Bush Urges Americans To Pressure Congress For More Oil Exploration In USA
At his press conference this morning Bush had this to say:
“We can help alleviate shortages by drilling for oil and gas in our own country, something I’ve been advocating ever since I’ve been the president. I’ve been reminding our people that we can do so in environmentally friendly ways,” he said. “And yet the Congress, the Democratically controlled Congress now has refused to budge. It makes no sense.”
He said lawmakers continue to block his proposals, including lifting prohibitions on offshore oil drilling. The president has also called for allowing oil drilling in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, easing the regulatory process to expand oil refining capacity, and lifting restrictions on oil shale leasing in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Bush even appealed to Americans to lobby their congressional representatives on the matter.
“We have got the opportunity to find more crude oil here at home in environmentally friendly ways and they ought to be writing their Congress people about it,” Bush said.
(AP)
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