Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Posted on 07/04/2008 6:10:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Five-point energy proposal may lower gas prices in near future
5-point plan aims to help rid nation of 'oil addiction'
By Kevin Clark | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
10:07 PM EDT, July 3, 2008
DEERFIELD BEACH - U.S. Rep. Ron Klein announced a "Declaration of Energy Independence" Thursday, a plan he hopes to push through Congress that he says will help the country with what he calls an "addiction to oil."
Klein, D- Boca Raton, thinks the plan, unveiled at a news conference, , could work to lower gas prices in the near future.
The five-point plan consists of:
• Imposing criminal penalties for gas price gougers;
• Stopping speculation that drives up oil prices;
• Demanding oil companies drill all the land they control but are not drilling before leasing new federal land;
• Expanding clean energy tax;
• Investing in research for affordable energy.
"Let's use American innovation and a sort-of Manhattan Project thinking," Klein said, referring to the 1940s effort that developed the atomic bomb. "Let's find the answers to these problems, and there's a science-based solution to them."
Klein particularly attacked a proposal for oil drilling off the Florida coast, saying the benefits wouldn't be realized for five to 10 years.
The Hill newspaper in Washington reported Wednesday that Klein owned between $1,000 and $15,000 in stock in Hornbeck Offshore Services, which doesn't drill but provides equipment such as tugboats to the drillers.
Klein also called for taking away subsidies from oil companies and possibly putting them toward challenge grants for scientists for alternative energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
This guy is just proposing all the dem talking points that their minions have been sent out to spew on the nightly shows.
BTW, they’re happy we now have high oil prices and believe they will lead us to oil alternatives. If this were true, the historically high fuel costs in Europe would have already done this, but they haven’t.
We need to drill now, drill everywhere.
This silly 5-point scheme is guaranteed to have no effect whatever upon the supply of oil, thus the price of oil. All of the twisting and contorting to avoid expanding our own exploration is becoming laughable.
I don’t know what this idiot is smoking but he needs to stop or share.
His plan is no plan, throw him in the ocean.
Yes, drill all the leases with zero prospects identified, that'll use up the drilling budgets so there won't be any money to drill the better quality acreage, that's the ticket !
This talk of an energy “Manhattan Project” is absurd. There was well-understood and -developed science behind the Manhattan project. There’s nothing of the sort waiting in the wings to replace existing energy systems.
This would cause an inordinate number of dry holes, not to mention that many promising locations are not drilled because of the restrictions and prohibitions that still must be overcome to be able to drill on land already leased. Price gouging strictures would be de facto price controls and will, in enacted, dry pu the oil supply because the oilcos will know that their profits and some more will be extracted from them by the government. with "gouging" as the excuse. At the very least it will tie up the oilcos in litigation as every lefty group goes to court to sue because of every fluctuation in price.
"Nationalization" was not just a slip of the tongue or of the brain. It is in the minds of most of the Democrats and the left in general. And in a few months they will control Congress and perhaps the presidency.
And, the sooner we beging drilling, the closer we will be to that point where new supplies can help to alleviate the current conditions.
We have the means and the resources to be independent of ALL foreign oil. Unfortunately, we also have the LibTard Tree Huggers, Enviro-Whackos and the DhimmiRats standing in the way.
The only Manhattan project we need is the one to put these idiots on the sidelines until the rest of us secure the country, again...
Wow. Klein is so smart! Genius!!!
Forget free markets, he has all of the answers.
All in all, quite a program.
The World is addicted to and runs on oil and oil products. Get used to it or go back to the caves, enjoy raw food, bad teeth, poor health, freezing cold winters and blazing hot summers which will be lived in DARKNESS!
I truly hope that you are right, but I still see November 4 as being a very good day for Democratic Party increases at every level throughout most of the U.S.! Please have me be wrong about this prediction!
Congress should demand that the tooth fairy put an extra $5,000 under everyone’s pillow. That will solve the energy problem.
We’re all addicted to food, water and air. Wanna stop using all those, too, in the name of conservation?
how does he stop international speculation?
BTW, isn't this the guy who narrowly won his seat against a write-in candidate in 2006?
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress in Nov.
Pray for W and Our Troops
To the liberals who insist that drilling now in ANWR and the continental shelf will take 10 years to begin to deliver oil to the market I say,
Do you think oil will be less expensive in 10 years?
Do you think we will need less oil in 10 years?
Only if we are in a depression that would make the 1930's look like boom years.
Drill Here, Drill Now!
This is so illogical I don't understand how every media outlet keeps saying this with a straight face.
If the oil companies were not drilling leases that had oil, because they wanted to restrict the amount of oil and drive up the prices, how would it "punish" them to prevent additional federal oil leases? Doesn't that in fact keep MORE land off the list of land being drilled for oil?
It's not like there are another dozen oil companies who WANT to drill but are being locked out because all the leases are taken already.
And wait -- if there WERE actually a dozen more oil companies who had no leases, and who were being locked out, and THAT was the point of this rule, wouldn't it make sense to open up new land for leasing, but only allow the new companies to drill it? Of course, there aren't any such companies.
So logically, this move by the Democrats simply restricts the government from earning more lease money, and holds land away from oil companies who the Democrats say aren't drilling the land they have -- thus leaving the additional lands undrilled.
If the republicans were smart, they would introduce legislation to remove ALL restrictions on the existing federally leased land, so the oil companies could “drill all the leases they haven’t drilled”, and thus give us the 4.6 million barrels of oil the Democrats say they want the oil companies to drill.
Why?
If Clinton had not vetoed the budget bill Republicans sent him in 95 that allowed for drilling in ANWR, we’d be using ANWR oil right now. Thanks, Bill Clinton. We can’t let him get by with this.
Fitting he represents ‘Mouth of the ‘RAT’, FL.
Another ‘D’ in the bag for the loonies.
We have a ready alternate, partly or wholly as a result of the first Manhattan project - nuclear. This isn't directly applicable as a replacement for all the uses of oil, but it is a great start, along with drilling lots of holes.
The anti-Bush, anti-Republican Party, anti-conservatism, and dumbed down sheeple populations are very large throughout the U.S., and, unfortunately, many of these same groups of people do vote on election day. They all see Obama as a savior with all of the solutions to all of the issues, and nothing anyone does will truly change their views of Obama no matter how much Obama may screw up prior to November 4.
I have every confidence the pubs will snatch defeat from the hands of victory.
They just don't know how to fight and refuse to learn.
The President could and should be banging the dims over this oil 'crisis'. But he won't and we will take the blame.
I think we already know the answers to those questions.
Fencepost, you've won your intelligence contest!
What's Bush done to expand oil production in the USA....what has any republican done to expand oil production in the USA? What has Bush or the republicans done to expand nuclear energy in the USA? Other than throwing $$$ to ADM they haven't done a damn thing.
When it comes to energy production for the USA both Bush and the republican elected Congress have been as worthless as tits on a boar.
This “invest in renewable energy” is ridiculous.
Solar power projects on federal lands are on hold because environmentalists sued for more impact studies.
Wind power off the Massachusetts cape is on hold because Kennedy needs a pristine beach view.
Hydroelectric projects are threatened to save non-threatened fish or so Native Americans can have a couple more fishing jobs.
Geothermal is illegal in the places it would work best (Yellowstone national park).
Liberals are hobbling the renewable energy projects we have. Why more research? So they have something else to oppose?
Yes. One station charges $4.01 and another station, 100 yards away, is charging $4.05. THAT'S gouging.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
They don’t care how hot the American people are about this ... and we ARE. Arabs must be making it worth their while.
Another PRIME example of why the 535 people of Congress deserve to be in the welfare line if not prison!
The fault truly remains with ALL of Congress from BOTH major political parties, and their fault on this issue goes back to the ‘70’s when the last oil refinery was built in 1976 and while environmentalists were given too much political clout on this issue from then on!
“We’re all addicted to food, water and air. Wanna stop using all those, too, in the name of conservation?”
Thank you. It needed to be said again.
“This jackass’s first four points will just ensure greater employment for government lawyers. The fifth one was tried by Jimmie Carter back in 1979 or 1980 and it was a failure. The only plan that will work is (1) “Drill Here, Drill Now” and (2) “Build More Refineries Now.””
You forgot to add (3) “Build nuclear power plants”
I very much concur. But almost no one on the Left that is talking “Manhattan Project”, implies nuclear when they’re doing so. They’re talking Faerie Dust Energy - Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Tides, etc. None of these so-called environmentally friendly sources is going to power our society, or even a significant fraction of it, any time soon.
And the Greens and the Left have gotten us so hamstrung with environmental regulation that even these sources aren’t considered environmentally acceptable. Windmills kill too many birds and the NIMBYs can’t even see them on the horizon (re: the Cape Cod windmill farm that was stopped). Even new solar installations have been stopped for a time for environmental reasons:
U.S. temporarily halts new solar projects
BUREAU TO STUDY IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037396/posts
The Greens and the Left (among whom I include some portion of the Rs) are going to stop rational resource development until there is serious pain felt and people start to wake up and apply political pressure. This would all be a lot easier if we could get started now.
This is all pure rat droppings.
The five-point plan consists of:
• Imposing criminal penalties for gas price gougers; Every time the rats have investigated “gas gouging” they have only succeeded in showing the world how little they understand about the free market system.
• Stopping speculation that drives up oil prices;
We don’t do things like this in America comrade. We couldn’t anyway. The world trades in oil futures jackass, not Wall Street alone.
• Demanding oil companies drill all the land they control but are not drilling before leasing new federal land;
This is a new and creative rat lie to keep us tied up and on our way to destruction. The price of oil is now so high that any company that had oil and could drill free of government interference would be doing so. Also a sign of the foolish rat lack of understanding of how the real non socialist world works: Just have the lease doesn’t mean oil is under your ground.
• Expanding clean energy tax;
Taxing us! Now there’s a fresh rat idea if there ever was one!
• Investing in research for affordable energy.
All rat plans come with this on pre printed as the final point. It is designed to be the final chance to fool a dim wit reading or listening to this bull shiite. Notice the soft edged language. The rat always talks like this so he can constantly move the goal posts.
Alan West must be scoring points against this scumbag for him to respond with this gibberish.
This Rat should be drawn and quartered for pushing shch drivel. He breathes too much of our air
Klein particularly attacked a proposal for oil drilling off the Florida coast, saying the benefits wouldn’t be realized for five to 10 years
Pardon me Klein, but the EPA has just put a moratorium on solar energy to “study” its environmental effects for the next two years. Let’s see...study two years ...another several years to build, connect, new infrastructure. Uhmm...it is the same time frame that you claim it will take to bring drilling back online in the United States.
Others claim your statement is a myth of timing in epic proportions.
Drill here, Drill now.
Again, why? I'm not arguing with you. I'm trying to disect this as to WHY this is true. We know it's not based on substance so what is the motivation?
As a sideline, we live on a fairly large private lake and the place was packed yesterday. It is against covenant rules to post any political signs but yesterday I noticed a "HOPE" sign placed prominently along the lake. I called lake security and they took it down.
It's just like arrogant Democrats to believe they do not have to abide by the same rules that govern the rest of us.
Oops! You are absolutely correct. I shouldn’t have left that out.
Earlier this year I thought the gop and McCain would win in landslides. But over the last few months they’re acted in such a brain-dead way I can’t see them turning things around in 4 months. The oil issue should be a big winner, a defining issue in the campaign. But McCain and the gop leadership are failing to drive this issue down the throats of the democrats. They need to stand up and say everyday, every time they’re in front of a camera that we have trillions of barrels of oil that we can’t touch because of the liberals. That if we could win a world war in 4 years, we can provide for our energy needs in 4 years. If the liberals would get out of the way.
They may be able to stop American speculators from gaming the price of oil (doubtful) but how will they stop the rest of the world?
“Faerie dust energy” I like it.
I think the left is so filled with self hate they really wants us dead, or living in caves with no heat or light.
“Oops! You are absolutely correct. I shouldn’t have left that out.”
With all the things we have to fight liberals on, it is not surprising that we occasionally forget something.
Must have been Klein’s turn to foster the next DNC proposal.
You’ve got that right. I made some comments to a guy on a Human Event Online energy thread who was just brimming with hate and BDS. It was pretty amazing. No ideas for energy solutions, just hate for the political right, America is evil, etc.
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