Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is sticking to her guns, firmly rejecting the notion the House solely vote on whether or not to drill offshore. The California Democrat will instead introduce comprehensive energy legislation which includes limiting tax breaks for oil companies and funding alternative, renewable energy with the royalties from new drilling in approved areas. The Republican backed measures for a simple yes or no vote on offshore drilling, sidestepping or ignoring all other energy concerns in the United States for the GOP’s corporate oil sponsors, were described as “a hoax on the American people,” by the Speaker.
The Baltimore-bred, San Francisco Congresswoman went on to tell KQED television’s “This Week in Northern California“:
You want to drill? We want the royalties for the American people, and we want that to pay for renewable energy resources. We want to connect all that together.
We Can Solve It, the climate change advocacy group (they’re against it, FYI) that brought us the 