Pelosi on Drilling

[softcrab]

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=1teACBS-1cc&feature=user

Incredible as it seems, Nancy Pelosi has NO plans to allow a vote on domestic drilling. I don't recall a more destructive politician in my lifetime.

It is also incredible that our elected representatives follow her lead rather than the wishes of their constituents. 70% of the electorate favor drilling.

[Barefootin]

Californians and other non producing states should pay $7 per gallon and oil producing or refining states should pay $1 per gallon for fuel.
Screw the left and right coasts into accepting reality.

[Bert Rodgers]

Of course the pussies in the Republican party continue to put up a very week fight. We a far more Fd than we know.

Bert

[Seth]

Is there anything more un-American than not allowing a vote on an issue with such interest and potential impact on the U.S.? I do not think so!

[Seth]

Although I despise this publication, there is an excellent article on precisely why we should begin widespread exploration in the U.S.. What is Pelosi thinking and who does she really side with?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michae..._b_110858.html

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Screw that piece of shit ***** she ought to be hung as a traitor. Most worthless sack of shit ever to be elected.

[sjogren]

Can't
Understand
Normal
Thinking

Pelosi

[GALAZIO]

Yep...I figured that one out...

Now, do I think she and Congress NEED TO GO, yep... every one of them.

BUT...

I will not let ol' George off the hook. Afterall, it has only taken the issue to get to this point BEFORE he lifted his "executive whatever" banning the possibility. Now, Congress does the same and blocks WHAT WE WANT.

Left, Right... Republican, Democrat... it is time for ALL OF THEM to go and lets put a Constitutionalist in office and get rid of the fleas.

[Satans_Chariot]

Californians and other non producing states should pay $7 per gallon and oil producing or refining states should pay $1 per gallon for fuel.
Screw the left and right coasts into accepting reality.

You may want to investigate that above statement there. If I recall correctly, California does its fair share of drilling, pumping, shipping, refining. There might even be oil wells in Beverly Hills camouflaged as churches and such. The guys who work there cant walk outside in their work clothes, the have to shine themselves up before they go disturbing the neighborhood. Just a suggestion.

[GALAZIO]

Interesting find regarding Beverly Hills High School:

Owned by the Venoco Oil Company, an oil well on Beverly's campus can easily be seen by drivers heading west on Olympic Boulevard towards Century City. The oil well has drilled most of the oil out of Beverly's campus and has been slant drilling under many homes and apartment buildings in Beverly Hills for decades.
As of May 2006, the Beverly Hills High School well was pumping out 400 to 500 barrels a day, earning the school approximately $300,000 a year in royalties [9].
In the mid-1990s, an art studio volunteered to cover the well, which at that point was solid gray in color, with individual tiles that had been painted by kids with cancer[10]. The studio created the design and drew the lines on the tiles, but children painted the tiles in between the lines. The studio made the design rather abstract: the design consists of random shapes on different-colored backgrounds. A ceremony inaugurating the design was held in 2001.
Beverly gained more notoriety when Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry announced having filed three lawsuits in 2003 and 2004 on behalf of 25, 400, and 300 (respectively) former students who attended Beverly from the 1970s until the 1990s. (The number of actual cancer claims filed in Santa Monica was only ninety-four[11]). The lawsuits claim that toxic fumes from the oil well caused the former students [12] to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma or cancer. The oil well is very close to all of Beverly's sports facilities, including the soccer field, the football field, and the racetrack. Beverly students -- not just athletes but students taking required physical education classes from the 1970s until the 1990s -- were required to run near the oil well. The city, the school district, and the oil companies named as defendants disputed this assertion, claiming that they have conducted air quality tests with results showing that air quality is normal at the high school. [13][14] In 2003, the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine published a "Community Cancer Assessment Regarding Beverly Hills, California" which failed to support Masry's claims.[15]
After receiving complaints about Beverly's oil well, the region’s air-quality agency investigated Venoco Oil (doing business as Veneco, Inc) and in 2003 issued three "notices of violation" regarding the operation of the well. Venoco, Inc's penalty settlement included requirements that the company maintain continuous air quality monitoring at the high school, and prevent any oilfield gas (which is primarily methane gas) from being released into the atmosphere.[16]
On December 12, 2006, the first 12 plaintiffs (of over 1000 total) were dismissed on summary judgment because there was no indication that the contaminant (benzene) caused the diseases involved and the concentrations were hundreds to thousands of times lower than levels associated with any risk. [17] In Fall of 2007, the plaintiffs agreed to pay the School District and the City up to $450,000 for expenses from the lawsuits [18].
The oil well may have inspired a 1991 episode of the sitcom Saved By the Bell titled "Pipe Dreams." In it, oil is discovered at fictional Bayside High School in Pacific Palisades, California. There's excitement about the financial possibilities, but when a company comes in to drill, the character of Jessie realizes that it could be detrimental to the local environment.
In June 2004 Beverly Hills Courier Editor Norma Zager was named "Journalist of the Year" in the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards competition for her coverage of the Erin Brockovich-Edward Masry lawsuit[19]. A book about the oil well and lawsuit, "Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School" by Joy Horowitz was published in July 2007.

HERE'S A QUOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF VENOCO OIL:
"In the Middle East you might have 300 barrels of oil per cubic acre, but in the Los Angeles Basin you might have 4,000 barrels per cubic acre," says Mike Edwards, vice president of Denver-based Venoco Inc., which has 24 active wells in the Beverly Hills area, including one alongside Beverly Hills High School. "In terms of the land that produces oil, the basin is very rich."
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