Senate fiddles while America sizzles

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Petroleum and Natural Gas Watch, Vol. 5, Number 5
August 9, 2006
by Michael Vickerman, RENEW Wisconsin

In the midst of the midsummer heat wave that scorched the eastern United States, the Senate voted 71-25 to allow oil and gas drilling in a section of the Gulf of Mexico now off-limits to such activity. During the news conference afterwards, the bill’s champions decided to contribute some hot air of their own to the atmosphere, especially when they began crowing about the bill’s purported effects on oil and natural gas imports.

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