Pelosi Statement on President Bush Lifting the Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
Pelosi
Washington, D.C.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s announcement lifting the executive ban on drilling in protected coastal areas:
“Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil.
“The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas.
“If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
“It’s time to tell the oil industry: ‘You already have millions of acres to drill. Use it or lose it.'”
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Reid rejects Bush call to lift drilling moratorium
Oh and also some snide jerk remarks by Rep. Edward Markey as well. Boy is he a total blankity blank!
reuters
Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on Monday rejected a call by U.S. President George W. Bush to lift a moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
Bush announced on Monday that he lifted the executive branch’s restriction on offshore exploration, saying only Congress stood in the way of opening up America’s untapped oil riches.
But Reid said oil companies should focus instead on drilling on much of the 68 million acres that they have leased but not used for exploration.
Asked, however, if he expected to have the votes to block legislation to lift the moratorium in face of soaring gasoline prices, Reid told a news conferences, “We will have to wait and see.”
Reid said he hoped to have legislation introduced this week to crack down on oil speculators.
On the other side of the Capitol, Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, mocked Bush’s call earlier in the day to lift the ban.
“The Bush oil policy is an attempt at mass deception by a White House that has, for the last seven and a half years, pursued Big Oil’s agenda of drill, drill, drill,” Markey, chairman of a select House of Representatives committee on energy independence, told a news conference.
“Drill, drill, drill has failed, failed, failed,” Markey said. “It has failed to make America energy independent. It has failed to prevent rising prices at the pump.”
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Wild Thing’s comment……….
The democrats favor drilling for oil except where there is oil. Hahahahaha Good grief!
Bush has painted them as the party for no drilling….and they laugh at Bush for being the dumb one.
Bush won this round.
Pelosi said: “If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “
Is this statement not an admission that more oil will bring down the price? LOL She’s an absolute idiot!
Nancy Pelosi is a liar!
Bush has had no oil interest in the past 10 years.
U.S. access to domestic oil WILL have an imitate impact on oil prices because the futures market will use the new information to adjust the current price of future oil.
She knows that the current 68 million acres is either NOT productive or is being developed.
Here suggestion that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should be used to manage current prices is glaring example of here willful ignorance, or belief that the American people are really that stupid.
The oil industry already has a 10 year “use it or lose it” feature in the existing leases!
Why is it so difficult for somebody to publicly confront her with here lies?
Reid said ” oil companies should focus instead on drilling on much of the 68 million acres that they have leased but not used for exploration.”
Reid is so stupid, in 75% of their revenue depends on tourism and if people can’t afford to get there then they go bust.
“Drill, drill, drill has failed, failed, failed,” Markey said.
And exactly what drilling would that be, you stupid moron?
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Some sense and people with brains:
A Rasmussen poll taken on Wednesday (July 9th) found that 62 percent of a nationwide sample believes that drilling should be allowed off the shores of California, Florida and other states.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas:
“A ban on drilling in the same Gulf that’s open to Venezuelans, Indians, Vietnamese and Cubans never made much sense except as a political barricade erected by anti-oil environmentalists in and out of Congress.”
Bravo. Here is a link for US Senate and Representative contact information. I will be contacting mine and also Rep. King and congratulate him for his interview. Incidently he spoke before Bush lifted his executive order. I have a transcript of Rep. King’s interview on my site and I also had watched it on TV. I believe it was Friday.
Well, if the Dems come out for drilling, all that money from the enviro-terrorists will dry up. If they stick to their fantastical and delusional world view they have now, they may pay for it in November.
O-O-O-H!! Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
What’s sad is that more dems aren’t up in arms – after all the policies that the left side of the aisle congress critters are fighting for will only hurt them the most. (You don’t get jobs from poor people.)
When people get hit tangibly in the wallet (unlike taxes where unless you are really paying attention, you have no idea just how much you are actually paying ~ and not just on your 1040)it gets ugly fast. The next couple of months are going to be so full of spin and back peddling….
I’m so loving it!
I swear, the democrats must eat a big bowl of Stupid every morning.
Ok we release the Strategic Oil reserves, what happens in the case of a National Emergency. Once that oil is gone then what.
Why won’t they let up on this. If the Republicans were smart,…hehehe, this is a winning issue in November.
And to congressnitwit Markey, D-dumbass, Mass, (gee that sort of fits,) …anyway when have we drilled, drilled and drilled, We haven’t drilled in almost 40 years. Because everytime someone wants to the demo’s vote against it.
American people are going to get so PO that a huge uproar is going to overpower those dumbasses- They just think they are so special – They are going to find out- when they no longer sit in the Congress or Senate – !! Pelosi and her big mouth need to be impeached- she is a POS for sure!
Pelosi and Reid are running amok with their new power as Congressional leaders. They hate Bush so they use their power to frustrate him even if it is very harmful to America.
Bush(and Gates and Petraeus)is winning the war in Iraq. That shames the democrats. So the Dems are now going to try to frustrate Bush and our oil producers. Dumb, dumb Democrats. They are on the verge of angering the working public as energy prices crank up the inflation nightmare and drive down people’s spending power, and jobs are lost.
The Dems have a steadfast and strong ally in the MSM, but even the media can spin lies only so long. They will blame Bush for this energy crisis, but it only lifted it’s ugly head after the Dems took control. That mighty 9% approval rate in Congress may do some more dipping before November.
“Pelosi and Reid React To Bush’s Spech On Oil”
Ya’ know…these two added together don’t even equal a person.
Looking at her picture (Pelosi) makes me think that she has been *id hard and put away *et.
Bob,oh wow great, I am going to your blog and see it. Thank you so much.
Yankeemom, great run down of how it is with them. I too am loving it I just hope and pray it works out the way it should.
Mark, “Markey, D-dumbass, Mass”…..LMAO good one.
Cheryl, I agree, if they don’t do what they better to right now, asap. The public has got to know it is the left that is keeping the prices high, the left that is the pain in the butt about this.
Tom, Ditto and a big ole Amen.
“even the media can spin lies only so long”….yes and when a person goes to fill up those lies stare them in the face that they hear from the media and Pelosi etc.
SSgt Steve, USMC(PS), this is sooo good, it is TRUE, I love it. Like the how many does it take to change a lightbulb thing. hahahahaha
“Ya’ know…these two added together don’t even equal a person.”
Pelosi and Reid want everyone to believe that the big greedy oil companies are sitting on untold billions of dollars of oil and gas reserves in 68 million acres of public land and coastal areas that they will lose their leases on because they aren’t drilling and bringing it out of the ground. If Pelosi and Reid believe this greedy corporate profit business model nonsense themselves then why not let the big oil companies pay for more leases in ANWR and off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts that following the business model they won’t explore or drill for large oil and gas reserves on those sites too.
Talk about being stuck on stupid.