Arctic drilling dropped from House bill

One might think with the tight energy situation and the prices the way they have been, that even the Donks and RINOs in the House would have woken up and smelled the coffee, and figured out that we could REALLY use some more production. Sadly, this is not the case.

House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday. They also dropped from the budget document plans to allow states to authorize oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts — regions currently under a drilling moratorium.

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