From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-383220-958034
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner Thursday
called the Democrats' efforts to free up the strategic oil reserve a
"joke."
At his weekly news conference, Boehner, R-Ohio, said Democrats have
been making one excuse after another "for why we can't have more
American-made energy."
Boehner, fresh from trips to Colorado to inspect oil shale reserves
and Alaska where he looked at conditions in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, said tapping those reserves would not lead to
environmental catastrophe.
"The only people standing in the way of this are (House Speaker) Nancy
Pelosi, (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and (Democratic
presidential hopeful) Barack Obama, who are scared to death that their
drilling vote might actually occur and pass the House," Boehner
charged, calling their leadership "negligent."
"And they're blocking this vote because they know it would pass."
Turning to the measure freeing up the strategic oil reserve, Boehner
said: "This bill is a joke. Come on! We're going to take 20 million
barrels of light crude and we're going to exchange it for $20 billion
of heavy crude. This is not an energy bill! This is not going to
produce any more American-made energy. It's not going to bring down
prices. It's just another excuse to avoid having a real vote on the
House floor."