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Breaking News: President Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
Fox News ^ | July 14, 2008

Posted on 07/14/2008 7:18:47 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77

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Breaking News >> President Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; drilling; energy; executiveorder; offshoredrilling; oil
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To: beckysueb

Bush and Cheney tried in 2002. The Republicans voted strong for it the Democrats strong against it. You need a supermajority to win. The Democratic position of Phase 1 - conserve, Phase 3 - Energy Independence is being exposed as a sham, because what the hell is Phase 2?!?!? The good news, this will force government out of the way although I would wager a lot of this ignorant mental dwarves in Washington won’t be thrown out until 2012 and they will fight it tooth and nail in-between.


261 posted on 07/14/2008 10:39:49 AM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

Refining capacity is a huge problem..... but the root of this problem lies more with the simple fact that the demand in oil is rising faster then the supply can keep up.
Believe it or not, speculators are getting crushed right now..... they’re in trouble.... here’s an article that will give you an idea of the squeeze they’re feeling right now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045122/posts

Here’s a quote:
”Speculators are getting killed these days; they are loosing money heavily these days. They are selling panicky these days. They are right in selling, because there is no oil to hold on. I wish somebody saves the speculators who are selling. The fact is that there is no oil for delivery and they know that they are not sitting on oil,”


262 posted on 07/14/2008 10:48:28 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: All

I wonder if Bush’s approval rating will go up a little bit next week.


263 posted on 07/14/2008 10:50:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: iThinkBig
The energy policies of this country are bleeding households of $4-5K a year directly or indirectly. What's worse is the expectation that we can jump to renewables and using the pain in energy costs as the whip to get us there. You cannot tell someone living in a house in colder climates that relies on oil to just go to solar. You cannot tell people that they have to buy $40K hybrids or that they have to pay 40% increases in food staples to get us off of foreign oil. This is nothing more than central planning style interference in the free market.
264 posted on 07/14/2008 10:51:06 AM PDT by misterrob (Obama-Does America Need Another Jimmy Carter?)
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To: Williams
*****I don’t think any drilling can take place unless Congress also lifts the ban.*****

Who's going to stop the drilling? Congress? How?

265 posted on 07/14/2008 10:51:59 AM PDT by GOPologist (Illigitimi non carborundum.)
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To: fishtank
This has no real effect since drilling is still banned by laws that must be overturned by Congress, not merely by Executive Order.

It is a political ploy to put more pressure on Congress. They Democratic leadership in Congress keeps trying to point the finger at Bush for the high oil prices.

This is Bush's way of pointing back and making it clear that it is not his administration getting in the way of increased domestic oil exploration and production, and trying to force Congress to act.

Bush and the minority Republicans in Congress are trying to force a vote on the issue. They want the Democrats to go on record opposing increasing domestic oil production in an election year with soaring oil prices.

The Democrats, with the help of some Republicans that pander to the "environmental" lobby have created these high oil prices for us with their policies. They don't have a solution to the high prices, because the high prices are desirable to a large percentage of the liberal lobbying groups.

Therefore the Democrats don't really want to solve the problem, they just want to redirect the blame on someone else.

266 posted on 07/14/2008 10:56:12 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: Salvation

see #257


267 posted on 07/14/2008 10:56:43 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: GOPologist

Congresses ban automatically expires yearly!! If they don’t have the votes to renew their yearly ban, as of Sept. 30th, and that includes enough votes to overide a veto, they’re screwed. This is great news. Bush is not quite as stupid as everyone thinks. Almost, but not quite. This gambit may be his first and last great move of his presidency.


268 posted on 07/14/2008 10:58:13 AM PDT by cla62
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To: GoldwaterChick

Thanks!

Congressional Off-Shore Drilling Ban Expires Sept. 30, 2008
— Unless Congress Renews
Monday, July 14, 2008 | Kristinn
Posted on 07/14/2008 9:17:01 AM PDT by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045230/posts


269 posted on 07/14/2008 10:58:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: untrained skeptic

The congressional ban on offshore drilling expires September 30, 2008.


270 posted on 07/14/2008 10:58:40 AM PDT by KansasGirl (We seem to panic about imaginary beasts, when real monsters quietly devour us.--VDH)
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To: untrained skeptic

Nope. See post #257.


271 posted on 07/14/2008 10:59:15 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: beckysueb
Even when he had a majority, the Republican congress critters didn't have any testosterone. They were the big elephant jumping on a stool because they were ascared of the little mouse.

Bush wanted to get a solution to social security up for discussion. That went no where with the girly man majority.

272 posted on 07/14/2008 11:03:18 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (Drill here, drill now!!!!!)
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To: Williams
I don’t think any drilling can take place unless Congress also lifts the ban

Bush to Congress: Your serve.

273 posted on 07/14/2008 11:15:59 AM PDT by madison10
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To: lormand
Since the GOP willingly allows the DNC to define Republicans as evil Oil swindlers, there is no surprise the Bush 41 and 43 went along with this self defeating policy. Too late now, the rats run the ship.

I hope you're wrong, but I'm not betting on it.

274 posted on 07/14/2008 11:19:23 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY ( Right now, the U.S. Congress is OPEC's staunchest ally.- Walter E. Williams)
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To: EdnaMode
I wonder if Bush’s approval rating will go up a little bit next week.
275 posted on 07/14/2008 11:28:52 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (Drill here, drill now!!!!!)
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To: 3catsanadog

It’s gone up with me.


276 posted on 07/14/2008 11:29:28 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (Drill here, drill now!!!!!)
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To: Southack

This would be great news, but are you sure?


277 posted on 07/14/2008 11:29:52 AM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

We need both


278 posted on 07/14/2008 11:31:01 AM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: lormand; All

“You would think that a former oil businessman turned president would bring more oil independence to our nation, but no, the opposite has happened.”

This statement assumes several things which probably are not true. The oil industry has probably been aware of this building crisis for a while and may realize we cannot drill our way out of this problem. Alternatives are needed and most of the companies have already started to explore them, including cellulosic ethanol, solar, and biobutanol. In addition, the high oil prices are just making the oil companies richer, and pushing the public to urge their representatives to open up restricted oil land and sea. Incidentally, I don’t think that oil company profits are the chief cause of the run-up in price. For that check out the available information on oil ETFs and the supersized purchasing instruments promoted in January 2007 which are being used by non oil users. Non end users have jumped from 30% to over 70% of the oil commodity market in the past several years.


279 posted on 07/14/2008 11:36:00 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: cla62

Where have you been? President Bush has time and time again outsmarted the liberals, before they even realized what happened


280 posted on 07/14/2008 11:36:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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