This past weekend's edition of the Times Picayune's On The Hill has this little blurb about our drunken oil Congressman from LA-01, Steve Scalise:
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, is joining nine other House freshmen on a trip to Alaska this weekend to examine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which he and other Republicans want to open to oil exploration. The freshmen are being led by House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio. Some Democrats have said the plan will do nothing to lower prices because it would be a long time before any oil flowed, but Scalise said he thinks oil development could begin in as soon as three years.
Opening America's coastal waters to oil drilling, as John McCain urged in an address Tuesday, is unlikely to provide Americans with more oil for at least seven to 10 years.
That's the estimate from the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry trade group.
Never mind that WeCanSolveIt Chairman Al Gore outlined the current crisis we face so much better than anyone else out there in a speech to Netroots Nation last weekend:
