Posted on 04/21/2006 10:16:45 AM PDT by Crackingham
Democrats running for Congress are moving quickly to use the most recent surge in oil and gasoline prices to bash Republicans over energy policy, and more broadly, the direction of the country. With oil prices hitting a high this week and prices at the pump topping $3 a gallon in many places, Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, is making the issue the centerpiece of her campaign. Ms. Klobuchar says it "is one of the first things people bring up" at her campaign stops.
"It's a metaphor for an economy that keeps biting people despite overall good numbers," said Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
Officials at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which advises House candidates, said they sent a memorandum to candidates offering guidance on using the issue to their advantage. The memorandum includes a "sample statement" that recommends telling voters, "Americans are tired of giving billion-dollar tax subsidies to energy companies and foreign countries while paying record prices at the pump."
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A survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research organization, in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine suggests that the message could not be more timely. The survey said voters now believed that fears over energy independence rivaled the Iraq war as the leading foreign policy issue for the nation.
Daniel Yankelovich, chairman of Public Agenda, said the survey found that 90 percent of Americans viewed the lack of energy independence as a risk to security, that 88 percent said problems abroad were endangering supplies and increasing prices and that 85 percent believed that the federal government could do something if it tried.
"If Democrats can make an explicit connection that Senator So-and-so could have done more but didn't, the message will resonate among voters," he said. "This has really become a hot-button issue."
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Seems we could use the democrat vote on anwar to bury them.
Seems we could use the deomcrat opposition to new refineries to bury them.
What is the problem with the GOP?!
With the propensity of the Democrats to keep stepping in it, this should be good news. Watch oil prices start coming down. Then what are they going to say?
I bet they are going to talk up how Bush failed to drill in Alaska and Florida...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
What is the problem with the GOP?!
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If I recall correctly....it's called the Peter Principle.
And I quote:
in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their "level of incompetence".
Reckon the democrats will take off the taxes? heheh
ANWR is not the answer to energy independance.
They are eager to exploit high gas prices and blame Bush, yet they don't want the US to drill anywhere for more oil. Figures.
Starbucks they sell “Ethos” brand bottled water for $1.85 a bottle.
The bottle contains 1.5 pints of water from the Tomhicken Mountain Springs—which happens to be in Pennsylvania, near Pottsville. Cost: $1.23 a pint.
There are 8 pints in a gallon.
So the Starbucks customer is paying about $9.85 a gallon…for water that comes from a self-replenishing spring, gets put into bottles and shipped to the store as is.
Yet that same Starbucks customer is going to complain bitterly to Senators Dodd and Domenici that it now costs $3.25 for a gallon of gasoline that has been shipped via crude oil tanker from depleting oil fields in Saudi Arabia across 3,000 miles of ocean to an offshore tanker port, pumped through pipes to a refinery in the Gulf Coast, refined via an energy-intensive distillation process into a variety of fuels—jet fuel, diesel fuel, kerosene and even asphalt, not to mention three types of gasoline—and then shipped by pipeline to distribution terminals from whence it has been loaded into tank trucks and hauled up an Interstate Highway to a gas station for the Starbucks customer who is complaining about the High Cost of Gasoline to Senators Dodd and Domenici…
…and doesn’t think twice about paying $9.85 for a gallon of water.
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As if the 'Rats have a great record on energy! Look how well Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown handled energy issues.
More pot calling kettle stuff. The environmental wackos within the Demonrat Party have contributed in no small measure to our energy dependence which directly correlates to high gas prices.
Gasoline prices always come down after Labor Day when the oil companies switch back to a winter blend.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
and doesn’t think twice about paying $9.85 for a gallon of water.
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Please stop with the bottled water and milk analogies I hear all the time. We don't use 2 or 3 gallons of water or milk to drive to work. You also have the option to drink tap water or powdered milk. You have NO option with GAS.
You could not be more correct, and throw in the OPEC'rs.
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