Top 10 Energy Questions for the US Senate

humanevents.com ^ | 05/29/2008 | staff

[kellynla]

ping

[bmwcyle]

You will have to speak slowly to them and try not to use the big words in the questions.

[stockpirate]

Ask them why they have nationalized the energy sector here in the US?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022965/posts

[MBB1984]

All excellent questions. However, we are being undercut by John McCain who compares drilling in ANWR to drilling in the Grand Canyon and who refuses to drill off the Florida coast.

If we really had a conservative nominee we could have the left bleeding and bruised on this issue.

[econjack]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the senators who sat in on the grilling of the oil execs were forced to testify before a group of private, knowledgeable, citizens and answer these and similar questions on prime time TV? Congress IS the problem and Congress has the power to solve it, but lacks the political courage to do so. My suggestion: Throw the bums out of office in November.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Waste of breath. The Senate is taking up Leiberman’s carbon cap and trade bill next week. Think energy is expensive now ?

[fightinbluhen51]

Everyone in America should cut and paste that into an email to EVERY congressman and senator in Washington.

Maybe they’ll start to get the picture after that.

[TLI]

You will have to speak slowly to them and try not to use the big words in the questions.

I think those complex "which number is larger" math questions are really gonna trip them up.

[econjack]

McCain either changes his position or he will lose votes, especially from people who can still think.

[wayoverontheright]

You have voted to mandate that auto manufacturers provide us, within a relatively short period of time, the implements that will lower the cost per mile driven of all new vehicles sold in the US. Since the automobile provides the principal competition for mass transit, how do you square this vote with your vote to further subsidize AMTRAK?

[CPT Clay]

11. How will Cap and Trade rules lower our electric bills?

[DTA]

11. Ethanol from Corn crops has negative energetic ballance (It takes more fuel to grow corn and produce Ethanol from it than obtained)As a result of this wasteful practice (20%of U.S. corn converted to ethanol), the cost of corn goes up. Are you aware of this fact? How did you vote on this issue ?

[kellynla]

We convinced McCain he was wrong about the border;
we’re just going to have to convince him that he is wrong about drilling in AK...
I think he “gets it” about nuclear...

some Sailors just need to be “hit over the head” a little more than others.
BIG SMILE

[lormand]

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if the senators who sat in on the grilling of the oil execs were forced to testify before a group of private, knowledgeable, citizens and answer these and similar questions on prime time TV?"

I couldn't agree more. I have been thinking this exact scenario for a long time now.

I am more than willing to take a few weeks off, march on DC, and put these tyrants in the witness chair to answer these and many more questions.

[Red Badger]

Cap & Trade/Carbon Credits are the “Indulgences” of the Religion of Gaea...............

[kellynla]

“Everyone in America should cut and paste that into an email to EVERY congressman and senator in Washington.”

No time like the present. :-]

Senators of the 110th Congress Contacts:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

U.S. House of Representatives
https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

[libs_kma]

I just sent letters to my 2 worthless Senators saying basically: "Drill now, Drill here, build refineries, one blend of gas for all 50 states, your obstruction isn't fooling anyone".

I had to keep it simple enough so even a dim could understand it.

[Sybeck1]

What do us peons think? That we can question the “House of Lords”??

[kellynla]

“I just sent letters to my 2 worthless Senators saying basically: “Drill now, Drill here, build refineries, one blend of gas for all 50 states, your obstruction isn’t fooling anyone”.

Good for you.

I did the same thing. And if you think you’ve got it bad, I’ve got
Boxer & DiFi. I might as well be talking to myself. LOL