Posted on 07/23/2008 6:56:16 PM PDT by Delacon
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Emergency Petition To Congress: |
The gas crisis threatens to cripple our economy because our nation’s leaders have failed to move America toward energy independence. The first vital step is to expand our domestic capacity. The President has lifted the Executive Order banning additional offshore oil drilling, but Congress continues to drag its feet.
Grassfire is launching this National Petition demanding that Congress lift the legislative and funding ban on Offshore Oil Drilling BEFORE the August recess.
No Summer Holiday For Congress Unless The Offshore Drilling Ban Is Lifted!
Congress’ month-long summer recess is scheduled to begin August 9. Join tens of thousands of citizens who are demanding action by Congress BEFORE they break for summer. In fact, Grassfire is asking members of Congress to PLEDGE to stay in session this summer until the life on offshore drilling ban is passed.
| Petitions will be delivered everyday to Republican and Democratic leadership in Congress. Sign today and demand that the ban is lifted before the Summer Recess. |
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doesn’t matter how many people sign it, congress wants to NOT lift the drilling ban.
signed.
All Hail thy Royal Queen!
you guys just don’t get it. We wont be able to get any oil out of the ground for 10 years!/SARC
Shoot, the cure for cancer is at least 10 years away so it would be STUPID for us to try and find the cure now.
Nice idea, but the LAZY louts have already skipped town!
I like the idea that when they return we get the tar & feathers for them!
I really believe there is nothing left to do but public hangings.
We could probly not get away with that, too many durned lawers in the way to proect their buddies in congress [both houses], but WE can return to the tried & true way of dealing with people like this! Tar & feathers!!
Signed + 5
* Cease all ethanol subsidies. (If an entrepreneur want to “go for it” let ethanol be successful on its own merits with good ‘ol American market forces.) Ethanol takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it. This will create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and will cease regional "boutique" blends (gasohols) which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. Ethanol blends may actually lead to fewer miles to the gallon, and adds to the cost of production and transportation. Newer cars do not need oxygenated fuels.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Refine spent nuke fuel for recycling. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Lift or cap the tax on gasoline. When the tax is higher than the profit margin, the argument over what is “obscene” becomes moot.
* List (chapter and verse) all the regulations and laws that need to be repealed in order to drill, and drill now. Use this list as the new "Contract With America for Energy Security". Have a mega-bill introduced that in one fell swoop removes the self-imposed energy embargo.
If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require fewer RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider the above.
What do the ‘Rats in Congress care about gas prices? Most of them are rich and use government credit cards to pay for the gas in their government provided luxury vehicles.
We may see these items as common sense, but when you add goverment & laywers into the mix, we get a corrupt unmanagable situation. Like the one we now find ourselves currently in!
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
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McCain better break this off in them.
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