Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Failure to Pressure Saudi Arabia to Increase Oil Production

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kettle; black...

[dandiegirl]

I just want to know where the Republicans are?

[mortal19440]

If you tied her mouth shut her ass would fly open. The Botox must be getting to her.

[Irish Eyes]

I can not tell you how sick I am of this woman. Every time she opens her mouth I am amazed once again at her stupidity.

[Argus]

Pubbies including my own Congressman AND John McCain did this to us..

Like I said. Liberals.

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[Dahoser]

Amen, brother, amen. Pelosi is an idiot, but it’s not like she’s standing on an island by herself.

[HwyChile]

Bush needs to hit her back hard. Ask her where her common sense plan to reduce gas is that she promised, point out that gas prices have gone up more than any other time with the democrats in control of congress, and state that the democrats and their environmental special interest group friends refusal to allow more oil production in the US is the real reason we are in this mess now.

[Thoro]

"Next week, the House will also act on legislation that will extend and expand tax incentives to invest in renewable energy and create the green jobs of the future, as well as revised NOPEC legislation to crack down on OPEC-controlled entities and oil companies for oil price fixing.”

Where is a genuine reporter to ask how any of that's going to lower the price of gas NOW especially since they've been "cracking down" on oil companies for as long as I can remember only to find absolutely nothing. Someone needs to push a time line any time one of these idiots like Pelosi talks this "green markets" and renewable energies nonsense, because John Q. Public is pretty blind to the fact that these are decades off at the earliest, if at all. She's talking decades to centuries in the future to people who are expecting her to be talking about the present. Of course, she probably doesn't even understand that. Frustrating.

I think I can understand this futures market thing now. Maybe the price of oil went up because there was a future market for oil at this set price we see now for fear that the liberals would be doing the kind of anti-energy crap they are now or possibly much worse. "The liberals are going to be in power? Crap, that means more regulation and energy's going to be even more expensive to obtain for my company, better hedge my bets now."

[Kaslin]

Suspending the deliveries has NEVER reduced prices. What HAS reduced prices is releasing oil FROM the reserve. When they site proof, that's what they point to, when Clinton dumped a lot of our oil on the market at cut-rate prices to drive down the cost of gas to help get Al Gore elected in 2000.

There only enough reserve for 100 days. What then if that runs out?

[Gator113]

President Bush....veto, veto, veto every damn thing that these slugs toss your way.

[y6162]

“..the New Direction Congress will continue to take legislative steps to help ease the pain at the pump.”

Ummm since Nancy and her gang took over in 2006, gas prices have skyrocketed. Please stop helping us! We can’t afford it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

We shouldn’t actually SELL the reserve simply to move oil prices. It exists for a reason.

If we want to move oil prices, we should drill ANWR, and SELL THAT OIL. Clinton proved in 2000 that if you increase domestic supply, the price of oil comes down.

The Democrats now say that drilling won’t decrease the price of oil, ANWR won’t decrease the price of oil, shale oil won’t decrease the price of oil.

But NOT buying 70,000 barrels a day will drop the price, and building solar energy power plants will drop the price of oil.

[RochesterFan]

What a freaking clueless moron. She lead the fight to defeat drilling here. Make her pay for her own gas!

[denydenydeny]

These are the people who fight ANWR drilling tooth and nail because “it would take ten years to get any oil”....but they expect other countries to magically produce more oil instantly.

[dfwright]

As the President’s ‘drill and veto’ policies ... have only led to increased gas prices

This is the most amazing statement in the whole crock!!! Congress keeps blocking any attempt to actually drill anything.

Even a moron should be able to understand that the President's drill policy has never even been tried, so the high gas prices might actually be because..... hello? anyone? anyone? Beuller?