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Why Do Liberals Want High Gas Prices?

January 19, 2011 gags

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Liberals do everything they can to drive up gas prices and then they point the finger elsewhere. It’s time for them to explain why they want to hurt American families and the economy by making oil more expensive.

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The Truth about Drilling in ANWR

June 30, 2008 gags

The following e-mail was sent to me the other day, and it’s just too good not to republish.

The bottom line is this; when you hear Democrats saying drilling in ANWR won’t solve all of our oil problems. Until some alternative form of energy is developed to replace oil, we must take many proactive actions. ANWR, shale, coastal drilling etc. — altogether these solutions will relieve us of the horrible dependence we have on jihad oil.

Who the hell is Congress working for? We elected them – they are public servants. They work for us.

First, do you know what ANWR is?

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Now, a comparison:

And some perspective:

Note where the proposed development area is (in the ‘ANWR Coastal Plain’):

This is what the Democrats, liberals and ‘greens’ show you when they talk about ANWR. And they are right, these are photographs of ANWR:

Isn’t ANWR beautiful? Why should we drill here (and destroy) this beautiful place?

Well, that’s not exactly the truth.

Do you remember the map?

The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain.

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?

What’s going on here?

The answer is simple.

That is NOT where they are wanting to drill!

This is what the proposed exploration area ACTUALLY looks like in the winter:

And this is what it ACTUALLY looks like in the summer:

Here are a couple screen shots from Google Earth:

As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland.

Oh, and they say that they are concerned about the effect on the local wildlife.

Here is a photo (shot during the summer) of the ‘depleted wildlife’ situation created by drilling around Prudhoe Bay. Don’t you think that the Caribou really hate that drilling?

Here’s that same spot during the winter:

Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

Now, why do you think that the Democrats are LYING about ANWR?

Remember when Al Gore said that the government should work to ARTIFICIALLY raise gas prices to $5 a gallon?

Well, Al Gore and his fellow Democrats have almost reached their goal!

Now that you know that the Democrats have been lying, what are you going to do about it?

You can start by forwarding this to everyone you know, so that they will know the truth.

P.S.: Drilling does not “destroy.” It creates jobs, resources and strengthens our economy — all while protecting our environment. Everyone benefits, even caribou.

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ANWR Derangement Syndrome: Senate Democrats Reject Domestic Oil Drilling

May 14, 2008 gags

“We can’t drill our way to lower prices,” said Sen. Dick “Head” Durbin, D-Ill.

Hey Dick, if we can’t drill our way to lower prices then why did this vote occur in the first place? If your desire is to increase the supply to the public, then why not actually increase the supply to the public?

Senate Passes Halt On Oil Stockpiling To Curb Gas Prices

A veto-proof majority in the Senate voted Tuesday to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to curtail soaring gasoline prices.

The vote dealt a setback to President Bush’s policy of boosting oil stockpiles in the event of a major supply disruption. But it had a limited immediate market impact.

Crude oil spiked to $126.98 a barrel on fuel oil demand and Iran’s talk of cutting exports. Oil shed some gains on the SPR vote, but still closed up $1.57 at $125.80.

The Senate voted 97 to 1 to halt crude deliveries now averaging 70,000 barrels a day until the price of oil drops below $75. That’s less than 0.1% of global demand of 87 million barrels. A House vote was scheduled later in the day.

The Energy Information Administration estimates stockpiling 100,000 barrels a day adds $2 a barrel to the price of oil and 4-5 cents a gallon to gasoline.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office says an SPR halt could save drivers 5-24 cents a gallon.

Influential oil economist Philip Verleger told Congress in December that filling the strategic reserve “may have added as much as 10% to the light sweet crude price.”

He suggests the Energy Department sell light sweet crude stocks and fill the SPR with more-plentiful sour crude, which has a higher sulfur content. That means refiner rules would need to be relaxed in an emergency, he says.

The White House has kept boosting crude stockpiles over growing criticism. Bush argues that preparing for a national emergency trumps the negligible price declines that would result.

He proposed doubling SPR capacity to 1.5 billion barrels in his 2007 State of the Union address. The reserve now holds just over 700 million barrels, enough to cover 58 days of imports.

“Congressional tampering with presidential authority to fill the SPR may be unconstitutional,” wrote Heritage Foundation senior fellow Ariel Cohen. The move “interferes with the executive branch’s authority to conduct national security policy.”

Republican lawmakers are parting ways with Bush on the strategic reserve, but they are united in supporting more domestic drilling.

“(W)e’ve been heartened that by bringing up the SPR plan Democrats are conceding a link between increasing our supply and reducing our price at the pump,” House Minority Leader John Boehner and Republican Whip Roy Blunt said in a statement.

They noted in a letter to Pelosi that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling could eventually yield 1 million barrels per day. The Senate on Tuesday voted 56 to 42 against a bid to open ANWR.

The senators also urged Congress to lift restrictions on deep-water drilling off U.S. coasts.

Meanwhile, Democrats are pushing a resolution to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia until it ups oil output.

“If Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries do not substantially increase production, we in Congress will block their lucrative arms deals,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Democratic leaders haven’t backed a federal gas-tax holiday proposed by presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.