Posted on 11/22/2007 6:51:11 PM PST by cool2007
RUSH: Here's to phones. We start with Denver, Colorado, today, on the EIB Network. Bill, nice to have you on the program. Welcome.
CALLER: Rush, how are you? I'm really upset about the hundred dollar-price of oil, and isn't it about time we put enough pressure on Congress to approve offshore drilling and ANWR. We have so much oil, the oil could be so much less and we wouldn't have to pay at this time.
RUSH: People have been trying to put pressure on Congress to drill for oil, and Democrats are not going to go for it. The Democrats are beholden to the environmentalist wackos, it's going to take a price a little bit higher than this for that to happen.
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Agreed, but if we wait to the last minute to start building the oilfields in preparation to start drilling... then we are still dead.
I could be wrong, but I have heard that if we started building the fields in Alaska tomorrow... it would be 10 years before we get anything out of the ground. (Sorry, I don’t remember the source.)
Too bad the Republicans did not control the House and Senate from 1995 to 2007 where if they had they would have without a doubt approved drilling for oil in ANWR.
weak kneed sissies is all we have in congress, with the exeption of a few.
Not really. I suggest reading:
No Free Lunch, Part 1:
A Critique of Thomas Gold’s Claims for Abiotic Oil
by Jean Laherrere
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102104_no_free_pt1.shtml
No Free Lunch, Part 2:
If abiotic oil exists, where is it?
by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011205_no_free_pt2.shtml
They did both. President Clinton Vetoed ANWR in 1996. Senate OKs oil drilling in Alaska's ANWR
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/216352_anwr17.html
Part of his reasons at the time was that it would take ten years to produce, so it wasn't worth allowing. Eleven years later, that same stupid argument is still being used.
Oh for a home solar power station and electric or plug in hybrid car.
Answer: The Dems sold their souls to the environmentalist movement.
So enjoy your high energy prices...
Don’t forget that 8 RINOs helped to defeat opening ANWR in 2005....led by our hero John McCain
If everyone bought a “plug-in” hybrid car, where would all the extra electricity come from?
So did all the GOP Senators vote to drill in ANWR 1996 and 2005?
I think just about as soon as these politicians, especially the senators, get in office they stop representing the people and consider themselves crown princes. I think we need to start voting out every incumbent, Dem or Rep, until they start paying some attention to who is paying the bills. I don’t think we would miss a single one of the skunks. Vote them all out!!!
From the Dog Catcher to the President.
They won’t allow domestic oil drilling because it looks bad on Republicans because they claim Republicans and Big Oil are inseparable.
This is the way I see it. Why unnecessarily bankrupt ourselves?
This would displease their environmental wacko friends, big time. I do not believe it is wise to trust that that will happen.
It'd be nice if it were true, but Rush is blowing smoke here. The governors and politicials blocking oil drilling off of Florida and California are all Republicans.
There are also quite a few wells, particularly in west Texas, long thought to be played out, that are producing again.....
Sorry, my congressman is Steve King. I dont’ think we want him replaced.
Republicans are our only hope.
If we had started drilling in ANWR 10 years ago, we'd be using that oil now.
If China can drill within 50 miles of FL, why can't we? This is stupid. There's plenty of oil in ANWR. WE need to be getting it. Shame on the Democrats for doing this to our country.
Jeb Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger? Both are Republicans last time I checked. Both have worked against additional drilling in their states. The idea that only Democrats have opposed additional drilling is false.
Shame on the Democrats for doing this to our country.
A pox on both parties for blocking drilling.
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