President Bush has been urged in a letter to do away with the moratorium on offshore drilling in the U.S.
The Institute for Energy Research sent the letter to President Bush urging him to exercise his authority to repeal the Executive Order banning energy production on America's outer continental shelf. The ban has been in effect since 1990. Congress also passes a similar ban on offshore drilling on a yearly basis.
Brian Kennedy is senior vice president for public affairs with the Institute for Energy Research. He argues the rationale behind his group's request that he believes would force Congress to take a longer view.
"We've gone ahead and asked the president to lead by ripping up the executive moratorium," Kennedy explains. "That would create a situation whereby the Congress would have to come up with a long-term strategy – not some annual ban that expires every year, but a long-term plan that would put some common sense and some flexibility into our offshore energy laws."
He wonders why the ban is still in place, seeing that China has plans to drill for energy 60 miles off the U.S. coastline. "The Cuban government has entered into contracts with China and a few other countries to begin to look at producing energy at the offshore, just 60 or so miles from the United States," says the Institute spokesman. "The U.S. is the only developed country in the world that restricts access to its offshore energy resources in the way that we do. It is what one senator called 'economic and strategic masochism.'"
Kennedy also contends there is no justifiable or defensible reason for the government to be restricting access to these supplies, especially considering the current energy situation. According to a Reuters article, House Republicans have recently vowed to push for more energy development within the United States. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) says Republicans will fight every single day over the next five months to hold the Democrats accountable for their "dismal record on producing more energy" in the U.S.
The phrase 'economic and strategic masochism' is perfectly applicable here! My question is: why are there no environmentalists crying out at the savage effects this Chinese/Cuban drilling is going to have on our environment? Why does American drilling cause havoc that will inevitably destroy the very planet we live on, yet the same drilling in the same place by any other country not warrant a single whimper of protest?
The answer is, as I've been saying for as long as this blog has been around: it's not about the environment. It's about controlling Americans, it's about how America is always wrong and evil, it's about poking back at us for the wealth of America, and it's about deliberately harming humanity because of an ignorant myth.
Once again, the Democrat party has firmly planted their stake on the hill that is damaging to America, pledging to fight against any and all measures that would actually bring about lower gas prices or other energy independence. Why does the American public not get this? Sadly, the MSM has a virtual blackout on the fact of what the Democrats in Congress have done on this issue, and most of the American public doesn't even know. That's why this blog and so many others are so important - it's a grass roots effort to reach every day people through personal contact with the TRUTH. Spread it far and wide.
Then call the White House and Congress, and express yourself at why we're allowing China and Cuba to drill 60 miles off our own coast when we can't do it ourselves. Then tell them to Drill Here, Drill Now or be sent home after the next election.
There's my two cents.
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