The Environmental Lobby is the ‘true owner’ of the Democrat Party! They use the same old tired arguements to thwart oil production and refinery construction.

Their latest mantra is, “Drill on the 68 million acres of leasholds you currently have.”

Then, when those acres produce a productive well, they find some obtuse reason to block production for ‘environmental damage.’

FOX NEWS provided the following excerpt:  

“Bush recently lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling. He said it’s Congress‘ turn to act.

“The only thing now standing between the American people and the vast oil resources of the Outer Continental Shelf is action from the United States Congress,” he said.

With soaring gas prices, public opinion on energy issues is shifting in favor of a more permissive stance on drilling, even though resistance remains to the idea of opening the Atlantic and Pacific coasts or the eastern Gulf off Florida’s beaches to oil and gas companies.

There is unrelenting GOP pressure to open up the Outer Continental Shelf to exploration, and Bush kept the pressure on during his radio broadcast.

“The need for congressional action is urgent,” he said. “The sooner Congress lifts the ban, the sooner we can get these resources from the ocean floor to the gas pump.”

Democrats say they have a different plan to combat record-high gas prices, but that Bush and the Republicans in Congress are blocking it. They argue that oil companies should drill in about 68 million acres of federal land they have already leased for such use — a move the Democrats say would nearly double U.S. production.”

Lee ADDS: The ‘different plan’ of the Democrats is no ‘plan’ at all, just a tired old arguement designed to allow them to do nothing! The only resolution for us to exercise is to VOTE OUT every Congressperson that opposes oil production and new refineries!