http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/19/senator-boxers-energy-plan-sue-em/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/19/senator-boxers-energy-plan-sue-em/comment-page-1/#comment-65 The Blog @ Spolitics » Democrats on Oil: Crude Lies Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:07:59 +0000 http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/06/19/senator-boxers-energy-plan-sue-em/#comment-65 [...] Try and reconcile this with their other talking point, that there are plenty of ”unused leases” where the oil companies could drill for oil but for some reason, they just don’t want to.  If Democrats like Boxer are to be believed, rather than drill in the U.S., oil companies prefer to drill in places like Nigeria amidst frequent militant violence a greedy government trying to seize more of their profits (okay, the last points isn’t too different from our Democrat congress). [...] [...] Try and reconcile this with their other talking point, that there are plenty of ”unused leases” where the oil companies could drill for oil but for some reason, they just don’t want to.  If Democrats like Boxer are to be believed, rather than drill in the U.S., oil companies prefer to drill in places like Nigeria amidst frequent militant violence a greedy government trying to seize more of their profits (okay, the last points isn’t too different from our Democrat congress). [...]

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