Just when you thought things can't get any worse, they get worse - just when you thought congress was at the bottom of the pit on common sense, they found they can dig deeper.
What are these people using for brains? Are they totally clueless on what it takes to run our economy? Where have they been for the last twenty years?
Get on the phone and write your congressmen, woman, and let them know it's time to develop sound energy policy that reflect real time situations - da - $4/gal gas. Inform them if they think it is best that we need to suffer for the next ten years under the burden of crushing oil prices while they kowtow to the environmentalists nut jobs, they should seriously think about some other line of work. Vote them out!!!
The laughing is over - time to get serious about providing for our future -
Call and write now while keeping the faith, you will then know the battle is joined!
Senate panel retains oil-shale moratorium
By M.E. Sprengelmeyer
Rocky Mountain News Originally published 03:20 p.m., May 15, 2008 Updated 03:21 p.m., May 15, 2008Gov.
Bill Ritter and Assistant Interior Secretary C. Stephen Allred testify today on oil-shale resources before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington.
Associated Press
The Senate Appropriations Committee today narrowly defeated Sen. Wayne Allard's attempt to end a moratorium related to oil shale development in Colorado. It was a big day for Colorado energy issues on Capitol Hill as Gov. Bill Ritter testified before a senate committee asking lawmakers to move cautiously on oil-shale development until more is known about the environmental impact and other issues.
Meanwhile downstairs, the appropriations committee was considering a massive Emergency Supplemental Spending Bill. Allard, a member of the committee, attempted to insert an amendment that would reverse the moratorium that lawmakers approved late last year.
The moratorium prevents the Department of Interior from issuing regulations so that oil companies can move forward on oil-shale projects in Colorado and Utah. Allard said the moratorium has left uncertainties at a time when companies need to move forward and in the long term make the United States more energy independent.
"If we are really serious about reducing pain at the pump, this is a vote that would make a difference in people's lives," Allard argued. But in a 14-15 vote, the committee spilt strictly on party lines and rejected the amendment.
One of the key votes was from Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who said Sen. Ken Salazar had urged her to reject the amendment even though she personally thinks the moratorium on oil-shale development is unjust. Landrieu vowed to try to lift the moratorium when the large appropriations bill reaches the floor of the U.S. Senate in coming weeks.
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