Bush Renews Push For Offshore Drilling - With Video
Like Reid & Pelosi and the rest of the 9% approval rating Congress is going to actually act by taking action and actually voting to act on this action…
EUCLID, Ohio - President Bush, pressuring lawmakers to act on gas prices before they break for the summer, challenged Congress again Tuesday to relent on offshore oil drilling.
Bush has lifted an executive ban on exploratory drilling for oil in the waters along both the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. But the move won’t have any effect unless Congress lifts its own prohibition on drilling off America’s coastlines.
“Now it’s up to the United States Congress to make a decision as to whether or not you’re going to continue to face high gasoline prices at the pump,” Bush told workers at a welding plant here in northeast Ohio.
Democrats maintain that more drilling isn’t the answer.
President Bush says more drilling would send an important signal to the world that the United States is serious about expanding the oil supply. He says it can be done in environmentally safe ways, but opponents fear oil spills and drops in coastal tourism.
The soaring cost of gasoline has turned energy policy into a kitchen-table issue. Millions of people who rely on their cars are eager to get some help from elected leaders—and those leaders, especially those up for election, want to show some action.
“If we’re worried about your gasoline price and recognize that it’s high because of the price of crude oil, and it’s possible to find more oil right here in the United States … doesn’t it make sense to try to find that oil?” Bush said. “I think it does.”
Bush also pushed for nuclear power and other forms of alternative energy.
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are in a stalemate over how to rein in energy prices. Using the country’s frustration as leverage, the president is trying to build pressure on lawmakers to take action before they leave town for their August recess.
A gallon of gasoline costs $3.94 nationwide, down slightly from a month ago, according to a daily survey of gas stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. The cost varies across the country, with several states topping $4 a gallon.
The average cost a year ago was $2.89 per gallon—more than a dollar below today’s cost.
Bush says many Americans are suddenly practicing their own version of conservation.
“It’s interesting to note that many of our consumers have already made the decision to switch away from automobiles, like SUVs that consume a lot of gasoline, to smaller cars,” Bush said. “Why? Because you’re smart. You know how to handle your own business.
Bush spoke at Lincoln Electric, a welding manufacturer.
(AP)
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“…but opponents fear oil spills and drops in coastal tourism.”
Complete bullshit.
Less energy = less freedom
July 30th, 2008 at 10:18 amSomething the Dhimmis have been trying to achieve for quite awhile now. They’ll break America’s back to get it too.
If there was gas and oil under just any ol’ piece of land, then oil companies wouldn’t spend billions of dollars on exploration…they’d drive to the back parking lot of their corporate headquarters and punch a couple of wells into the ground. The fact is that finding economically viable sources of oil & gas is difficult. The Dims know this (or should), but they restrict exploration in areas that have been shown to be promising, while leasing marginal land to the oil co.s.
You shouldn’t be confused by this. Look at it this way: If the Dimocrats are truly magnanimous, seeing how they and the ecofucks have allowed the evil oil companies to lease MILLIONS of acres, what’s the problem with leasing them even more? Is there a logical disconnect here? Hell, why not lease all of the federal lands to oil explorers and get the $, since, according to the brain trusts on the left side of the aisle, there won’t be any exploration at all.
Rather, the liberals are mendacious, loathsome, power-hungry assholes whose appeal is greatest among like-minded retards and anti-American fascists like the environmental pussies.
Drill. Drill everywhere, now.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:32 amThe oil and exploration companies own huge leases on very large tracts of goverment land. Problem is there is no real evidence there is oil in those tracts. Oil companies know where the oil is. Goverment (congresscritters) won’t let them drill there. This is a fact. Same goes with shale. They know where it is. But our pals in congress have said no- over and over. I guess them folks up in Ft McMurray Canada didn’t have to plead too hard to their gov for rights to the tar sands. They started sending oil out there 2-3 years after starting. They are still ramping up. Here we sit on vast sources of energy and can’t get to them.
Congress=Dumbasses
July 30th, 2008 at 11:41 amThe whole debacle about the Dems not allowing for expanded drilling areas, and citing the millions of acres already leased and not being drilled upon as a reason, is equivalent to them telling people dying from drought that they do not need more water purification, they have the entire Mohave, Sahara and Gobi deserts in which to get potable water…
July 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pmthere is not a better way to explain the situation than your post
July 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm