The are calling for a probe because they are getting ANGRY letters from constituents, and because they understand the POLITICAL ramifications of this. If the GOP sits back and lets the DEMS call for hearings, while they poo-poo the idea, there will be trouble for the GOP.
History often turns of perception, rather than reality.
Wrong. This issue is made to order for the American public to have an target to vent on!...that is the wrong headed costly Democrat supported environmental regs of the last 30 years. The constant gridlock on any sensible energy legislation over the past 5 years.
History often turns of perception, rather than reality.
To a degree yes...and to another degree no. But with that said this issue currently allows for us to clearly change the "perception" quickly that is is wrong headed Democratic policies that have put us here - There is plenty of time before Nov to make the case to the American public (the facts are on our side without question! Use them).
It would be better to educate people so that their perceptions coincide with reality rather than to reinforce false perceptions. Or have the RINOs gone off the deep end with the liberals in believing there is no such thing as absolute truth?
I agree. But this is not a new problem and my question is why, after all this time, the Pubbies have allowed the liberals to dominate the perception game.
We need refineries, lots of them. We need reduction or elimination of all gasoline taxes, federal and state. Most of all we need elimination of utterly insane enviro restrictions and have led to this self-created crisis.
We need to focus on domestic oil drilling, offshore and on. We need to work our butts off to develop new ways to produce energy and processing our own oil shales would be a step in the right direction. That should be followed by a transition to non-oil transportation energy if we can figure out a way to do it economically.
If Exxon can afford to give a retiring CEO a $400 million retirement package, it could (with the help of its oil business competitors) drum up enough cash to finance an effective hard-hitting TV "truth" campaign about environmentalist constraints on the gasoline market. Instead we see candy-assed commercials kissing up to the enviros.
Why can't Pubbies ram the idiocy of the MTBE scandal down enviro throats? It was required as a gasoline oxygenate in the 1990 Clean Air Act, remember? Then it was discovered to be a water pollutant. Maybe because a lot of Pubbie politicians voted for it? I can recall gas station after gas station here in CA having to dig up its gasoline storage tanks to clean and leak-proof them. I can't imagine how much that's added to the price of a gallon of gas.
Now we're on to new oxygenate requirements that are creating problems due to lack of refinery capacity (another legacy of the lefty enviros). When will the lies, cant and buck-passing end?