Political Games

Bush: Energy Plan

06/23/2008

President Bush Wants To Rescind Executive Order Signed By His Father.

By: Jacque

“This is difficult time for many American families”

“Rising gasoline prices and economic uncertainty can effect everything from what food parents put on the table to where they go on vacation.”

President Bush

In his Saturday radio address, President Bush blamed Democrats for high gas prices.  According to Bush, the Democrats in Congress are blocking his energy proposals.  Bush wants Congress to lift it’s ban on offshore drilling.  There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one by executive order signed by his father in 1990 and the other imposed by Congress.  Even Bush’s brother Jeb opposed offshore drilling when he was govenor in Florida. 

Bush says that offshore drilling has the potential of yielding 18 billion barrels of oil.  According to Congress, oil companies already have 68 million acres of federal land and water under lease, outside the ban area, that  are not being developed. 

Perhaps Bush should revisit his “energy plan”.  As for the rest of us, we will continue to search for and utilize alternatives to oil energy.