Behold: the Democrat Energy Plan
Posted on 08/04/2008 9:08:48 AM PDT by kristinn
It was hard to not get twisted up in pretzel knots listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose explanation on "This Week with George Stepanopoulos" about why she hasn't allowed a vote on Republican energy legislation that would ease restrictions on offshore drilling was, to be polite, confusing.
It may have left some in the audience feeling bewildered as a seabird fouled by an oil spill.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, accused Republicans of being monomaniacal on the drilling issue and of suggesting to voters that drilling would immediately lower gas prices. She wasn't going to play along with something that would mislead voters, she asserted.
Here's the problem with that. Anyone who has listened to the debate has heard House Republicans say they are willing to consider a range of options from the use of renewable energy sources to new alternative fuels to conservation so long as they can get a vote on off-shore drilling.
Evidence for this is found in energy legislation introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, the American Energy Act which includes the language to encourage conservation and alternative-fuels research though it obviously places the stress on getting drilling opened up on the Outer Continental Shelf of the U.S. coasts.
SNIP
So she will allow the American people to be misled, in her view, by Republican legislation that she says only offers the illusion of addressing high gas prices, so long as Republicans are smart enough to figure out how to get their legislation to the floor? That doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what she appeared to say.
(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...
Keep the pressure on!
The longer she holds out, the greater the humiliation when she folds.....
call (800) 965-4701 to Capital Hill and support your Republican Reps who are TAKING their vacation time to STAY and fight for US! I am very proud at this moment of the efforts they are making and we all need to stand up for them because of it.
Since the Democrats took over control of Congress in 2006 oil prices have increased 75 percent, yet there is no proactive policy from the Democrats to reduce oil prices by increasing the domestic supply and nuclear power. When oil prices were at the $2.00 to $2.25 level along with Wal-Mart’s pricing strategy and the Bush tax cuts, inflationary pressures were kept at bay. This gave us 52 months of low unemployment and a steady 3 percent to 4 percent rise in GDP growth and some of the largest tax revenue increases to the federal government, because of steady growth.
Today, the Democratic Congress is in charge holding us hostage worrying about the global warming/CO2 emissions hoax more than growing our economy by more domestic oil production and using those revenues to find cheap alternative energy solutions for the future. We see $4-plus gas prices causing inflation, transferring a massive amount of wealth overseas, wreaking our economy, which will eventually lower tax revenues for the federal government. The Democrats will be only more than happy to raise tax rates with a Democratic president in the White House.
The pending recession causing federal budgetary shortfalls will give them good reason to raise tax rates. The new marginal taxes will only reduce tax revenues further. Will we ever learn?
Bill Russell
Have you sent this image to anyone yet? If not please get it out there...its brilliant!!!
‘...Have you sent this image to anyone yet? If not please get it out there...its brilliant!!!...’
Wish I could take credit for it. It was posted in FR several weeks ago and I ‘borrowed’ a copy. You are right though, it is brilliant.
Ah, Pelosi, the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps now registered democrats will understand what they get for voting these liberal turds into office.
Pelosi Galore is a waste of oxygen.
I thought she was quite clear on the issue. it's because she's trying to "save the world". (snicker)
Pelosi has no right to tell companies that they cannot drill in international waters. If she did, why allow China to drill? We have a 3 mile limit and a 12 mile limit. Other than that they have no right to say we can’t drill 50 miles out. What if we wanted to drill 100 miles out, 500 miles out? Would Pelosi still stop the drilling? Pelosi has to go.
Glowing review! /s
“When the liberal media is calling Pelosi out, you know that”
her days are numbered as Speaker of the House.
I think we have a 200 mile limit as well, which pretty much extends beyond the continental shelf. it’s simply too deep to drill beyond the shelf. The next stop is the mid Atlantic ridge, and the rift is very unstable and risky to drill.
I’ve been trying to call all day
800-965-4701
These guys are heros and we gotta let them know how much we appreciate it
Have not seen anything on tv about it (did call fox)
Plus there are probably some kind of UN enviro-wienie international waters ban on drilling there, or the UN cut is too steep for most oil companies. Who knows for sure...
Dems want high gas prices because they smell all the pork that will go to their “green and alternative” energy programs.
And in the meantime, they will do whatever it takes to increase the price of gas and block any attempt to reverse it. Like blaming energy companies and threats of “windfall” taxes on them. They also politicize this issue by trying to paint themselves as saviors of the planet and that republicans are out to destroy it.
Notice how they recently said that the windfall taxes they want to slap on big oil would go towards alternative energy programs.
The short answer is NO! Nearly half of the American voting public seems to favor socialism over capitalism. It’s easy being a RAT politician in this political environment. Every problem has the exact same solution; increase taxes and regulate the dog snot out of the targeted industry.
Gotta say, Stephy really grilled Pelosi on oil! He did good there...
And this is why very few Republicans are bold in their condemnation of the Dems, imo. They want that pork too!
No, not until:
1) Republicans become fully ‘conservative’ again.
2) Republicans invest in mass media such as the Internet to carry the message and pick up activists. FR is great! But we are outgunned 10 to 1 with liberal blogs.
The brainwashed masses are still convinced it’s all Bush’s fault and do not realize that a Congress and Senate create laws and pass them. The President either just signs or veto’s. That is what American’s need education about, that studying there State Representatives is actually equally as important as to whom the next President will be.
She really has deluded herself into believing she is the leader of the free world. Two points she should ponder:
1) She isn’t.
2) America (besides the inflation we are exporting) is a secondary thought for many countries now. Our global dominance has waned and she doesn’t realize it.
Perfect analysis. This Democratic Congress is the worst ever seen. In 2006, they attempted to strong-arm big pharma for cheaper drugs. Big pharma gave them the finger. Now we see this attempt on big oil. Like big pharma, these companies will just continue moving offshore. How hard would it be to swallow pride and sit down with both industries on win-win scenerios? The Democrat party is out of control.
"George, the environmental radicals pay us a boatload of money to stop oil and gas production. We are not going to do anything to endanger that money. Plus, we know high gas prices fuel voter discontent and desire for change. So, we Democrats say, let chaos reign, it's all Bush's fault! Hey, George, who says you can't fool 'em all the time!"
Congressman Tim Murphy (R - PA) was on Quinn this morning. He says Pelosi’s plan is to return briefly from the present vacation right after Labor Day, and adjourn until after the election relieving the Democrats from going on record in regard to drilling. They can then tell the people back home anything they need to tell them to get re-elected.
100 apples and one buyer, cheap apples.
100 buyers and one apple, expensive apple.
liberal socialist have trouble getting that.
Peloser’s doesn’t want to help fix high gas prices until the election is over (and if her majesty’s man gets in).
Gee Nancy the world price of oil plunged $20 at the mere mention of drilling in the continental shelf and the price at my pump is down almost 50 cents per gallon. Imagine the effect if Congress got off its duff and actually voted to allow drilling offshore and in ANWAR.
Trouble in the wind [even on Cape Cod?]
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Posted on 08/04/2008 9:33:59 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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Posted on 08/04/2008 11:28:56 AM PDT by XR7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056339/posts
In which alternative universe, madam, can the increase in supply NOT put downward pressure on the price of oil?
“”George, the environmental radicals pay us a boatload of money to stop oil and gas production. ‘
More like enviromental front organizations, in part presumably funded by oil exporting nations that want to keep domestic drilling off-limits as long as possible.
Politicians are pragmatic and self-serving for the most (99%?) part, and they aren’t going to let a bunch of greens buy them. They WILL let foreign governments do so, while giving them a good excuse to vote in their benefactor’s interests.
I wish folks would realize the enviromental stuff is in many cases just a bagman.
“The short answer is NO! Nearly half of the American voting public seems to favor socialism over capitalism”
If you get a detailed political philosophy inventory across a broad sample, I am pretty sure it will show the vast majority of americans don’t actually favor republican (small-r) government as it is designed, no matter what they say or think they believe.
I would expect despotism to be popular (benevolent or not), followed by outright police states, communism (animal farm), and classic (non-german) fascism. Certain genocides and mass expulsions would also be popular.
given that it will take years to bring much capacity online from any opened drilling areas, I wouldn’t read too much into the market’s knee-jerks. Sometimes the market just needs a little push to follow a trend, or shake out longs, or whatever...
If you like $4/gal, Thank Nikita Pelosi.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Freepers, you will be amazed at the sensible remarks rebuking Her High-handedness on Huffinton Post. Even the looney left finds supply and demand a reasonable concept, as well as debating laws. Oops, too late. It has been removed.
Thanks for this terrific graph, Islander 7!
LUV W...I’ve been trying to track down the FReeper who kept posting to Quix—something like I’m a big guy—who had access to a million e-mails or something. No luck, tho, scanning those zillion posts! :)
This needs to get out to as many people as possible right away.
Looks like I didn’t read far enough (blush)! I’ve been at this screen too long today!
redgolum or macwow? Those are the two I found...except for
mine! LOL!
Exactly where the Queen wants it...brings in more tax money, you see! That’s all they care about!
Then they will unveil a BOLD...NEW...ENERGY PLAN (aka smoke and mirrors with oil rights for Manhattan Island the Chicago Loop, Stone Mountain Georgia, going on auction) and be hailed by the MSM as our saviors.
But, they will have to do something because gas is only going to get cheaper with more oil coming from our own resources.
Dems have a huge Achilles Heel on this. Can Repubs make the most of it? Some can. Some will. All should.
The only Americans who support Pelosi are most likely the same ones who constitute the truther nuts and all the other leftist wacko conspiratorialists. The facts are in front of them, but they refuse to give in. Because they can’t. It would destroy their socialist dream of a command economy with them in charge of everybody elses lives. Everybody riding bicycles or walking to the fields from their mud huts which would be our homes in their future socialist, non-industrialized America.
Your graphic is priceless!
On one hand, “America's new Nazi” proclaims offshore drilling as only a temporary patch to a planet endangering problem. In the very next breath, she advocates emptying the Strategic Oil Reserve. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but to me the second of those two postulations sounds much more like a “temporary fix”.
When we drain our Strategic Reserve, it's gone, folks, and we're faced with replacing it with $4 a gallon oil! To say nothing of the peril in which it places our nation. The “Reserve” is maintained in case our oil is ever completely cut off, so, yes, its a matter of national security.
I wouldn't doubt but what my Senators, Coburn and Inhofe, are there as well. They may come home to talk to their folks though. Just in case any of them are reading this, I want you to know how very much we appreciate your efforts.
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