WASHINGTON - The Democrats' return to power is increasing pressure on House Republican leaders to accept a limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling.
Supporters of such exploration say the next Congress, with Democrats in control come January, probably will not tamper with the long-standing drilling bans that have protected most coastal waters for a quarter-century.
A stubborn standoff has festered for months between the House and Senate over developing more of the oil and gas resources in the Outer Continental Shelf. The dispute is expected to be an issue in the final days of the Republican-run Congress this week when lawmakers meet in a lame-duck session.
The proposal is of great importance to Louisiana and three other Gulf Coast states. They stand to reap hundreds of millions of dollars under changes to the way the government shares royalties from oil and gas taken from the Gulf of Mexico. The rest at the link. Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer want a bill passed that would ban any more offshore drilling anywhere. They want very badly to impose their priorities on the rest of us even though we don't get to vote for them. They seem to have forgotten they were elected to represent the citizens of the State of California, not the States of Texas, Louisianna, Missippi, Alabama, and Florida.
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#1 any raises in the price of gas has to be placed at their doorstep, despite all MSM efforts to teh contrary. Perhaps www.Demsforhighergasprices.com?
#2 Now is the time to ram something through the House and Senate to allow oil & gas drilling off our own coasts! For God's sake, the Chinese and Cubans are drilling 90 friggin' miles off the coast of Florida and we can't drill withn 150?!
That's just assinine.
Ram something through now before you lose control!
#3 Time to start some serious work on "buyer's remorse". As bloggers, I think it's time to start hammering on the theme that the Dems plan to raise taxes, raise the price of gasoline by refusing to allow development of US oil reserves, refuse to allow the continued expansion of the US Military, refuse to continue to fight the War on Terror, are against securing our borders, are FOR amnesty for over 15 MILLION illegal aliens (many with criminal records), and much, much more. We can either raise a stink or go quietly into the dark. If we raise ENOUGH of a stink, we can criple the effectiveness of the donks in implementing their policies. I'm going to start writing letters to the editor as often as I can get them published. I also plan to rescusitate my blog, if I can find the time and energy to write on it. We need to shame the donks as often and as much as possible until we get what the United States needs, not what their green friends want.
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