President Bush Asks for End to Offshore Drilling Ban
Posted by Flap in George W. Bush, Oil
Political cartoon by Michael Ramirez
President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.
There really is NO reason to delay new oil and natural gas exploration unless the American people wish to change their lifestyles.
If America had taken these steps ten years ago we would not be having the problems with $4 plus gasoline today. And, who is to blame? Guess who?
The Congressional moratorium was first enacted in 1982, and has been renewed every year since. It prohibits oil and gas leasing on most of the outer continental shelf, 3 miles to 200 miles offshore. Since 1990, it has been supplemented by the first President Bush’s executive order, which directed the Interior Department not to conduct offshore leasing or preleasing activity in areas covered by the legislative ban until 2000. In 1998, President Bill Clinton extended the offshore leasing prohibition until 2012.
It is time for the Democrat controlled Congress to do SOMETHING. The GOP in Congress and now the President have made concrete proposals.
Over to the the Democrats.
Think they will do anything?
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