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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i just checked my Democrat Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring to see what the solution was for the Democrat’s Dilemma, and it said: “Make More Electric Cars” ...
Dilemma???…print more fake ballots…no problem…c’mon man
Democraps love Big Oil. Big Oil gives them lots of cash. Every time a democrap gets in office oil prices increase and Big Oil has record profits.
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said that oil companies should be forced to use drilling permits or lose them
Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told The Climate 202 yesterday that he strongly supports this approach, adding that leadership wants to invite the chief executives of oil companies to testify before his panel about their unused drilling permits. “Big Oil and Big Gas need to be held accountable.”
The Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would slap a 50 percent tax on profits that oil companies earn above a $66-per-barrel price — the average price from 2015 through 2019 — and send half of that revenue to taxpayers.:
so: take away issued drilling permits, haul oil CEOs before Congress and grill the evil bastards, legislate new taxes on oil ... yep, folks, typical Democrat Bizzaro World “solutions” for real world problems ...
The top 2 oil refiners - Marathon and Valero - don’t produce oil, they buy it to convert into fuel. And the country’s largest refinery - in Texas - owned by the Saudis.
Raul Grijalva is a Marxist who has never found a viable solution to any problem. Sad, but Arizona Chicanos are not an intellectual match for their Texas cousins.
Thus, have a drilling permit, dry hole or not, dwarves come at night and presto, producing well.
If the oil company raises the price of production, they are gouging.
Serfs will learn to walk.
One of the problems democrats have is the pink hat wearing soccer moms and men that drive premium gas guzzling luxury cars. At some point these people will vote their pocket books.
High gas prices are announced at every gas station across America every day for everyone to see.
The rat pricks can’t escape their failed economic policy. The rat party is dead in 2022.
And screw all you simpleton, brainwashed defeatists on FR who can’t see it.
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