Lieberman on Gulf spill: "Accidents happen."

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"One of the lead sponsors of the Senate climate and energy bill, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), told reporters today that the Gulf spill would “certainly not lead us to remove” the drilling provisions from the measure.

“This terrible accident is very rare in drilling,” Lieberman said. “I mean, accidents happen, and you learn from them and you try to make sure they don’t happen again.”

Lieberman said he did not think a decision to leave the oil and gas language in the bill would change the vote count for the climate measure.

“Well I hope not,” he said. “I’m sure it will agitate some people. But the whole idea of the bill is to be less dependent on foreign fuel and to be less dependent on fossil fuel generally. And as part of that, the more we can get oil and gas from inside the United States as we transition to total alternative clean energy economy, the better off we are.”

Lieberman said that the climate bill from him and Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) would put an additional restriction on offshore drilling by allowing states to veto drilling within 75 miles of their coasts.

The Deepwater Horizon well is in the waters that would be controlled by Louisiana under this restriction. Neighboring states would not have a veto."

http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/04/majority-leader-harry-reid-d-nv-bp-spill-could-help-senate-pass-energy-bill-and-climate-bill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29

[texastoast]

1. Continued lack of foresight

Disgusting.

[jimlup]

2. Joe is fresh from the Drill Baby Drill crowd... what an ass

[Blue Owl]

3. He is living proof

n/t

[thereismore]

4. Beat me to it! Hahaha. nt

[Walk away]

5. Why does the Senator of Isreal keep show up in Washington? nt

[madmax]

6. Right Joe

shit happens. Somehow you were once picked to be Democrat V.P. candidate.

[Kolesar]

7. I cannot believe that Republicans would get a DU membership just to unrecommend threads like this

Must be shut ins.

[groovedaddy]

8. Yeah, I've had a few accidents in my life. Fortunately, none of them potentially threatened to

destroy a regional economy.