Maria Cantwell "I may not look it, but I'm a freakin' idiot."
Keep on congress to demand a vote
Unless Pelosi decides to vote on off shore, we’re screwed
Pelosi AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
People need to start realizing that petroleum products are much more than gasoline. We need to put these people on the spot and ask them why we should give up all of the petro based products that make daily life possible
So, as the price of oil keeps going up, the price of food, and everything else will continue to go up.
I swear that these idiot leftists live in a vacuum! They don't seem to understand that we live in a complex society, where there are consequences. I guess we're just going to have to suck it up for a while, at least the next 8 years, while they destroy and dismantle the American economy.
Get ready to live out the last few chapters of "Atlas Shrugged."
Mark
*Present company excluded, of course....
Hey, Maria, social engineering is not what you're supposed to be doing, but as a liberal Democrat, you can't help yourself.
We'll wean off petroleum when a viable alternative is available. Until then, GET OUT OF THE WAY.
I wrote in another thread: Bush needs to call a presser the day before the vote to renew the moratorium and announce and sign a Executive Order in anticipation of Congress “doing the right thing” for the “suffering American Public” voting to ALLOW drilling. The EO should contain everything necessary to assist Congress in helping the “suffering American public” by expediting the leasing, exploration, drilling, production, and delivery of product to the “suffering American public”. Now let Pelosi and Reid scream like stuck pigs and twist in the wind after they vote to renew the moratorium. Bush can call another presser and say I tried to alleviate your suffering from high gas prices, but...
She and her cronies will think twice about this in a few months when the poor and downtrodden whom they are forever pretending to cherish and protect start having difficulty paying for gas and oil to heat their homes - thousands of stories of the elderly and poor being forced to eat cat food in order to keep their houses somewhat above freezing will make the ‘rats look even worse than the picture they themselves perpetually try to paint of Republicans......
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse are our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
So what exactly are we moving to?
Pelosi Says Drilling for More Oil “Not the Answer”
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said calls by Republicans to drill for more oil “is not the answer America needs.”
“Making gasoline more affordable would be the exact opposite of what we need to do,” Pelosi asserted. “We need to wean the country off of its dependence on fossil fuels. We can only do this if we discourage Americans’ love affair with their cars and put an end to the frenzy of excessive and senseless driving.”
In support of her contention that Americans’ driving habits are “excessive” and “senseless,” the Speaker pointed to a recent study showing that rising fuel costs were linked to declining highway fatalities. The study by two university professors looked at fatalities and fuel prices over the 1985-2006 timeframe and concluded that fatalities dropped by two percent for every ten percent increase in gasoline prices.
“The fact that the peak gasoline price in 2006 was $2.50 a gallon tells me that at today’s $4 a gallon we’re saving even more lives,” Pelosi conjectured. “Rather than undermine this salubrious trend by attempting to reverse the rising costs of fuel we should be celebrating our good fortune.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Column_Archives.htm
Because if you think the oil companies are making out like bandits they have nothing on the Government who make much more on a gallon than the oil companies do..
And there is a knock on effect in additional tax revenues from EVERY transaction as prices go up on everything because of increased transportation costs.
“Why Democrats don’t want to lower gas prices?”
Because the Lefties want us all using government mass transit and oil companies owned by the government.
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
If this is Cantwell’s true intentions, what was this all about in April – calling for the Justice Dept. to investigate possible market manipulation.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-04-21-3815204975_x.htm
Clearly partisan politics.
How about we wean the Democrats off Congress?
I'm sure the Alternative Energy folks would LOVE to keep gas prices high, thinking that they can force Americans out of their cars. They'll find out that folks, even those who might SAY they are interested in alternatives, won't care much for being FORCED to accept them by high gas prices.