Congress Takes Action Against Rising Gas Prices

Constitutionally Right ^ | 5/23/07 | CharlesS

[b4its2late]

Good post, Charles!

[American Quilter]

The first paragraph made my heart skip a beat—I thought congress had actually done something HELPFUL for a change. Silly me.

[Always Right]

LOL, as if sicking trial lawyers on them will make gas cheaper. All this might do is make a few lawyers really really rich.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

for a second I thought they were going to open ANWR, drill off the california and florida coasts and allow shale oil drilling in colorado..

silly me..

[RedStateRocker]

Quote I overheard:
“As long as people keep buying SUV’s then gas is too cheap”.

[chaos_5]

Only one problem, the Libs want high gas prices. Sure, they will scream bloody murder about gouging and the sort, but at the end of they day they want people who have to put 20+ gal of gas into their evil gas hogs to pay dearly.

[Cyber Liberty]

That’s funny. I thought insisting on the rule of law was a good thing....

[atomicpossum]

They sue because OPEC doesn’t produce enough, and they sue so WE don’t produce more....

[meyer]

The best action that Congress could take against high gas prices is to open up the frozen tundra of Alaska and a multitude of off-shore sites to drilling. As well, they could reduce the number of environazi-induced barriers to building new refining capacity. In other words, get the heck out of the way and let the market work freely for a change.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Preaching to the choir.

Every single time I have ever made these same points to any liberal, they parrot back all the same moronic talking points.

[Covenantor]

ping

[Moonman62]

Approximately 40% of our Country's oil is provided by OPEC members, therefore it would not be a wise decision to make enemies of them by filing lawsuits in U.S. courts.

That's true. We've already made them mad with the weak dolllar.

[at bay]

This misleading article is actually great news—instead of hearing about the oil “ministers” on msm, we may hear of civil or even criminal indictments against these price-fixing crooks dba OPEC at long last.

Hating all attorneys except our own means hating everyone responsible for writing and enforcing our laws. I would avoid that mindset.

What OPEC is is an illegal price-fixing conspiracy that won’t take years to hurt in our courts. “Please don’t make them mad!” What hogwash, written undoubtedly by oil interests.

[P-40]

You had me going with that first paragraph! I was checking for flying pigs!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So the Dems are going to increase states’ debt to avoid dealing with their unwillingness to drill and refine gasoline.

[RightWhale]

Nobody is going to sue OPEC. This is a very silly idea.

[KarlInOhio]

When does Saudi Arabia respond by imposing Sharia on Budweiser and lopping off the heads of the CEO and board of directors for producing alcohol?

[fella]

Rather than pass legislation which would have an immediate impact on American consumers, the House of Representatives have decided to pass legislation which would take years to show any results.

And make lots and lots of money for lawyers. Say doesn't most of the money for congressional campaigns come from lawyers and aren't most of our congress critters lawyers? There 's no way this could smack of self interest is there?

[BigAlPro]

"If the States were to follow the Federal Governments lead this could mean a reduction in gasoline prices by an average of 40 cents per gallon, with the higher taxed States saving as much as 51 cents per gallon."

That would just allow the gas moguls to stick it to us for another 40 - 51 cents per gallon.

The real answer lays with the people. We need to hit Exxon/Mobil with a grassroots boycott, not another e-chain letter pipe dream. The concept is good, but the execution of past boycotts has been worthless.

If all of the conservative Radio/TV hosts would join forces and lead the charge, "We the People" could control gas prices. It may take up to 30 days to get the boycott up to full strength, but through perseverance and endurance we would prevail. Once we get gas prices under control, we will have to keep awareness up in order to maintain said control.