Speaker Pelosi says no to more offshore oil drilling

Plantagenet

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (dem-SF) reiterated her opposition to offshore oil drill, and she won't allow any new areas to be opened for oil exploration

Pelosi says NO to opening up new areas of OCS

Pelosi and leader of the Senate Harry Reid (dem-NV) are committed to keeping the ban against opening more of the OCS to oil drilling, and since they and their fellow democrats control both houses of Congress, its a done deal.

No new offshore areas opened to oil drilling means no possibility of significant new sources of domestic oil for the U.S. I guess the democrats are counting on their lawsuit against OPEC to provide the US with some kind of oil supply. Cool

lawnchair · Intermediate Crude Joined: Oct 20, 2004 Posts: 722

Any major oil discoveries, at this late stage in the game, are going to be offshore somewhere. Playing the "pollution card" at home (with a reasonably regulated industry) means our demand will be fulfilled by generally less-regulated, more polluting offshore drilling on someone's beach.

Hegemonic, ain't it. But, who am I kidding. We'll gladly let the cadmium flow in someone else's river to save a buck or two.
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darwinsdog · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 27, 2008 Posts: 170

Good for Nancy I Harry. I hope they stick to their guns. But then, they also promised to end the Iraq occupation...

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heroineworshipper

Once the cannibalism starts, they'll be saying "you know, offshore drilling was a lot easier than this."
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pedalling_faster · Intermediate Crude Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 766

the last few days i've been driving in San Diego & listened to el Rushbo (Rush Limbaugh) and that's one of the biggest thingsss they're going on about. As PMS noted, Rush's enunciiiiation is ssstellar these daysss, he pronounces words completely when he's not mumbling, and pays particular attention to S.

listening Limbaugh and his callers talk about energy policy is like watching a monkey play with a Rubik's cube. i wish i could get paid money to add some factsss to their show.

anyway, i've heard people refer to Iraqi & other oil as "money in the bank". we're going to drill eventually.

since the sometimes Democratic objection to drilling is environmental concerns, and the best way to drill is carefully, i wish someone would point out that is best for the environment is to start now, so the project managers can take their time & do it carefully. rather than wait till we're in dire straits & need it bad. which i guess we are & do, which is why el Rushbo is going on about it.

so i, normally a democratic liberal, actually agree with El Rushbo about something.

plus he was actually condemning windpower because there was a case where an abundance of windpower led to a hydro facility being idled, which hurt some fish. Rush expressed concern about the fish as part of his odd ongoing condemnation of wind power.

I think they're soliciting for freelance renewable energy bashers. if you can deliver some well documented news materials about foibles & glitches with renewable, i think the EIB network (Excellencccce in Broadcasting) might have a job opening for you.
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sicophiliac

Nah we dont need more drilling, we can just drain the SPR and everything will be ok. Seriously though I am getting frustrated with the democrats on the energy issues, at least the neocons are addressing this issue... in a quite barbaric way(invading Iraq) What exactly are the democrats proposing? Why not a 100 billion dollar proposal for investment into wind farms or solar thermal plants? Why not more money invested into battery technology or mass transit? To me they are falling into the trap of looking like obstructionists. Bush says we need to drill more and ASAP and he is right, we are nowhere near able to transition away from fossil fuels to any large scale right now. Aside from the issue of oil peaking and declining itself... the trade deficit due to oil imports alone is a serious economic problem.

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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1485

Well, they've got the rope, they've got the built in stupid, they're both shells of humans, and they're both pansies . . .

Why not tie their own noose in anticipation of their own execution.
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aflurry · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 28, 2005 Posts: 806

AlexdeLarge

Hmmmmmm.................more evidence of the side effects of Botox on your brain.
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aflurry · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 28, 2005 Posts: 806

I have a question for those who favor offshore and ANWR drilling as a way to decrease our "dependence on foreign oil."

once the oil is extracted, doesn't it belong to the same companies that extract it from anywhere in the world, to be sold on an open, international market? do you think the shareholders of those companies would allow preferential sales terms to US consumers at below market rates? What difference does it make whether the oil is from US or foreign sources once it gets to market?

even the jobs created by these projects have to be so few they would have little effect on the US economy. After all, very little prevents competitive US workers form working on oil projects overseas. likewise, competitive foreign workers may have little trouble working in alaska.

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