From Hot Air:
Yesterday Hot Air was invited to sit in on a call with Congressmen Doc Hastings (chairman of the Natural Resources Committee) and Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam. The subject of the discussion was three bills being brought to the floor which may, if we can muster the support required, finally break the log jam.
They are:
H.R. 1229 Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act. To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico.
H.R. 1230 Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act. To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1231 Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act. To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural gas production goal, and for other purposes…
That is taking the fight to the President and the Democrats in a big way. It is time for a full court press – a maximum utilization of our oil and natural gas resources as we transition, over a couple generations, to a non-oil economy.
Each additional barrel of oil produced domestically is that much more employment for Americans, that much more American wealth remaining at home, that much less money heading to foreign enemies. The Democrat argument against a major push for oil development is asinine and, really, is only based upon an irrational animus against the use of oil. We dare not allow our nation to be further weakened and bankrupted just because some dimwit in the Obama Administration was snookered by a professor about “Big Oil” in college 20 years ago. It is time for America to turn around and start producing, again.
And this is yet another fight we can win – especially with Obama’s idiotic statement in Brazil about how he hopes the United States will become a big customer for Brazilian oil. We’ve got plentiful ammunition, right on our side and a weakened, dazed Administration to deal with.
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