WEAK POWER BILL
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The
Democrats' Sham Energy Bill:
The bill passed by the House does absolutely nothing to increase oil production -- in fact, it promises to lock up our most productive discoveries for many years to come.
Mr. Tyrrell states, "Ostensibly the bill will allow drilling as
close to our shores as 50 miles in the Atlantic and the
Pacific...." If that is indeed the case, then the bill is
automatically unconstitutional. Congressional jurisdiction does not
go beyond the 12-1/2 mile point off
our shores -- the same goes for state jurisdiction. All areas
beyond that point are in international waters. All this
caterwauling about the "50 mile restriction" is moot. Our oil
exploration firms should give Congress (and states that are not
team players) the "big middle one" and start drilling beyond the
12-1/2 mile point right now. The companies should just swoop right
in and start anchoring their rigs and pipeline right now.
The bottom line is Congress doesn't have to do a damn thing in
order for oil production to ramp up. Congress should just stay the
hell out of the way. The oil companies can simply wait until the
current unconstitutional ban expires on Sept 30. That will give us
the freedom to do whatever we want beyond the 12-1/2 mile point. If
I was Marathon, BP, or any other production company, I would have
my new rigs floating in the high seas ready to be anchored with
drill bits sharpened and ready to go when the clock strikes
midnight in the new fiscal year.
-- Owen H. Carneal, Jr.
Yorktown, Virginia
The oil drilling bill voted on by Pelosi and her Marxist cohorts is worse than a scam -- it is a treason, for the following reasons:
1) The bill will produce no oil -- there is none 50 or more miles offshore.
2) It does not include ANWR -- that small 2000 acres spot of utter polar desolation.
3) Democrat majorities in several states affected will not allow it;.
4) This energy crisis will be prolonged until there is widespread unemployment, collapse of private enterprise, increasing poverty, riots in the cities, etc. -- all of that the prerequisites of the permanent revolutionary Marxist takeover of the government. No such permanent murderous government has ever taken perpetual power in times of peace -- war, depression, poverty, riots are the necessary prerequisites.
As Mr. Tyrrell properly observes, the so-called
environmentalists will engage our courts in the hands of those many
Carter- and Clinton-appointed judges who will stop whatever
drilling may result for many years to come. The United States is
the only country in the civilized world where one can sue anybody
with no cost attached to the loser. That is why we have some 1.1
million lawyers here where for example Japan gets by with 10,000,
Germany with 15,000, and Great Britain with only 8,000 -- in those
countries the loser automatically pays all the costs. These costs
include not only those incurred by the defendant's legal team but
also the costs of the courts, the costs of the defendant's lost
production, the damages to its reputation, and a myriad of other
direct and indirect losses such as a fall in the enterprise shares
in the stock market.
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada
Democratic obstructionists claim, "It would take ten years before
any oil production would become available." However, they've been
saying that for 25 years. The bogus energy bill that Nancy Pelosi
and the Democrats pushed through the House this week will make that
a self-fulfilling prophecy. With this "legislation" Ms. Pelosi and
her cohorts have put racing silks on a goat and renamed it "Seattle
Slew."
-- Stan Welli
Aurora, Illinois
Mr. Tyrrell's argument for more oil drilling to reduce gas prices, or the "lift" on environmental challenges so oil drilling can take place, is precisely what's wrong with the country today. Oil companies and the politicians they support have a monopoly on the energy market. Everyone knows it. An, swipes at Pelosi are hollow when Tyrrell invokes that elusive poll claiming that 70% of Americans want offshore drilling. That poll is dead wrong. It's the opposite. Seventy percent of Americans do NOT support offshore drilling if it will not lower their gas prices.
We are simply tired of oil spills that no wants to clean up. And just because you're a Republican or an Oil man doesn't give you the right to trash out OUR PLANET.
Thank you
-- Grace
HATE MONGERING
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