America Held Hostage--By Nancy Pelosi

WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/22/09 | Humberto Fontova

[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)?

[RightWhale]

Pelosi killed ITER

[Eagle of Liberty]

If the state of california wants to drill anywhere in that state, What does the federal government, Pelousi inc., have to say in the matter? Article 10?

Well, there IS one Governor in our blessed union with major cajones and her name is Governor Palin. I say she test the response of Pelosi and DRILL off the coast of the state that SHE represents.

[coffee260]

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[tatsinfla]

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.

[devistate one four]

She would be my first choice for VP

[thackney]

California includes some percentage of price gasoline and diesel taxes.

http://www.californiagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

[Charles Martel]

She wants the tax money that California gets on every gallon. Prices go down, so does the tax revenue.

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.

[ANGGAPO]

My opinion of Nancy, put in print, would get me into jail. If she is an example of the new Democrat in congress acts like, I think I will pass. All these years I have thought that the Donks were just being misled by their leaders. Now I find that can't be right, they are born that way.

[xcamel]

Here ya go...

[y6162]

“(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.

[TornadoAlley3]