Posted on 07/22/2008 8:21:24 AM PDT by slickeroo
America held hostage by Nancy Pelosi
Posted: July 22, 2008
By Humberto Fontova
No sooner did President Bush lift the executive ban on oil exploration in the outer Continental Shelf than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi put the kibosh to its prospects.
"The only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress," said President Bush last week.
"The president of the United States, with gas at $4 a gallon because of his failed energy policies, is now trying to say that is because I couldn't drill offshore," quickly countered the speaker. "That is not the cause, and I am not going to let him get away with it."
A recent CNN (no less!) poll showed more than 73 percent of Americans in favor of offshore drilling. But the House speaker can keep the issue from even reaching a vote, and Ms Pelosi seems heck-bent on just that.
"(In California) we learned the hard way that oil and water do not mix on our coast," she said back in 1996. Ms Pelosi was referring, of course, to the famous Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, an event that serves as the Alamo of the anti-drilling cause.
Webster's defines a "provincial" as: "a person of local or restricted interests or outlook," not a term the media uses for a San Franciscan millionaire feminist legislator who owns vineyards and a French-monikered resort.
Then what else to call Nancy Pelosi (and most of her wealthy constituents)?
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Pelosi killed ITER
correct me if i am wrong, but isn’t the tax a flat tax per gal of gas sold? if so the price goes down people buy more hence the tax revenue increases. gas goes up, people drive less the tax revenue goes down.
She would be my first choice for VP
California includes some percentage of price gasoline and diesel taxes.
http://www.californiagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx
Nope, fuel taxes are linked to the volume sold, not the per-gallon price. The Dems are assuredly working some angle, but that's not it.
“(In California) we learned the hard way that oil and water do not mix on our coast,”
Just goes to show, old dogs can’t learn new tricks.
Last oil spill was 30 years ago.
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