OC/Riverside Congressman Ken Calvert lead the effort among the nineteen CA Republican Members of Congress last week to push Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on an energy bill that includes domestic oil drilling off the Outer Continental Shelf as part of an all-of-the-above solution.
Seventeen of the nineteen CA GOP lawmakers joined Calvert and signed the letter (below).
Calvert who has shown leadership on the issue of energy independence also launched a web page www.alloftheaboveenergy.org that urges voters to sign a petition to Speaker Pelosi.
California State Legislators should pay attention to this too because the letter also highlights the prospects for the State of California to see a big windfall from the sale of this newly pumped oil off our coast. I bet there are a few Democrat legislators who would ‘sell out the environment’ for another couple billion in state revenues to play with.