Comments on: President Bush Symbolically Lifts Ban on Offshore Drilling http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/14/president-bush-symbolically-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Oh Really http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/14/president-bush-symbolically-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Oh Really Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:36:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/14/president-bush-symbolically-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/#comment-1339 WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ ? Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush?s announcement lifting the executive ban on drilling in protected coastal areas: ?Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil. ?The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas. ?If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. ?It?s time to tell the oil industry: ?You already have millions of acres to drill. Use it or lose it.?? SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ ? Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush?s announcement lifting the executive ban on drilling in protected coastal areas:

?Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil.

?The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas.

?If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

?It?s time to tell the oil industry: ?You already have millions of acres to drill. Use it or lose it.??

SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House

]]> By: beach bum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/14/president-bush-symbolically-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 beach bum Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:46:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/14/president-bush-symbolically-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/#comment-1251 It is coming. There will definitely be new oil exploration, as we pay $4+ per gallon. These prices are just not sustainable, and our backwards country still runs on gas. Too bad we couldn't listen to the rational predictions that we would be running out of oil in the near future and prepare for this event. Instead we continue to be prisoners to the oil-producing nations, some of whom we wouldn't dream of supporting otherwise. I hope any offshore drilling that comes to be is done as responsibly and sustainably as possible, and that government funds are SIMULTANEOUSLY devoted to alternate energies. Something has got to change permanently! We can't just buy another decade and think everything will be okay. It is coming. There will definitely be new oil exploration, as we pay $4+ per gallon. These prices are just not sustainable, and our backwards country still runs on gas. Too bad we couldn’t listen to the rational predictions that we would be running out of oil in the near future and prepare for this event. Instead we continue to be prisoners to the oil-producing nations, some of whom we wouldn’t dream of supporting otherwise.

I hope any offshore drilling that comes to be is done as responsibly and sustainably as possible, and that government funds are SIMULTANEOUSLY devoted to alternate energies. Something has got to change permanently! We can’t just buy another decade and think everything will be okay.

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