Cheney blames soaring energy prices on Clinton vetoing ANWR digging in '90's

[sabra]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080324-8.html

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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, one thing to remember here is there aren't any short-term solutions about energy. It takes a long time to bring on additional capacity. Now if we had acted back in the '90s on ANWR, when Congress approved it twice but Bill Clinton vetoed it, we'd have an additional million barrels a day of production today online that would have a big impact on prices in the United States. But that decision got made back in the '90s that we weren't going to do that, so we don't have that million barrels a day. That means we're having to import that equivalent, and that makes us more vulnerable to foreign prices. But the idea that there's some switch you can turn and next week gasoline prices are going to drop, that's not really the way the world works. It takes a long time and huge investments to expand your capacity.

[RB TexLa]

1. He'd be much better off if he used the western Gulf of Mexico instead

really wouldn't lower prices, but creates jobs.

[B Calm]

2. The oil they drill off PUBLIC LAND right now in Alaska is going overseas

and with no benefit whatsoever to the tax payers, who's oil they're getting for free!

[marmar]

3. Why has Darth re-emerged from the Death Star this week and polluted TV with his visage?

Then again, I'd rather know where this beast is at all times. When he goes underground, be very afraid.

[Red Zelda]

4. Everything he says is a lie

[bdamomma]

11. he really has a vendetta against the United States

he should be proclaimed as an "enemy of the state".

they called him "moby dick" on the PBS special last nite. sickening, he is only a man.

[spanone]

5. FUDC

[rateyes]

6. And, I blame them on the secret energy task force of Cheney's.

[B Calm]

7. The republican war in Iraq, where shortly after the price of gas skyrocketed!

[rateyes]

8. That was probably part of the energy policy.

[Bandit]

9. Didn't he also say in 2000 that we would have to build a new refinery

every week for ten years to ease the "crisis" we were in and that was why California was being bilked for billions of dollars..Cheney has no credebility so why do people even bother? :shrug:

[bdamomma]

10. why doesn't cheney just open a vein, and inject oil in his veins.

[lpbk2713]

12. BushCo is now down to the twenty percenters.

They know they can say anything they want now and the twenty percenters will believe it.

The rest of the country knows BushCo is a pack of thieves and liars and BushCo doesn't

even try convincing them any more because they know it is useless to try.

[Gman]

13. What a cheap shot

that arrogant bastard conveniently ignores the likelihood that at least 60% and maybe as much as 75% of that 1 million barrels would be exported because it has more value being exported probably to China with the US dollar at such a pathetic low than it does being refined here.

[Smith_3]

14. "In case of emergency, it was Clinton's fault!" nt

[Jennicut]

15. The oil in Alaska would barely help-according to a study done in 2004

In 2004, the Energy Information Administration did a study that said openeing ANWR would only lower oil prices by about 50 cents a barrel. Our dependence on oil is too high for Alaska's oil to make a difference:


WASHINGTON - Opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil development would only slightly reduce America’s dependence on imports and would lower oil prices by less than 50 cents a barrel, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the Energy Department.

The report, issued by the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, said that if Congress gave the go-ahead to pump oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the crude could begin flowing by 2013 and reach a peak of 876,000 barrels a day by 2025.

But even at peak production, the EIA analysis said, the United States would still have to import two-thirds of its oil, as opposed to an expected 70 percent if the refuge’s oil remained off the market.

[IDemo]

16. Cheney's an oilman and knows this perfectly well. He's blowing smoke.

Sulfurous smelling smoke.

[Winterblues]

17. If Republicans would have voted to put money into Alternative Energy in 1992

We wouldn't need ANWR oil nor OPEC oil either. We would be able to get by just fine on Canadian and Mexican oil and that usage would shrink the more we develop alternative energy. Some Scandinavian countries have been using energy created from tidal action for quite some time now. Spain gets the majority of it's energy from alternative sources. America is decades behind Europe on this issue and it is 100% Republican's fault.

[B Calm]

20. Jimmy Carter tried the same thing back in the 70s. Then Reagan came into power!

and the rest is history!

[Ishoutandscream2]

18. Damn, the Clenis did it again

It wields such power, doesn't it?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Bill Clinton is to "Blame-O" again?

It is simply amazing the amount of things which Clinton is allegedly responsible for or has had some kind of direct (or indirect) role in. One might think that he has been running some kind of "shadow government" during the past 7-8 years that has caused all of Bush/Cheney's problems. Maybe he was pulling their strings to get them to invade/occupy Iraq too? There seems to be no end to his obsession with causing Bush/Cheney's multiple failures in leadership, accountability, etc. and can you imagine how he was able to set everything up so perfectly before he left office in 2001?

This, from the party of "personal responsibility".
:eyes:

[magellan]

21. No mention of McCain's January '08 vow not to drill in ANWR?

Tsk tsk, Darth, you disingenuous tub of fermented lard.

[Amonester]

22. How is that impeachment resolution going these days?

Any update? (Paging John Conyers) (Paging John Conyers)