Democrats' offshore drilling plan would give states nothing

"One big reason congress has not been able to deliver is because of Tom Coburn. He is personally responsible for blocking many, many bills. But hey, it is easier to blame the democrats, right?"

um...how many members of congress are there exactly? Yeah, more of the same from the Obamite partisans.

Your comment is more ironic than you may be aware of. Either that or some highly intelligent person is parodying a typical Bush-Cheney-McCain supporter. Can you clear that up for us? All I can say is if your comments are to be taken literally then I hope every potential independent voter who is still undecided will read your post. If so, you'd better learn to say, "President Obama!"

to drill off shore does not justify the results. That's something Republicans should understand, everyone except George Bush and Dick Cheney of course, who have put this country in trillions of dollars worth of deficit.

Gotta love those democrats. Let's try to appease the population with a back door policy that no one will agree to but claim that we "compromised". Can you say doomed to failure from the start? Why would states not share in the royalties? Pelosi and her socialist party need to go.

Your comment:The answer is creating Research & Development jobs that pay a living wage and will lead to scientific advances that reduce the need for domestic or foreign oil, baby

First, I know of no Minimum Wage R&D jobs, do you? Are they the ones in the back office at Taco Bell? Second, Jimmy Carter, when he signed the windfalls profits tax on oil in the late 70's, stated that we would be OUT OF OIL in 10 years. Well, I guess I found the fountain of oil because my cars have been running just fine since 1989, that would have been the year we were out of oil.

It was R&D BABY that allows us to continue to drill. That one law sent us from 35% imports on oil to 60% imports. Why? Because the oil companies could get it cheaper elsewhere, pay the tax, and still give us 99cent gas. I wonder what would have happened if that law was never in place? And where did all that tax money go? hmmm

is stupid does,this is what you get when all of you folks who voted democrat four years ago,under the notion,that miss nancy,and her incompitant crew of fools,out did the incompitant crew of previous fools,ha!bush may,"suck"in some of your folks eyes,but good greif the democrat controlled house and senate,is beyond "suck"lol!problem is this is the end result of many years of poor politicans making there way to DC.misinformed public,compliments of the ever incompitant media,with the slanted view,and lets not forget the lazy,complacent public,in not comming out to vote!and bam!bottom line folks where to blame just as much as anyone else.

Only someone trying desperately to justify voting Republican would reach for the list of inane reasons that Pathfinder levels as criticisms toward Democrats. I mean Lincoln? Really! Not only would he not recognize the Republican party today, it would NOT embrace his liberal (social engineering) values. Give it a rest. Vote for McSame if you must, but don't put that garbage out there as something real to discourage folks from voting Democratic. I could go on about your other rants too, but then alas, I would be ranting myself.

Yeah, C.B., I agree, but what about that warm a fuzzy feeling you get inside by using wind power and thinking you are helping the environment and "global warming".

I really would like to know the answer to the question that I posed last night and are below! I'll have to guess that backing the democrats that are in office now and chosing to be a democrat has to be a puely gutless choice! I freind once told me that he was a liberal democrat, we talked and afterwards I told him that he was not! He was a Libertarian! That was 5 yrs ago. I personally am registered as a Republican only because the Constitution Party is rarly on the NC ballot.

The point of this particular plan is to help Obama without actually doing anything. They can tell by the polls that this is a big issue with voters but assume the average voter is too dumb/lazy to read the fine print.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that sharing royalties with the states would force Congress to overhaul the entire budget, an impossible task just three weeks before the beginning of a new fiscal year.

So they already have revenue figured in without drilling???

VOTE THE DEMOCRATS OUT!!!
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Republicans scoffed at the explanation, noting that Democrats have not invoked "pay-go" in signing off a multi billion-dollar bailout of mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

The Democrats are bailing out the Mortgage Companies with our TAX money
VOTE THEM OUT AGAIN!!!

I will vote against anyone against increasing our own fuel supply output and allowing our state to benefit out of office. Also, wind energy is an expensive, inefficient joke!!!

Bush has a approval rating somewhere around 30%. Democrat controlled Congress have about 10-15% but you still love them? Pulosi pulls a bait and switch on both parties on this oil drilling and you still love her? One of you big heros is Lincoln but he was a Rep., and you still love him? Dems. were mostly the one blocking the civil rights ammendment but you still back them? Obama has NO experience and has done NOTHING and mostly votes PRESENT, and you love him?
How can anyone with good concience vote democrat?
What the hell is up with that?
I think that the Founding Fathers were right on the money when they set up this great country, only land owners can vote!

What Americans Do Not Need, is 4 more years of not allowing a vote to drill for American oil; Americans can not afford 4 more years of an equal opportunity on the job training program, or 4 more years of Senate hearings on steroids under Pelosi and dems, or 4 more years of democrats under Nancy Pelosi’s no action for Americans. Combine these with the incredibly bad judgment and inexperience of the Junior Senator Barack Hussein Obama and his gray hair mentor shoot from the lip Biden, who clearly represents NO CHANGE for the American people.

What the Americans need is to get off purchasing foreign oil asap and start drilling for new oil and gas plus using all their own new sources of energy now. Because Every 1 year of delay in drilling for USA oil=10 more years dependency on foreign oil, which =20 more years of fighting foreign radical Islamic terrorists paid for by our continued purchase of $700 billion per year in foreign oil.....Keep smiling....

Perhaps a little reading on the ineffiency, unreliability, maintainence and consumer costs would be in order before trying to claim that the Danish are smarter than us by using wind. It is already well documented by the AWEO that Europes wind farms do little to nothing to support electricity demands and that most countries are or have already cancelled subsidies to the industry due to lack of return on investment. Conventional methods of producing electricity have not been even remotely replaced by wind. Actually, trying to shut down or restart conventional plants, at the mercy of the wind, costs more money and produces more green house gases than just leaving them running.

To "what a big suprise", if we had thrown a few bucks down that hole 10 years ago, we may not be having a few of the issues that we are having today. If you have something that will make our lives better without having to depend so much on foreign oil, then add your two cents and stop pointing fingers (it's like the little mouse that wants to put the bell around the cats neck to here it comming, but wants somebody else to due the work) otherwise stop whining and support your countries future and to "its time to vote out the Republicans", stop acting like sheepale and start acting like people/grown adults. Dont just listen to one side and for god sake turn the channel once in awhile and get out of your moms basement. Have eneough sense to due some homework and actually look up and verify what each of the elect have done in and with thier lives (past actions usually will predict/support how they will act in the future). I did my 20 years in Uncle Sams Navy and I would due it again, I have had the chance to travel around this big ball of dirt that "God" let us borrower and I will tell you as so many before me have said, there is no place in the world like the United States, being th

Is it possible to secede from Washington D.C. and the two incompetent, unqualified political parties who claim to be our leaders? If these two groups are our best I sure would hate to see our worst.

is because of Tom Coburn. He is personally responsible for blocking many, many bills. But hey, it is easier to blame the democrats, right?

Energy is the life Blood of this Country and having OUR own Energy Independence is not just an idea, it is a National Security must.

National Security should take precedence over any of the laws preventing this Nation from the Energy needed to make us strong.

There are those that wish to destroy this Nation, and the restriction against using our own Natural Resources is one of the tools they will use against us.

We need a "Manhattan Project" for our own Energy Independence, and true Patriots that will bypass all of the Anti-American laws and Politicians, EnviroNazis,and anyone else keeping us from that Independence.

The poison pill of not letting the States get any of the Royalties from OSD the Democrats want to use regarding Off Shore Drilling is one of the ways of preventing Americans from having the Energy to run this country!

It is up to the Citizen/Patriots to understand who is on our side and who is against us.

This article was so biased that it is alarming. Worse than that it presents itself as news. Has Pat Robertson bought the Pilot? A week or two ago, I heard the whining from the right over an op-ed piece that they thought was slanted (it was, but it was on the editorial page).
I guess any newspaper that allows Kerry Doughtery (sp?) to spew her right wing garbage on the front of the local section needs to be watched carefully for Fox-like right wing presentation of Republican talking points.

...access to more OIL not owned by the Mideast.

Those of us who support domestic drilling are smart enough to know that's not the end-all and be-all of our energy problems, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Anything to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. The idiots in Washington need to stop the bickering and pandering to special interests and do what's right for the American people. If the legislation gives the states the final say on drilling off their respective shores, then the states should be able to get revenue from it, and Nancy Pelosi knows that. She also knows that if the states can't profit, whether the bill passes or not she gets what she wants - no offshore drilling, because the states will only go for drilling if they can reap revenues from it. I still have yet to hear from the liberals who keep chanting "Drilling's not the answer" any plausible alternatives.

It looks like someone invented a car of perpetual motion below. You will inevitably be the richest man in the world. A car that can make it's own power without loss to weight, gears, wind resistance and heat and no hazardous materials is the perfect solution. The reason 'we' can't make this comrade, is because it's impossible to make by newtonian physics. (See Isaac Newton) 'We', 'we', 'we' I wonder how many of my comrades have solar panels on their cars and roofs. 'You' are a free-person in a free country and can put all the solar panels on your roof as you want. A country that taxes the people 60% to put up some windmills doesn't necessarily sound all that smart to me. Drilling IS part of the solution, so let's stop the politicking and finger-pointing and physically impossible ideas and get it done.

is the key to increasing production; IF you believe that supply and demand is causing gas prices to soar. If there were more refinieries that could supply more gas and probably tap into UNTAPPED resevres already at they disposal. The oil companies want an excuse to keep oil prices high. Make no mistake: prices are higher due more to SPECULATION and traders and the key is to control those who are trying to make a profit off a key energy commodity.

Typical democrats.And some people actually want a democratic president.Idiots

Many might say Oil men in the white house but the eight years prior were not nor many years prior to that so that excuse can be put in your pipe and smoked.
Career politicians are the problem, those born and bred for nothing else who have done nothing else. They feel that "politician" is their job and earning as much as possible no matter the means is what is important not the service and well being of their constituants and country.

The French get over 50% of there power from nuclear plants. When was the last nuclear accident in France? Perhaps if all the politicians in DC had shares of a plutonium mine the decision would be different.

"Why are we not putting solar panels on the roofs of every new home/office/school/building etc. etc?"

Because it would add $$$ to the cost of every new home/office/school/building etc. An honest conversation will acknowledge that as a society we want it all but aren't willing to pay for it.

It would cost at least $20K to convert my house to solar (I checked). If you're willing to foot that bill for me, let's talk. Otherwise I'll send my monthly pint of blood to Dominion and enjoy my uninterupted AC on this 90 degree day.

Domestic drilling is not the solution...but it's part of the solution.

Chris33, that is about the most nonsensical statement I have ever seen you write…and you have written a lot of them.
Of course we don’t have Danes in the White House. Duh! This is America, not Denmark.
If you are so enamored with the Dainish culture, you are free to move there.
Stop comparing America with everyone else. This is America, not Europe, not Japan, not France. We respect their cultures, but we have our own. If you don’t like it, there’s the door.
We are a much larger country than Denmark. Do you know how many wind turbines it would take to adequately power 20% of our energy? I don’t know and I figure you don’t know either. But I would be willing to bet that it would be a great deal more than the cell towers that are popping up all over to give you a good mobile signal.
Nuclear, hydro, and clean coal are alternate sources we need more of and are far more efficient than wind.

Drilling is not the answer. My thought is why dont we use the four wheels on our cars as energy producers. Sort of like little windmills that create energy as they roll down the road and that energy is stored in batteries. When you leave the car lot you now become independent of all other energy sources because your car works for its own energy. Why are we not focused on other solutions.
DRILL BABY DRILL is why we are still dependent on oil , we must as a nation find alternative energy or this cycle will be repeated in another 20-30 years just as it did in the 70's.
Why are we not putting solar panels on the roofs of every new home/office/school/building etc. etc.?
Because Big Oil is in charge of the policy decisions and they have no interest in creating a world that is not DEPENDENT on them so that they can RAPE us for all the $$$ that they extort from the world.

The Danes already get 20% of their energy from wind power. Are the Danes smarter than us? Yes. They don't have two oil men in the White House.