Pelosi flails: Drilling is a “hoax”
Pity poor Nancy Pelosi. Pity:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday shut the door on expanding oil and gas drilling beyond areas that have already been approved for energy exploration, drawing a clear distinction from her counterparts in charge of the Senate.
“This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. “It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
Pelosi’s stand may put her at odds with a growing number of members of the Democratic Caucus who have been moving toward possible compromises with Republicans on ways to expand domestic energy production.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday told reporters that expanded offshore drilling is not off the table, and that Democrats will take a look at whether states should be able to choose to drill off their coasts. “I’m not knee-jerk-opposed to anything,” Reid said.
UPDATE (See-Dubya): Excuse me for re-posting this chart, but…”their policies have produced $4 a gallon gasoline”?
“Their policies?”
“Their policies?”
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Ms. Pelosi; Why do you and your party care so damn FAR more about the welfare of prancing Bambi Caribou and unlikely oily quaking ducks and gulls more than the LIVES of HUMAN U.S. personnel putting it all out to protect the oil supplies which fuels our industry and stores cars and keeps our families warm? Aren’t human lives “pristine” too? You and party wave asserted that supporting oil “really” means feeding overweight self fat cats. Get a life — no get reality, Pelosi! Wind mills and bare-bones conservation AIN’T the way for a country to GROW!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay would be a perfect location for about 100 giant wind turbines (nice wind flow through the Golden Gate). Pelosi, Feinstein, Newsome and the other uber-liberal/snobs in San Francisco and Marin would oppose them, no doubt. Renewable energy source, but it’s a NIMBY thing.
Yes, the dems will gain seats because the republicans don’t have the stones to call them out on this and other issues. They should be screaming at the top of their lungs about it, but it has been left to bloggers and talk radio. Thanks, MM and Rush.
That you and your insane ilk believe that a “potential of 40 billion barrels in the Gulf of Mexico” is all we need to be drilling to increase supply. Science and hard facts on how that 40 billion number estimate came about please? Ocean depths, type of rock formations and rock depth, and instruments used to make this determination would be a nice start. When your done with that
explain the hypocrisy on why it is okay to drill just there and not in all available oil resources that would drastically increase oil supply.
This woman is an idiot. She has no ability to go beyond stupid rhetoric. The Stepford Politician.
Gas in Mexifornia is already over $5. Maybe when it gets to $6, the people in her district will get this idiot out of Congress.
It must be a hoax that drilling in the middle east adds to the oil supply. This is what happens when a politician is beholding to environmental wackos.
On July 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm, drfredc said:
ROVE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!
Pelosi voted “Aye” for Authorization of the use of force in the War on Terror…unfortunately, she thought they said War on Terrior, and thought that a victory would improve the soil quality of her vineyards in the Napa Valley. Doh!!!
I wonder if there’s oil or natural gas in the Napa Valley? Oh, wait…how about bio-fuels from grape waste? It would never happen there. Like her hero, Ted Kennedy, who didn’t want wind turbines disturbing his view, she will not stand for anyone ruining the ambiance of the NV area. Wine rules!!!
I believe these are the dogs of war.
That’s right, Madame Speaker. Let’s spend our time trying to fix the blame instead of fixing the problem.
This will no doubt do wonders for her approval rating. Keep it up, Nancy, you silly old biddie.
Make the speculators actually TAKE DELIVERY of the oil they buy and the price of oil would drop overnight.
Whats that? Don’t have room for 600,000 barrels in your garage….well you can’t buy it then.
nuff said.
I’m guessing someone’s already mentioned this, but I’ll throw it out there anyway. Stupid Pelosi called for oil to be let out of the Strategic Reserve, thus admitting greater supply would lower prices.
Drilling would also create a greater supply, thus lowering prices, but apparently that’s a bad idea. How the f can someone be this g****mn stupid and rise to this level of power?
Or “make the speculators put up 50 percent instead of the 5 they do now. Would help.”
Or do something that does not harm or inconvenience the airlines and other companies who legitimately do this, and makes it not profitable for the people who trade this on paper, and do nothing but drive up the price to get rich.
I think, once again, I’ve wet me knickers. Thanks AlohaGuy
If it wasn’t for the pilot, I’d pray for her private plane back to San Fran to hit the Rockies.
As speaker she couldn’t suck enough. Can we dig up Tip O’Neil? He was a lib, but he would do what’s right for the country in a pinch. All his blue collar constituents from Boston and $4+ gas prices. Tip would do the right thing.
Oh and that deer in headlights look is from plastic surgery. I hope she keeps having them until her ears meet at the back of her head.
I wish I could say I was surprised by the shear stupidity of San Fran Nan, but I think either the botox has eaten away her small weak mind or she is out to commit suicide. It is going to be very interesting what will happen when these over inflated fuel prices start to hit the average voter when it starts to get cold this fall. It will be interesting to see the deer in the headlights look as this vile woman is lynched along with many Congress critters by the jobless, freezing, and hungry mob.
She’s a libtard, and was voted into office by libtards.
Liberals are stupid. They are either willfully obtuse, or just plain ignorant.
When our population is being taught by the likes of lgm, what do you think will be the result? More idiocy, more ignorance, more stupidity.
Atheling,
Please take a look at this site which DougT posted earlier in this thread: Peak Oil Debunked. Lots of good info there.
They have a whole lot of Senators and Congressmen to thank for that. Do not drill, do not build refineries, do not build power plants or mine more coal, now freeze you butt of this winter.
But I am sure the House and Senate will hold hearings with lots of sob stories, maybe even a Hollywood celebrity or two.
TOS:
Bulls***.
Like most libtards, you don’t give a damn about people who can’t afford electric cars and scooters. Do you think that a 70 year old disabled woman on $1,000. a month Social Security can afford new technology?
In other words, your attitude is all about the rich who can embrace new technology and to hell with those who can’t.
What about 3rd world nations who rely on oil and are not as technologically advanced? Do you want to see those people starve because they can’t afford the gas to transport food to them?
We have plenty of oil in the world, and it’s a disgrace and downright evil to with hold it because of you libtards and your Orwellian dreams.
Go jump in a lake.
By hoax, Nancy, do you mean a deception of voters like the one you used to become Speaker in 2006. Remember when you promised voters that you had a common sense plan to lower gas prices? Is that the type of hoax you’re talking about?
If you really believe it’s a hoax, Nancy, call their bluff! Dare Republicans to drill in ANWR and expose their deception to the whole world. Wouldn’t that be worth it? It would allow you to remain in power until you’re older than McCain’s mother – unless, of course, the hoax exposed is the one you and your fellow Democrats are perpetuating.
Why doesn’t someone call Pelosi’s bluff and say, “OK, arguendo, let’s assume more drilling won’t help ”
But encouraging more refineries to be built, by jettisoning the hundreds of regs and NIMBY suits that have stymied their construction the past 30 years, WOULD have an impact in less than five years, WOULD have an impact on gasoline price (both by increasing supply during peak demand periods AND by cutting the costs of transportation and distribution), and WOULD decrease our dependency on foreign gasoline, which we now have to import.
What say you, Madame Speaker”?
I can see the beads of botox-rich sweat along her forehead already….
TheFarSide is like many lefties.
They piously claim to be on the side of the working man, and then—when a pocketbook issue hits the working man really, really hard — they ignore him.
Were McCain not the dotard and dullard he is, he could cakewalk his way to the White House on just this single issue.
We need to hit this story hard 2-3 times a month from now until November. This is a major loser for the democraps, they are clearly on the wrong side of “oil supply” issue.
Nice job Michelle.
Nan from San Fran’s name is HOAX. What a shame, sham, inane, insane, Stepford politician she is.
Don’t forget multi-millionaire thanks to the hubby.
She’s more qualified to be Brownie troop leader than Senator/speaker. She is the turd that won’t flush.
Did you read the posts about Supply & Demand and speculators? That’s what I was pointing you towards.
Just keep going Nancy – we’ll see who controls congress next year!
From the perspective of fifty plus years in the oil business, the liberal blather about not drilling existing leases reveals their ignorance. Companies paid billions for those leases, many have been drilled, some unsuccessfully, others have been downgraded by seismic or are beyond present technical and logistical limits but are under no compulsion to forfeit them.
They are only asking to drill in areas where there are known/probable reserves based on geology and proximity to existing production.
There is no rational environmental reason not to drill ANWR and offshore.
Years ago the surrendercrats ran ads saying the evil Republicans were cutting something or other for seniors…because the program was getting a 5% increase instead of 9% or something like that.
I believe it was Little Dick Gebhardt (thanks BS) who said Republicans wanted to starve seniors and throw them in the street.
Seems with $4.65 per gallon, surrendercrats don’t want those seniors driving down the streets, never mind affording food or health care.
Interesting how things change.
It’d be nice to see some Google (much as I hate those libs) Earth photos of all those known Chinese rigs, and how close they are to our shores.
Is this woman really that ‘effin stupid?
No, no, no. Let Madam Speaker keep talking. She’s shooting herself in the foot and taking her party down with her.
Gas prices are affecting everyone, whether you’re red, blue, or something in between. Pelosi wants to spend her time pointing fingers instead of solving the problem in the most logical way — by letting us find more oil.
Mme. Speaker, we can’t just drop our internal combustion engines overnight. You know that. Until cleaner technology is ready for the masses, admit that we need to drill. Now.
If what your party says is correct and it’ll take ten years to produce oil from new rigs, we’d better get started!
Enough of the paranoid what if’s. Pretend that the oil companies will actually protect the environment the best they can, which they will since they know the government and the environmentalists will be keeping their eyes on them.
Brief aside, but somewhat on topic. Part of this article resembles a point I was trying to make here recently (scroll down to the fifth paragraph). Some of us get it, apparently.
There, fixed it
Pelosi’s “leadership” (little L) as Squeaker of the House is perhaps the biggest Hoax that the Marxists have placed on the American People in decades.
If her constituents want to ride bicycles and pay more for all consumer goods let them. The rest of us have to live in the real world!
Some us live rural and pay more to commute, heat our homes in winter, don’t have public transit, have to move goods to market by truck so the rest of you can eat and take a dim view of her BS!
They’re gonna call their butt buddy Hugo and get him to supply cheap oil.
This should be a lesson for all those who’re considering staying home on election day.
Nancy Pelosi is in the position she is, simply because of voter apathy…Now, that she has the power, you can plainly see how she’s mis-using it to stay in power.
I find it interesting, this blog, while whining and screeching about gas prices, turns on a dime and promotes the same apathy when it comes to McCain.
Funny,
how I get severely chastised and roundly criticised, whenever I tell someone I blindly pull the lever on a straight Republican ticket,
isn’t it.
Only good thing about Pelosi and gas prices is that it’s making a lot of people mad. Hopefully, this will energize opposition to Democrat rule.
Could you please identify what “their policies” have been that have caused the price of gas to spike?
I’m guessing you can’t name any.
No, failure to allow drilling in ANWR is not a Reid-Pelosi policy, it’s a continuation of long-standing policy, and is not a cause of the spike in gas prices.
I think you are confusing correlation with cause-and-effect.
How does Pelosi says this stuff with a straight face??? The only hoax I see going on is the democrats creating an artificial shortage of domestically produced oil, and then complaining that we’re too dependent on foreign oil!
The sheer stupidity of these people is amazing. The MSM lets them get a away with this crap every day.
Is she trying to see how low she can get the approval of congress? Is 9% not low enough.