Allen Boyd: Why I voted for the energy bill

Panama City News Herald ^ | 5 July 2009 | Congresseman Allen Boyd (D-Fl)

[beelzepug]

So where is the provision...that encourages - or even allows - increased access to our DOMESTIC sources of energy?”

Which of the traitorous eight was it that, when asked about ANWR, said, “That’s a dead issue.” It might have been Reichert.

[ziravan]

The REAL reason Why I voted for the Cap and Trade Energy and Economy Devastation Bill by Congressman Allen Boyd:

I wasn’t senior enough to get one of the few passes that Speaker Pelosi was able to give out because of the 8 so-called Republican votes . . .

[Oldhunk]

This clown is my congressman. But he is in no danger of losing his seat. While he may face some opposition in conservative Panama City, there are too many voters in the Tallahassee area who feed from the government trough.

[YHAOS]

"Until these weasels in congress understand that Nuclear is a major part of our energy solution they don’t have a clue. "

Their understanding works well enough. Cheap energy is liberating. Liberating normal people is the last thing they want. They want us confined, and controlled. Freeing up energy will not serve their purpose (or the purpose of the Kenyan Pretender).

[ronnie raygun]

You voted for it because you only want one term! Shut up sit down and you’ll be pushing a shopping cart with cans in a short while! A follower, not a leader!

[US Navy Vet]

AHH, cause you are a DEM!

[NoobRep]

What a horse’s ass. Regulating carbon emissions will squeeze the manufacturing sector and in turn squeeze every individual in the country. Manufacturing can either pass on higher costs of doing business of head for China and India. This issue is so far removed from any foundation surrounding phony climate change. It’s simply a political Ponzi scheme designed to exert more control on behalf of the statists trying to take over this country.

[RJL]

I approach the energy debate with the basic assumption that our current energy policy is not working.

Only because of our government's non energy policies.

It's social engineering designed to deprive us of abundant cheap energy and force us into scarce expensive energy

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We are dangerously dependent on foreign sources of energy, and this dependence is expensive.

Again, only because our government won't allow us to build nuclear power plants or drill for our own oil.

America runs from top to bottom on abundant cheap energy, but our idiot politicians are determined to force us into scarce expensive energy.

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One of the biggest misconceptions about the energy bill is that it would impose thousands of dollars in costs on the average household. This is simply not true.

I'm willing to bet everything I own that you are wrong, are you willing to bet everything you own?

[DNME]

I'm starting to get really nervous over how brazen these Congresscritters have become. Slavish devotion to the Cult of Nancy is one thing, but this has gone far beyond that.

The folks back home scream, yell, fax and e-mail (and hold tea parties) but to no avail. The 'critters go right ahead and vote for these OBSCENE spending bills WITHOUT EVEN READING THEM!! Talk about political suicide!

This leads me to suspect one of two things:

Either they're not worried because they know they're as doomed as the dinosaurs on Asteroid Day, or ... much more chilling ... they're already guaranteed re-election in 2010. Could the fix already be in?

There is a third choice, of course ... the voters are too damn stupid to remember and they ALWAYS re-elect these same miscreants. But the voters will have lots of help remembering on Election Day, of that I am certain.

[Jacquerie]

they're already guaranteed re-election in 2010

I think this is the most likely case.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Boyd contends that it is not true that the energy bill would impose thousands of dollars in costs on the average household.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analyzed the bill and concluded it would cost 48 cents a day for families at its height in 2020 - around the cost of a postage stamp per day. These estimates did not even include the savings that would come from upgrades to the energy grid, more efficient homes, and advanced appliance efficiency standards.

We hear this argument repeatedly, but no one ever asks if these Budget Office estimates include the enormous cost of upgrading the energy grid, the cost of making the homes more efficient or the cost of those more efficient appliances. Betcha bucks it doesn't!

[Lancey Howard]

Boyd is a liar.
Surprise, surprise...

[Lancey Howard]

I’ll tell you this - - I plan to burn a whole lot more trees in my wood stove this year.