Pelosi -not allowing vote on drilling

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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.”


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/blunt-blasts-pelosi-for-not-allowing-drilling-vote-2008-07-20.html

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Fri, 07-25-2008 - 6:44pm

So we can pour resources into the drops in the bucket available off shore, or we can pour resources into alternative sources of oil.

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-27-2008
Fri, 07-25-2008 - 6:51pm

But as no oil from drilling will be available for 10 years, it is a temporary solution that may well be no solution whatsoever by the time the oil is available.


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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 07-25-2008 - 7:07pm
However even if an alternative is found it will still take time for it to be available for distribution, and people who just bought new cars before the alternative comes out aren't going to go out and buy another new one.
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Registered: 05-29-2003
Fri, 07-25-2008 - 8:16pm
Didn't Bill Clinton say that same thing? It would take ten years.. yet here we are
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Registered: 01-02-2008
Sat, 07-26-2008 - 12:11am
YEs, and I believe that was the reasoning that Bill Clinton used too, years ago....

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Registered: 01-02-2008
Sat, 07-26-2008 - 12:12am
DOH! I didn't read ahead ;)

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-27-2008
Sat, 07-26-2008 - 1:33am

And was the money put into alternatives?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 07-26-2008 - 11:00am

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If it's going to take 10 years to get the bandaid and 10 years to get the permanent fix, what the heck is the purpose of the bandaid exept to distract you from the permanent fix?

 


 


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Registered: 09-08-2006
Sat, 07-26-2008 - 11:49am

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The oil companies have explained it to us but we are not listening.

 

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Registered: 05-29-2003
Sun, 07-27-2008 - 8:33am

So who can tell me why the price of gas is starting to drop?


I heard one pundit say

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