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Democrats to Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
Washington - Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an month-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.
Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election.
Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor of more drilling. President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July.
"If true, this capitulation by Democrats following months of Republican pressure is a big victory for Americans struggling with record gasoline prices," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio.
Democrats had clung to the hope of only a partial repeal of the drilling moratorium, but the White House had promised a veto, Obey said.
Just last week, the House passed legislation to open waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling but only 50 or more miles out to sea and only if a state agrees to energy development off its shore.
Republicans called that effort a sham that would have left almost 90 percent of offshore reserves effectively off-limits.
The Interior Department estimates there are 18 billion barrels of recoverable oil beneath coastal waters now off-limits.
Lifting the drilling ban gives considerable momentum to the underlying bill, which includes the Pentagon budget, $24 million in aid for flood and hurricane victims and $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers in addition to keeping the government open past the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 budget year.
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Associated Press writer H. Josef Hebert contributed to this report.
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This is a good thing for the
This is a good thing for the American public. The trick now is to undertake a two-pronged approach: Drill in the short-term, develop alternative energies in the long-term.
BULLSHIT!
This is NOT a good thing! More environmental damage for what?! A few barrels of oil that will be sucked up by oil addicts in a few months. Do some online research....
Damned Right!
Drill and Kill is for the consumption of sheeple!
The same narcissistic culture of corruption's drill & kill will have little to no effect on high gasoline prices for over 20 years but it will further enrich the obscene profits of corporate oil leasing contracts.
In real life, the harvested oil would not be refined for at least 20 years and it would be consumed in less than 6 months, assuming that the current consumption rate of 7.56 billion barrels/year does not increase from population growth.
Of course the real reason for high oil prices is because of Bush himself. Oil prices have increased by over 700% during his "tenure" because Bush deregulated oil and energy speculations in the stock markets to enrich himself and his oil cronies.
Lest we forget, Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force Meetings and the Enron Scandals shortly after these "neoconservatives" were "appointed" into office by 5 right wing Supreme Court Judges over 8 years ago.
The other reason for high gas prices is because Bush's $5+ Trillion dollar Iraq Holocaust has devalued the dollar.
The "neoconservative" culture of corruption proposes to permanently contaminate America's coastal waters and Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge with poisonous toxic waste just to further enrich greedy oil robber barons. And the tragically ill informed sheeple are still naive' enough to believe that "savings" from this will be passed on to them at the gas pumps.
Humans are part of the same food chain as ANWR's diverse wildlife. So, what happens to ANWR will eventually happen to people. The toxic waste deposited into America's already unhealthy coastal shelves will devastate the already crippled fishing industry and marine wildlife.
And senile McLame jokes about toxic waste making good fish bait and "bomb bomb bomb Iran"!
"Blah, blah, blah, terror, terror, terror!" "LIBERALS!" "Terrorists!" "They're going to kill us!" "Terror!" "9/11!" "Drill!" "Kill!" "Terrorists!"
How pathetic.
The "neocruds" are peddling more lies, scapegoating, fear, hate, invasions of more sovereign nations, more criminal "preemptive" wars, more obscene war profiteering, more economic "terrorism" and the sacrifice of freedom for security.
And the culture of corruption destroys our Constitutional Republic, all in the name of "God".
Yes it is a good thing.
Yes it is a good thing.
If you like $5.00 per gallon
If you like $5.00 per gallon gas, then be my guest. A clear-cut majority of the American public supports drilling for our own oil while developing alternative energy sources.
"This is NOT a good
"This is NOT a good thing!"
You're right. This is an AWESOME thing!!
More B.S.
Giving the oil companies the right to drill off shore is just adding to their political power. Given the choice, they will drill where the cost is LOWER. Off shore drilling is expensive. They will drill ON LAND unless they have no choice. Drilling ANYWHERE is not the answer to anything. It will not reduce the price of gas. New drilling will not yield new oil for YEARS! All giving them more licenses to drill will do is add to their power! Push HARD for wind and solar. THAT is the future, sucking more carbon out of the Earth is NOT!
BTW: "development" is not required. We already know how to make windmills and photovoltaic solar collectors. JUST DO IT!
Al K.
Takes time to build them.
Takes time to build them. Building windmills and solar collectors doens't solve the problem that we currently face.
$25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers???
They do not give a damn about drilling alone they want this hidden bailout!
Again, stick it to the american suckers. This time do it in a smoke screen.
And the democrats just kiss but and smile!
This is a coup by the european bankers the auto companies and the oil companies to take over american!
Eventually no automibles will be made on american soil. They may be assembled on american soil but not made here.