Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Will Be Restored ‘By Any Means Necessary,’ Democratic

[Chris_]

Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Will Be Restored ‘By Any Means Necessary,’ Democratic Congressman Says

(CNSNews.com) -  The ban on offshore oil drilling that expired last September will be restored by “any means necessary,” Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who serves on both the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told CNSNews.com on Friday.
 
Inslee, who participated in a conference entitled "Planning for a Secure Energy Future” sponsored by the Washington Post, also recommended a ban on future drilling in the arctic, where he says there is a “gold rush” for oil uncovered by melting ice caps.
 
But Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who serves on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and also attended the conference, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should provide an integral part of American energy and recommended the Interior Department begin distributing offshore oil drilling leases.

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Inslee also said the federal government should consider a new ban on drilling in Arctic regions of the world.
 
“When we talk about drilling, the new thing we have to think about is the Arctic,” said Inslee. “There is a dangerous irony occurring. We are drilling, burning oil, sending CO2 up into the atmosphere, creating global warming – and it’s melting the Arctic making it possible for people to drill.”
 
“Now there is this gold rush to start punching oil wells in a place we just desecrated because of global warming,” said Inslee. “That’s one place we have to get a new moratorium where there hasn’t been one before, because there has always been ice there before.”

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[NHSparky]

I'm curious as to how many Congressidiots realize just how much domestic production we're REALLY doing right now. 

For the record, it's at the same level as at the late 1940's, and still declining, but not due to lack of resources.

[thundley4]

The Dems have launched a full scale assault, led by0Bama George Soros,on the Us economy and the US itself. Treasonous bastards, all of them.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's just setting us up for a new round of a speculation-driven oil price spiral.  Once foreign producers see that we have again hamstrung our domestic production capability, they will realize we stuck our tender bits right back in the same old vise and they'll start turning the screw on it.