US gas prices at the pump have doubled since the Obama took office.
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And despite the fact that 70% of American voters favor increased access to oil and gas resources democrats just killed another Arctic drilling project.
The News Tribune reported, via Orbusmax:
Sen. Maria Cantwell, a longtime opponent of oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has helped defeat the latest Republican plan to open up the refuge for new energy exploration.
The Washington Democrat and member of the Senate Finance Committee raised objections Tuesday when Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch offered a plan that would have allowed drilling rigs into the refuge and protected waters off the coast of Florida and southern California
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.“We all know that gas prices going up are a very big challenge to us and we need to find alternatives to foreign oil,” Cantwell said. “But just drilling more as our strategy to pay for this bill is just not going to get us there….It’s as if we think now that we can go ahead and open up all of the drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.”
Hatch ended up withdrawing his proposal.
Cantwell should be jailed.