Pelosi Premium: Drilling is a hoax
The Bear on Jul 15 2008 at 8:30 am | Filed under: Election 08’, Energy Policy
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday shut the door on expanding oil and gas drilling beyond areas that have already been approved for energy exploration, drawing a clear distinction from her counterparts in charge of the Senate.
“This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. “It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
Better get used to these high gas prices because the Queen is not about to comprise on the idea of drilling.
According to Nancy Pelosi, the real problem is the Republicans. She says that efforts to expand drilling are “a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that [Republican] policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
And if we had a fair and balanced MSM you would think they would ask a question like,
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“Tell me what policies the Republicans have supported that has caused our gas prices to rise compared to Democrats?”
What is really going on is the Democrats understand that there is a strong likelihood that oil prices will drop significantly if the United States announces a firm policy to open up ANWR, the outer continental shelf, the oil shale lands out west and other areas to oil exploration and recovery.
She very well knows that that the voting public tends to blame the party in power of the White House for these economic woes and the Democrats will not allow anything that might make the present administration look good. Again I say for the umpteen time politics trumps all else and the welfare of the country is secondary.
You can fool some of the people some of the time but sooner or later the American people will wake up and throw these bums out.
SideBear: McCain do you want to win this election? And at times I wonder about this. This is election will be decided at the gas pump and McCain has a golden opportunity to win, if he gets it.
The real HOAX here is being perpetuated on the American People.
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Our Congressional Energy Mess By Thomas E. Nugent
High gas prices at the pump are a direct result of inaction by Congress.
Everyone complains about high gas prices, yet viable solutions to today’s energy crisis get tabled by the very people who do the complaining. Certain Californians come to mind — folks who philosophically luxuriate in a moratorium on offshore drilling only to boil over on Wilshire Boulevard when faced with gas at $5.50 a gallon.
Then there’s Congress.
Some proposed solutions to the gas-price crisis, such as a windfall profits tax on oil companies, would merely take us back to the good old days of the gas line. Incentives matter. So do disincentives. When you penalize companies for bringing gas to market, less gas (at higher prices) will come to market.
But Congress has been getting energy wrong for quite a few years now. When President Bush launched a viable energy plan in 2001, Democrats submarined it. They said a strategy for increased drilling would take too long to have an effect — maybe eight to ten years. So why bother?
And here we are again. In the midst of the 2008 energy crisis, Democrats say any new drilling allowances in the present will take at least eight to ten years to bear fruit. It’s a line of reasoning that will never produce a solution, even though solutions were what the Democrats promised.
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The Bear,
You hit it right on the head here with your succinnt synopsis of Pelosi’s prognosticating.
I would add to that, her bedfellow Mr. Reid on the Senate side is catching on that the “blame Bush and the Republicans” tactic isn’t working as well as in the past. He has, at least in reguards to OCS, changed his tune; “I’m not knee-jerk-opposed to anything,” Mr. Reid, from the same Hill article you quoted.
By saying publicly that offshore continental shelf drilling is “not off the table” he gives the impression that the Democrats are actually discussing it as a viable solution. What he won’t say is that, while it may be on the table, it’s burried under so many other possible “solutions” it will not be something we can achieve before November.
The Liberals in Congress are under pressure to act and blaming anyone other than themselves is not going to work this time. Are they going to act? Absolutely not, at least not for the next three and a half months.
Presidend Bush said “Today, I’ve taken every step within my power to allow offshore exploration of the OCS. All that remains is for the Democratic leaders in Congress to allow a vote.” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080714-4.html)
Good move on his part I think. If they do not allow a vote, Conservatives can (but will they) nail them on it. If they do allow the vote then they’re screwed either way. They cannot vote for drilling, because, as you said the price at the pump will start to drop and Bush gets the credit; if they vote against it they loose both the House and Senate at worst (for them) or do not pick up more seats as predicted at best.