I am thankful we haven't passed an ANWAR drilling package. Why on earth do we want to use up our reserves? Let's keep that in our pockets for when we REALLY need some oil to keep the countries economy from collapsing. Let's not open it up just to jack up Exxon's profits this year.
As we've seen, the oil companies will just continue to shaft us, they aren't going to give us a break because we let them drill in our own back yard. It will just increase their profit margin for a few years, and let their execs retire with a billion dollar compensation package, rather than the measly half billion the last guy got. On 4/26/06, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > McCain would be great - especially if the Republicans lose the > > majority in Congress this next election. That would put the cap on > > spending - however, I still might be willing to abondon that principle > > for McCain as he's a maverick and *hopefully* wouldn't be as much of a > > spineless loser as Bush. > > Let's all learn a lesson right now: regardless of which party is in > office, regardless of what any politician says on the campaign trail, > the government will NEVER spend any less unleless we figure out how to > replace the estabishment without outright revolt. > > It's true no matter what level of government you're looking at. I say > that as a self proclaimed conservative. It doesn't matter which party > holds the house, senate or presidency... if those that have held > office since Nixon was President cannot be shaken into changing things > then things are going to continue as they are already. > > Numerically speaking, if you want <insert your political platform and > goals here> to happen you need to control at LEAST 65-70% of both > houses of Congress. The Presidency helps but with enough > Congressional power any veto can be overruled. > > People don't understand that. Take ANWAR drilling as an example. The > Republican held Congress wanted to allow for drilling in the 90's and > Clinton vetoed it. Congress could not overrule the veto because they > did not have enough votes. When it came up again, the Sentate energy > committee refuled to let the energy bill out of committee with any > mention of ANWAR. If we want to get drilling in ANWAR we will need at > least 65-70% of Congress. > > Which means for both sides of the aisle, we're fscked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:205559 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
