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President Bush Asks for End to Offshore Drilling Ban
Political cartoon by Michael RamirezPresident Bush today has called for an end to the offshore oil drilling ban.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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John McCain Watch: OK for States to Permit Oil Drilling Offshore
Michael Ramirez on Oil Exploration
In a policy change, John McCain now says states should be allowed to permit oil drilling off of their shores.He said that in the coming weeks, he would be focusing on “America’s energy crisis” – the country’s dependence on foreign oil. Tomorrow he will call for the lifting of “the federal moratorium on states that choose to permit exploration.”
“We must embark on a national mission to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil… exploration is a step toward the longer-term goal.” The candidate repeated his advocacy of a federal gas tax holiday.
Asked about the offshore drilling, McCain responded, “Right now there’s a moratorium, and they have to be lifted. I’m not dictating to the states that they drill for oil. I’m saying the moratorium should be lifted so states can choose that option if they want to.” He added that the situation might require “additional incentives… in terms of tangible financial rewards” to states that permit drilling. He said he didn’t have a particular position at this point on an appropriate distance from the coast for offshore drilling.
But, what about ANWR?
Campaign Carl Cameron: Is lifting moratoria a way of addressing conservative irritation with your position
on ANWR?McCain: “I believe ANWR is a pristine area… but I also believe lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas is a very high priority.”
Not so much…….
John McCain MUST change his position on oil exploration. IT is a national security issue and his thinking like the Democrat’s and Obama’s is anachronistic.
America would NOT be in the mess it is in regarding dependence on foreign oil if there had been REAL leadership over the past few decades.
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Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
Chuck Norris for AmericanSolutions.com
Go to AmericanSolutions.com and sign the petition:
We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other fuel prices)* by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.
Over 700,000 have already signed the petition.
So, get over there and do it.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
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Senate GOP Blocks Oil Windfall Profits Tax
Michael Ramirez on Congress and Oil
United States Senate Republicans today blocked an attempt by Senate Demcorats to impose a windfall profits tax on American oil companies.
But the Democrats had to try to overcome staunch Republican opposition to any new taxes on the oil industry. The five largest U.S. oil companies earned $36 billion during the first three months of the year.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., needed 60 votes Tuesday to proceed with the oil tax legislation in the face of a threatened GOP filibuster.
A Republican energy plan, rejected by the Senate last month, calls for opening a coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil development and to allow states to opt out of the national moratorium that has been in effect for a quarter century against oil and gas drilling in more than 80 percent of the country’s coastal waters.
The Democrats including Barack Obama who supports this taxation are a pathetic bunch. Why do they want to go back to Jimmy Carter days and tax big oil to increase supply and relieve gasoline prices?
Did not work then and will not work now.
Flap remembers the gas lines, the shortages and the rationing.
Earth to the Democrats: Drill for oil and build new refineries while pushing conservation and alternative energy sources.
If the Democrats had NOT blocked drilling in ANWR eight years ago when President Bush and the GOP proposed it, we wold be receiving oil today from the site.
But, the Democrats control Congress and what have they done about HIGH gasoline prices?
NOTHING but tax……..