Bob McCarty Writes

A pro-drilling grassroots effort launched Sept. 9 appears to have paid off, according to my friends in the oil and gas industry.  This morning, officials with the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service announced the agency is proposing to open new offshore areas to oil and natural gas development in its next five-year plan.
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Oil and natural gas industry officials were cautiously optimistic about their prospects Sept. 23 after House Democrats allowed an offshore drilling ban to expire.  After three and a half months of waiting for assurances from members of Congress, it appears those same officials might be on the verge of seeing their worst fears come true.

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“I do not believe at this point in time that there are any proposals being made to reinstate the moratoria across the board,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) in response to a reporter’s question about his plans regarding a quarter-century-old ban on offshore oil and gas drilling that was lifted last year.

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It seems the groundswell of public outcry was finally heard by the idiots (a.k.a., “House Democrats”) in Washington, D.C.  Late this afternoon, they announced they will finally allow a quarter-century-old offshore drilling ban to expire, according to an Associated Press news alert.
It began on this blog with a July 23 post in which I used [...]

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Oil and gas industry experts described it as a “dry hole” energy bill that “does little to increase oil and natural gas supplies and, in fact, may well result in less domestic production, which would make America more dependent on foreign energy.”  Regardless, the Democrat bill that purports to allow more offshore drilling passed by [...]

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