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Markey: Cheney-Bush to Big Oil: Can We Get You Anything Else??

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Contact: Select Committee, 202-225-4079 / Cong. Markey office, 202-225-2836
 

Markey: Cheney-Bush to Big Oil: Can We Get You Anything Else??

 
WASHINGTON (July 30, 2008) – In response to the Interior Department’s announcement today that it would solicit comments to develop a new offshore oil and gas leasing program, which could include areas not currently open to drilling, Rep. Edward J. Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming issued the following statement:
 
"The results are in: seven and a half years of the Bush-Cheney energy policy have resulted in $4 gas and a projected $168 billion in profits for their friends in Big Oil this year alone. And today in its final hours, the Bush Administration has formally announced a Going Out of Business Sale of all of our nation's public lands offshore.
 
“While American families are thinking about the beaches where they would most enjoy their summer vacations, the Bush Administration is asking Big Oil to start thinking about the beaches where they would most like to start drilling. Rather than telling Big Oil to come up with a wish list of new public lands to be opened for drilling, the Bush Administration should join Democrats in Congress in telling Big Oil to drill on the 68 million acres of public land they already hold that they are not using.”

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