Posted on 08/13/2008 1:20:03 PM PDT by Delacon
I buy all of my groceries at Sharper Image.
We are talking about letting the ban expire. Not enacting legislation. However, the ban will be attached to some “must have” appropriations bill as it always is, and the republicans would have to filibuster and shut down the government or the president would have to veto it and shut down the government. Either way, things could get exciting.
Glad I read the comments first. I hate to repeat what someone has already said. Good job!
That you? Good work!
She will allow a vote on a totally unacceptable bill that includes not only drilling but tons of new taxes, but also new “environmental” regulations that make the permission to drill a hollow promise that will be tied up in the courts for a very long time.
“The oil companies drill. We give them money to drill there. But we get very little in return”
Really, Nancy? How much profit does the oil company make on a gallon of gas? How much profit does the government make (taxes)on the same gallon?
“She will allow a vote on a totally unacceptable bill that includes not only drilling but tons of new taxes, but also new “environmental” regulations that make the permission to drill a hollow promise that will be tied up in the courts for a very long time.”
No, she will attach a rider, to continue the ban, to an appropriations bill(very necessary bill) that if filibustered or vetoed, will shut down the government. Lets do it.
I disagree. The Democrats need to neutralize the issue before the election. The need to find a way to act like they are addressing the problem, yet still appease their extreme "environmental" lobby.
They will try and say they are going to allow drilling, while in actuality making it nearly impossible. They can't rely on winning the election and having the administration making the rules too cumbersome, so they will create laws that allow environmental groups to indefinitely stop any new drilling through the courts.
They will then say the issue has been addressed, though it will take a while for the administration to come up with rules by which the new law will be implemented. Those rules will be challenged in court. Any new drilling sites will be challenged in court under a variety of environmental regulations. It will take many years for all the environmental studies to be performed and challenged, those cases to wind their way through the courts. The environmental groups will bring a series of suits, and sympathetic courts will serialize the cases saying that if the companies lose the one case there is no reason to hear the case on the next issue, so it should wait until the first has been resolved.
Even if the companies trying to drill win their cases, it will take many years before they can start drilling unless congress acts to actively enable drilling rather than impede it.
Either they attach the drilling ban to a necessary bill or they don’t. The only thing that can muck this up is something like the “gang of 10” thing going on which is ban on drilling by another name. Shut down congress.
I refuse to read an article, even one in Human Events, whose title proclaims a manifest physical impossibility.
“I refuse to read an article, even one in Human Events, whose title proclaims a manifest physical impossibility.”
Wait til Oct 1st when you see headlines that say “Pelosi cringes”. LOL.
Given all of her eye lifts, I thought she had physically lost the ability to blink.
Oh, horse crap. The oil companies pay the government for their leases, and pay them an annual rent on top of that. They pay the government royalties on every barrel of oil they extract, and then they pay up to 35 percent tax on the profits. Who the heck is she trying to kid?
Dagny Taggart for Speaker, 2008!
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