The entire liberal Democrat community in both the US Senate and US House have been against drilling for many years…now with gas over $4.00…who is to blame ? Yes…the liberal Democrats in the US House and Senate…so don’t vote for any of them…send them packing in November along with Senator Obama…especially Senator Obama!
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other liberal leaders on Capitol Hill are gripped by cold-sweat terror. If they permit a vote on offshore drilling, they know they will lose when Blue Dogs and oil-patch Democrats defect to the GOP position of increasing domestic energy production. So the last failsafe is to shut down Congress.
Majority Leader Reid has decided that deliberation is too taxing for “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” This week he cut off serious energy amendments to his antispeculation bill. Then Senate Appropriations baron Robert Byrd abruptly canceled a bill markup planned for today where Republicans intended to press the issue. Mr. Byrd’s counterpart in the House, David Obey, is enforcing a similar lockdown. Speaker Pelosi says she won’t allow even a debate before Congress’s August recess begins in eight days.
She and Mr. Reid are cornered by substance. The upward pressure on oil prices is caused by rising world-wide consumption and limited growth in supplies. Yet at least 65% of America’s undiscovered, recoverable oil, and 40% of its natural gas, is hostage to the Congressional drilling moratorium.
The Democratic leadership is trying to smother any awareness of their responsibility for high prices. They are also trying to quash a revolt among Democrats who realize that the country is still dependent on fossil fuels, no matter how loudly quasimystical environmentalists like Al Gore claim otherwise.
I found this quote on the Free Republic that pretty much sums it up.
Something to think about. Don’t forget to get the word out, this election is important.
The Democrats forced a freeze on SPR(Strategic Petroleum Reserve). The oil prices went up.
The Democrats passed a farm bill with Ethanol. The oil prices went up.
The Democrats pushed a bill threatening to sue OPEC. The oil prices went up.
The Democrats said “no drilling”(Can’t drill our way out, etc). The oil prices went up.
The Democrats held hearings decrying speculators, and pushed regulatory changes about speculation. The oil prices went up.
Democrats pushed for windfall profits on oil companies. Oil prices went up.
Democrats begged Saudi Arabia to pump more oil. Oil prices went up.
Democrats passed measure increasing “renewable fuel” investments. Oil prices went up.
The Democrats went on vacation (4Th of July). Oil prices went down.
Bush announced the end of the executive ban on drilling. Oil prices plummeted, biggest 2-day drop ever.
Bush administration cleared regulatory hurdles to drill in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Oil prices went down.
A new well was brought online. Oil prices went down.
Administration published new relaxed rules for shale oil. Oil prices went down.
We made it through hurricane season so far; Latest storm didn’t bother gulf – oil prices went down.
So far, it looks like everything the Democrats said would lower prices actually raised prices.
Meanwhile, everything that happened that looked like it would INCREASE SUPPLY caused the oil prices to DROP.
So, economics 101 is still operative. Supply and demand folks. It still works.
Get government involved in the market and prices go up, get them out and prices go down.
Leave the markets alone congress!! Do something productive like… oh I don’t know, go on vacations! (See above)
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