WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to open up more U.S. coastal waters to oil exploration.
Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., spearheaded the effort. His proposal would open up U.S. waters between 50 and 200 miles off shore for drilling. The first 50 miles off shore would be left alone.
But the plan failed Wednesday on a 9-6, party-line vote in a House appropriations subcommittee, which was considering the proposal as part of an Interior Department spending package.
With record oil prices and gas prices projected to hover around the $4 mark for the rest of the summer, Republicans have ratcheted up their efforts to open up oil exploration along U.S. coastline. But the long-sought change has so far been unsuccessful.
Most offshore oil production and exploration has been banned since a federal law passed in 1981.
Remember this come November when Obama and his democrat partners in crime are out begging for votes.
Remember it because anyone voting for these lowlifes is an enabler who gives up the right to bitch about the price of gasoline and it is our duty to REMIND these cretins every chance we get.
A decade ago the dems were saying that gas was just too cheap and something should be done about it. Well, something was done and they won. And I don't really know how I'll control myself the next time some liberal asshole complains in my presence about the soaring cost of fuel.
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