Republicans push drilling plan to pay for roads, bridges

[The Straight Story]

Republicans push drilling plan to pay for roads, bridges

House Republican leaders today unveiled a plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the nation’s lands and waters and use the royalties from those projects to pay for better bridges and roads.

Republicans hope to leverage the proposals to boost domestic energy production by tying them to the transportation authorization measure.

The legislation, which is expected to get a House debate and vote before the end of the year, also will give Republicans political talking points — and an alternative to the Obama administration’s jobs and infrastructure proposal — when they head home for a week-long Thanksgiving recess. The Senate rejected a key part of President Barack Obama’s jobs plan — a measure to spend $60 billion on infrastructure projects — earlier this month.

“The president says he wants more money for infrastructure. He also says he supports more American-made energy,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. “So instead of spending more tax dollars on another short-term stimulus that in my opinion won’t work, our bill links job-creating energy production and infrastructure together.”

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/11/17/republicans-push-drilling-plan-to-pay-for-roads-bridges/

[RoccoR5955]

1. What bullshit!

The oil/gas/coal that is extracted from our country DOES NOT EXCLUSIVELY go to the US. It is sold on the international markets. We do not benefit from this, only the corporations do!