> Dennis wrote:

>> EDITORIAL FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL
>>
>> HEAD: Democrats Against Drilling
>>
>>
>> Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other liberal leaders on Capitol Hill are
>> gripped by cold-sweat terror. If they permit a vote on offshore drilling,
>> they know they will lose when Blue Dogs and oil-patch Democrats defect to
>> the GOP position of increasing domestic energy production. So the last
>> failsafe is to shut down Congress.
>>
>> Majority Leader Reid has decided that deliberation is too taxing for "the
>> world's greatest deliberative body." This week he cut off serious energy
>> amendments to his antispeculation bill. Then Senate Appropriations baron
>> Robert Byrd abruptly canceled a bill markup planned for today where
>> Republicans intended to press the issue. Mr. Byrd's counterpart in the
>> House, David Obey, is enforcing a similar lockdown. Speaker Pelosi says
>> she won't allow even a debate before Congress's August recess begins in
>> eight days.
>>
>> She and Mr. Reid are cornered by substance. The upward pressure on oil
>> prices is caused by rising world-wide consumption and limited growth in
>> supplies. Yet at least 65%% of America's undiscovered, recoverable oil,
>> and 40%% of its natural gas, is hostage to the Congressional drilling
>> moratorium.
>>
>> The Democratic leadership is trying to smother any awareness of their
>> responsibility for high prices. They are also trying to quash a revolt
>> among Democrats who realize that the country is still dependent on fossil
>> fuels, no matter how loudly quasimystical environmentalists like Al Gore
>> claim otherwise.
>> ********
>> Al "Flatulent Cow" Gore's emissions are enough to power several small
>> cities, but heat ain't always light.
>>
>> Dionysus
>>
>>

> The problem is: Drilling has been denied for 20+ years as has refinery
> permits, LNG terminsls, dam building, tidal power, nuclear power, clean
> coal and every other fukking energy supply line. They are just continuing
> their past policy of starving Americans from energy and it's finally
> catching up. Environmental fukkheads have caused this mess.

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> Claude Hopper ? 3 :) 7/8