Let’s DO SOMETHING about gas prices says U.S. House of Reps
Today the United States House of Representatives passed a vote that will allow for more exploration of our gas and oil deposits, particularly along coastlines around North Carolina to Maine in the Atlantic Ocean, near Bristol Bay in Alaska, as well as off Southern California’s southern coast lines. In an attempt to raise the oil production goal per day upwards to some three million barrels a day, they voted to reverse the Moratorium Act of President Obama and instruct the Interior Department to proceed with the expansion.
More oil and more jobs for Americans
With soaring gasoline prices in the U.S. there is an ever growing need for adequate supplies along with need to break from our dependence on the Middle East for that valuable commodity. According to Republicans over one million two hundred thousand new jobs would be created once expansion of our supplies were in force and during the next ten years the selling of offshore leases could provide an estimated eight hundred million dollars worth of revenue. There have already been two drilling measures that passed earlier in this month.
Obama administration comes back with their side of the argument
In opposition to the House of Representatives bill voted in the Obama administration issued a statement opposed to that bill and argued the proposal will undermine processes in current use for leasing coastline oil deposits and implement mandates which would deny the affected states from their ability to agree to any such exploration or future drilling.
It’s high time we keep U.S. dollars here in America
Always a philanthropic nation, the United States has nearly always been generous with money in times of need around the world. But the annual donation of trillions of dollars to oil producing nations, particularly those in the Middle East, has left us with empty pocketbooks and suffering from higher and higher costs in food, furniture, electronics, and virtually everything else that is moved by means of fossil fuels today. It just might make the difference between paying $107 per barrel and maybe $16. It’s about time we fight back… and win!
