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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Energy Package Before Senate Includes ANWR Drilling

Let’s see how much traction this gets in an election year!

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Senate is set to consider competing energy packages on Monday or Tuesday, including a Republican proposal that would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

...Republicans – including Sens. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski – are pushing a plan to boost domestic production off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in Alaska.

Murkowski, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has said she believes oil companies should be allowed to drill for oil along the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and that it can be done in an environmentally sound way.

Republicans claim opening new areas to drilling offshore and in Alaska would produce an additional 24 billion barrels of oil, or enough to satisfy U.S. consumption for five years, which could help knock as much as $63 off the price of a barrel of oil.


$63 a barrel? That ain’t bean bag! Maybe now’s the time you write your Congress Critters and tell them you’re fed up with their inaction on developing domestic oil resources?
Hat tip LGF
Cross posted at Proof Positive

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Let’s see how McCain votes on it.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on May 11, 2008 at 06:51 pm
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Let’s not forget Hilly and Barry! I figure Democrats will do what ever they can to keep this from coming to a vote!



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Proof on May 11, 2008 at 07:33 pm

Finally the republicans are showing that they have some backbone!



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dougee on May 11, 2008 at 07:34 pm
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Finally the republicans are showing that they have some backbone!

Let’s hope they at least force a vote on it to get everyone on the record as to who wants the nation to become energy independent!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on May 11, 2008 at 07:39 pm
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