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| Angelo Campanella |
 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:29 pm |
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SEN. HUTCHISON: ANWR is an area the size of the state of South
Carolina. The part that would be drilled is an area the size of JFK
airport or Washington National Airport or Dallas Love Field. It's an
area the size of an airport that would be drilled because the new
technology allows us to drill underground for just hundreds of yards and
you don't have to have a lot of wells to drill anymore. But they're not
acknowledging that. The people of Alaska want this. They have had
referenda. They want the jobs, they want the economic security, and they
know it won't hurt the environment. Yet we cannot get a bill through
Congress that would allow drilling in that small part of ANWR. These
are the kinds of things that just don't make sense when the price of
gasoline is so high.
RUSH: Ah, sadly, they do make sense if you understand Democrats. I
know you do. We're talking, by the way, with Senator Kay Bailey
Hutchison from Texas. Now, yesterday the president made a presentation
on energy and said much of the same thing you just said here; and
Senator Schumer from New York went out and responded to it and said, "If
we started drilling in ANWR today we wouldn't have a drop of oil for ten
years." Well, of course, Bill Clinton vetoed the first time this came
up in 1994. We could have been at this four years according to his
ten-year plan. He also said something that mathematically doesn't make
sense. He said that this million barrels a day that ANWR would produce
would reduce the price of gasoline or oil -- I forget which one he
specified -- by a penny. Well, that's absurd, because when the price of
oil... When we lose a million barrels in the supply, does the price only
go up a penny? They're using scare tactics, here. We need resources.
We need our oil, and you got Schumer out there saying, "No, it wouldn't
matter," and they're misleading people thinking that there's a
substitute for it right around the corner when there's not.
SEN. HUTCHISON: You're right. When President Clinton vetoed ANWR, we
would have been producing. But I totally disagree and reject the
argument that it would be ten years. We could start drilling in ANWR,
and I think within a couple of years you would start seeing the results.
But more important, if we were drilling there and people in the market,
in OPEC -- if the people who are hedging in the market for futures in
this oil industry. If we were drilling in ANWR -- do you think the price
would stay up? No. People would know that there would be an
availability. They would know that there was going to be a real
difference in what we could produce. The one million barrels a day is
the amount we import from Saudi Arabia every day. That's what we would
be getting from our own resources and control it; and that doesn't count
what we could do if we were drilling off the Atlantic and the Pacific,
in environmental safe ways. That's the key. If we took control of our
own destiny, we could become energy independent and self-sufficient and
not depend on places that don't like us very much like Venezuela.
RUSH: All this makes so much sense that we out here don't understand
why it isn't done. We understand the politics of liberalism and the
Democrats trying to create as much chaos as they can for reelection
purposes in November, but they consistently oppose this kind of
independence; despite the fact they're the ones claiming and whining and
moaning how dependent we are. But they're the ones that always stand in
the way of becoming energy independent, and there has to be more to it
than just their own desire for electability. I think it's a little bit
more hideous than that. I know you wouldn't want to comment on that.
But this is really serious stuff to all of us. The price of everything
going up all based on the price of oil and energy. It's all related.
There's an ideological group out there, the environmentalists, who are
get... They're the only ones that are happy with this. They're getting
everything they want out of this. Of course, the people they donate to
and vote for are thus happy about it, too; and the country, in the
meantime, suffers.
SEN. HUTCHISON: Well, Rush, if we would do this -- if the Democrats and
if the people understand this issue enough to force them. If we could
open refineries, make it easier to do so; open nuclear power plants,
which is the cleanest form of energy at the best, most efficient prices
that we could possibly produce it; and drill in ANWR, the Outer
Continental Shelf and deep drilling in the Gulf Coast, we could be a
country that doesn't have to rely on anyone else. I think we need to
make this an issue in this election.
RUSH: I couldn't agree more.
SEN. HUTCHISON: Don't let the Democrats get by with saying, "Oh, it's
just terrible that the price of gasoline is high, and it's the
president's fault." It is not the president's fault. It's the
Democrats in Congress who continue to keep us from drilling in ANWR. We
had almost enough, 60 votes, to pass that last time. We were one vote
short, couldn't get it, and so here we are again.
RUSH: Quick question, last one. I know you have to go. Senator
Obama's running a campaign on "unity" and solving these kind of
problems. Could he bring people together on this, Senator, to renew our
effort to become energy independent?
SEN. HUTCHISON: Well, I haven't seen any ideas yet from the Democrats
that would actually make a difference in our energy independence.
That's the key. It's walking the walk as well as talking the talk.
We've got to have real action which could be done right now in Congress
today. The Democrats are in control of both houses, and yet we can't
even get free trade agreements with Colombia much less an open trade --
RUSH: Oh, that's dead, and that's just to protect the unions.
SEN. HUTCHISON: Well, it's just wrong. We've got to have action, and
we could make a difference in our energy independence -- and we could
certainly make a difference in price, because I think the price of oil
would start falling when the other countries that produce oil see that
we are taking our destiny in our control. I cannot leave before I say
that I listen to you on WBAP when we're home in Dallas. So I hope that
you keep running there so that all these messages get out.
RUSH: Thank you, Senator, very much. I appreciate that. It's nice to
get so much time with you today. We really appreciate it. |
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