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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.

p>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. br> -- Marc Jeric br> Las Vegas, Nevada /p> p> 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." br> -- Stan Welli br> Aurora, Illinois /p>

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