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To: SmithL

We literally face wars of extinction that are related to the need for Middle East oil but the leftists are shutting the spigots everywhere. They are strangling us.


4 posted on 11/30/2006 4:58:15 PM PST by Williams
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To: Williams
That is debatable. No one on the Repub. side right now is a champion of energy independence. Is there a 5/10 year plan to be off of ME oil? Is the President on TV right now encouraging the private sector to build refineries?

I would hope so. Kinda National Security. At the very least we could give private enterprises huge tax incentives to build new infrastructure and other needs. I just don't see it getting done and it's been a long time since 9/11. Seems like a great issue for the Repubs to run on in 08.
13 posted on 11/30/2006 5:12:09 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman (One man with courage is a majority.)
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To: Williams

The Democratic Congress can pass an embargo on foreign petroleum. Price controls will ensure that the oil companies do not profit from the resultant shortages. Distinguished members of Congress, illegal aliens, and professional welfare recipients will get first priority on any available petroleum products. Congress will impose a declining annual quota on the energy use of all other Americans (except seniors) to ensure compliance with the Kyoto Stone Age Restoration Treaty and to reduce gas lines. Various other laws will restrict or forbid new energy exploration and continued production of existing oil and gas wells and coal mines. The military certainly gets last priority on any remaining petroleum products.

That's the Democrats' energy strategy. The Republicans' strategy consists largely of tax subsidies, clock manipulation, and pork-barrel spending. Few Distinguished members of Congress in either House or in either party seriously contemplate the serious issues of our times, and almost none dare propose consideration of any potentially difficult solution; witness the rapid demise of the vaunted Social Security reform plan and the general ambivalence even among Republicans to Islamofascist terrorism.


16 posted on 11/30/2006 5:14:20 PM PST by dufekin (The media-Democrat-terrorist complex--espionage, sedition, propaganda, treason, and surrender)
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To: Williams

"We literally face wars of extinction that are related to the need for Middle East oil but the leftists are shutting the spigots everywhere. They are strangling us."

Tell them to piss off and if they don't like it, to come on down and protest.


30 posted on 11/30/2006 6:37:05 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I thank the RNC for freeing me to vote my values rather then political party. It is liberating!)
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