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SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 10:38 AM
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House suspends Alaska drilling push
Leaders drop Arctic oil proposal from budget bill
Thursday, November 10, 2005; Posted: 10:06 a.m. EST (15:06 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday.

They also dropped from the budget document plans to allow states to authorize oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts -- regions currently under a drilling moratorium.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/09/arctic.refuge.ap/index.html
WildInTheWind
11-10-2005, 11:01 AM
:blob1: :woohoo:
irishgrl
11-10-2005, 11:10 AM
Here's a portion of the email I received from TrueMajority.org:

This is just a quick "thank you" note, in case you haven't already seen the good news. Late last night, the House of Representatives dropped plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

TrueMajority members sent 40,000 messages to Congress over the weekend, insisting that at least this one last wild place be saved for purposes other than filling gas tanks. Despite heavy pressure from deep-pocketed industry lobbyists, your voices were heard. The provision to sink wells into the wildlife refuge has been stripped from the budget bill. Here are a couple of news items with the details: "House Drops ANWR From Budget." Anchorage Daily News, 11/10/2005; "Alaska Drilling Plan Shelved." CBS News, 11/10/2005. There is a chance this bad idea will rise from the grave one more time; if it does, we'll let you know so you can quickly act.

:woohoo:
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 11:11 AM
Here's a portion of the email I received from TrueMajority.org:



:woohoo:

I just got it too. I really love that org, they are excellent. Not as pushy as MoveOn IMO.
Brwn_eyes0511
11-10-2005, 11:12 AM
ugh. :rolleyes:
wondergirl9847
11-10-2005, 11:12 AM
I gotta tell my dad about this, he'll be happy! :)
dissention
11-10-2005, 11:13 AM
I saw that on the DU last night and I've been :blob1: ever since. Great news.
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 11:13 AM
ugh. :rolleyes:

Hehe, bite us!
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 11:14 AM
I saw that on the DU last night and I've been :blob1: ever since. Great news.

:xoxo: I feel giddy. :blob2:
Brwn_eyes0511
11-10-2005, 11:14 AM
Hehe, bite us!

:xoxo: ;).....
irishgrl
11-10-2005, 11:18 AM
ugh. :rolleyes:

you deserve a spanking for that you rascal!
irishgrl
11-10-2005, 11:19 AM
I just got it too. I really love that org, they are excellent. Not as pushy as MoveOn IMO.

Well I like MoveOn, and Im GLAD they're pushy. "Squeaky wheel" and all that...
macfanken
11-10-2005, 11:46 AM
Woohoo! It feels good to win one!! :woohoo:
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 11:59 AM
Well I like MoveOn, and Im GLAD they're pushy. "Squeaky wheel" and all that...

I don't mean pushy with the cause, I mean pushy with the volunteers.
irishgrl
11-10-2005, 12:24 PM
I don't mean pushy with the cause, I mean pushy with the volunteers.
Oh? I didnt know that........guess Im glad I didnt host any of their parties, especially since I dont have any room in my bitty little house.....I wanted to, mind you, but I just didnt think it was feasible.
GypsySorcerer
11-10-2005, 12:41 PM
:blob2: :woohoo: Just got this email.
sparky
11-10-2005, 01:07 PM
:eek:

And that 1 year of gasoline was going to change everything.
dissention
11-10-2005, 01:12 PM
:eek:

And that 1 year of gasoline was going to change everything.

Ha. Even the federal government has said there's only six months worth of oil over there. Did you see the big oil honchos getting grilled by the senate yesterday? Priceless. Barbara Boxer rocks my world.
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 01:14 PM
Oh? I didnt know that........guess Im glad I didnt host any of their parties, especially since I dont have any room in my bitty little house.....I wanted to, mind you, but I just didnt think it was feasible.

Maybe it was just the group I went to but they were pushy and didn't even play the movie. It was supposed to be a movie night! It would have been a good ice breaker. Instead everyone was uncomfortable, no one knew what was going on, and we were all being pressured to sign some paper saying we would do stuff. It was odd.
SuzeQuze
11-10-2005, 01:14 PM
Ha. Even the federal government has said there's only six months worth of oil over there. Did you see the big oil honchos getting grilled by the senate yesterday? Priceless. Barbara Boxer rocks my world.

I didn't but I heard about it. I love that woman.
sparky
11-10-2005, 01:37 PM
Ha. Even the federal government has said there's only six months worth of oil over there. Did you see the big oil honchos getting grilled by the senate yesterday? Priceless. Barbara Boxer rocks my world.

Still...six months. Wouldn't that drastically reduce our dependence on foreign oil ?

Boxer is a tough cookie.
DavidMn
11-10-2005, 03:30 PM
Ha. Even the federal government has said there's only six months worth of oil over there. Did you see the big oil honchos getting grilled by the senate yesterday? Priceless. Barbara Boxer rocks my world.I find Barbara Boxer to be of great integrity. You never hear about trash talk regarding her.