| January 30, 2010
I am extremely upset with the United States Congress right now. They are the reason gas prices are high and will continue to rise. I am well aware the prices are being driven up by speculators who look at supply and demand, but it is the lousy politicians in the US Congress that are eliminating any chance of increase supply for years to come.
Once again last week the Liberal Democrats led by crazy liberal Nancy Pelosi blocked an attempt to allow domestic drilling in the United States in areas like the Rockies and off the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Democrats are trying to say it is all the oil companies faults, but Americans are smarter than that. In a recent Gallup Poll, just 20% of Americans buy the Democrats, while 57% are on the side of the Republicans and favor drilling, up 16% since last year at this time.
Democrats, you may think you got this election locked up, but many are speculating gas prices may be the #1 or #2 issue concerning Americans when they go vote this fall, and you are on the wrong side of this argument. Republicans can soften the expected major blow by making it known they are the party that is truly fighting to get us off our dependence on foreign oil and the party that wants to drill which will LOWER Prices!
To the left is a poll conducted on AOL.com that shows a state by state glance of those who support drilling or other energy plans to fix the oil crisis in this country. All 50 States [not 57 Barack] support drilling in America as the #1 way to help lower oil prices. It is quite clear from this poll that Americans want us to drill now! Democrats, you will not win as many seats as possible because of this very issue, and when you don't, thank Nancy Pelosi and her radical environmental left.
DEMOCRATS : LET US DRILL!
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:21:46 metzIf you only knew how far away I am from a Democrat I am. I am as conservative as they come buddy.
Seeing the area I love, that being Youngstown, struggle to get out of the recession because of the Democratic Leadership is one huge reason I am such a Republican. I got other reasons too!
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:22:32 AmerikaYou completely miss the point…
Oil companies haven’t drilled on 3/4ths of the rights they already own!
And oil spec investors are STORING OIL!!!
You, my friend, are a Dem at heart, and 10 years from now you will realize how wrong you are…
Do not believe ANYTHING you hear from the GOP. They are NOT Republicans, the party was overrun my sinister special interests… And the same thing is happening to the Dems…
You, me, all of the folks making less than a million a year are going to be fooked!!! It’s been happening for 7+ years…
The grand experiment, Democracy, may just be failing…
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:24:07 metzI never said I was a fan of old man Bush, because too tell you the truth, with everything I read on the guy, I probably would not have been happy during his presidency other than the success in Iraq. He raised taxes although he said he wouldn’t and he did this dumb thing.
GWBush Jr. has stated he’d live this ban if Congress would lift their ban. He can’t have an executive order authorizing drilling because of the Congressional ban. So it’s like beating a dead horse with the idiots in Congress.
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:25:01 AmerikaJust to give you some info: The Executive order prohibiting further off-shore drilling leases was signed into law by George H. W. Bush…
DEMS, LET US DRILL!!!
That is SO damn funny!!!
Dubya could get rid of that law tomorrow, but someone would need to show him how to operate a pen!!!
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:25:32 AmerikaThis just in:
The is NO such thing as a BAN on off-shore drilling. There is a MORATORIUM on NEW oil field leases. US corporations have leases to drill in 40 MILLION acres, but in fact, they are currently only drilling in 12 million acres. They have access to another 28 million acres be have CHOSEN not to drill.
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:25:56 AmerikaStats out today: Any drilling off-shore in the Gulf or in the ANWAR will NOT affect the market before 2012.
Sorry. Repeal the Enron loophole and the price of gas will be $2.00 a gallon the next day!!!
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:27:05 AmerikaNo everything you post is out of Rush’s mouth.
I don’t read moveon.org.
I guess it’s NOT true that the Republicans had complete control of this country for nearly 8 years and drove it straight into the ditch. Check your facts, when we have a Dem president the nation’s economy works, when we have a Repuke the economy tanks and spending goes up. Go back and look. All the way back to Kennedy that pattern is true. The REAL FACT is, Republicans are the party of BIG SPENDING and BAD ECONOMIES.
And that, my little friend, is a FACT
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:27:47 metzIt’s the Republicans fault for this, it’s the Republicans fault it rained today, it’s the Republicans fault Rocco Mediate lost to Tiger Woods [noted Republican] today. For God’s sake the Democrats can be blamed for something in this country!
They are preventing us to increase our domestic supply of oil. Until they allow us to drill in this country, prices will reach record highs each and every month!
The Democrats also have a Global Warming bill up their sleeves that will further raise federal gasoline taxes but Nancy Pelosi refuses to put it up to vote now because it would be disastrous to their party this election. The Republicans are calling on Pelosi to put it up for vote if Global Warming is truly the “gravest threat to the USA.”
Gimme a break… Facts are Facts…
And everything above is a logical fact, not something pulled off of MoveOn.org
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|119.30.35.xxx |2010-02-01 12:29:02 AmerikaIf you want to BLAME someone for HIGH gas prices, there is ONE MAN to blame:
The man is Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, also co-chair of the McCain 2008 presidential campaign who slipped some legislation by the US Congress which helped Enron rip us off (Gramms wife received millions from Enron) and enabled the current looting of the American people with these ridiculous gas prices…
In the early evening of Friday, December 15, 2000, with Christmas break only hours away, the U.S. Senate rushed to pass an essential, 11,000-page government reauthorization bill. In what one legal textbook would later call “a stunning departure from normal legislative practice,†the Senate tacked on a complex, 262-page amendment at the urging of Texas Sen. Phil Gramm.
There was little debate on the floor. According to the Congressional Record, Gramm promised that the amendment—also known as the Commodity Futures Modernization Act—along with other landmark legislation he had authored, would usher in a new era for the U.S. financial services industry….
The impact of the “Enron loophole†has been enormous. Since its passage, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has concluded that the loophole contributed to inflated energy prices for American consumers. In 2006, its report found credible expert estimates that the loophole—by encouraging speculation—accounted for $20 of the price of a barrel of oil, then at $70. In 2007, the same committee blamed the loophole for price manipulation of the natural gas market by a single hedge fund, Amaranth Advisors….
Last September, Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin introduced legislation to close the loophole, citing two congressional reports blaming it for excessive speculation that has “unfairly increased the cost of energy in the United States.â€
In announcing his legislation on the Senate floor, Levin noted that the Enron loophole was “inserted at the last minute, without any opportunity for debate, into commodity legislation that was attached to an omnibus appropriations bill … in the waning hours of the 106th Congress.
“The loophole has helped foster the explosive growth of trading on unregulated electronic energy exchanges,†Levin said. “It also rendered the U.S. energy markets more vulnerable to price manipulation and excessive speculation with resulting price distortions.â€
FACTS is FACTS, kids!
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Recession? What recession? The GOP says everything is fine…
Look, at this point, I don’t like the GOP or the Dem leadership (Pelosi/Reid).
Today’s Business page in Minneapolis… Employment news worst in decades!!! Youngstown is not the poster child anymore… The entire nation is in trouble! Big trouble!
There IS such a thing as a CONSERVATIVE Dem… I am willing to bet I’m more conservative on the military than you… I’ve served in the USAF. I’ve BEEN there… My nephew just returned from Iraq… His stories would curl your hair. We are screwed, bigtime…
I’m willing to bet you will leave Ytown to pursue school and a career….