The oil shale plan will not lower gas prices. With people hurting from high fuel costs, the oil industry has been posting record profits, and pushing for everything on its wish list under the banner of lowering prices. They want to grab every lease they can so they can turn public lands into a tradable asset they can shop around.
Giving the bully your lunch money won't make him go away, and giving away our environment and resources won't save you a dime at the pump.
I am often critical of Sen. Salazar, but in this case it looks like he is leading the charge to protect Colorado. Bruce Alpert in the Louisiana Times-Picayune gives us part of the story that reveals an interesting trade-off between votes on shale experimentation and on more proven but still troubling options.
The Kennedy campaign is citing Landrieu's deciding committee vote in May against a Republican proposal to end a moratorium on oil shale production -- extracting oil from fine-grained sedimentary rock through heat or a chemical process.
"Sen. Landrieu is wrong on this issue," Kennedy said Thursday during an interview on WRNO-FM radio.Landrieu said she voted against the proposal in committee at the request of Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., whose state has the largest shale reserves, and that she had a good reason to do so. Salazar was a key Democratic supporter who helped pass 2006 legislation opening 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil production that will mean billions of dollars in royalty revenue for Louisiana and other producing states, Landrieu said.
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