These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.
Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors.
Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.
It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.
I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the big energy companies, and the consumers get lumps of coal. There's really nothing to cheer about by anyone who gets a utility bill or has to fill up a gas tank. The energy lobbyists are the big winners, and the rest of us are left in the dust choking.
It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.
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