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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: Fox_Mulder77; lormand; Kaslin; All
Why doesn't he add it to the SPP initiative? http://www.spp.gov/

That way he can do another end-run around Congressional approval.

281 posted on 07/14/2008 11:38:01 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Stultis

LoL! A prohibitive general offshore drilling law about to sunset in September. LoL! It sure does explains the president Bush’s timing to lift the executive ban. HeeeHaaaa....


282 posted on 07/14/2008 11:38:34 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: angkor
*****Time to unplug from the Middle East.*****

This would be ideal. But, didn't oil companies in the U.S. stop drilling years ago because they couldn't compete with Mid. East? So they had to stop drilling because it cost too much.

If we now drill successfully, can't you see the Mid. East oil companies doing the same thing again, lower the price of a barrel, and again force U.S. to close down?

I'm not an economist—just thinking!!!

283 posted on 07/14/2008 11:44:21 AM PDT by GOPologist (Illigitimi non carborundum.)
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To: Finatic

can a photoshopper remove the letter S from Shell?


284 posted on 07/14/2008 11:51:45 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: Williams

And if Congress doesn’t go along and lift the ban at least the American people will know who and what they are voting for in November. There will be no excuses like “well, I didn’t know.”


285 posted on 07/14/2008 11:52:56 AM PDT by conservative blonde
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To: omega4179
“Bushs legacy is secure. Great scotus appointments, pro-energy, pro wot and disarming most of the axis of evil.”

Yes, but with the exception of the tax cut, which has an expiration date, the President's domestic legacy is,.... for lack of a better word abysmal.

286 posted on 07/14/2008 11:55:31 AM PDT by thinkthenpost
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To: angkor

Exactly. Also, the Governor’s blocking liquified coal should be flogged. That oil heating crisis and the airlines pain could have been outright averted as liquified coal can be used for deisel engines and heating oil. Hey, where’ all that love for Hugo Chavez gone these days?!? As predicted, it is non-existant but the Dems sure got to look like good these last couple of years to a handful of old ladies.


287 posted on 07/14/2008 11:55:50 AM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Just another gimmick. Everyone knows we can’t drill our way out of this. /sarc


288 posted on 07/14/2008 11:58:44 AM PDT by Purrcival (All your Diebolds are belong to us)
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To: ArmstedFragg
Look for some new and innovative excuse for their inaction.

68 million acres.
289 posted on 07/14/2008 12:01:23 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Grunthor

Then the legal eagles must become Patriots as well and go on the counter-offensive. All Americans must decide if we want to continue this historical experiment of freedom or if we want a continuation of 10,000 years of the gods and clods government system. If you want it, be prepared to serve.


290 posted on 07/14/2008 12:01:50 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: spacejunkie

Look at the future’s market for oil. It’s about $140 per barrel through 2016. The global market is predicting our do-nothing-government will ‘stay the course’ for the forseeable future. Let’s hope millions of people worldwide are wrong about the American people.

In-between heavy lifting by the little guy will crop up on innovation. Let’s also hope the little guy is no longer ignored by the investment and banking community. The old tall, dying trees are blocking the sunlight from reaching the saplings and seeds. Now the forest has started to burn. Let’s hope the government GETS OUT OF THE WAY instead of attempting to put out the old trees fires with a squirt gun... Not fair the little guy has to do all the heavy lifting but history tells us we will whether we like it or not.


291 posted on 07/14/2008 12:07:23 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Fox_Mulder77

About damn time! Ten to one Nanny Pelosi and Dingy Harry will find a bunch of reasons to roadblock Congress lifting its own silly ban on drilling off US shores.


292 posted on 07/14/2008 12:08:17 PM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: Convert from ECUSA
Ten to one Nanny Pelosi and Dingy Harry will find a bunch of reasons to roadblock Congress lifting its own silly ban on drilling off US shores.

I believe it sunsets in September unless Congress takes action to renew the ban. It's then up to the Republican Senators to block it.

293 posted on 07/14/2008 12:11:45 PM PDT by AU72
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To: ChinaThreat

Exactly. Al Gore preached about coal liquification in 1999 when he was running for office. Now the head vampire says that oil and coal are dirty and ruining our planet and Harry Reid and 100 million voters agree. In fact, so does Russia, who is not renewing Exxon Mobile’s land permits to build a natural gas and oil pipeline there. Great global example of how government’s SHOULD lie to confuse the masses. Even the great propoganda artists of Russia are impressed.


294 posted on 07/14/2008 12:13:04 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Southack

I hope you’re right. The dems might be better off to let it die a quiet death and let the drilling begin. They could lose their shirts in the election if they hold a vote to extend.


295 posted on 07/14/2008 12:14:20 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (Never pick a fight with an ugly person; they've got nothing to lose.)
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To: beckysueb

Republicans must open there wallets for the Internet, something the Dems caught onto years ago and Republicans have not.


296 posted on 07/14/2008 12:15:26 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Southack; blam; Squantos; Dog; Dog Gone

I’m hoping this slides thru, but expect the usual from our Rat enemies.


297 posted on 07/14/2008 12:19:26 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: DungeonMaster

That sums most the problems the President has had these past few years. I loved Arie Fleischer. He has proven irreplacable.


298 posted on 07/14/2008 12:27:48 PM PDT by iThinkBig
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To: Williams

Is that all we need? Does Congress have a say?


299 posted on 07/14/2008 12:28:29 PM PDT by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: gleeaikin
"This statement assumes several things which probably are not true."

Wrong.

America's energy demands have grown, and America's energy exploration has decreased. Some of which was under the fantasy of finding alternatives to oil.

I have absolutely no problem with oil companies making a profit off of their product. Oil is too cheap and plentiful to ignore, unless complete misery is what we want.

Relying on a yet to be invented, non-existing and cheaper alternatives to oil, is self defeating.

300 posted on 07/14/2008 12:32:58 PM PDT by lormand ("The Planet is fine, the people are $%#ed up" - George Carlin)
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