Bush offshore drilling plan hits wave of opposition in California

California

California's top 'leaders' made it clear Monday that they want nothing to do with President Bush's plan to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling.

Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil," ... "The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of [functionally empty, oil wise] public lands and coastal areas."

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer: Bush was "taking special-interest government to a new level" and "will do not one thing to lower gas prices for the American people," Boxer said. "This proposal is something you'd expect from an oil company CEO, not the president of the United States."

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the president was "deluding the American public" into believing that new offshore drilling is a quick fix to $4-per-gallon gasoline. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she said. "We cannot drill our way out of this problem."

[the land of fruits and nuts. seriously, this degree of disinformation is insulting: they're lying to our faces on every point - the only question is if any will ever be held accountable for it...]

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