Oil Pelosi Environmental Lawsuits

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The House passed Pelosi's oil bill.

The result of this bill is no more oil in fact there would be less area and since it's the hardest and most expensive to recover, high prices.

Check you favorite websites for details.

The actual document...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:H.R.6899:

Who voted for it...

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll599.xml

Contact your Congressman today.

http://www.house.gov/

http://www.senate.gov/

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Hastings Calls for Hydropower Fairness in Renewable Energy Standard
Last night the House of Representatives approved a Democrat bill that says no to hydropower as a renewable energy source, while mandating a new 15 percent renewable energy requirement on private utilities.

Congressman Hastings urged his colleagues to oppose the bill, noting that Congress must protect hydropower dams and count hydropower as a renewable energy source.

"Of serious concern are the costly new mandates included in the national Renewable Energy Standard that this bill creates. The Renewable Energy Standard in this bill will increase the power bills of almost every family and business it affects. That's right, the Democrat bill isn't going to lower gas prices but it will increase power bills. Most egregious of all is this new mandate is slanted and biased by saying solar and wind power are renewable under the standard, but that hydropower isn't. This discrimination against hydropower is ridiculous.

Hydropower is the most abundant source of renewable energy in our country. Hydropower is renewable, clean, non-emitting, non-polluting and a reliable energy source. Those are facts. If capturing the sun shining and the wind blowing is renewable energy, then so is water running downhill. But it's not renewable under this sham bill."

- Congressman Hastings

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Bush Will Veto Dem Drilling Bill: Drill, Baby, Drill in Two Weeks

» by Bill Dupray in: Bush, Congress, Democrats, Energy, Law, Liberals
Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives yesterday passed on a party line vote a drilling bill that effectively allows no drilling. She hates drilling, and this bill was solely an attempt to avoid becoming the Former Speaker of the House. The Senate bills aren’t any better. Wherever the House bill would allow limited drilling, say in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Senate bill would forbid it.
The real story is that the Republicans know they are on the winning side of this issue and if they can kill this legislation, the moratorium will expire on September 30, and drilling can begin everywhere. The Dems can expect a filibuster, and, if they get by that, a veto from the President.

No matter what the proposal, it is expected to face a filibuster and no one has yet to predict with certainty that any drilling bill will garner the 60 votes needed to overcome such a roadblock.
The drilling measure passed late Tuesday in a largely party-line vote by the House is unlikely to survive the Senate.
President Bush, who has called for ending the offshore drilling bans, signaled he would veto the legislation if it reached his desk, arguing that it would stifle offshore oil development instead of increasing it.

The Republicans are in the catbird seat on this. They can force the Democrats to either pass an honest (heh) wide-ranging drilling bill or the alternative will be to just let the moratorium expire, in either case, drilling will begin. The Dems will cave, because if the moratorium expires, not only will drilling begin in places that would give them fits, the Republicans can show how they stopped additional Democratic attempts to limit America’s energy options.