You go, girl!
Not to be confused with Yugo Grrl from DU.
bump
A chicken in every pot.
Forty acres and a mule
I am sick of pandering.
Another liberal with a lousy excuse
That’s very nice, Michele.
Now, you’ll just have to convince George Soros to stop manipulating the markets, and you may have something there.
Yeah. Simpleminded Republicans. Just can't understand all of the nuances the way our intellectual superiors can.
Well, Elwyn, sometimes in life, things are difficult, but that doesn't mean they are complicated. Geez, these people are such elitist snobs. Everyone that doesn't agree with them is obviously stupid.
Elwyn Tinklenberg?!!!!! LMAO!!!
Not much true fact in this statement.
I want 29 cent gas and I want my wind shield washed and oil checked too, green stamps too.
Opec would immediately and drastically lower their price to try and get in front of that and make it economically unfeasable. We might well see prices below $2.00 within a few months as a result.
Our answer would be to take their lower prices and then proceed forward anyway.
The reserves would have very little effect on the price. The market isn’t stupid. Drilling on the other hand would make a great statement
Rep. Michele Bachmann? We need to run her for President!! At least her message is the winning message for November 2008. She must be reading my FR posts on the subject. :-)
ML/NJ
Press release
bachmann.house.gov
Michele Bachmann
Contact: Stephen Miller 202-225-2331
Bachmann on Outrageous $4 Gas
We Can Get it Back to $2
Washington, D.C., Jun 9 -
Today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) released the following statement after the national average for a gallon of gasoline hit the record-breaking milestone of $4 a gallon:
“This is truly a grim milestone for America. These gut-wrenching prices at the pump are impacting every sector of the economy and are hurting poor and middle-class Americans the worst. The punishment at the pump needs to end – and it could end right now if Congress would only act.
“In fact, Congress’ reckless inaction is to blame for the situation in the first place. Global demand for energy has soared to record heights and yet this Congress has opposed virtually every effort to increase our energy supply. And so prices have soared to record heights as well. The ‘no-new-energy’ mantra of the new Democrat majority is costing Americans severely – prices have shot up more in the last 17 months than in well over a decade.
“Just consider: we could harvest enough energy from the shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah to offset all our imports from Saudi Arabia – but it’s off limits. France gets 80% of its power from clean nuclear energy – but we haven’t built a new plant since the 70’s. We had 321 refineries in 1981 – today it’s only 149. China explores for energy off the coast of Cuba – Americans just sit and watch from the Florida shores. And the list goes on....
“Americans are starving for relief and Congress holds the key to the pantry door. If Congress would just turn the lock, prices would plummet – before even a single watt is harvested. The choice is clear: either Congress embraces the tired dogma of ‘no-new-energy’ or Congress embraces change and gets gas back to $2 a gallon.”
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http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=93574
I want a pony.
Rep. Michele Bachmann — must remember that name!
Elwyn Tinklenberg, a Democrat who is challenging Bachmann for the the 6th District seat in Congress, said Bachmann is offering a simplistic view.
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Elwyn Tinklenberg ... ?
Rep. Bachman’s definitely on the right track.
One market problem with outer continental shelf drilling I haven’t seen addressed is where the rigs will come from. Right now, virtually every deep water drill rig that exists or is under construction is under contact for years. And if you ordered a new one today it might be completed sometime in 2012.
By fighting and delaying this for years, the democrats have put the US in a tough position. Since Brazil’s Petrobras discovered big offshore oilfields last fall, they’ve been busy signing contracts on rigs and currently have something like 80% of the world’s deepwater fleet locked up for years.
Getting congress out of the way of offshore drilling is a critical first step and needs to be done now so the plans for oil exploration and development can be put in place. But the ‘now’ part of ‘drill here, drill now’ really means plan to drill now, maybe get some rigs exploring in five or six years for the continental shelf resources, then they need to get the fields producing.
America can thank the democrats and their enviro-whacko friends for letting Brazil get in front of us in offshore oilfield development. I’m sure Petrobras is grateful.
***Elwyn Tinklenberg, a Democrat who is challenging Bachmann for the the 6th District seat in Congress, said Bachmann is offering a simplistic view.***
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ones, dummy.