Leftists have blocked U.S. drilling for too long

In 1993, our Congress passed a bill to drill offshore and the Southern U.S. for oil. This bill was vetoed by President Bill Clinton and was not overridden. He set a moratorium of 20 years for drilling, which was a very bad decision against America.

If we were drilling in the U.S. and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and building refineries and pipelines along with atomic plants, we could have been employing over one million workers in the process and in operation of the refineries and plants.

According to Investor's Business Daily, there are roughly 1 trillion barrels of oil contained in shale in the United States and Canada. We have tremendous amounts offshore and in Alaska. Also, we have a very large amount of natural gas offshore.

You would think Washington politicians would want to do something positive to bring down destructive gasoline prices. Instead, Nancy Pelosi has shut down the House of Representatives so that there would be no vote on drilling, and she also had the lights turned off so that CNN couldn't broadcast the Republicans protesting what had happened... [snip]

The president of Mountain States Legal Foundation says it bothers him when he knows that huge deposits of oil are available in the U.S. but politicians such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have blocked our access to it. That's why I am not being unfair when I blame these liberals for high gas prices and our nation's growing dependence on foreign oil...

[we'll be voting on a lot next month...]

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