Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Place your bets.
They should scrap their gay little compact fluorescent bulb mandate while they’re at it.
Drill now!
Do it for the children!
I’ll believe it when I see it......
Can a do nothing Congre$$ redeem itself?
There may not be enough time to do so ... not that there is much hope they would do it anyway, no matter the price at the pump or on the store shelf.
They are so far removed from reality, it isn’t funny.
And they wonder why the Congress has an approval rating of just 9%. We have a do nothing Congress full of wimps.
Yeah...they’ll put it in the bill...and then deny the permits...that’s what is happening now. Please send money to the Club for Growth so we can run the bums out!
If this passes, and the price of crude falls immediately, the MSM will be repeating the mantra that “it was due to fall anyway” 10,000 times per hour.
* List (chapter and verse) all the regulations and laws that need to be repealed in order to drill, and drill now.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 Independence and National Security”. Have a mega-bill introduced that in one fell swoop removes the self-imposed energy embargo.
Please note how the Repubs are rolling over and grabbing their ankles once again and shooting themselves in the foot in the process.
WHY, do they even have to TRY and work with the RATS?
If ONE R Congresscriter had "a pair" (and its obvious there is not a one) they would simply hammer the Rats over and over and over, regarding their unwillingness to allow offshore exploration and make it a central issue in the upcoming elections.
But noooooo, they are playing right into the DemoRats' hands and will allow the libs to get on board (AND TAKE CREDIT) for what I predict will be a farce.
Oh, by the way, did anyone notice the absence of any mention about ANWAR???
No surprise there.
Sheesh, is it any wonder that I (and so many other Conservatives) will stay home this November?
There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Socialist Rats and the Wuss Pubes!!!
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.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
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.