Let’s Drill in San Francisco Bay (Updated)
led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, they are offering a mix of proposals that would allow drilling, with the waters off Massachusetts, Virginia, and Georgia most likely to be the first affected.
Environmentalists and industry analysts disagree over the impact the various legislative proposals would have on oil production, with industry experts contending that the most precious reserves still would be off-limits. But both sides agree that because of the politics of $4-a-gallon gasoline this summer and a pending legislative deadline, the nearly 40-year drilling ban is in jeopardy.
Off of Massacusetts? One of the most beautiful coastlines in America? Screw that.
Here’s a suggestion: since Nancy Pelosi likes the idea of drilling so much (even though it’s all political theatre and won’t have any effect on the price of gas), let’s drill in San Francisco Bay. It’s already polluted. It’s filled with raw sewage and you can’t swim in it. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to eat fish caught in the Bay. Drill in San Francisco: keep your derricks out of New England, Nancy.
UPDATE: Nancy talks out of both sides of her mouth:
“This comprehensive energy legislation is the result of serious compromising among Democrats to bring down gas prices now and invest in a renewable future. Republicans must set aside their ‘drill only’ policy; even their own supporters have said we cannot drill ourselves out of this emergency situation.
“It will come down to this when it comes to energy. Whose side are you on? The side of the American consumer and the taxpayer, or Big Oil?
“If they want to drill offshore we say, ‘Okay, if you want to drill on the outer continental shelf, let’s have a discussion and a change of the relationship between our oil, which is owned by the American people, the desire of Big Oil for us to subsidize their drilling, and us not to, the American people not getting the benefit of the profits.’ So more drilling, no subsidies, and we want our royalties, in order to pay for investments in renewable energy resources, make a strong commitment to LIHEAP and the land and conservation fund, something like that.
“And if you oppose that, what are you saying? ‘I’m for drilling and for subsidized Big Oil and I want all of the profits to go to Big Oil, and I don’t want to visit this relationship of getting the funds that we are owed from the royalties of holidays in the late 90s.
Given that we KNOW more drilling won’t help (see link above), someone needs to ask Nancy Pelosi whose side she’s on.
