we should practice on San Francisco.
Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill
Hey Pelosi, why dont you leave the planet,let someone with some brains lead.
Stephanopoulos to Pelosi: Why No Up or Down Vote on Drilling?
STEPHANOPOULOS: But why not allow votes on all that? When you came in as Speaker you promised in your commitment book “A New Direction for America,” let me show our viewers, you said that “Bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full, fair debate consisting of full amendment process that grants the Minority the right to offer its alternatives.” If they want to offer a drilling proposal, why can’t they have a vote?
PELOSI: They’ll have to use their imagination as to how they can get a vote and then they may get a vote. What I am trying to, we have serious policy issues in our country. The President of the United States has presented this but for this our economy would be booming. But for this, gas would be cheaper at the pump. It’s simply not true. Even the President himself in his statement yesterday and before then has said, there is no quick fix for this by drilling.
Newsbusters
“SAVE THE PLANET! SEAL NAZI NANCY IN AN OIL DRUM!”
Nobody says it better — about hypocrites, and a party that really, really wants to see America go down the tubes in order to sell a socialist program to the oppressed masses.
So let’s follow her ‘logic’. What she is saying is that we need to reduce energy consumption which reduces CO2 emissions and will bring this country into a depression while India and China continue to grow and consume erergy.
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You know these people are over the edge when the Wash Post sounds conservative in comparison with them.
Then he will have to go hat in hand to Republicans for tips on breaking news.
Surprised he didn't pull out a pistol and assassinate her live on TV.
Way to use your opponent to establish your tenuous position, Nancy. Bush wants drilling... you don't. You are on your own here... watch your party throw you to the wolves...
Krauthammer hits another one out of the park, with this article. Pelosi’s stubborn resistance to the U.S. drilling for more oil actually is worse for the environment.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But if you feel you have the better arguments, why not give a straight up or down vote for drilling?
PELOSI: Because the misrepresentation is being made that this is going to reduce the price at the pump. This is again a decoy, it’s not a solution.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, if you’re right, why not let it be debated out and have the vote?
PELOSI: We have a debate every single day on this subject. What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the hand maidens of the oil companies. That’s what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle. Democrats and Republicans are not right there on party lines on this issue. There are regional concerns, as well as some people concerned about what this means back home for them. But we have a planet to save. We have an economy to grow. And we can do that if we keep our balance in all of this and not just say but for drilling in unprotected and these protected areas offshore, we would have lower gas prices.
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She is willing to let Democrats in ‘oil country’ lose in order to please the environmentalists and to ‘save the planet’.
She’s nuts!
She never answered his question and he asked it nine times.
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Please resign as Speaker and Representative of your District and go to work for the U.N. and save the planet.
We need Representatives and Leaders who put Americas and Americans interests first.
Get your priorities straight or make your move to have them be consistent.
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