Politicians see the wisdom of opening up eastern gulf for drilling

NOLA:

Lawmakers urged the Bush administration on Thursday to open an area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico to natural gas development, although the Interior Department has told Florida it considers the area off limits for the time being.

Under an agreement with Gov. Jeb Bush, the Interior Department has said it would not consider a lease sale in the area until at least 2007. Florida opposes development of the area because some of it is within 100 miles of the state's Panhandle region.

At a Senate hearing, Democratic and Republican senators alike urged Interior Secretary Gale Norton to put the area, known as Lease 181, up for sale as soon as possible, arguing that just an announcement of this new supply of gas might help stabilize or reduce natural gas prices.

Prices have soared since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita disrupted much of the Gulf region's gas production. Prices have more than doubled compared to a year ago and are expected to produce huge heating bills this winter across much of the country.

It is ridiculous not to be drilling in this site. The phobic reaction to offshore drilling by some on the left is hurting the country.

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  1. Reliapundit4:56 PM

    i blogged on this in sept:

    http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-and-rita-prove-off-shore-oil.html

    There were NO MAJOR oil spills as a result of platforms being hit by Category 5 winds. ZERO. Therefore, the enviro-nuts - who have been preventing the expansion of off-shore oil-drilling in the Gulf, (mostly off the coast of Florida) - should just SHUT UP, SPLIT and take their alarmist falsehoods with them!

    ALSO: there were NO enviromental disasters as a result of any REFINERIES being hit by the Category 5 storms. Therefore, we should build more refineries on the Gulf Coast (and elsewhere).

    If we had more oil-platforms in the Gulf, them we'd have MORE OIL.
    If we had more refinieries then we'd have more gasoline.
    AND PRICES WOULD COME DOWN.

    High energy prices most adversely effect the poor. If Democrats and Lefties REALLY want to help the poor, then they'd PUSH for more off-shore oil-drilling in the Gulf and more refineries everywhere.

    I believe that the Left will never support more drilling or more refineries in the USA because the Left's IRRATIONAL belief in the possibility of the existence of a "pristine environment" trumps their PHONY advocacy for the poor. ONLY if they come out for more off-shore oil-drilling and more refineries can they can prove me wrong.

    BTW: Jeb Bush ought to show some courage and stop preventing more drilling off the coast of Florida. There are HUGE oil deposits there, and the USA needs them. Jeb Bush has been playing state-politics with this issue - he needs the votes of people who THINK that off-shore oil-drilling is unsafe (and is therefore a threat to Florida's tourist industry -- because they feel that it will lead to oil-spills which would damage their beaches.) Katrina and Rita PROVE this is an unfounded and irrational fear.

    SO LET'S INCREASE GULF DRILLING NOW!

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