In today's edition of the New York Times, there's an article about the House Republicans not passing the energy bill because it DOES NOT allow for further off shore drilling on America's coastlines.
PLUS
Another article about an oil spill on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The effect on the area’s economy was thought to be significant, with this city’s port estimating a loss of at least $100,000 a day and probably more the river remained closed, and petrochemical facilities dependent on it for shipping were threatened with a bottleneck, the Coast Guard said. Some suburbs stopped drawing drinking water from the river.
Juxtapose with this quote about the Republican effort to allow drilling off
the coast again from Sen Larry Craig (yes, that Larry Craig)
“What we know is that where we were allowed to drill, down in the Gulf of Mexico, that’s where a majority of our current oil supplies are coming from, even in the deep water,” Mr. Craig said. “But off the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida, it’s: ‘No. Heck, no.’ The politics won’t let us go there.”
And you got yourself a boatload of congressional ironies.
More on the spill here.
More on the morons here.
Happy reading!
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