Kerry on (McBush's) latest offshore drilling proposal: "fraud of a policy"

[ProSense]

06/18/2008

Kerry Responds to Bush's Latest Oil Company Offshore Drilling Giveaway Proposal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. John Kerry today responded to President Bush’s comments on offshore drilling this morning:

“Today President Bush dusted off the worst of the Cheney special interest giveaways that have created record profits for big oil and a 250% increase in gas prices for consumers these last seven years. Selling off our nation’s coastlines to the oil and gas companies won’t make a dent in gas prices. If you started drilling tomorrow, you wouldn’t even see a drop of oil until 2017. President Bush and his new ally John McCain should use a little straight talk and explain why we’re even having this debate when the oil industry has 68 million acres available today that they aren’t developing. This is a fraud of a policy and a false choice. Rather than doing the bidding of the oil companies, we need a serious long-term energy strategy that reduces our dependence on oil and promotes affordable clean energy sources to address the urgent threat of climate change and help consumers.”

[gasperc]

1. 68 million acres

that's alot of unused land those assholes keep hording.

[ProSense]

9. Sure is. n/t

[Texas David]

12. I'm with you gaspric

What the hey are they doing with those 68 million acres anyway. If they don't develop them in the primary lease term, what's that, 5 or 10 years, they should return the leases to the gubberment. Oh wait, that's already required in the lease. All that hoarding, at times of record prices. I wonder why they even bothered drilling 50,000 wells last year and recompleting another 75000. Jeez, those guys, if they were as snart as nancy Pelosi or Nick rahall about oil we wouldn't have to import any oil at all. Anybuddy knows a politician can run an oil company better than a petroleum engineer or a geologist. Wouldn't you want a company to drill your land the day they signed their lease with you rather than wait a few months or years until better geology was found and infrastructure was built? Heck yes!! Drill NOW, the heck with the future. Our leaders should tell them exactly where and when to drill. That way we'll find more oil. Go NICK, GO NANCY!!!!

[groovedaddy]

2. Good for Kerry to call them on this...more oil company scams

and more blame it on the Dems. More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=154997

[napi21]

3. GREAT that several Dems are pointing this out NOW! Rep. Pete

Defazio has been pointing this out on several liberal talk radio shows for a few weeks now, and I've posted it on DU several times. Thom Hartmann asked several guests on his shows about it, and Thom said the Dems NEED to make this CLEAR now because the Pubs are trying really hard to make the high gas prices a Dem problem for the Nov. elections! Defazio said he's going to be speaking about it in the House this week, and I hope Kerry will do so in the Senate! Then I hope lots of Dems will join them in the smack down of the greedy Pubs and expose their scam!

[blm]

7. Dems do NOT back each other up well on these serious issues. It's been 2 decades

I've heard Kerry bring these matters up in the senate. There were too many Dems unwilling to risk their necks on the issue publicly until Gore's Inconvenient Truth became a part of the debate. Still, only a couple handfuls of Dems are knowledgeable and conversant on the subject, and THAT is a shame.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. He should be President.

[malaise]

5. Not good enough

Dems need to point to the recent meetings with McSame and link them to the Cheney secret meetings that set energy policy, the war in Iraq, the saber ratting towards Iran and ask the American people who they believe on matters energy.

[ProSense]

6. Dems can always do more. Glad Kerry is out in front of this particular issue.

John Kerry: McCain: Not So Straight On Energy

[ProSense]

8. A head-scratching debate over energy policy

A head-scratching debate over energy policy

[caffeinefwee]

10. KICK

:kick:

[caffeinefwee]

11. Ties to Bush on offshore drilling may hurt McCain this fall

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As he tries to woo independent voters, Sen. John McCain is relying on his image as a maverick, making it clear he's no President Bush.

But the timing of Bush's support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain's efforts to distance himself from the embattled White House.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/19/bush.mccain.energy/