COMPASS: Other points of view
Published: May 27th, 2011 09:30 PM
Last Modified: May 27th, 2011 09:30 PM
Last Modified: May 27th, 2011 09:30 PM
With Americans feeling pain at the pump and Alaskans often suffering from the highest energy prices, the U.S. Senate's response last week was both predictable and doomed.
Democrats offered a proposal to reduce tax incentives for the five largest oil companies while Republicans simply called for more offshore drilling. These narrow proposals failed to provide immediate relief at the pump and would leave coastal states like Alaska without a nickel of the revenue from offshore development.
Neither bill came close to........ http://www.adn.com/2011/05/27/1886921/america-needs-a-sweeping-energy.html