Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Proving again that he is far past senility. The spill in the Mississippi River was from a LEAKING BARGE, not an oil drilling platform.
...Reid's proposal was meant to insulate Senate Democratic candidates from public anger over gas prices. Instead, it has created a divide with liberal colleagues and drawn fire from senior House Democrats...The usual buffoonery from the Party of Treason. Pelosi's got to be the biggest a-hole ever to hold that position -- "tens of millions of barrels" in the Strategic Reserve would be burned or otherwise used in short order, and she must know that.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), for example, has sponsored legislation to ban drilling in the North Aleutian Basin, an area that Republicans have already opened to oil leasing. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told The Hill that lawmakers should focus on the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska's North Slope instead of offshore...
Democratic lawmakers say the Reid-Bingaman proposal seems to be gaining momentum, though these same sources questioned whether Pelosi would schedule it for a vote in the House. The provision has attracted support from powerful liberals such as Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works panel. Pelosi has balked at scheduling any drilling legislation for a regular floor vote because that would give Republicans an opportunity to force vulnerable Democratic incumbents to vote on difficult amendments...
Bill Wicker, spokesman for the Energy and Natural Resources panel, said Bingaman supports tax credits for renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. But he said the Reid-Bingaman proposal could significantly increase domestic oil production. Specifically, the proposal would set up planning areas covering nearly 1 billion acres off the Alaskan coast with access to an estimated 1.2 billion barrels of oil. The bill would also accelerate leasing by requiring the government to offer lease sales more frequently. It would also eliminate some royalty relief for Outer Continental Shelf leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nevada’s feelin’ it and Reid is probably getting an earful.
Good ole’ Harry, as dependable as Big Ben. He bitches, he moans, he promises to fight on forever, and in the end, he always caves. I suppose he could just start out trying to reach a reasonable compromise, but that’d deprive us of the drama. The real question is why any sentient creature would believe anything he says when he starts posturing.
This is my first reply here, been lurking for years, and the global warming farce has forced me to finally sign up. That they put these liberal fascists priorities ahead of tax paying everyday citizens is proof alone these clowns need to be thrown out.
1) Why don't the oil companies drill in the 48,000 acres?
2) Just where do they propose to drill and what, specifically are the known, likely and speculated reserves in each. Not just raw guesses.
3) Just HOW SOON would oil flow in these places?
I am certainly not saying that “Big Oil” is playing games but I would like these questions answered.
Another ?-
When we pump our own oil, Oil Cos. are NOT paying $146/bbl are they? Aren't they paying the cost as pumped? Wouldn't that, by definition, drop the pump price of gas?
Maria Cantwell, that b1tch from Washington, she’s the one that confirmed my suspicions about this whole anti-energy/global warming ecofreak mess being behind it. She came out the other day in a press conference and said the goal was to get people using less oil. They don’t want drilling because people would use more oil. They don’t want us using our own resources. Anything that allows people to use more energy they are against.
Which is another reason why (not the only one) they were against dropping the gas tax.
Which is why they are against any new drilling.
Which is why they don’t want any oil or coal or natural gas prices going down.
Which is why they don’t want more coal plants even though most use lots of scrubbers and low SOx coal.
They don’t want ANY INCREASES IN SUPPLY!!!!! Increases in supply drive prices down, more is used. Even if prices don’t go down (which they will) there is more supply to be used at some point.
They are trying to fight against the market. They are trying to keep supply low and demand high, then tax the sh1t out of it and not allow any increases in supply - and they in fact want supply to go down even more.
They are trying to implement Kyoto without having to sign it.
They are friggin evil, to do this to their own countrymen. Elitist top party communist officials. Saying “F#ck You! to all of us in the proletariat” (in their commie-loving worldviews).
The Party of Unity, yessiree.
how do you know when a democrat is lying?
you can tell when his lips move.
The voters will remind Democrats this Fall that new oil drilling means new jobs...whether the price of gasoline comes down or not.
I was wondering when Reid was going to figure out that once people cannot afford to fly or drive to Vegas, his political career would be over.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Is the split house leader going to split the house also?