Posted on 07/14/2008 7:18:47 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
But it hasn’t really been opened. The Congressional Ban is still in place.
It lets Congress to claim that they have half a brain, and possibly would increase their 9% approval rating. It reaches across party lines, and can wear the badge of "bipartisanship" proudly. It allows the Dems to save face and avoid getting blamed for $5/gallon gas. It lets Republicans help their e-e-e-e-evil friends in Big Oil. It reins in the speculation market (who until now had ZERO reason to expect supplies to increase), and instantly drops prices.
Seems like an all-around winner to me!
{DM rolls a d20 behind the DM screen, grins and says "Make a saving throw!"}
LOL Our problem is that we now have a Republican candidate that is going to start lamely communication that we have a global warming problem. People that believe in TW are torn between the price of gas and watching "mother earth die". My democrat dad said just yesterday, "if opening ANWR is going to bring the price of gas down to where people are buying hugh SUVs and burning gas as fast as they can, leave it closed". I asked him if it was necessary to keep gas from going to $5 dollars should we open it" to which he said "yes". I think Dems realize their constituents have reached a point where they believe some conservation will occur but we still need an economy.
I've always wondered if closing ANWR was simply a very big reserve waiting until we couldn't buy cheap stuff from the Middle East. It seems pretty smart even if it wasn't the original plan.
“Perhaps this will lead to a lot of congressional dimocrats losing their elections! I can pray, can’t I?”
Well, they say if you’re going to dream, to dream big. I’m with ya on that one though.
Great news, props to W.
Nevertheless, I can hear the lawsuits being filed already..
Finally.
Saving throw was a 2.
(I always had terrible dice)
Me, too.
I covered it long ago, here:
The other side of the process is issuing leases. Lifting the ban would not by itself do anything. Somebody, Congress probably, would have to decide how much the leases will cost. Size, duration, and other factors involved in bureaucratic admin would be done in the Exec branch.
I have a question. It has been posted here in other threads that even the announcement of oil leases being had would cause a near automatic drop in the price of crude. Wouldn’t this announcement from the WH cause the same thing to happen? If so, when can we start to see the price drop?
Wooohoooo!!!!
Excellent thread and links. Too bad the talkies don’t bring this up.
Agreed there are many steps, but it requires first getting started. Congress themselves would not make those detail decisions. Mineral Managament Service which is under the Excutive branch would administrate it.
But Congress has to approve releasing the area and appropriate funds for them to do the work.
Each step will bring us closer, but until Congress lifts the ban, we haven’t gotten started.
The area is still banned from exploration and production by Congress.
Thank you.
I raised Hell from my end, but a fat lot of good it did.
The question is being ignored. Those who predicted that are silent.
I hear ya. I remember Orin Hatch promise he would do all he could to get the ban lifted. That didn’t go anywhere.
The enviroweenies are a bunch of watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
About the same time you lost yours?
Well, if Congress doesn’t lift the ban also, will the sheeple finally see that it is the Democrat majority there that has been the problem - not Bush - for this oil crisis? Duh!
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