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House GOP offers Americans false hope, failed policies, and eco-havoc
Memo calling for increased offshore drilling and shale development |
Joseph Romm |
22 Jul 2008 |
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| I have received the text of an Alice-in-Wonderland memo (below) that House Republican leaders will circulate today on legislation they plan to offer. It claims: To increase the supply American-made energy in environmentally sound ways, the legislation will: * Open our deep water ocean resources, which will provide an additional 3 million barrels of oil per day;* Open the Arctic coastal plain, which will provide an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day; an ... |
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| Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, gas prices, oil and gas drilling, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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