Straight from the Oil Companies Mouth
Big Oil Problem, Politics May 21st, 2008I’m paraphrasing here “It’s not our fault the prices are so high. It’s your fault Congress.”
It just reiterates what I said last week, what Ron Paul has said, and what Hillary, Obama, and McCain don’t want to admit. Congress chose to cripple the US supply of crude oil by restricting drilling, Bill Clinton vetoed the bill to allow drilling in ANWR in 1995, and now the American people are paying for it.
“The place to start the free market is in our own country,” said one executive. [The drilling ban] sets the stage for OPEC to do what we are doing in our own country, and that is effectively limiting supplies.”
BINGO!
And now Congress will sue OPEC. I want to laugh but its just not funny. How about doing something meaningful rather than all the useless political posturing?
May 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“Bill Clinton vetoed the bill to allow drilling in ANWR in 1995, and now the American people are paying for it.”
You could also include here the Bush admin (and Jeb Bush’s re-election campaign) for the failure of capitalizing on Florida’s oil potential.
see lease 181:
frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=99-1601-filed.pdf
www.factcheck.org/environmental_groups_ad_distorts_bushs_record_on.html
You can even include the Reagan admin for abandoning oil shale development in the 1980s (although many agree that he did the most of recent presidents to keep govt out of the management of our energy supply).
www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/
We could be profiting from drilling in Anwar, but we could also be benefiting from these other known areas as well. While I’m no Clinton apologist, it’s silly to fault that single administration for all of our oil dilemmas…
May 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Preach on brotha.
May 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@ben
I blame them all in that case. DRILL EVERYWHERE!