Behold: the Democrat Energy Plan
Posted on 08/04/2008 9:08:48 AM PDT by kristinn
It was hard to not get twisted up in pretzel knots listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose explanation on "This Week with George Stepanopoulos" about why she hasn't allowed a vote on Republican energy legislation that would ease restrictions on offshore drilling was, to be polite, confusing.
It may have left some in the audience feeling bewildered as a seabird fouled by an oil spill.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, accused Republicans of being monomaniacal on the drilling issue and of suggesting to voters that drilling would immediately lower gas prices. She wasn't going to play along with something that would mislead voters, she asserted.
Here's the problem with that. Anyone who has listened to the debate has heard House Republicans say they are willing to consider a range of options from the use of renewable energy sources to new alternative fuels to conservation so long as they can get a vote on off-shore drilling.
Evidence for this is found in energy legislation introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, the American Energy Act which includes the language to encourage conservation and alternative-fuels research though it obviously places the stress on getting drilling opened up on the Outer Continental Shelf of the U.S. coasts.
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So she will allow the American people to be misled, in her view, by Republican legislation that she says only offers the illusion of addressing high gas prices, so long as Republicans are smart enough to figure out how to get their legislation to the floor? That doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what she appeared to say.
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Keep the pressure on!
The longer she holds out, the greater the humiliation when she folds.....
call (800) 965-4701 to Capital Hill and support your Republican Reps who are TAKING their vacation time to STAY and fight for US! I am very proud at this moment of the efforts they are making and we all need to stand up for them because of it.
Since the Democrats took over control of Congress in 2006 oil prices have increased 75 percent, yet there is no proactive policy from the Democrats to reduce oil prices by increasing the domestic supply and nuclear power. When oil prices were at the $2.00 to $2.25 level along with Wal-Mart’s pricing strategy and the Bush tax cuts, inflationary pressures were kept at bay. This gave us 52 months of low unemployment and a steady 3 percent to 4 percent rise in GDP growth and some of the largest tax revenue increases to the federal government, because of steady growth.
Today, the Democratic Congress is in charge holding us hostage worrying about the global warming/CO2 emissions hoax more than growing our economy by more domestic oil production and using those revenues to find cheap alternative energy solutions for the future. We see $4-plus gas prices causing inflation, transferring a massive amount of wealth overseas, wreaking our economy, which will eventually lower tax revenues for the federal government. The Democrats will be only more than happy to raise tax rates with a Democratic president in the White House.
The pending recession causing federal budgetary shortfalls will give them good reason to raise tax rates. The new marginal taxes will only reduce tax revenues further. Will we ever learn?
Bill Russell
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Ah, Pelosi, the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps now registered democrats will understand what they get for voting these liberal turds into office.
Pelosi Galore is a waste of oxygen.
I thought she was quite clear on the issue. it's because she's trying to "save the world". (snicker)
Pelosi has no right to tell companies that they cannot drill in international waters. If she did, why allow China to drill? We have a 3 mile limit and a 12 mile limit. Other than that they have no right to say we can’t drill 50 miles out. What if we wanted to drill 100 miles out, 500 miles out? Would Pelosi still stop the drilling? Pelosi has to go.
Glowing review! /s
“When the liberal media is calling Pelosi out, you know that”
her days are numbered as Speaker of the House.
I think we have a 200 mile limit as well, which pretty much extends beyond the continental shelf. it’s simply too deep to drill beyond the shelf. The next stop is the mid Atlantic ridge, and the rift is very unstable and risky to drill.
I’ve been trying to call all day
800-965-4701
These guys are heros and we gotta let them know how much we appreciate it
Have not seen anything on tv about it (did call fox)
Plus there are probably some kind of UN enviro-wienie international waters ban on drilling there, or the UN cut is too steep for most oil companies. Who knows for sure...
Dems want high gas prices because they smell all the pork that will go to their “green and alternative” energy programs.
And in the meantime, they will do whatever it takes to increase the price of gas and block any attempt to reverse it. Like blaming energy companies and threats of “windfall” taxes on them. They also politicize this issue by trying to paint themselves as saviors of the planet and that republicans are out to destroy it.
Notice how they recently said that the windfall taxes they want to slap on big oil would go towards alternative energy programs.
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