Well, I'm glad someone is standing up to her royal majesty and not giving up without a fight:
House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the rest of the summer without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and move America toward energy independence.They decided to continue protesting because they were encouraged by Obama's move toward drilling:
GOP members say they would not be holding this debate tomorrow, if the Democratic nominee had not modified his position on off shore drilling.Uh-oh! They've given Obama an opening for a bipartisan campaign ad there: "Obama lead the way to a bipartisan solution to energy independence by forcing Congress to vote on the issue." :-)They believe that with Obama and his Republican opponent John McCain, appearing to be in "agreement" about off shore drilling, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi should recall the Congress from recess, and put an energy bill on the floor in August.
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Wow! If a Dem wants the oil barons to work the leases they already have, its bad but if the GOP wants them to have more leases to sit on and not allow any drilling it is good.
Who's the bad guys and who are the good guys?
And as far as congress is concerned, GET TO WORK, you lazy bums!!!!
"Unless you believe the oil companies are going to start drilling in the middle of a hurricane, there's no reason to settle the issue of drilling this month. It won't start for years and it won't yield results for years, and if drilling over the next 2 to 5 years lulls us all into believing we can rely on the oil to flow forever, it's a bad thing. Saving 20 cents a gallon 10 years from now while missing out on technology switch would be incredibly stupid (sunlight-generated hydrogen, off-peak electric, LPG, etc.) , and that seems to be the way were going."
It's amazing to me that you guys think that we can't look for new sources of energy and still drill for oil. What the Republicans are proposing are incentives for alternative energy and drilling. Something we'll need because we can't end our oil dependence for the foreseeable future.
If you read the above, they HAVE tons of places to drill for oil that they haven't even bothered to. Leases they already have, that they haven't USED.
That they sit on, so they can just wait until not the need, but the price is right. Indeed, as also noted above, there was a bill that would require those leases to be USED in a certain amount of time (to prevent sitting on leases just to prevent other companies from having them) and the oil reserved for use by the US.
If you read above (once more), you see who voted AGAINST that bill. The exact proposal you gave, when you first started talking about drilling ANWR.
Of course the Repubs are making a show in Congress. They are proving Twain's dictum that an honest politician is one who, once bought, stays bought.
Or perhaps we'll find out later that the oil companies are paying them by the hour.
They can certainly afford to.
Hess oil associates give more than $300,000 to McCain, GOP after drilling switch
i don't know about "by the hour" but certainly by the verbal vote.
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