Broken Masterpieces

Bush-era offshore drilling plan shelved – Environment- msnbc.com. The Obama administration on Tuesday overturned another Bush-era energy policy, setting aside a draft plan to allow drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. My assumption now is that President Obama doesn’t mind high gas prices because when President Bush started planning for drilling the cost went [...]

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Hewitt: The Don’t Drill Democrats Plan Their Don’t Drill Strategy. Yesterday’s announcement that the president-elect would almost certainly use his executive order power to curtail previously authorized drilling on some public lands signals that the Obama Administration will be a friend of rising oil prices. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the price [...]

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http://www.qando.net/ – Oh, and please don’t forget “cap and trade” (update). You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because [...]

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Now we know who to blame for continued high gas prices. Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to allow a vote on this issue. You can already see gas prices going down just by having some of our leadership pushing drilling. We need a comprehensive energy policy that will still need to include fossil fuels. We still [...]

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