Another week has come and gone without the Democratic-led Congress able to wean the country off of foreign oil and force oil and gas companies to “use or lose” the lands they have leased from the federal government. The bill H.R. 6515, also requested that Alaskan oil cannot be exported.
The Hill Excerpt:
In addition to requiring energy companies to either drill on 68 million acres of approved and leased lands or vacate their leases, the new Drill Act also included language to speed up the leasing of 20 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, to reconstitute the ban on the foreign export of Alaskan oil and to urge the president to facilitate the completion of oil and gas pipelines from Alaska.
The three Wisconsin house republicans helping stall energy legislation and
voting against the "Drill Act" were Sennenbrenner, Petri and Ryan.
Free Republic Excerpt:
A similar partisan dynamic is stalling energy legislation in the Senate, where Democrats and Republicans are at a standstill on a measure (S 3268) to tighten regulation of energy futures trading. Democrats acknowledge the measure is only a short-term, partial solution to the rising cost of gasoline, but Republicans have threatened to thwart action on the bill, unless GOP members are allowed to offer amendments that would open new areas for oil drilling.
In the House, nearly all Republicans and eleven democrats voted “no.” As record gas prices continue to soak family budgets and leave municipalities in dire straits, Republicans have found an excuse why not to drill and why not to lower gasoline prices. They found their excuse by opposing the
democrats plan, and are willing to exploit those misconceptions for the sake of their corporate donors and political careers.
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