Posted by
L Gravel on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:00:00 PM
Fox News reports:
A House subcommittee has 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.
Worldview A says, "if we need stuff (food, shelter, clothing, energy) we should go get it."
Worldview B says, "ahhh, you fool, always looking for simplistic answers to complex problems."
Call me simplistic.
But if you want complex, maybe we should sell Alaska back to the Russians. They would gladly get the oil out of ANWR and sell it back to us.