Posted on 03/18/2022 12:58:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
House Democratic leadership on Thursday coalesced around a strategy for combating rising gas prices, a growing political liability for the party ahead of the midterm elections.
But some Democrats continued to push alternative approaches to limiting pain at the pump, reflecting divisions within a party that has sought to curtail fossil fuel use to fight climate change.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said that oil companies should be forced to use drilling permits or lose them — an approach commonly described as “use it or lose it.”
However, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), on Thursday [said] that he would prefer to provide direct rebates to low-income drivers.
“There are direct things that could be done to provide relief for very low-income people for commuting expenses and so forth,” Blumenauer said.
“We've sent direct checks before,” he added. “We can do that. We know who these people are. And if that's what you want to do, do it in a targeted way. Make sure it gets to them and it isn't gummed up in oil company machinations and supply chain problems.”
On the other side of the Capitol, some Senate Democrats continued to advocate for taxing the windfall profits that big oil companies have reaped amid the soaring crude prices sparked by the war in Ukraine.
Still other Senate Democrats have called for a federal gas tax holiday. A measure sponsored by Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), who both face tough reelection races, would suspend the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon until January 2023.
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Sure, make the people who are paying high prices for fuel buy fuel for Democrat constituents.
Wait for the monthly gas supplement checks to everyone... govt nipple.
Nefarious idiots! They create a problem that they somehow cannot repair. Retromingent Baboons.
Windfall profits tax was a Jimmy Carter idea. All these stories about how this and that affects the “beloved” Democrats.
It's difficult to use them when environ-MENTAL-ists are trying to block them at every turn, Princess.
The Compost is really bending over backwards to bail out the DNCCP, aren’t they ?
They put a couple of crack, karen reporters on the case.
I knew they would pull this BS. Just print more money and send it out. No way these pricks are going allow a fuel supply increase.
environ-MENTAL-ists are trying to block them at every turn, Princess. “
Nancy knows this, it is just a dishonest way to shift the blame to the oil companies.
I still hasn’t got my gas stimulant check. Who does I rite too?
Same ole songs every time gas prices go up.
Same ole playbook.
Gas pumps should have a voter selection button. Enter your one time verification code and make your selection.
“We know who these people are.”
That is their priority—tracking the slaves.
Um.. has anyone talked to their leftist acquaintances? They fully know: 1. More oil is being produced under Biden than trump. 2. Biden is going after greedy oil companies. 3. He is sending a check to his voters from the oil company profits. 4. Inflation and gas prices are 100 percent Russia, Russia Russia.
I'm waiting for a Republican to ridicule Pelosi. Still waiting. Waiting some more.
Okay, that ain't happening because Republicans are all a bunch of pussies. So, I will do it. Nancy is a moron. Anyone that agrees with her is a moron. Just a couple weeks ago Democrats were telling oil companies that they better not have excess profits. It seems to me that Democrats understand that oil companies are in business to make a profit. How did that change in a matter of weeks? Democrats are now telling oil companies to use permits, which would create profits.
We all know what is really happening here. Oil companies are not using the permits because there is no oil under the land for said permits. Democrats are just playing to their base and those in the Democrat base that buy into this steaming pile of excrement are morons just like their betters. In short, they have excrement for brains.
Joe Biden to China: Listen Xi, to show Russia how serious we are, we have decided to collapse our economy and set off hyperinflation. We are also going to push the world off the dollar system. So you better watch out!
China: (scratches head) Uhh. OK.
“There are direct things that could be done to provide relief for very low-income people for commuting expenses and so forth,”
Isn’t high gas prices what they wanted?
Yes, but not a few months before an election.
It’s the economy stupid!
The full initial statement from Biden was that more oil is being produced in his first year as resident than was produced under Trump in his first year. (Or something like that).
That's is true, since Trump wasn't in office long enough to undo the damage from the Obama-Biden administration. Here's the truth (From "official government data"):
U.S. Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)
2017 - 9,524
2020 - 11,289
2021 - 11,175
Biden is nothing more than a lying bastard.
I hope it’s more than a dilemma! CRASH AND BURN, democrats!
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