Posted on 06/10/2008 3:12:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 06/10/2008 Pelosi Statement on Senate Republicans Blocking Legislation to Lower Gas Prices, Invest in Renewables
Washington, D.C. – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response to Senate Republicans blocking consideration of the Consumer-First Energy Act and the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008:
“Senate Republicans have once again shown themselves to be unwilling to break free of the costly, failed Bush energy policies of the past. They have again adopted President Bush’s ‘drill and veto’ policy that is driving up the price of oil, diesel, and gasoline and leaving us dangerously reliant on Middle East oil.
“President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Senate Republicans have shown no leadership on energy issues for seven years, which is why we face a growing energy crisis. If Republicans will not lead us to a cleaner, more independent energy future for America then they should at least get out of the way.
“The House will soon put forward new, innovative legislation to help tackle high energy costs and make us more energy independent.”
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Background
The legislation the Senate was considering would have been another critical step toward lowering energy prices, providing for cleaner, renewable alternatives that would make our nation more energy independent and secure, and creating hundreds of thousands of new green collar jobs.
In just the last few months, Congress successfully pressed the Bush Administration into investigating oil market price manipulation, passed a Farm Bill that boosts home-grown, advanced biofuels production, halted deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase oil supply in the market, and passed legislation that invests in clean, renewable, and efficient energy technologies, including tax incentives for plug-in hybrid cars, energy efficient homes and appliances.
The ‘rat plan has been working for the last two years. It’s change, but in the wrong direction.
ROFL. I’m going to have to remember that.
What a complete moron this woman. This statement I think will get an email pointing out the obvious roadblock. I thought she had a plan since the whole blood for oil scheme failed. RRR.
Too bad our cars won’t run on all that hot air that comes from Pelosi.
This loon of the left continues to show her STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE of the issue of energy. While the liberals continue to restrict America’s ability to provide for energy independence, our government in total shows its continued delibate suppression of a comprehensive energy policy that would greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, to produce much of our own from our own territory. Include the suppression of clean, affordable nuclear electric power as well. Why do Americans TOLERATE this suicidal politcal crap?
The only "fix" for high prices is to increase the supply of oil...preferably from domestic sources that aren't already running full tilt to try to keep up with current demand. The demand side of the equation is doing nothing but going up. The "renewable" BS is unreliable and thus far a serious detriment to our food prices and supplies.
Drill and veto is all that is going to bring the price of oil down, Nancy.
In fact, it would have the exact opposite effect. If they thought we were seriously going to do a lot of drilling and refining (things most GOP congressional members want) then they would immediatley drastically lower their prices to try and get below that so our companies would view it as economically unfeasable.
No, Nacny, it is you and your cohorts and your Obamanation candidate who are enacting and pushing policies that keep the price high, along with your rabid environmental lobby which is no more concerned about true conservation thn Obama's Black Liberation Theology is concerned about true Christianity.
Fat is, your ilk and Barack Hussein Obama are the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.
“They have again adopted President Bush’s ‘drill and veto’ policy”
But you wont let us drill!!! The veto works quite nicely, could you imagine how well the drilling would work???
I have HOPE!!!
Well, it's her website so I guess she can propagandize on it. If people actually read this bill any fool can surmise that it would greatly increase our prices. But then again when do the Dems ever tell the truth about what they are doing? Using ANY means (lie, cheat, steal) necessary to get what they eventually want for our nation. Marxism.
-PJ
My GM manual recommends the mix.
The dims keep talking about “failed policies of the past”
Theirs is the failed policy of the past.
Until the dims and the tree huggers took over, there was plenty of oil, plenty of energy, gas prices we could afford.
Then came the tree huggers and the micro managers.
After 30 years of their meddling with the free market system, we have the results in today's energy crisis.
The repubs need to rub in in over and over that the failed policies of the past are: Attempts to prevent drilling in areas they consider to be unsuitable for drilling, rule making that make it too difficult to build new refineries, laws or rule making that prevent the use of high sulfur diesel for any purpose, rule making that requires special gasoline blends for certain areas of the country, etc.
They are the failure that needs to be abandoned.
But the pubs are too gutless to hit them head on.
My GM manual recommends the mix.
Spit on the monitor reading that one. No further comment.
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