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Posted on 07/09/2008 3:09:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Compromise is always sought and many pride themselves for being able to do so, but some issues are so sensitive, that it is a futile exercise, especially when the errancy of past policies is so readily evident.
Some politicians are just not up to the task, which is really sad, when so many who voted in good faith are only getting stiffed again and know it, yet willingly buy the line of that is just how things work.
Bullcrap. This should not be business as usual. A majority of hard-working people deserve better.
If our own elected officials will not fight for us, then why should we continue to fight for them? They say we get what we deserve. I disagree, we fail as a whole when so few are so entangled in gaining and retaining power and forgetting why they were elected in the first place.
We know the dems could care less what we pay at the pump and the store, but when the GoP seems almost as indifferent or ineffectual, then it is time for them to move on and get people in there that will put the people’s welfare ahead of their own.
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These kook’s cars should be set on fire so they would have to walk home. I mean they hate drilling for oil.That means gasoline is evil,so anything powered by gas is bad!
I sense that we are going to get screwed. The stupid party is woring with the evil party.
Once again, in breath-taking stupidity, the Stupid Party bends over rather than beating the Dems over the head with this issue.
There's going to be more ethanol boondoggles, more envirowacko mandates and other crap that will neutralize whatever drilling is going to be allowed in the compromise.
The Republicans have all the leadership of a caboose.
So true. I don't know how they can even show their faces to the public given the 9% approval rating they have. But yet they talk and pontificate and preach to us ("Oil is making is sick." ala Harry Reid that whore/snake) as if everything was just fine. This is probably the most despised Congress in 50 years. And with very good reason.
I agree. I expect they will pass legislation to allow offshore drilling, and attach some legalize to allow lawsuits from enviroterrorists to stop it.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
The greenie weenies haven't a clue as to what keeps a society strong.
The dems at all levels love the fact that on average, the government makes 5 times as much revenue from a gallon of gasoline than the refiners. (federal, state and local taxes per gallon.
* Cease all ethanol subsidies. (If an entrepreneur want to “go for it” let ethanol be successful on its own merits with good ‘ol American market forces.) Ethanol takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it. This will create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and will cease regional "boutique" blends (gasohols) which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. Ethanol blends may actually lead to fewer miles to the gallon, and adds to the cost of production and transportation. Newer cars do not need oxygenated fuels.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS. Use the "model" of the Joliet refinery, built in the late 1970's (it is still considered 'new' since few others have been built since). The Joliet refinery specializes in "sour-heavy" crude and ONLY cracks US-pumped oil. Screw the "light-sweet" from foreign countries who hate us.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful, including "cap and trade" feel-good screwing of Americans. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Refine spent nuke fuel for recycling. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use (much of it in Illinois which has high unemployment).
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Lift or cap the tax on gasoline. When the tax is higher than the profit margin, the argument over what is “obscene” becomes moot.
* List (chapter and verse) all the regulations and laws that need to be repealed in order to drill, and drill now. Use this list as the new "Contract With America for Energy Security". Have a mega-bill introduced that in one fell swoop removes the self-imposed energy embargo. California is dying from self-inflicted denial of oil.
If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require fewer RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider the above.
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