Posted on 06/18/2008 7:31:24 PM PDT by 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.
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With the rising costs of flying, they’ll want to take over the airlines too. And btw - my natural gas bill and electricity bill have gone up. Are they going to propose having the gov’t take them over also?
Maybe they should get on the horn to Chavez, Khamenei, Putin, Kim Jung-il, etc and get some pointers.
This is the same bunch of clowns who can’t even run a restaurant, get anything done in Congress, or keep their hands out of the till. And we should trust them with this? Gas will cost us $100/gal. within a year.
That thought should scare the crap out of every American.
I call for the recall of the Deomocrats calling for socialization of our oil comapnies.
How about the government does not get jack until they can run their own business responsibly to the tax payers. They can start with Social Security.
For some of them, that would mark an improvement in their behavior.
Am-sky.
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Bingo...
Drill here! Drill now!
Flabbergasted.
A South American cartoon dictator couldn’t have come up with a better solution.
Give the goobers in the gooberment a chance and they will prove that only they can lose money owning a refinery.
Before we do anything rash like nationalizing refineries, or a government-run single payer health care system, lets see how they do with a government run, single-payer legal system first. :-)
If that is all that they did perhaps the grownups in the room could work on the multi-facetted total energy approach to actually solve the problem.
These demokrat clowns are just confirming what we already knew. Their party and Congress are being run by this genius.
If they actually do this, or even continue to suggest it, it may well be time to grab our pitchforks and head to Washington DC. This idea is so dangerous, so destructive, that we should and must be willing to do whatever is necessary to stop it.
In effect, if Obama gets in office, you'll see nationalization of health and energy within the first two years, and the Federal Government essentially directly controlling 51% of the economy. We WILL be a Communist nation at that point, and the takeover will be complete.
The Central Government will be directly responsible for over half our GDP - one of every two dollars spent in this nation - effectively controlling the majority of this land, and you can bet the rules will be quickly gamed to keep the Donks in perpetual party as the Central Party.
Of course, a few FReepers can be smug in their knowledge that they "stuck to their principles" and didn't vote for McCain. Thank you, comrades!
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