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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.
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".
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 18, 2008, 12:07:50 PMUh? 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.
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 18, 2008, 12:07:50 PMUh? 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
Quote from: Chris on September 18, 2008, 01:22:06 PMQuote from: JohnnyReb on September 18, 2008, 12:07:50 PMUh? 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,10801.0Yeah, 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.