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Bush looking anew for Alaska oil drilling
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Republican gains in the Senate could give President Bush his best chance yet to achieve his No. 1 energy priority - opening an oil-rich but environmentally sensitive Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling.
If he is successful, it would be a stinging defeat for environmentalists and an energy triumph that eluded Bush his first four years in the White House. A broader agenda that includes reviving nuclear power, preventing blackouts and expanding oil and gas drilling in the Rockies will be more difficult to enact.
Republicans in the House and Senate said this week they plan to push for Alaska refuge drilling legislation early next year, and they predict success, given the 55-44-1 GOP Senate majority in the next Congress. Democrats and some environmental activists say continued protection of the refuge has never been as much in doubt.
"It's probably the best chance we've had," Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., chairman of the House Resources Committee and a vocal drilling advocate, said in an interview.
Man is it just me or have they started early on this one...
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posted by thorrad @ 3:59 PM
3 Comments:
Oh yea I heard about that one. Nothing makes me happier than a president who takes a 1% margin and claims it's a goddamned MANDATE. So Alaska? SEE ya!! Oh and remember the gay marriage thing? Yea, he's really serious. Really.
I believe that you mean that THEY are serious. The entire Republican machine seems to be revving up it's rhetoric engine just waiting to burn rubber all over our civil rights. Makes me crazy...
Awww, I think it's great, really. Just everybody ban together and start denying the most basic of human rights to approx. 10% of the citizenry, and really, I'll bring the beer nuts.
Hi, 14th amendment? Maybe? Naaaaaw, who needs it!!
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