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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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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
Band Aids most certainly serve a good purpose. If I have a wound that needs stitching, I'm not going to let it continue bleeding until I can get to the hospital! If I have a leak in my roof that needs professional patching, I'm not going to let it damage my furniture in the meantime - I'm going to create a "band aid" fix until I can get a permanent one.
Same is absolutely true for band-aid oil fixes.
Our reserves are for when Iran decides to bomb Israel...not because it's getting ridiculously expensive. Drilling is *a* temporary solution to reduce our current 70% import levels of foreign fuels.
Unlike Pelosi, I'd like to save our reserves for a more catastrophic type emergency.
Excluding emergency reserves, the demand is still lower than supply and has been for a while.
According to the oil lobby itself:
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We have quite a lot of oil out there.. I don't think it'll be all that temporary but I can't quote you how long it'll last. ... however since we already have *that* technology we should use it BUT I believe we should totally pursue other scources.
Seems a little crazy to have rescources sitting out there but we don't even try to tap into it
Edited for typo
Edited 7/25/2008 6:19 pm ET by janetis40
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