Pelosi -not allowing vote on drilling
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| Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:08am |
Blunt blasts Pelosi for not allowing drilling vote
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday strongly criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for not allowing a vote on a measure that would allow offshore drilling.
While acknowledging that Pelosi can prevent such a vote, Blunt said the Democratic leader would have to live with that decision, which he argued “does not make sense to the American people.”
“When we’re talking about offshore, we’re talking about 50, 100, 200 miles offshore,” Blunt said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “Nobody's going to see that. This is an environmentally safe thing to do.”
Earlier in the program, Pelosi had stated in a pre-taped interview that she would not allow such a vote.
“We’re going to exhaust our other remedies in terms of increasing supply in America,” Pelosi said. When pressed on the issue, she added that she has “no plans” to allow such a vote.
Instead, she accused congressional Republicans of having blocked the Democrats’ initiatives to address the country’senergy problems and again called for opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease the cost at the pump.
“I think what you’ve got to realize here is by saying we should do that, you’re really admitting that supply makes a difference,” Blunt said. “That means we should be going after real supply, not what we’ve been able to hoard away.”







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" We can bike, walk, or run to a lot of places if we live closely."
Like 40 miles down the interstate?
I would say these are our resources to use.. and we should use them, I don't feel it's a sense of entitlement. It's there to use. Biking sounds great if you live a short distance from work.. but I know many people live farther out to afford their homes these days.. and paying more money in gas to commute.
It is
Rhonda,
I just got the mental picture of you carrying your kiddos on a bike down the interstate!
Well, you did say to tootired: "I guess I could walk to work as could my husband. I mean he'd only have to walk 40 miles down an interstate." It seemed to me that you were using the "40 miles" as a (reasonable) justification of why he couldn't walk like tootired had suggested.
And then several posts later, you sound much more willing to bike/walk/"do my part". Just wondering if you meant ride a bike down that 40 mile interstate you previously mentioned.
I have NEVER had a problem walking, biking, or running when I am able to. I was stating that this is not
It will take years for any oil from this new source to be available
Seems like it's going to take years to develop any other form of energy?
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