if at first you don't suceed..kick that horse again and again and again

May 26, 2006

House passes legislation to drill in Arctic Refuge ... again

Here we go again: for the 947th time, the House has passed legislation that

would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Less than six months

before congressional elections, House Republicans are desperate to show they're

doing something about high gas prices. Of course, that something is largely

symbolic, as the measure is likely to crash and burn in the Senate. The bill

passed 225-201; 30 Republicans voted against drilling, but were balanced out by

27 Democrats who voted in favor. The drilling measure's chief sponsor,

California Republican Richard Pombo (who else?), thundered at Democrats, " You've

got this pie-in-the-sky [idea] that we're going to invent a 100-mile-per-gallon

carburetor, and all of a sudden our problems are going to go away. " He's right,

you know. Our problems won't go away until we drill in the refuge and gas prices

drop. By a penny. In a decade.

straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Richard Simon, 26 May 2006

What's gonna happen when the buses don't run

and what's gonna happen when the, winter comes

what are you gonna do,

what are you gonna do

when the oil runs out?

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