Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas and winter heating prices.
Posted on 08/24/2008 3:22:31 PM PDT by DallasBiff
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s message on energy, already evolving in recent weeks, might have to evolve a little more.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.
The speaker apparently was trying to contrast her support for expanded use of natural gas as a motor-vehicle fuel, and many Republicans’ preference for more domestic oil drilling — particularly through opening up more of the Outer Continental Shelf for exploration.
But according to naturalgas.org, an educational Web site maintained by the Natural Gas Supply Association, “natural gas is the cleanest of all the fossil fuels.”
Pelosi and her husband drew attention recently for their investment in T. Boone Pickens’s Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which markets compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas as a fuel for motor vehicles. Some leading Democrats, including Pelosi, have been eying legislation to encourage such uses of natural gas, as soaring gasoline prices have put pressure on Congress to do something. Amid steady pressure from Republicans, both Pelosi and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama also have signaled that they’re open to expanding offshore oil drilling, as long as it’s part of a comprehensive package that includes other energy alternatives.
Pelosi’s investment in Clean Energy – between $50,000 and $100,000 – is a tiny fraction of the speaker’s assets, as she pointed out on Sunday. “That’s not the point,” she added. “I’m investing in something I believe in.”
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...and can funnel taxpayer money into.
I agree with that.
You ‘shore’ do talk ‘purtier’ than I do, though.
Read on, from Wikipedia:
The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter, the principle has real validity. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
Russert, (God rest his Soul) is spinning in his grave that no one had a comeback on the fact that it is a fossil fuel, he would have caught that.
For years were heard about Cheney and Bush and being tied to Big Oil.
Da, sometimes the Gas is found with the oil, does this now make San-Fran-Nan a tool of "Big Gas"?
The 50k or 100K is just a small part of their net worth, Oh really, if so then how does that make able to relate to the little people and champion them.
I do not know about you by my Hypocrisy and Inconsistency meter is pegged....
My God, that woman is STUPID!
“Pelosi and her husband drew attention recently for their investment in T. Boone Pickens’s Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which markets compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas as a fuel for motor vehicles...”
Imagine the uproar if this was a conservative Republican!
I believe that to be true.
I see it every day.
Natural gas is from multiple sources.
Some of them are fossil, such as coal, but it also comes from deep within the core of the earth, where its production is not yet fully understood.
Now we're getting down to the real issue!
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas and winter heating prices.
“Pelosi’s investment in Clean Energy – between $50,000 and $100,000 – is a tiny fraction of the speaker’s assets, as she pointed out on Sunday”
She did! This is clearly a ethics violation. She’s investing in energy generation she has direct power to enrich herself. This should be a huge issue.
Gee queen bee, have any futures in natural gas by any chance?
It is my understanding that this is not improper.
Congressmen are allowed to call hearings, interview company officials for otherwise private insider trading information, and then place stock and/or bond trades based on that information.
That all is something that isn't bandied about too much. Wonder why?
I saw that too. She’s worth $100 million. Google up “Isolep” and start the fun. All the San Fran names are entwined in this stuff. Newsom is mentioned often as well.
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