Byron Dorgan, Kent Conrad Vote Against Expanding Domestic Production Of Gasoline
North Dakota’s Senators spend a lot of time talking about high gas prices. Especially Senator Dorgan. They talk about what a terrible impact those high prices have on this country’s citizens. Particularly North Dakotans who live in rural places which require lots of on-the-road time and have nothing in terms of public transportation.
So when an amendment came forward in the Senate to allow expanded domestic production of oil, something that would increase supply and decrease prices, you’d think these two public servants would jump at the opportunity, right? Well such an opportunity presented itself today in the form of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s amendment to allow expanded domestic exploration for oil in places like the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. What did Senators Dorgan and Conrad do?
They voted against it. Evidence of their “nay” votes will be here as soon as the Senate website is updated.
What’s astonishing is that Senator Dorgan has come out in favor of drilling for oil in the backyard of North Dakotans living around the Bakken formation, but not in favor of drilling for oil in a remote and little-visited bit of frozen tundra north of the arctic circle.
Why is one ok, but the other bad? And why does Senator Dorgan think its ok to play politics with national energy policy?













