Reference is to Connecticut.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Unless you teleported to earth this morning from the planet Xenon 7, this shouldn't be a surprise. We knew that Nancy Pelousy would come up with a political stunt like this that no INTELLIGENT human being could support.
Unfortunately for America, this is just business as usual for 9% Nancy!!
I am a trucker who drives for a large trucking company. One that buys its fuel on the futures market, thus we get fuel at lower prices than the Independent Owner-Operators, and small companies. Thus, when the price of oil goes up, We will be able to drive the small companies, and O-O’s out of business. Once there are 3-5 companies left in each segment of the trucking industry (LTL, FTL, Refrigerated, tanker, etc,) we can unionize these remaining companies, and force the truck companies to pay me an outrageous wage, for doing the same job I am now only being pay a pretty good decent wage. And it will be the consuming public who has to pay for it.
After-all, the Liberal/Democrat/Progressive motto of “As long as I get mine, the rest of the country can go screw” has a certain attraction to someone who has no morals, eh???
Democrats crafted this bill so that even if it passed both houses drilling would never happen. This is how they accomplished that feat - As a final safeguard, the Democrats refused to include a provision that would prevent lawsuits by green zealots seeking to forestall drilling indefinitely.
Oh and don't think that if the drilling ban is allowed to expire on Oct. 1 that all will be hunky dory and oil will flow freely. See the paragraph above this one for the explaination.
We need a bill and not be content with just letting the OCS ban expire! A bill that not only allows drilling anywhere (OCS and On Shore) but also removes the environmentalist and their lobbyists from the equation. Just letting the current ban expire does nothing to prevent such groups from suing every oil lease awarded. Such cases often remain tied in court for years and thus preventing drilling. Just ask Chevron about their Destin Dome lease in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
According to research presented by Rep. John Shadegg (R-Az), the Bush Administration issued 487 leases last February in the Chukchi Sea -- environmental lawyers challenged every one. Oh and those were challenges just to the issuance of the leases - when the oil companies try do do actual exploration there will be more litigation - and when they actually want to drill - guess what?
Here is why: http://ragingdebate.com/article1.php . I own that website, it is in beta mode, so forgive that the articles are a bit dated.