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Barack Obama’s New Energy Policy: The Audacity of Stupidity

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Jul 302008

At a campaign stop in Missouri today, Barack Obama unveiled a new energy policy that’s so brilliant it has to be heard to be believed. And to think this guy is running for President!

“There are things that you can do individually though to save energy; making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much.” ~ Barack Obama

He actually said that!

I guess I better go check to see if my tires are properly inflated. If everybody does that, the price of a barrel of oil will drop to around 50 dollars. Why didn’t we see that all along? The man is brilliant!

Nancy Pelosi: “Saving the Planet” by Harming Americans

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Jul 292008

Save the planet? Every Liberal thinks they’re saving the planet when they ride a bike, replace an incandescent light with a fluorescent bulb, take a three minute shower, or use only one sheet of toilet paper. Nancy Pelosi is just another liberal flake. I wonder what will happen when they find out the planet doesn’t need saving.

Forget about the planet. Save America Nancy! Drill for oil on American soil!

As Pelosi Tries to ‘Save the Planet,’ Republicans Criticize Offshore Drilling Ban

Congressional Republicans are stepping up attacks on Democrats who are blocking votes on oil drilling legislation, homing in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was quoted saying that she wants “to save the planet.”

Pelosi, in an interview published Tuesday in Politico.com, defended her efforts to stall spending bills, saying as speaker she decides which bills will make it to the House floor.

“I’m trying to save the planet. … I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy,” Pelosi said. “When you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.”

Ahead of a Republican press conference Tuesday focusing on stalled energy priorities, House Minority Leader John Boehner responded by attacking Pelosi, who has been making talk-show rounds this week with a new book, titled “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters.”

“She’s got time to go out and promote her new book tour and her new book, but she doesn’t have time to schedule a vote on the floor of the House and let the American people have their will expressed?” Boehner told FOX News.

Boehner blamed Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for preventing relief.

“For 25 years, Democrats have blocked more American-made oil and gas. That’s why we’re in the predicament we’re in,” said Boehner, R-Ohio. Voters want Congress “to vote on more American made oil and gas. We want to do that. She, Harry Reid, Barack Obama are standing in the way.”

House and Senate Democrats are using their control of Congress to avoid voting on opening up the Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil exploration, which they say is unnecessary because oil companies already have leases to millions of acres of federal land. Because of the deadlock, Democratic energy priorities have stalled, too.

Pelosi countered the criticism by issuing a statement that listed a series of editorials from newspaper boards critical of the GOP plan to allow more offshore oil drilling.

“American families and businesses are struggling with skyrocketing gas prices at the pump, but President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress continue to stand in the way of real relief,” Pelosi said in the statement. “Instead, the Bush-Cheney policy, an energy plan crafted by two oilmen in the White House, revolves around the best interests of Big Oil – from protecting tax breaks to expanding domestic oil and gas drilling.”

But with a contentious election coming up, and with most Americans now supporting drilling, Boehner and Republicans are willing to go on offense.

Boehner suggested Obama is among Democrats who he says are influenced by a “radical group of environmentalists” pushing higher gas prices.

“If you listen to Barack Obama during the primaries, you know, he didn’t think $5 gas was all that bad. He was just upset it got there so quickly. And what you’ve got, you’ve got a bunch of radical environmentalists who think that we ought to have higher gasoline prices so Americans will drive less,” Boehner said.

With four legislative weeks left before the November elections, after which Congress is likely to punt big issues until the next administration takes office, little time is left to find a means to reduce oil costs, which is blamed for driving up inflation and slowing down the economy.

“They’re trying to run out the clock,” Boehner said.

Grass Guzzler: Man Rides Horseback to do his Errands

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Jul 272008

Ernie Runge lives in the same town as me and when this story ran in a local paper I decided that I would share it. With gas prices so high, he has decided horseback riding may be a good way to get his errands done and who can blame him.

Grass Guzzler

These days everyone is looking for a way to cut down on their fuel costs and one Douglassville man is relying on authentic horsepower to do the trick.

“I’ve done this a number of times probably for the last year and especially now that the gas prices are up,” Ernie Runge said of riding horseback to do his errands.

Runge, atop his horse Red Corner Rose, took a ride to National Penn Bank in Douglassville Friday with friends Bryan McIntyre and Lindsay Radies, both of Birdsboro.

“My buddies and I usually go horseback riding on a Friday,” Runge said, so he’s paired his rides with getting errands done.

After going to the bank Friday “we stopped at the Douglassville Hotel and had a beer,” Runge said.

A native of the local area, Runge, who owns Holiday Stables, said he’s been riding horses since he was about 12 years old. These days the 63-year-old said he rides about four or five times a week.

He enjoys riding trails throughout the local area, including the Thun Trail, but riding his horses to the grocery store, to the local bar or the bank often gets more looks and comments from people.

“We’ll get comments of ‘How many miles do you get per gallon of oats,'” Runge said.

The bank tellers at the drive thru all come up to the window to get a glimpse of him on his horse, and when he decides to use a vehicle to go to the bank they ask when he’s bringing the horse back.

Runge said he’s never gotten any negative comments or been given a hard time for riding his horses to places like the bank or the supermarket.

“I’ve never had any grief but I certainly know better than to ride down (Route) 422,” he said. “We’re cautious. We want to make sure we’re alive to do it the next day.”

Runge said he rides any chance he can get, but cutting back on fuel cost is certainly an incentive to do it for more practical things.

“I would probably do it anyway to be honest with you,” he said of riding his horse to complete chores, “but it is because of this gas crunch that we find we’re doing it more often.”

Runge explained that not all horses are suited for riding on the road or near lots of people or traffic. But his horse Red Corner Rose does.

Anyone else who thinks they’d like to ride horseback around town needs to “definitely make sure they have the quiet, gentle, thoughtful horse that’s going to accept the traffic” and other distractions, Runge said.

If the price of gasoline were to miraculously drop tomorrow, Runge said he’d still likely keep riding his horses as often as he does now.

“We enjoy doing it,” he said of horseback riding, speaking for himself and his friends. “It’s a passion. It’s my life.”

Bush Should Call Congress Back To Vote On Drilling

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Jul 262008

In my opinion we are approaching a national emergency when a significant number of Americans will not be capable of paying $5 a gallon for heating oil to heat their homes.

Calling Congress back to vote on drilling would force the Pelosi, Reid, Obama “The False Messiah” and all of their cohorts with their windmill fantasies to defend themselves on the floors of Congress. McCain could destroy Obama on this issue.

Let’s face it, The 110th Congress is in the grip of a cowardly paralysis and it is time to force their hand.

Call Congress Back To Vote On Drilling

Leadership: When it comes to giving relief at the pump by drilling for more oil, this is truly a “do-nothing” Democratic Congress. President Bush should give ’em hell like Harry Truman did.

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution states that the president “may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses” of Congress. On more than two dozen occasions in our history, presidents have done just that, forcing the Senate and House of Representatives to meet on extraordinary matters of defense or economic peril.

Sixty years ago this month, President Truman called such a special session to shame into action what he labeled a “do nothing” Republican Congress. He dubbed it the Turnip Day Session, because of the day on which it began. According to folklore in Truman’s native Missouri, “On the 25th of July, sow your turnips, wet or dry.”

Congress refused to do Truman’s bidding in the session, but the bold move saved the president’s political skin. He defied the odds that November and was re-elected — largely because the public came to view the 80th Congress as in the grip of a cowardly paralysis.

Today’s Democratic-controlled 110th Congress is just as paralyzed, but the stakes are far higher. Our irrational dependence on oil from foreign nations is squeezing American consumers and businesses with sky-high fuel prices. And it makes us vulnerable to blackmail by hostile, oil-rich regimes.

Americans use nearly 21 million barrels of oil a day. The U.S. Geological Survey has just identified 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the Arctic — nearly 30 billion barrels of it in Alaska. Yet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to allow a floor vote on drilling because the idea it would make a difference is “frivolous,” she said last week.

Suffering consumers disagree. This month, an IBD/TIPP Poll of 920 adults found that by more than 3-to-1 Americans believe gas prices to be a bigger problem than global warming. A broad-based 64% of respondents favor offshore drilling, and 65% want oil shale development in the Western states.

A Rasmussen survey in June found 67% of voters in favor of drilling off the coasts of California, Florida and other states, and 64% believing gas prices would drop as a result. A Zogby poll last month found that 74% want offshore drilling in U.S. waters.

This is a potential political gusher, if only Republicans would fully tap into it. Bush has the opportunity to do so before this hot, cash-guzzling summer ends. Like Truman, he can use his constitutional authority to call this negligent Congress back once it embarks on its long August recess to campaign for re-election.

In so doing, he can demand that instead of nonsolutions like its failed attempt to release more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve [SPR], Congress carry out the will of the vast majority of Americans by passing laws that authorize drilling.

In one fell swoop, a presidential recall of Congress would strengthen national security, boost our economy and maybe even turn things around for Republicans and avoid the losses being predicted for them this election year.

If giving ’em hell worked for Harry, you bet it can work for Dubya.

Your Wallet: The Only Place Democrats Want to Drill

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Jul 262008

The Tennessee Republican Party has come up with a great idea for a bumper sticker that will give the American people a way to show their disapproval of the Democrat Party’s refusal to approve increased drilling for oil in our own country.

Tennessee Republican Party offers motorists a way to express their opinion on Democrats’ refusal to address high gas prices.

The Tennessee Republican Party has released a new bumper sticker designed to help motorists express their disapproval of the Democrat Party’s refusal to approve increased drilling for oil in our own country in order to combat high gas prices and our dangerous dependence on imported oil.

The TRP releases the bumper sticker, and reiterates its endorsement of the grassroots Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less campaign, at the same time that Democrat leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are blocking all attempts by Republican lawmakers to force a vote on legislation to expand domestic oil drilling.

“The polls are unequivocal – the American people are ready for an energy policy that encourages more domestic oil production in addition to focusing on conservation, energy efficiency and developing alternative energy technologies, yet Democrats refuse,” said Tennessee Republican Party communications director Bill Hobbs. “And while it is the Washington Democrats who are refusing to vote to allow expanded oil drilling, Tennessee Democrat leaders like Tennessee Democrat Party Chairman Gray Sasser, Democrat Gov. Phil Bredesen and a host of elected Democrats across the state have endorsed the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, who also opposes increased oil drilling.”

More than 1.3 million Americans have already signed the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition, on the web at http://www.americansolutions.com.

“A few weeks ago, I and the Tennessee Republican Party echoed the sentiments of millions of Tennesseans by joining the chorus of ‘Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less’,” said Robin Smith, Chairman of the Tennessee Republican party. “In sharp contrast, Tennessee Democrats have remained stone silent about moving their members of Congress to act to allow more domestic oil production.”

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