I just received this email acknowledgement regarding our elected representative's position on offshore domestic drilling.
Would someone please step-up to the plate and unseat our other Congressional Representative. We've gotton rid of one bad apple, now the other needs to go.
I've got news for Barbara, we need it all, -(Domestic Offshore Drilling and Renewables) - and the sooner the better. AGAIN . . .WE NEED IT ALL!
She needs to get up off her high horse and take a reality pill.
She has a plan alright, just watch her try and stick-it-to us taxpayers by raising the Federal Gas Tax. The Federal Gas Tax increase is already being proposed by the liberals.
READ ON :
FROM SENATOR MIKULSKI:
Thanks for contacting me about drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and on the Outer Continental Shelf. It's nice to hear from you.
Gas prices are putting a tremendous burden on family budgets at a time when they are already stretched and I agree that we must do much more to become energy independent. But I believe there are many other ways to lower energy costs and lessen dependence on foreign oil.
Drilling off our coasts threatens coastal communities that rely heavily on tourism, while drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would devastate one of our nation's last pure wilderness areas while not adding significantly to our domestic supply. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that it will require 8 to 10 years after opening ANWR before oil is produced from any new leases and it would be 20 years after opening ANWR before oil production reached its peak of only 780,000 barrels per day, an amount that would quickly begin to decline. Drilling in ANWR would not significantly increase total world oil production, impact world oil prices, or bring us anywhere close to producing what we use. The United States consumes a quarter of the world's fossil fuels, but only possesses 3 percent of its reserves.
The United States needs a long-term energy plan that balances traditional sources of energy with alternative energy sources and conservation. That's why I voted to increase the efficiency of cars and trucks (P.L. 110-140) and to suspend the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (S.Amdt.4737) through December 2008.
I am also a cosponsor of the Consumer First Energy Act (S. 3440). This bill would create tough new federal protections to guard against profiteering and market manipulation by oil and gas companies, create a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies reaping record profits, and prevent commodity traders of U.S. crude oil from routing transactions through off-shore markets to evade speculative limits.
While we disagree on this particular issue, I know we share the same goals - lower energy costs and less dependence on foreign oil.
Thanks again for getting in touch with me. If there's anything I can do for you in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me again. Sincerely, Barbara A. MikulskiUnited States Senator P.S. If I can be of further assistance in the future,please visit my website at http://mikulski.senate.govor call my Washington D.C. office at 202-224-4654
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16 comments:
Beazer, better enjoy the temporary reprieve in gas prices because escalating energy cost will be back.
T Boon Pickens recently said that present fuel cost would be shortlived and I've seen it to many times before. Mikulski, Cardin, Pelosi, Franks, Dodd, and the rest of the bunch will definately raise Fed Gas taxes. I've heard about the same rumblings.
she's a wacko and completely out of touch...
the country voted for these liberal losers.. I certainately didn't
We can pay the piper now, or pay the piper later (with a damaged environment to boot).
At least Mikulski sees the handwriting on the wall and is honest about her position.
I'm already working on making my household less oil and gasoline dependent. It isn't easy, either, with the losses we've had.
One point to make is, she also opposes it because she is a strong NASA Wallops Flight Facility supporter, that being said, NASA is against offshore drilling in VA since it could impact rocket launches from Wallops Island. I got nothing bad to say about Mikulski, she has been a strong supporter of NASA WFF, my place of employment.
Merry Chistmas ! Give it a rest.
Too bad the billions of bailout funds can't be given to homeowners to put solar panels on their roofs. This would employ a lot of contractors, who would spend the money made locally. Likewise with all alternative energy projects/ upgrades. I call it the trickle up theory. Then, as demand may go up for fuel when people have a job to go to, the law can let the millions of existing idle oil wells we already have to start pumping.
But, that would make sense.
Reference to 3:03 Post
I've worked at Wallops Island NASA base also.
If there is one thing I've learned while working there it is that you never see Mikulski around until election year. Then she touts that she always touts she is bringing more jobs to Wallops.
While working in the employment section, I've never seen actual employee number increases as a result of her campaigning. In fact, the number of new hires has actually gone down. And the numbers of employees are no where near where they were during WWII or right after the war.
Just wanted to set the record straight.
Is it not traditional means that we are trying to eliminate. Another career Polition that is not in touch with her constituates and has not been for several terms / years. She is looking at her retirement and what is in it for her. Sound familiar?
The MAN said "give it a rest" !!!!
She is just toeing the liberal line like all the minions in the congress. They only do what they are told by Schumer and Reid.
I wonder if our "independent" in the house will be Pelosi's whipping boy or hopefully he will grow a pair. We will see but I have my doubts.
it seems like every idiot who's seen the news wants to pretend he understands the global economy.
you dont. most national leaders dont.
drilling in anwr is not going to lower gas prices or pull us out of the recession. it isnt goign to improve the quality of life at all. that is all just MEDIA LIES that are paid for by the companies who will be profitting from the drilling.
She sent me the EXACT same reply to an email I sent to her back in August. "Let's just keep buying from the radical Islamists and save the planet." You loony leftists should first try to figure out how we're going to get the energy that we need before you just blindly go against anything that is proposed. Start being part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
What happens when some one has conned their way in to office and a person refuses to indorse them. They decide to not pay any taxes that they know will be waisted or stolen. Are they to be placed in jail? And cost the Government more money than the money they have not gotten by the person not paying their taxes. I'm leaning towards this form of protest. Once it cost more than they have been taking only then will they have to listen to the people they are suppose to be representing. I am but one person, and this is the only thing I can do to show my disgruntalness with all the politicians of today. Hell no I won't give them my dough!
9:00 Posting
You are absolutely right. Most of the money spent by America went to the Arabs. And alot of it was then funneled to the terrorist.
We're going to have to learn to enhance our own Domestic production . . .and then we can focus on the Renewables.
She is part of the problem. She needs to go. She has been there to long anyway. She has lost touch with ordinary folks. The posting earlier said that Barbara is for Barbara. And I agree.
Several years ago, oil companies lobbied Congress for a law stating that oil drilled in ANWR would NOT have to be sold in the U.S. and could be sold wherever the highest price could be gotten anywhere in the world. Of course, the law passed. Why was such a law necessary if the oil was to be used in our own country? Now we act like drilling in ANWR automatically means oil to be sold in the U.S. to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I see why the oil companies are keeping the law secret, but the rest of us should wake up. Drill in ANWR, damage the environment and sell the oil for top money anywhere in the world--another sweet deal for the oil companies while the rest of us pressure our legislators into going along with it.
WAY TO GO, BABS!! I agree with her 100%.
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