»Click here to calculate your site FeedRank Today«
FeedRank, a newly developed algorithm for ranking RSS feeds only on RSSMicro
Click here to learn more
 3/10 Fair --- www.redstate.com http://www.redstate.com/sections/elections/2008/feed
Thursday, June 19, 2008 --- 77 days ago http://www.redstate.com/blogs/pilgrim/2008/jun/19/2_freshman_house_ds_from_fla_r
 U.S. Reps. Ron Klein (left) and Tim Mahoney (right) join Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. for 'Let's go Communist' bill to be introduced by Rahm Emanuel, Maurice Hinchey, Ed Markey, and Nick Rahall as co-sponsors. This is what Maurice Hinchley said on the House floor June 19, 2008: We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market. On Ron Klein's website he writes: I am working to pass legislation that gives the oil companies an ultimatum: “Drill It or Lose It.” On Tim Mahoney's website he writes the following: The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008 employs a "use it or lose it" tactic that will compel oil and gas companies to either produce or give up the federal onshore and offshore leases they are stockpiling by barring the companies from obtaining any more leases unless they can demonstrate that they are producing oil and gas, or are diligently developing the leases they already hold. Rep. Cong. John E. Peterson has an excellent smackdown on this insane legislation in a New York Post op-ed piece Since 1982, Congress has passed laws banning the production of oil and natural gas on our Outer Continental Shelf; the last three presidents went along. But the US Minerals Management Service estimates (conservatively) that the OCS holds 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas - the equivalent of 35 years of imported oil from OPEC and an 18-year supply ... |
|
|
Recent Posts
|
|
|
Facebook Del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Reddit Google
Anytime
