Blanco is bucking an industry she generally has favored, and risks the ire of Washington, which is providing billions of dollars in reconstruction money to her storm-racked state. Even so, she says she will try to block the August auction of offshore oil properties in the western Gulf unless the federal government agrees to help restore the state’s wetlands, which scientists say are disappearing at an alarming rate.Of course she backed down.
I think it would have really rallied the people if she had said "Don't want to give us our share, we'll show you $100 a barrel oil." And then do it. And it's not "stealing from the federal treasury," as congressional leaders said before the storm, think the rest of the country would get it by now.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/06/05/475/http://news.yahoo.com/s/wdsu/20061201/lo_wdsu/10435372http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/4667501.htmlhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/02/10/us_should_share_oil_royalties_with_states__shell/
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