OK, Drill. But only where there’s no oil?

Nancy Pelosi supposedly caved in to pressure from the voting public who are mad as hell about $4+ per-gallon gas prices. Madame Speaker is allowing a vote in the House on a so-called compromise energy bill that will allow offshore oil drilling. Just not where there’s any oil to find.

Iain Murray at The Corner on National Review calls the “compromise” bill under debate Energy Gangsterism

Anyone who believes this is a pro-drilling bill is fooling themselves. It allows a tiny amount of drilling while pushing forward all the fever dreams of the anti-energy environmentalist movement. I urge everyone to read Marlo Lewis' post on this from Planet Gore yesterday. Note in particular that the bill will:

• Permanently ban access to about 97 percent of the undersea oil lying within 50 miles of the California coast.
• Continue the ban on energy production in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
• Impose a brand-new ban on oil and gas leases in Alaska’s coastal waters out to 50 miles.
• Not allow states that approve new leases beyond 50 miles to share royalties with the federal government, thus stripping any financial incentive for states to stand up to environmental pressure groups, who will continue to agitate against any new oil and gas operations offshore.

This is not a compromise. It is a sell-out to the anti-energy gangsters.

Now there’s some Pelosi-Obama-style change we can believe in, spare change left in our empty pockets after we gas up. Thanks a bunch, Nancy. If I have to walk, I'll see you at the polls.

If you're not one of 1,478,172 Americans who has signed the Drill Here, Drill Now! petition, do it now.

I heard on Fox News tonight the latest strategy by Pelosi & co. is not to allow any energy bill to pass, but instead let the drilling ban expire in October and then reinstate it after Obama is in the White House and Pelosi and Reid are re-elected leaders of an even bigger Democrat majority in Congress.

But just suppose...