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Originally Posted by The_Blur
The federal government is under the authority of a half Republican Congress and a Republican President, meaning that the bureaucracy is functionally Republican, since their oversight is Republican and a half. In effect, all policy during this time is Republican-dominated, meaning that it is generally pro-business, pro-drilling, and pro-nuclear. I am pro-nuclear, pro-drilling, and pro-business, and I am telling you that I am siding with the Democrats here. What the Republicans are doing is siding with business over consumers by not demanding that the oil companies drill more on the lands they already have.
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It's not half republican. It is majority held by the democrats. And at it's lowest approval rating in HISTORY... Not because of the dems that are in power but because the whole lot of them are doing nothing... The president can't do anything without congress. So basically it is 1 vs 1 right now. In actuality it is 1 vs 2 because the house is a democrat majority also.
The republicans are asking that more land be opened for drilling. and the democrats are asking that they drill in areas that are already approved. The problem is that the areas that are currently released by the government for drilling are proven to have little or no oil. Thus the movement by the president to expand the available drilling areas known to have worthwhile oil that is much less expensive to obtain. At about 50 miles off the coast and in places like Anwar.
So you think they should do more with what they have, and we think they should go to areas that will produce more less expensively. Our opinion is this will benefit us sooner than trying to drill in places that have no real oil to begin with. The areas that are open to drilling now have been open for over 10 years. You don't think they've scoured every inch of the place to get more oil? Why wouldn't they? It's not there so lets go where we know it is.
Again, Nickdago's question to you is, why wouldn't they produce more oil if they could? Any company is trying to get a larger share of the market. GM included. So why wouldn't oil companies do the same?. if they can get more oil they can sell more oil and make more money.
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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I cannot believe how little faith you have in our elected government. They represent us, not the companies that are jacking money from our wallets over foreign fuel. You, as a citizen, should be demanding that your government protects your best interests. Maybe if more people like you did that, we wouldn't have a government that handed our debt to communists in China and our wallets to America-hating nations in the Middle East.
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Isn't that the precise point behind this tread. We believe the plan that Newt Gingrich and the president backed largely by the republican members of congress to be the right thing to do. So, we participated in this thread and signed the petition to make sure that our leaders understand what we want.
Which part of our government handed our debt to china and our wallets to the middle east? Careful I wouldn't want you to Bash the republicans or the President here. Since you so eloquently stated that kind of behavior is inappropriate. And a lot of us know, as I'm sure you do, this trend started long before President Bush came into power. In fairness, long before President Clinton also.