Domenici on ANWR defeat

For Immediate Release
December 21, 2005 Contact: Marnie Funk (202) 224-6977
Angela Harper (202) 224-7875

ANWR Defeat a Blow to American Consumers and U.S. Energy Security
Domenici will work to include ANWR in '07 Budget Resolution

Washington, D.C. – Chairman Pete V. Domenici today expressed keen disappointment over the Senate’s failure to invoke cloture on the DoD Appropriations Act, which includes a provision to develop U.S. oil resources in the Arctic.

Chairman Domenici issued the following statement:


"Today’s vote is a blow to American consumers worried about gasoline prices. It is a blow to U.S. energy security. I fear our gasoline prices will begin climbing again next year and I’m certain our reliance on foreign oil will continue to climb in the coming years if we don’t act soon to produce more of our own oil.

"This issue is too important to our consumers and our economy to accept defeat. We will try again. I will seek to include an ANWR provision in the budget resolution next spring just as we did this year. I will work to keep it in the budget reconciliation and hope for a more favorable outcome in the House. ANWR remains one of my top priorities. Developing more of our own energy is the right thing to do for our economy, our consumers and our security. I'm not walking away from this challenge."

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energy.senate.gov

they weren't gonna sell all that gas to u.s. citizens anyway.

what the fuck -- how many barrels are allocated for export -- it's a bunch anyway.

of whatever makes its way to the lower 48 in twenty years.

It's the only game they know how to play. Are people ever going to wake up???

Production ain't the problem, asshole. We already use 1/3 of the world's energy. The problem is glutonous consumption.

All these fuckers need to be leading in the renewable energy direction. The oil lobbyists want to hear none of it.

What a bunch of idiots.

and when the Saudis run out of oil, we can sell them some. Maybe not.

Why not pass a law that says all the oil currently being taken out of Alaska must go to American refineries and be sold in the United States? Because as it is, a great deal of that oil is going to the Asian market, where the oil companies (who made $10 billion profit and more last quarter) can sell it for a higher price than they get in America.

Seems like a simple solution to me. That is, if you're as concerned about the American consumer as your press release claims you are.

then democrats will be in charge and ANWR issue will disappear for awhile.