Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Posted on 08/01/2008 7:28:54 PM PDT by Libloather
Congress' response to gas price is to sputter
Both parties jockeyed for political points
By H. Josef Hebert
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 1, 2008
WASHINGTON - In a summer of nationwide anguish over fuel costs, Congress' attack on high gasoline prices has been full of high-octane rhetoric and low-energy results.
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One energy issue has overshadowed the others: Congress has been in gridlock because of sharp disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over whether to open the coastal waters of the Atlantic and Pacific to oil and gas drilling.
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"If you want to take pressure off price, we ought to be sending a signal that the United States is going to find oil right here in our own hemisphere," he told a meeting of the West Virginia Coal Association.
On Capitol Hill, there seemed to be no interest in compromise.
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"They're like a dog with a bone, and they're not letting go," one Democrat said about the Republican push for offshore oil development.
Democrats know well that opinion polls show that the public overwhelmingly favors more domestic energy development. So they have countered with their own drilling message.
"Democrats are for drilling," the House majority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, said this week, repeating the assertion several times for emphasis. "We're not necessarily for drilling where they (Republicans) want to drill."
"My Republican colleagues are buying the line of Big Oil," the Senate majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said this week.
"Surely Americans are tired of Republicans delaying and rejecting every effort Democrats make to solve our nation's (energy) problems," Reid said as it became increasingly certain that Congress was punting on energy -- at least until fall.
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You mean..."where there's oil"?
just like the u.s. congress to fly outta town
on the public tit.
So which Dems walked home, and which Dems drove their own Prius?
What a joke.
you’re right. it is a joke.
the u.s. congress lives the life of luxury at the expense of working americans.
but, they cannot understand that the price of gas is causing severe distress individually and financially to businesses and corporations.
look at the pain for the air carriers that are dropping flights and not flying planes.
Check out survey in my website http://www.theusmat.com as to reasons Dems walked out
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
I dont think any of these fools consider themselves public servants on the public payroll which is exactly what they are. We need action in the form of what is best for the country to help it survive. Not some bandaid.
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