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House Democrats Call for Nationalization of Refineries
foxnews.com ^ | June 18, 2008

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; energy; nakedcommunist; rahmemanuel; refinery
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To: Free ThinkerNY
With thee U.S. government running the postal service do you ever wonder why UPS and FedEx made it so big.
41 posted on 06/18/2008 7:57:05 PM PDT by kempo (c)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We (the government) should own the refineries.""

. Lets see how fast the refineries register their headquaters in another country with their functional equipment, leaving the old stuff here. Halliburton moved to Dubai because of the RATs. They have to leave on those great big freighter ships.

42 posted on 06/18/2008 7:57:45 PM PDT by BobS
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To: Savage Beast; Free ThinkerNY; freekitty; oswegodeee; gonzo; romanesq; justiceseeker93; lonestar; ...

I guess American Revolution II is brewing to win our independence from Liberal dictators. Is it time for another Boston Tea Party?????


43 posted on 06/18/2008 7:59:27 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: TLI
I wonder what is next, screeching and throwing their turds into the observation balcony?


44 posted on 06/18/2008 8:00:34 PM PDT by tapatio
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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

Yeah, it is called saving this country. Also nationalizing the refineries will not produce another drop of oil. These people are complete morons.


45 posted on 06/18/2008 8:01:12 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dear Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),

Feel free to have the government raise the capital by means other than taxation/fees and use that money to build as many refineries as possible. Buy your oil on the open market, refine it, then sell it at your own stations. You may not subsidize the costs nor ignore laws, environmental or otherwise, that constrain private companies. Also, you may not pass laws that benefit the government unless those laws also benefit private businesses.

You give that a try and let us know how it works out. Compete in a free market and see just how fast private enterprise kicks your lazy bureaucratic asses. Stupid twit.

Also, if your “business” fails, we reserve the right to exile you and anyone involved to whatever socialist nirvana (cuba, n korea, venezuela) will take you.


46 posted on 06/18/2008 8:03:46 PM PDT by Liberty 275
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To: TLI

Is that Woody Allen?


47 posted on 06/18/2008 8:05:03 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: kempo
'cause USPS handles mail and FedEx and UPS handle packages. Plus, they don't deliver everywhere.

Little secret for you, the Mob in New York is so tough USPS is the express service of necessity there.

Department of Justice controls that situation. Wonder what they get out of it.

48 posted on 06/18/2008 8:11:13 PM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Here's the video on YouTube.
49 posted on 06/18/2008 8:13:23 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Is this tagline governed by McCain-Feingold?)
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To: Publius
The same folks who run Amtrak want to run the oil industry.

Fortunately, they could get help from the efficiency experts in the Post Office.

50 posted on 06/18/2008 8:14:41 PM PDT by CommerceComet
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market."

Bad. Very bad. This is nothing more than a ploy to usurp more power and control over the people. If the government has control over the flow of oil, who is to say that it cannot use that leverage as a means of control or extortion. This will be the beginning of a soviet-society...a neo-Marxist era

51 posted on 06/18/2008 8:18:15 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
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To: John123

The refineries have very little to do with the price of gas, except, no refineries, no gas.

The Bolshecrat play book is that higher energy costs will force the public to sign on to their alternative clean sources. We have seen the success ethanol is. Junior has express dismay at how fast gas has gone up, not that it is too high. He will experience higher prices in his first term and that would mean no congress or second term. This will force him in his first congressional term raise taxes to subsidize the cost of gasoline, so that people will think he is doing something to bring down the price. Rationing will not be out of the question, but, that puts his failure into a form that people can see and feel. If he wants a second, if not a first, term he will go along with drilling.

The biggest problem the Bolshies have is their slavery to the environmental lobby. Windmills are suppose to be one of their great hopes. But, like everything else they do, they let the environmentalists dictate where. And, that is nowhere. Fat Ted won’t let them put windmills off Cape Cod.


52 posted on 06/18/2008 8:19:08 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, where patriotism is replacing the stars in the flag with hammers and sickles.)
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To: muawiyah

Democrats should nationalize OPEC. Seriously, I don’t see how refineries are even making money. I looked at what you get out of a barrel of oil, as far as what all you can distill out of it, and they can’t be making a killer profit out of the refining.


53 posted on 06/18/2008 8:19:33 PM PDT by Perchant
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To: ExTexasRedhead

the rats are just following on of their heroes lead and Chavez is doing such a fine job at destroying the Venezuelan oil industry.


54 posted on 06/18/2008 8:22:41 PM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
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To: Savage Beast
The Democrat Party has become overtly Marxist.

You're right; they're blatant about it. They think they've succeeded in totally propagandizing the memory of Joe McCarthy, but they haven't.

I just wish the GOP were as outspoken and militant as the dimlibs, but they're so wimped out they continually let the Bolsheviks get away with their garbage.

55 posted on 06/18/2008 8:24:22 PM PDT by Marauder (What this country needs is more unemployed politicians - Edward Langley)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh yeah, government running the refinieries is really going to get things straightened out. Always does. Look at the DMV. Your local metro system? Health Care? Border control?

The refineries are NOT the problem. They are running at near capacity. We are importing gasoline as well as oil because we can’t refine enough oil. We need more refineries, and we need to reduce the number of fuel blends from 20+ to 2 or 3.


56 posted on 06/18/2008 8:26:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Hmm...state ownership of the means of production. I know I've heard that one somewhere...somewhere...let's see, where was that? Might have been the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by that young feller Karl Marx. Yeah, that was it.
57 posted on 06/18/2008 8:26:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SouthTexas; freekitty; Piquaboy

Who needs foreign enemies when we have home grown ones sucking the life out of America in DC? This is going to come as a major shock to the clueless sheeple.


58 posted on 06/18/2008 8:26:47 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of industries.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1824


59 posted on 06/18/2008 8:28:10 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared

Exxon has their petrol stations up for sale...they could buy them now.


60 posted on 06/18/2008 8:30:08 PM PDT by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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