Senator Posey Statement on Speaker Pelosi’s Energy Bill

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

For Immediate Release

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Senator Posey Statement on Speaker Pelosi’s Energy Bill

Melbourne, FL – Tuesday night Congress voted on a “no energy” bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi.  Democrats passed Speaker Pelosi’s “bait and switch” energy bill that would impose a permanent ban on drilling for nearly 90% of offshore American oil.  Senator Bill Posey, the Republican nominee for Florida’s 15th Congressional District, issued the following statement:

“Nancy Pelosi’s energy bill does not offer what the American people are demanding and that is a comprehensive energy plan.  Her plan fails to include domestic energy production from ANWR, oil shale, nuclear energy, clean coal and coal-to-liquid technology, and additional refineries.  In addition, the bill tries to dupe the American public by allowing limited drilling off our coasts.  The reality, however, is that the bill actually bans drilling where oil is known to exist and the infrastructure to extract it is already in place.  This is not an energy bill.  It’s just more of the same government regulation that created this mess in the first place.  This does nothing to bring energy prices down.  This does nothing to make us less dependent on foreign energy.  Pelosi and the liberals in Congress just don’t get it.”

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