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Offshore drilling. The equivalent of of a drug addict trying to figure out a new way to cook crack. It’s not where our focus should be and hasn’t been really for over 30 years now. Carter was right. The solution is not to find more of the stuff that we are addicted to (see latest GWB State of the Union address), but to kick the habit and find a better way.
These are probably the reason that John McCain once scolded the “special interests” that wanted offshore drilling leases and he supported a moratorium. Now McCain wants to [...]
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The Republican ones. Of course!
True Majority has teamed up with Oil Change International to let you find out. Transparency good, right? Here are mine:
Let’s see. The only Democrat on the list took less than $5,000 and voted 50/50. Doesn’t sound like influence to me. You? The three Republicans took $390,517 and voted overwhelmingly for the oil industry interests. Still playing the pay for play game I see. When will they learn?
Be sure to plug in your ZIP and get informed!
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Oil drilling rigs offshore of Florida (and only Florida) would be sort of a perfect monument to the Bush administration.
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