Bush Faults Democrats for Gas Prices

The Washington Times ^ | May 18, 2008 | Sean Lengell

[bray]

Conservative Freepers are intellectually lazy. They hate President Bush so just like Libs they blame everything on him to make themselves feel good.

His energy bills would have eliminated this crisis but for the Senate killing them.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[RightWhale]

heaped blame on congressional Democrats for skyrocketing gasoline prices

Not so. Heaped scorn on Dems for faulty logic. Nothing can be done about 'skyrocketing' prices. This could have been dealt with painlessly but it is too late and there are 25 years of pain ahead.

[avacado]

"GWB’s administration just put polar bears on the endangered species list, which means no drilling in ANWR ever."

I am not so sure about that. I am in the seismic industry and we are doing surveys off the coast of the ANWR right now. The enviros won't know what hit them!

[NutCrackerBoy]

GOP brand name is in the toilet because they were "in charge" and what they did is perceived as stupid, particularly the Iraq War. Americans should look beyond that and concentrate their force against bad governance by both Parties but especially the Democrats! Their present empty promises, past brain-dead obstructionism (ANWR, Social Security), and past failed policies.

Even with regard to Iraq, it should be clear America's response to Islamic terrorism was way too weak, even going back to the Reagan administration. If invading Iraq was rash and had very painful results, still it brought an end to passivity.

[Kackikat]

You may want to find out who really did that!

[yoe]

For the past 25 years, there has been strong, bipartisan support for a moratorium on offshore drilling. In 1981, responding to public sentiment, Congress adopted the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Moratorium, which prevents the leasing of coastal waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and Alaska’s Bristol Bay for fossil fuel development.

Each year since then Congress has renewed the moratorium. In 1990, the first President Bush authored an additional level of protection deferring new leasing until 2002, which President Clinton extended to 2012. But these protections are now in danger of being weakened or overturned by the current Bush administration and its allies in Congress.

“Drilling off our coasts is not the way to achieve energy independence or bring down gas-pump and home heating prices,” says Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. “We don’t need to sacrifice our beaches and coastal waters to meet America’s energy needs.”

CHINA STARTS OIL DRILLING OFF FLORIDA

WHILE AMERICA TWIDDLES THUMBS, CHINESE TAP BILLIONS OF BARRELS

("Not all the oil) used goes to make gasoline, of course - there's fuel oil, jet fuel, the chemicals to make all the plastic in the world, as well as lubricants, greases, lipstick and petroleum jelly. But U.S. consumption of gasoline is astonishing - we burn it up at a rate averaging more than 320 million gallons per day, or about 3700 gallons per second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That's enough one-foot-square gallon cans to cover a football field every nine seconds".

(Plastics)

(Plastics folks)

Now you need to go(here) and (here) and find out why "Farmer John" cannot sell his produce in his state - why Florida has a monopoly on certain fruits or vegetables or what the laws are governing the Dutch Greenhouses in Arizona - and - when did the Federal Government take over the pricing of dairy products rather than the states. Build a few more refineries and take back some States Rights....congress has abused and misused their powers over the years, time to reel them in, no more pay raises and less time spent in Washington would be a good start.

[Kackikat]

BECAUSE FreeRepublic is now made up of a large portion of democrats here to forward their causes, ere it be so deceptively. This is no longer the conservative grassroots forum as it began, but a political tool used to BASH BUSH, the administration and make sure all who can be kept from voting this year to get democrats in, will be kept away from polls through disgust or vote a candidate who cannot win against dems....it is ploy to make FreeRepublic a useless tool in the election, and seems to be working. Ever notice the hundreds of scrolling posts that have nothing to do with politics, breaking news or relevance?
I’ve been a member since before 2000 election, and it has been a bombardment since after 2004 election to increase dissension among republicans and independents to sway this election. To water down this forum, and its working ...WHERE IS THE FIRE to keep Dems out? It’s more complaining, whining, bashing and obstruction of facts than I have ever seen.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“GWB may be “on to something” here, but the hapless American people have already tuned him out — three years ago!”

The American people with the help of the MSM and the RATS tuned Bush out the day he “waited 7 minutes” before leaving that classroom on 9/11.

[Just A Nobody]

And now, given McCain's penchant to capitulate to the environazis, we're sure to see more of the same.

McCain is already on record having voted against ANWR drilling.

Drilling in ANWR was debated in the Senate in April 2002. By a vote of 46 to 54, the Senate failed to vote cloture and thus limit debate on April 18th. (and any possibility of drilling in ANWR)

So...who were the republicans that sold us out?
Roll Call Vote
NAYs ---54
(republicans voting with the rats)
Chafee (R-RI) -- FIRED!
Collins (R-ME)
DeWine (R-OH) -- FIRED!
Fitzgerald (R-IL)
* John Sydney McCain (R-AZ) * -- "presumptive” republican presidential nominee...yippee!
Smith (R-NH)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)

YEAs ---46
(Rats voting with the Republicans)
Akaka (D-HI)
Breaux (D-LA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Miller (D-GA)

ARCTIC DRILLING (Published: 03.20.2005)
On Wednesday the Senate, voting 49 for and 51 against, rejected a plan by Democrats requiring a higher hurdle for the Senate to approve oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This occurred during debate on the congressional budget blueprint.
(S Con Res 18)

A yes vote opposed ANWR drilling.
● Yes: John McCain, R -- Ooooops! There you are again, Johnny!
Chafee (R-RI)
Collins (R-ME)
DeWine (R-OH)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)

Rats voting with the repubs:
Akaka (D-HI)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)

[Kackikat]

Well I guess we can use up their oil, then butt out the dems, change the laws, and then use ours...

[aristotleman]

Is it a Republican virtue to own up to one’s mistakes and take responsibility for one’s actions or inactions? Why has this president only blamed others? Oil has been climbing throughout his presidency, is it only the Dems fault?

[Kackikat]

Hey I have another thought, why don’t we disban the congress completely, hire Simon, then we can text our vote on legislation without using a Senator or House Representative...hmm a real people vote.

[Kackikat]

Pretty much.

[org.whodat]

GWB may be “on to something” here, but the hapless American people have already tuned him out — three years ago!

True, that is why his brother pushed so hard for drilling off the coast of Florida. LOL

[Aria]

The entire Congress is complicit. From refusing to consider oil drilling to refusing to investigate the Patent Office’s, now exposed, planned obstruction of clean, energy inventions.

Sounds like a plot by that evil genius - BIG OIL.

[aruanan]

Is it a Republican virtue to own up to one’s mistakes and take responsibility for one’s actions or inactions? Why has this president only blamed others? Oil has been climbing throughout his presidency, is it only the Dems fault?

Yes, the Democrats have been the party of blocking energy development whether exploration, drilling, or constructing new nuclear facilities. As a party the Democrats have been the political force that has pushed us into the position in which we now find ourselves. It figures that a party that wants the U.S. to be subservient to an international political order would also push legislation that facilitates it or block legislation that would lead to more relative independence. At least Bush could veto the former. With Obama or Hillary, there would be no veto for the former and no reason to block the latter.

[aristotleman]

Does he have the executive power to override things that he doesn't like or to order emergency measures? I hate that he is presented as powerless, with the dems only to blame.

[MNJohnnie]

Nothing can be done about ‘skyrocketing’ prices. This could have been dealt with painlessly but it is too late and there are 25 years of pain ahead.

As usual, completely wrong. How about instead of clinging to the same fraudulent dogmas you try actually learning something on this topic? Instead of the just chanting the same lie over and over learn something about this topic. EVEN the US Dept of Energy admits we have 50 years, that FIVE ZERO YEARS, of Oil available to us. So please stop mindlessly repeating this “25 year of pain” lie.

It called Supply and Demand. Constrict supply in a time of riding demand you get a price spike. It has NOTHING at all to do with your adored religion of “Peak Oil” It has to do with the fundamental refusal of the USA to develop it own energy resources. It is a simple issue of Supply and Demand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

http://newsok.com/myth-of-peak-oil-debunked/article/3234137/

http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2005_12/otoole-oil.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm

http://mises.org/articles.aspx

[Aria]

In fact bills to open ANWR would have passed I believe during both the Reagan and Bush I administrations but for fillibusters.

They brainwash their constituents into worrying about global warming and then prevent the drilling that could help us all. This is flat out robbery.