Posted on 07/16/2008 12:38:42 AM PDT by Exton1
High gas prices increase the price of everything, thus costing everybody more money. It may as well be a tax hike. Now why would the Democrats have any problem with that?
When the economy tanks and people lose their jobs, homes, and savings, they become dependent on government handouts and eventually become addicted to government. And, just as drug addicts keep going back to their dealers for a fix, government addicts likewise keep going back to THEIR dealers. That would be Democrat politicians. A tanking economy means more government addicts and therefore more votes for THEM.
Sabotaging the economy is job #1.
This ain’t rocket surgery.....
How effective has it benn?
Somebody went through all the threads and posted that we should be outraged.
So?
How many of you did become outraged?
Or are you all more concerned about religion, or evolution? zot psrhaps its all between the Catholid and purported mindset of “protties”.
So what have you done lately?
Let’s just kick back, eh?
Lets just throw things at the “protties”?
How ‘bout that, eh?
How bout we just instead throw things at the Catholics?
How ‘bout we just throw things at the unions util they go AWAY?
Well I have faxed tons of letters to my Representatives and Senators, and others in different states. Currently I am attacking the libs at http://www.thenation.com/ by attacking their stupid Marxist comments and articles. I have driven by ex-friends by forwarding articles like this.
I call the White House and the Republican party several times a week. Call Pelosi and Boxer and Feinstein several times a month. When I hear of a liberal school or government stealing freedom I send a fax and/or call.
Currently I am working on a flier to hand out to attack Pelosi in San Francisco, is’nt that enough? What do you do?
How ‘bout we throw your ass off the cliff?
How ‘bout that one?
What if you had a “union”.
I thing that if there was a unionn and one (or botth) of your parents had cancr you’d speak differently.
I’m certain of that crap.
Tomorrow is my day, again, to attempt to speak to, personally, the pus filled pig, Nancy Pelosi and her inept counterpart in the Senate, Harry Reid. I have left messages, but I'm hoping for a person to person “chat”.
I purchased bumper stickers for my entire family (and told numerous others how to order them from WorldNet Daily) saying “Drill American Oil Now”.
Democrats have themselves under a barrel and keep on piling on more...
Most voters aren't liking what the Dems are offering as “solutions”. It is pretty clear that the Dems think the voters are pretty stupid with the “solutions” they are offering. It doesn't take genius to figure out to lower prices you need more supply but the Dems just can't bring themselves to go there.
It's going to be an interesting election...
I keep hoping that their idiotic inaction will translate to more Republicans being elected this Fall.
Gas and energy prices are strapping most Americans, yet we sit on some of the largest deposits of fossil fuels in the world. (dem candidate) and his democrats want us to stay sitting. In shale alone we have about 4 times the amount of recoverable oil as Saudi Arabia. With a little American ingenuity and a crash program, we could begin to recover those deposits while we search for alternate fuels. If we could recover only a quarter of the deposits, we could have as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
I don't understand why (dem candidate), Pelosi and the can't-do democrats won't give Americans the chance to become energy independent. Why they want us to continue a trade deficit burdened by some $700 billion in oil imports.
Americans have a great tradition of doing for ourselves. Tell Can't-Do (dem candidate) that you're tired of hearing about how the world hates Americans and how we can't solve our energy problems without big sacrifices. Tell Can't-Do (dem candidate) that since he can't do, he can't stay.
Bumping. This needs to be spread far and wide.
How about “you” stop burning gasoline, and I burn whatever the hell I want? That’s called freedom arshole. Screw the democrat crap.
Actually, it could. Biofuels haven't been used as aviation fuel (except in a handful of demonstrations), but that's a supply chain issue, not a matter of feasibility.
Alternative energy sources may be more prevalent and economical far in the future, but for now and perhaps decades to come, if America wants to increase or even just maintain its standard of living, if America wants to stay ahead of the rapidly developing economies in Asia and elsewhere, then America needs petroleum—and lots of it.
This is perfectly true. But this is also a perfect example of how tone-deaf Republicans needlessly cede winning issues to the bad guys.
The Republican Study Committee piece is fine so far as it goes, but it doesn't go beyond petroleum. This plays right into the democrat mantra that the GOP is all oil all the time. What about nuclear? President Bush has fought hard to resuscitate the nuclear option and GOP Members of Congress have generally supported him. We now have a number of new plants in the pipeline. They probably won't survive an Obama/Pelosi/Read era in Washington. This is certainly one of the top ten, and maybe one of the top five, strategic issues at stake this November, but almost no one is talking about it.
And what about renewables? The U.S. has led the world since 2005 in new installed wind capacity. Wind is now price competitive with natural gas for electric generation, and given the opposition to coal, natural gas and wind are supplying most of the new additions to the grid right now. Yes, it's an intermittant resource, but the experts say it can be safely integrated into the grid at somewhere in the range of 20% of capacity (perhaps more if bulk storage becomes feasible). That's not a complete solution, but it could be a huge contribution. Right now, because of President Bush's leadership, it's also a big, legitimate GOP success story as well as a big political winner. Republicans should be talking about it.
Cellulosic ethanol is moving into production. If it can hit the mark on price, the technical capacity is there to supply 30% (maybe more with new feedstocks) of U.S. fuel needs. That's huge. Couple it with plug-in hybrids and it's even a potential route to energy independence. Again, this is a major Republican leadership/Republican success story. We shouldn't leave it lying on the floor.
Solar power is still relatively expensive but prices are coming down and the U.S. photovoltaic industry has grown tenfold since 2000. There are remarkable things coming out of the labs and I'd not be in the least surprised if grid-linked solar becomes economical within the next ten years. President Bush has been a strong supporter, DOE has pushed it hard under Republican leadership, the federal PTC is a major driver, and we should be taking credit for it.
The U.S. leads the world in geothermal, solar thermal, and waste to energy. All are relatively small contributors, although solar thermal may be on the verge of breaking out, but they are perfectly good talking points. We should use them.
We can be pro-oil, pro-tar sands and oil shale, pro-drilling ANWR and the OCS, pro-nuclear, pro-clean coal, AND pro-renewables all at the same time. This happens to be where President Bush has been all along, and he's right. It's not an either-or game. We're going to need all of the above, and given where markets are heading, it is likely that a decade from now half a dozen renewables will be price competitive against oil. (Corn ethanol already is.) Republicans have walked the walk. Why do some find it so hard to talk the talk?
They are listening to their fanatical base and the fanatical base is all about the environment. As if all of us want polluted water to drink, or polluted air to breath. But they don’t realize the average democrat that has voted all these years are seeing what they are.
Yesterday, we had a primary here. I overheard an elderly lady as she was asking for the Republican ticket, “I have voted Democrat my whole life, but they ain’t what I used to vote for”. My family has been Democrat, Zell Miller Democrat, forever. But liberal they aren’t. I think the Democrats are going get a big wake up call.
Do you have an email for dirty harry
Tried the one on the website but email was kickbacked saying only will take emails from his district. Same with phone calls.
Pelosi AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Drill or get off the hill!
The left wingers decades ago saw there was no consitutional laws governing energy (directly stated), so... you control the energy and you control the people.
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