Posted on 06/26/2009 1:14:40 PM PDT by ianschwartz
The Hill: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said that Republicans' opposition to the climate change bill scheduled for a vote this afternoon benefits the oil-rich companies, which have been accused of funneling some of that money to terrorist groups.
"Ahmadinejad, the Saudi Kingdom — they want exactly what my Republican friends are advocating," Weiner said on the floor during the debate ahead of this afternoon's vote. "We can't come to the floor and say I'm outraged at what's going on in Iran…and then come to the floor and continue the policies that are paying for them!" Weiner added.
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He’s not called Weiner for nothin’.
Oh, the eeeeeeeeeeevil oil companies AGAIN....
If their so concerned about oil money going to the Middle East, then why don’t they let us DRILL HERE and DRILL NOW?????
We have got BILLIONS of barrels of oil and TRILLIONS of cubic feet of natural gas in ANWR, other parts of Alaska, all around Alaska, along all of our coasts, and in the shale fields out west.
We can sustain ourselves for a loooooooooooong time, but these clowns in DC are too stupid to realize that.
Well, that’s a new twist.
If someone told me there was a more useless group of 500 people anywhere in the world than our Congress, I'd have to call them a liar!
So drill here drill now. Problem solved.
War with Hitler should not hinge on whether on not we needed coal and sauerkraut.
Flaming GD idiot. Yeah, the normal state of affairs is that profitable entities that supply an item deemed necessary for all civilization, everywhere in the world is to be punished.
What a dumb, dissembling guy this Congressman is!
Indeed, we have enormous supplies under our feet, or at the ready if only the idiots in DC would allow them to be used:
1) Massive building of new nuke plants. Would allow the elimination of all oil-fired generators, and many coal and NG ones.
2) Use of diesel on a large scale for the auto fleet. Could save hundreds of thousands or more barrels/day of oil.
3) Shale oil. We have more under the Colorado Rockies and North Dakota (the Bakken field) than has been burned since Col. Drake found oil in Pennsylvania in 1859 - 8 or so times the Saudi reserves.
4) Off shore and Alaskan oil. We know where it is, and the extraction technolgy is so much better that there’s simply no reason not to do the drilling.
5) Coal can be liquified, and we have hundreds of years of coal supplies.
Dems won’t allow ANY of these proposals to get a vote, let alone go through.
Killing domestic drilling and production is what is keeping us up to our eyeballs with foreign oil you Democrat moron!
The average person would be embarrassed to be so ignorant and be a congressman.
Just another lying rat propagandist. The country is awash with these wannabe commissars.
Green energy loses 2.5 jobs per person is employs.
10 green jobs = 25 laid off
These Liberals are off their rockers...why not use OUR OWN OIL...?
Idiots.
The Democrats in DC reveal their hand and the dishonesty of their arguments when you see them defending Iran’s seeking nuclear power.
We can’t have nuclear power plants. We can’t have oil. We can’t even keep our nuclear arsenal online, but Iran is permitted all 3.
coast of California
California is one of the first places the Mullahs are going to clean up - can you imagine Sharia law in California? Too late bozo’s you wanted change.....here it comes.
“’Ahmadinejad, the Saudi Kingdom — they want exactly what my Republican friends are advocating,’ Weiner said on the floor during the debate ahead of this afternoon’s vote”
Fine. Then most Americans want what they want too: for them to sell us oil. ‘Cause guess what? We like to drive cars, be warm, and have food etc. shipped to us.
The Republicans (well, some of them, anyway) are NOT advocating the same thing as these other countries that support terrorism across the world. The quickest way of all to defund the Islamofascist regimes is to tap into a huge supply of oil somewhere on the planet that is NOT under their control, and drive down the world price by developing and bringing to market that supply.
AS others here have said, drill here, drill now, and FLOOD the market, effectively denying the oil revenue to the Saudis and the Iranians. Of course, there would be a similar effect on Russia and Iraq, and even Norway. But China and India would benefit tremendously, as would Japan and other countries that effectively import most of their energy supplies.
The entire oil issue is irrelevant. This is is about electricity, which overwhelmingly comes from coal and nuclear, both industries which were attacked today. The problem is, WE are the Saudi Arabia of coal. We don't need Iran for our electricity. This bill hit electric utilities more than anything, and those costs will cripple our economy.
Oil has NOTHING to do with it. they didn't even include a "flex-fuel" mandate in the bill!
North Korea is going to launch missiles on 4th of July, Obama cant figure out how to give the finger to the Mullahs in Iran, and the big talk from liberals is how to best bankrupt the nation with its environmental extremism. Scary.
This is their set up for government taking over the oil companies. Watch, it will happen while we all sit around offended twiddling our thumbs.
Where are all the voices on the left who came out screaming when Cheney made comments about votes against actual anti-terror bills? Where are those guys?
Of course we all know where they are--sleeping in after their long night eating cheese curls in their mothers' basements.
The easy answer to the problem is Alaska North Slope, offshore oil wells, nuclear power, clean coal technology, alternative sources as they become feasible.
Idiot!
Where are the repubs?
This is an issue they could fry the dims with.
Lets see, appointments with the hair stylist, manicurist, then jet home and visit a few of the ‘little people’.
Back to D.C. Tuesday afternoon. By then all will be forgotten, repeat next week.
insert after “little people”.., fake concern,
"Ahmadinejad, the Saudi Kingdom — they want exactly what my Republican friends are advocating," Weiner said on the floor during the debate ahead of this afternoon's vote. "We can't come to the floor and say I'm outraged at what's going on in Iran…and then come to the floor and continue the policies that are paying for them!" Weiner added...."once we've put the US government and the various political supporters on the petroleum payroll, *then* you'll see how fast we'll be living without oil, and, uh, whoops, never mind..."
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