Pelosi Condemns Offshore Drilling as "Hoax" Solution

More of this, please:

"This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration" Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. "It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline."

Pelosi’s stand may put her at odds with a growing number of members of the Democratic Caucus who have been moving toward possible compromises with Republicans on ways to expand domestic energy production.

And less of this:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday told reporters that expanded offshore drilling is not off the table, and that Democrats will take a look at whether states should be able to choose to drill off their coasts. "I’m not knee-jerk-opposed to anything," Reid said.

As Devilstower noted yesterday:

• Oil companies already hold over 7,000 leases for offshore drilling that stretch over 68 million acres.
• US Oil Production peaked in 1974 and no amount of drilling will reverse that trend or eliminate imports of oil.
• Drilling close to US shores has been the source of environmental disaster and that drilling the areas proposed this time threatens both scenic and environmentally sensitive areas.
• Drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge won't affect oil prices at all in the short term, and will have very little impact in the long term.