Posted by Tina
Yesterday I reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had finally caved on the drilling issue and would back a bill to allow offshore drilling on both coasts. The little vixen is up to her usual tricks, however, and the bill is totally unsupportable. As Marlo Lewis has said over at Planet Gore, “…her proposed compromise is a cynical ploy that no self-respecting supply-sider will touch with a 2,000-foot oil rig.”:
Planet Gore over at National Review Online has the full skinny:
Our friends at the Institute for Energy Research (IER) posted a devastating expos of the Pelosi plan. As announced last week, the plan would: Permanently ban access to about 97 percent of the undersea oil lying within 50 miles of the California coast. *** Continue the ban on energy production in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. *** Impose a brand-new ban on oil and gas leases in Alaskas coastal waters out to 50 miles. *** Not allow states that approve new leases beyond 50 miles to share royalties with the federal government, thus stripping any financial incentive for states to stand up to environmental pressure groups, who will continue to agitate against any new oil and gas operations offshore. *** The plan also includes poison pill provisions that President Bush is on record as opposing, such as new taxes on oil companies and a first-ever nationwide renewable-energy production quota for the electric power sector.
Nothing puts Pelosis charade in clearer focus, though, than IERs charts showing how much oil the plan would lock up off the U.S. West coast. By banning new leases out to 50 miles, the Pelosi plan would permanently deny access to 100 percent of the technically recoverable oil off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and Central California, plus 95 percent of the oil off the coast of Southern California.
This is the leadership in the House of Representatives…it’s a house of charade and illusion.
As you consider how well you are being represented regarding oil don’t just think about the gasoline prices and shortages, most of us can find ways to cut back on our usage as we have just proven. Instead think about all of the other products and services that will be effected by shorter supplies of oil or our dependence on foreign oil. These include medical supplies and services, delivery of food and medicines, cleaning supplies, school supplies, restaraunt supplies, clothing and baby products …and a million other everyday items. You will be paying more…much more…for everything if the dreamy greens continue to hold hostage the companies that are capable of bringing this much needed product to market.
It’s not like we don’t have enough on our minds these days! Vote wisely pilgrims, except for our friend Quentin, who will be voting with his typically supperior attitude.