House Democrats Call for Nationalization of Refineries

foxnews.com ^ | June 18, 2008

[Free ThinkerNY]

Urgent: House Democrats call for nationalization of refineries

Per Pergram-Capitol Hill

House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.

Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

They also reasserted that the reason the Appropriations Committee markup (where the vote on the amendment to lift the ban) was cancelled so they could focus on preparing the supplemental Iraq spending bill for tomorrow.

At an off-camera briefing, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the same. And a senior Republican House Appropriations Committee aide adds that "there were multiple reasons for the postponement" including discussion on the supplemental. But the aide said there was the thought that Democrats may wish to avoid a debate today on energy amendments.

Here are the highlights from briefing

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most-ardent opponents of off-shore drilling

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We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.

Hinchey on why they postponed the Appropriations markup

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I think there aren't enough votes for the Peterson amendment. It wasn't taken up (the Interior spending bill) because of the omnibus Appropriations bill. That's the main focus of the Appropriations Committee.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)

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They (Republicans) have a one-trick pony approach.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Chairman of the Resources Committee

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You cannot drill your way out of this.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), chairman of the House Select Committee on Global Warming

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The White House has become a ventriloquist for the oil and gas energy.

[coloradan]

I call for the nationalization of the restaurant serving the Senate. Oh wait, that was a money losing boondoggle so they privatized it to make it work better. Now, what were we talking about again?

[John123]

the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

Huh?

[Savage Beast]

The Democrat Party has become overtly Marxist.

[Don Carlos]

Hugo Chavez will be proud of you, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)!

[Tzimisce]

Wow - so this is their solution to high gas prices? Stealing? And it’s so nice they’re giving themselves the power to do it. :D How wonderful.

[nuconvert]

Well, they want change and Communism would be change.

[Tzimisce]

Wow - so this is their solution to high gas prices? Stealing? And it’s so nice they’re giving themselves the power to do it. :D How wonderful.

[ncfool]

all i can say is drill here and drill now.

[Mygirlsmom]

They're getting desperate. The American public has figured them out and they'll have to move quick to stop those "one trick pony" Republican ideas from being proved correct.

Again.

[Dog Gone]

Just nationalize everything in the USSA.

Maybe a Reagan will appear in France someday to take us down.

Heeyaw.

[Steely Tom]

This is a win-win for them.

It’s boob-bait for the bubbas, and if it gets enough momentum to be serious, it’ll tip the financial markets into a panic and touch off a deep recession.

Both are good news for the party of entropy.

[utherdoul]

What happened to the good old days when people who made these types of proposals were blacklisted and driven underground?

[Army Air Corps]

The same folks who ran the post office want to run the oil industry - sheesh.

[Bender2]

[TLI]

They're getting desperate. The American public has figured them out

Yep.

Nutjob Nancypants Pelosi is bleating on about "Americans (that) are suffering under the Bush-Cheney-McCain policies that were written by Big Oil" and how "we possess less than 2 percent of the world’s supply."

Harry Reid is monkey-hooting "we cannot drill our way out" and the "huge tax breaks President Bush and Republican Congresses have given oil and gas companies to invest in refineries" that the liberal enviro-whackjobs will not allow to be built.

I wonder what is next, screeching and throwing their turds into the observation balcony?

[mohresearcher]

Here for all the world to see is the neo-Marxism wing of the Democratic party on the verge of completely destroying our economy for the sake of destroying President Bush’s legacy. Our country desperately needs to “Drill Here NOW!” and yet the neo-Marxists and evironmental wackos are doing everything to deny Americans gasoline needed to get to work and keep food coming to grocery store shelves. It is a classic communist control tactic to starve the masses in order to destroy any opposition to a communist takeover of our government.

Also 30% of last year’s corn is being diverted from food to 3% of our need for gasoline, at great cost to taxpayers in the form of subsidies. Let’s face it: prudence demands that with this year’s corn crop lost to flood waters in Iowa, no more corn should be allowed to be converted to fuel.

[Spirochete]

Democrats present themselves as the solution to a problem they created. This was their plan all along.

[Publius]

The same folks who run Amtrak want to run the oil industry.

[Steely Tom]

I wonder what is next, screeching and throwing their turds into the observation balcony?

LOL!