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Reid: $5-a-gallon gas is no problem
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | July 24, 2008

Posted on 07/24/2008 2:40:24 AM PDT by Man50D

WASHINGTON – Asked if he thinks he has the votes to block legislation lifting the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said: "We will have to wait and see."

Wait and see?

Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi oppose lifting the ban on domestic oil drilling – and they are hoping the American people will just quietly accept gas prices topping $5 a gallon or even higher.

They say the key to lowering the price is conservation.

WND's Joseph Farah is not accepting that and is organizing efforts to flood Congress with emails, phone calls, letters and text messages demanding action that can lead the country in the direction of energy independence.

"Right now, that means lifting the moratorium," he says. "That's the first step. If we can't agree on that as Americans today, then we are in for a long period of national economic decline. If we can't push Congress to do the right thing with even a strong majority of Democrats behind us, then this country is simply no longer a place where the will of the people means anything."

Farah's goal is to force Congress to act in the next 73 days – before it adjourns for the year.

"There's an election coming up one month after that adjournment date, and even the most entrenched incumbents know how sensitive this issue is," says Farah. "Now is the time to let them hear you."

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; congress; drilling; energy; gasprices; pelosi; reid; ussenate
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To: Man50D
Hey Nevada... thanks a lot for this POS arse-hole! So what are you Nevadans going to do about it??? Re-elect him again??? How is Las Vegas doing at $5.00 a gallon?

LLS

21 posted on 07/24/2008 4:29:27 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (REAGANISM... not communism!!!)
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To: RU88

It’s not just us paying for the gas, it’s the whole package. They should not have the perks that they have voted for themselves. They should be paying into Social Security, they should get a stipend for health insurance, let them figure it out themselves like the rest of us. Car payments, gas, food, etc. Once they are out of office they are on their own, just like the rest of us. They leave office and make tons of cash in the private sector, why are we paying them benefits till they die? You lose your job you lose it all, so should they.


22 posted on 07/24/2008 4:32:15 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: Man50D

And yet when we all do conserve, they will complain that tax receipts are down and call for an increase in gas tax. Unscrupulous bastiches.


23 posted on 07/24/2008 4:35:49 AM PDT by doodad
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To: LibLieSlayer

Was this on camera? *Every* Republican Senate candidate should be running ads with that statement. It’s like a gift to the GOP. Though a lot of morons still will vote Demo, even after they complain about Congress doing nothing about the price of gas.


24 posted on 07/24/2008 5:10:35 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Man50D
Meanwhile....

DNC host's tax-free gas [DEMOCRAT SCANDAL BREAKING IN DENVER]

25 posted on 07/24/2008 5:12:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Man50D
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26 posted on 07/24/2008 5:27:00 AM PDT by engrpat
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To: Man50D

Hey Harry!

How about $5 a gallon heating oil? While you only have to worry about votes from people in Nevada, where you get mild winters and most of your electrical energy from Hoover Dam, let’s hope that the voters in states that get cold realize that you and your ilk are the reason for the $2000 a month heating bills they’re going to wind up with if there’s a long, cold winter.

An economy can’t grow using conservation. I know that I’m tapped out. I drive a car that gets 35 mpg. I make no extra trips. I stay at home on weekends. If I’m not working, I’m home. Maybe you can make some additional suggestions.

I’m NOT looking forward to this winter either, as my home is heated with natural gas. I’m putting money aside now... I’m afraid that I’m going to see bills approaching $250 a month or higher. Heck, just recently the price I pay for natural gas went up by just shy of 20%.

I really hope that while Harry is insulated from his actions that they lead to his being very lonely in the senate after the election. The sad thing is that the republicans have given up, and of course it doesn’t help that they told conservatives to piss-off, so he and the dem majority might very well survive in the house and senate!

Mark


27 posted on 07/24/2008 5:29:26 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: Waco

Conservation to an elitist means

lowering the standard of living of the “average person”.


28 posted on 07/24/2008 5:31:47 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Man50D

This is a State’s Rights issue. The Federal Gummit shouldn’t be allowed to keep a State from drilling for oil. This is the problem with Central Planning. Even Russia and China understand the importance of domestic energy better than the DNC.

If you like $5/gal, Thank Pelosi.

Pray for W and Our Troops


29 posted on 07/24/2008 5:32:47 AM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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To: Man50D
They say the key to lowering the price is conservation.

OK, Harry and Nancy. You first.

We want to see you at the pump buying your own gas and driving yourselves around - but sparingly because we must "conserve." YOU decree it, then YOU set the example.

Only then would we even consider taking you seriously, you elitist dirtbags.

30 posted on 07/24/2008 5:36:35 AM PDT by Allegra (Ain't it grand? I'm back in the sand...)
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To: clee1
Because they believe in the sin of oil. They believe in the democrat oil embargo to save our nation, they believe we need to “wean Americans off petroleum products,” as Sen. Cantwell indicated. We must be punished and pay for our sin of oil. It is one of the oldest totalitarian tricks in the book. The democrat oil embargo = control of the American people.

Yes, they have worked very hard at making the Oil is a Sin/evil connection. Drilling is evil, gas is evil, cars are evil, Americans are evil, oil-profits are evil.

Keywords: addiction, wean, sick, fascism

31 posted on 07/24/2008 5:42:46 AM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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To: MarkL
This is your penance for your sin of oil.
32 posted on 07/24/2008 5:45:02 AM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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To: clee1
“How is it that the SANE people of this Nation are held hostage by politicians with mental disorders?”

The answer to your question is a simple one; because the SANE people of this nation continue to vote back in office the very politicians with mental disorders who are holding them hostage. But, hope is eternal. “Maybe, just maybe”, the otherwise sane folks will “finally” wakeup and vote these elitist/socialist politicians out of office. Btw, it's a mistake to characterize these politicians as having mental disorders. Actually, they are quite sane and have a very well defined agenda - total control of the behavior of the American people. Sadly, many Americans don't see it...

33 posted on 07/24/2008 5:46:38 AM PDT by snoringbear ('Just so to get the terminology correct; it goes like this; the federal government is the Pimp, the)
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To: Man50D

The headline doesn’t seem to be directly supported by the article.

(Not that I doubt Reid does feel that $5 gas is no problem, but Farah gives us zero quotes from Reid saying that.)


34 posted on 07/24/2008 5:47:22 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: savedbygrace

WND has a practice of “Stretching” the truth. He may think this, but the headline is definitely misleading.

One reason I rarely use WND as a news source.


35 posted on 07/24/2008 6:23:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: engrpat

The self importance that man shows in that picture is truly worth 1,000 words.


36 posted on 07/24/2008 6:26:02 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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37 posted on 07/24/2008 8:06:36 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: Man50D
Reid, for your constituents it is a problem!

bumper-sticker
 
 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives

38 posted on 07/24/2008 8:16:21 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: TNCMAXQ

You are most correct... sometimes I think that half of America are lost souls.

LLS


39 posted on 07/24/2008 8:55:41 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (REAGANISM... not communism!!!)
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