- No domestic drilling.
- No new refineries.
- No new nuke plants.
- No new dams for hydro-electric.
- No coal.
- No shale.
- Deplete the SPR.
- Let Iran get nukes.
- Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
- No Canadian tar sands oil.
Democrat. The Party of NO!
Posted on 04/19/2009 4:44:54 PM PDT by SmithL
Last Wednesday, conservatives held coast-t0-coast "TEA parties" designed to send the message to Washington and state governments that the partiers feel "taxed enough already." The exercise struck me as more than a little out of touch with the political realities of President Obama's America. The next day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar held a public hearing in San Francisco on a Bush administration proposal to sell federal leases to drill for oil and gas off the California coast. The hearing became the Left Coast equivalent of the right-wing TEA party.
The only difference is that the overwhelmingly anti-drilling crowd was in la-la land on the realities of oil instead of taxes. Every one of the elected officials who spoke were anti-drilling Democrats. Every one seemed out of touch with the realities of the need to increase domestic oil production.
America's in a tough recession: It's in no position to turn down good-paying jobs and tax revenue, not to mention a way to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. Here's a sobering statistic: U.S. imported oil use grew from 24 percent in 1970 to 70 percent last year.
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, I believe, spoke for the other anti-drilling Democrats - there were no Republicans or pro-oil politicians - when he said that supporting more oil and gas drilling "sends the wrong message."
Message? Americans use more oil than we produce. Doesn't that send the most powerful message of all?
And then there's the message sent last September when the Democratic Congress allowed a moratorium on new offshore drilling to lapse because of high gasoline prices. In July, a Public Policy Institute of California poll found that 51 percent of Californians supported new drilling off the California coast. Less than a year later, California politicians are banking that voters have short memories,...
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Let them starve and freeze in the dark.
Just remember - by stopping domestic oil production - the left is helping the Saudis and Islam. This may be deliberate as their leader is owned by the Saudis.
We are going to prosecute Salazar when we take back the government, right?
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They sure won’t like it when they live under sharia!
The threads are more than four hours apart. It’s ok.
Well, I'll have to remember that the next time the self-appointed “posting police” reprimands me. LOL
Democrat. The Party of NO!
Your right on the mark and there should be a steady drum role. Until this portion of the issue gets picked up by the talkies . Obama’s policy on energy is harming America
This was posted earlier by Kaslin but the most interesting revelation was this reasoning offered by an Oregon state senator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232806/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227136/posts and in my http://www.theusmat.com/
Oops! I try to avoid doing that, anyways.
when the dollar is worthless and we have no choice but to drill, we won’t be able to finance the drilling equipment.
This is sheer stupidity.
Pity.
That oil extraction tax money, (not to mention the income/sales/etc. taxes paid by the folks with those really good paying jobs) might have gone a long way toward keepin the State Government out of the hole.
No bailout, close the valves, pull the breakers, and I hope the last conservative out closes the gate to keep the sheep in...
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
Claire Wolf
Psychotic Democrats will never stray from the party line. (And it sure isn’t an American party.)
IMHO
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