Drilling Victory!

[BlueStateSaint]

That's what Amanda Carpenter says on Townhall.  I'm only quoting two paragraphs here because the whole story is only five graphs long!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Drilling Victory!
by Amanda Carpenter

Democrats have knuckled under to GOP demands to let the congressional ban on offshore drilling and shale recovery in the Rocky Mountains expire on October 1 for a period that will last at least through the rest of the year.

The Democrats’ concession comes amid concerns their party would be faulted for high gas prices in the November election. House Republicans staged protests on the House floor throughout the August recess calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) to hold stand-alone votes on offshore drilling.

The rest is at:

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/09/18/drilling_victory!

Yay!  'Course, there's no guarantees, but it's a start!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Great news in several ways!

[BEG]

If the Dems were really against drilling for what ever stupid reason and had any sort of standards they would still stand against.  Even through the "threat" of losing an election.  Kind of like how McCain stood behind the surge even when it was very unpopular.  Dems have no courage at all.

[JohnnyReb]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

[Chris_]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

Last I heard it passed the House but is very unlikely to do so in the Senate. 

Even if it does, Pres. Bush will veto it and lose all hope for his 2008 re-election.

[JohnnyReb]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

Last I heard it passed the House but is very unlikely to do so in the Senate. 

Even if it does, Pres. Bush will veto it and lose all hope for his 2008 re-election.

Yeah. Looks like I'll be wasting my vote this time.....but I'm going to vote for him anyway......

[BEG]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

Last I heard it passed the House but is very unlikely to do so in the Senate. 

Even if it does, Pres. Bush will veto it and lose all hope for his 2008 re-election.

He he 

[Chris]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

That's the new bill. I think this covers the existing ban on OCS/shale drilling that was not renewed.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,10801.0

[DumbAss Tanker]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

That's the new bill. I think this covers the existing ban on OCS/shale drilling that was not renewed.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,10801.0

Yeah, basically; this is a situation like the sunset on the assault weapons ban, where a failure to take new action by Congress means the old law that sucked expires, so passing no bill at all means the Congressionally-imposed ban goes away.

[Chris_]

Uh? Somebody find the bill because from what I've rerad, it's 296 pages of you can drill here where there ain't no oil or gas but you can't drill over yonder where there is some oil and gas. It is, as one democrat called it, "The No Energy Bill".

That's the new bill. I think this covers the existing ban on OCS/shale drilling that was not renewed.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,10801.0

Yeah, basically; this is a situation like the sunset on the assault weapons ban, where a failure to take new action by Congress means the old law that sucked expires, so passing no bill at all means the Congressionally-imposed ban goes away.

Kinda mixed "blessing" in my view. 

All the coastal is still off limits due to the semantics the 435 assclowns in the nation's most exclusive whorehouse, but if I read it right, they green-lighted the Rocky Mountain oil shale harvesting as well.  The good news about that, is that Shell Oil - out here in Rifle, CO - is supposed to be less than a year out from being able to harvest oil from the shale.  That means they'll be pulling it out of the ground already the next time this comes up in front of their lordships.