Executive Order banning Offshore Drilling rescinded

[The_Sonarman]

Perhaps I'm one of the few who observed this. Just a few minutes ago, President Bush rescinded the Presidential Executive Order banning domestic Offshore Drilling. That means only Congress and Congress's "law" banning domestic Offshore Drilling remains in force. "The Ball is in Congress's Court".

[Rhino]

Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling

President's move viewed as symbolic; Congress needs to repeal ban in order to boost offshore exploration.

July 14, 2008: 11:00 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, the White House said.

The move is largely symbolic because there is also a federal law banning offshore oil drilling. Bush has been pushing Congress to repeal the law, passed in 1981....http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/14/news/economy/bush_drilling.ap/index.htm

[The_Sonarman]

Yes. There's a second "law" banning domestic drilling.... that one passed by Congress.

It's now up to the recalcitrant Congress to take action, or to prevent action.

[Penguin]

While largely symbolic and about 7 years too late, it does help expose to a higher degree our useless apparatchiks (known by some as Congress) and their Stalinist Famine Policy when it comes to energy policy and production.

Bush hands McCain a nice weapon, but since McCain is a total schizo when it comes to energy production, he will do nothing with it. As usual.

[DoctorDoom]

This will achieve nothing, since the RATs are obsessed with making us even more dependent on imported oil, thereby guaranteeing even higher prices and reduced supply, resulting in rationing, with them in charge. They want more power and control, they'll destroy the US to get it, and the dumfux will continuie to elect them.

[BarkleUSA]

...my guess is Congress will remove the law banning offshore drilling - the Democrats are good at sticking their finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing.

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less has 1.3 million signatures and gathering more every day. McCain is behind offshore drilling and I'm sure Obama will come around and pretend he was for it all along (and the MSM will not notice his flip flop).

Plus the environmentalists objection to it is a Red Herring given that 70% of oil washing up on the beaches is natural seepage. Drilling relieves the geo-pressure and therefore reduces the natural seepage (and the oil washing up onshore).

[Beowulf]

...my guess is Congress will remove the law banning offshore drilling - the Democrats are good at sticking their finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing.


No they won't, Barkle. The Democreeps have been saying that U.S. oil companies have access to millions of square miles of off-shore drilling acreage and they'll stick by that claim. Of course, alot of those acres have nothing under them to drill for.

Between that, enviroweenies and the Democreepic insistence that we buy more foreign oil, they won't act. We shall see now how much further their approval ratings go.

[Riverboat]

Let me get this straight: Offshore drilling was prohibited by Congress AND by executive order? And Bush has been in office for almost eight years and he's JUST NOW rescinding an executive order? Who signed the order to begin with? (Yeah, my money's on Clinton.)

It was always the prerogative of Congress to do the right thing all along by overriding the president's order. Let's see if lighting a fire under their feet will speed things along.

"Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool."
Paul Begala, former Clinton advisor, The New York Times, July 5, 1998

"We've switched the rules of the game. We're not trying to do anything legislatively."
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, The Washington Times, June 14, 1999

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Riverboat:
Let me get this straight: Offshore drilling was prohibited by Congress AND by executive order? And Bush has been in office for almost eight years and he's JUST NOW rescinding an executive order? Who signed the order to begin with? (Yeah, my money's on Clinton.)

:unsmile: According to a Fox News caption, it was George H. Bush.

[Riverboat]

Well, somehow, that makes perfect sense.

[Maggie_T]

I agree with all who said that this will make no difference. CONgress - both sides of the aisle - is terrified of econazis. Absolutely terrified.

If McCain decides to do something about this, well, I might, perhaps, on a good-mood day, if everything goes well, give the thought of voting for him 5 minutes of my time.

He won't. McCain is just as terrified as CONgress (being a member of it). He tentatively mumbles something to the effect that we must be oil-independent, and then quickly ducks, just in case liberals heard him.

[Rhino]

:unsmile: According to a Fox News caption, it was George H. Bush.That would be George H. W. Bush, thank you very much! :lol: