Posted on 05/13/2008 5:59:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
The U.S. Senate Tuesday rejected an attempt to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to allow the states to generate revenue.
The Republican-backed proposal would have allowed states to drill off their coasts and share revenues with the federal government, the (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press reported.
The amendment would have amended a federal ban prohibiting offshore drilling along most coastal states, the newspaper said.
The state proposal was packaged with other controversial measures, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The amendment was rejected on a mostly party-line vote of 42 to 56.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., urged his colleagues to support the measure, noting that his home state of Louisiana has profited from offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We need to expand on that policy to dramatically increase our domestic energy production," he said.
But Democrats said an expansion of offshore drilling would do little to reduce Americans' dependence on foreign oil.
"We can't drill our way out of this problem," said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "We can't drill our way to lower gas prices."
You would need a diamond drill bit to drill into Democrats heads. We are doomed!
Durbin is either the stupidest senator ever or a liar or both.
Yeah. No drilling. No Anwar. No nuclear plants. Thanks guys... Our Congressional leaders are rudderless, and less than useless.
Thanks to the Repubs for bringing this bill forward, but at the end of day -- still nada...
Does this come as any surprise?
The demoncraps are dedicated to this Nation’s decline.
Hey Dick! What we can't do is what you liberals want and that is to outlaw the combustion engine!
More supply on the market will reduce gas prices you idiot!
These idiot democraps want us on the foreign oil tit from now on. Look at their bank accounts. Who is paying them off? This is a joke. We should drill EVERYWHere THERE IS A KNOWN RESERVE AND EXPLORE EVERYWHERE ELSE POSSIBLE.
First, the bad news about ethanol. Ethanol fires are evidently harder to control than gasoline fires.
Ethanol fires hard to control 1Hopefully, ways will be developed to make controlling ethanol fires easier.
Ethanol fires hard to control 2
On the brighter side concerning ethanol, there's now evidence that people might get as much, or more, bang per buck for their gas dollars with gas / ethanol mixtures.
Gas-competitive gas / ethanol mixturesAlso, I was surprised by the introduction of a machine for making home-made ethanol.
EFuel100In stark contrast to the 1700 gallons of water required to make one gallon of corn-based ethanol as indicated by the OP, the EFuel100 uses only 170 gallons of water to produce 35 gallons of ethanol In other words, the EFuel100 uses less than 1% as much water as corn ethanol, under five gallons, to produce one gallon of ethanol (corrections welcome).
But watch out for fines for violating biofuel regulations.
Fines for violating biofuel regulationsFinally, progress is being made in the development of other non-corn ethanol production technologies as well.
Non-corn ethanol
We can so drill our way out of it jerk axe.
“We can't drill our way out of this problem,” said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. “We can't drill our way to lower gas prices.”
Lets see, stupid Pelosi and Turbin Durbin along with other Dems are demanding OPEC produce more oil but we shouldn't send more money to the middle east and not be dependent on foreign oil but we can't allow ANY further drilling here because it won't make any difference but we need to stop filling the Strategic Reserve because it will lower prices but any further domestic production won't make any difference. Do I have this right?
Every one of these Washington bastards should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. These people are insane and demented. The economy will be destroyed with these idiots running things.
Thank you! “Idiot” being the operative word. Durbin has the “nads” the size of petit pois, if he has any at all. In the meantime, I will continue to drive my big engine Cadillac CTS and fill up with mid-grade gas.
We have to live in one of the f#%king dumbest countries on Earth.
We have to be on the only country that could discover massive amounts of oil somewhere and the majority of our politicians would figure out a way NOT to drill for it!!
Incredible......
Drill....REFINE.....DRILL.....REFINE.
All of the people COMPLAINING are the SAME people who say NO...YOU CAN"Y DRILL....NO YOU CAN"T REFINE...and until two years ago were saying that we were't paying ENOUGH in gas!
HOW did the ECO-GEEKS get to be MORE POWERFUL than the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES???/ HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???
We'd be energy independent!
Dog Gone for Democrat President 2012 1012!
Isn’t is odd that the dems say this or that won’t work, but they never follow up that statement with an alternative proposal.
Wait until the voters elect yet more left wing morons to Congress this year.
The Republicans have THE campaign issue to run on now and beat the Democrats over the head with it, yet they are still holding their asses.
Time to start a recall.
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