Posted on 07/15/2008 3:36:18 PM PDT by John Semmens
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said calls by Republicans to drill for more oil “is not the answer America needs.”
“Making gasoline more affordable would be the exact opposite of what we need to do,” Pelosi asserted. “We need to wean the country off of its dependence on fossil fuels. We can only do this if we discourage Americans’ love affair with their cars and put an end to the frenzy of excessive and senseless driving.”
In support of her contention that Americans’ driving habits are “excessive” and “senseless,” the Speaker pointed to a recent study showing that rising fuel costs were linked to declining highway fatalities. The study by two university professors looked at fatalities and fuel prices over the 1985-2006 timeframe and concluded that fatalities dropped by two percent for every ten percent increase in gasoline prices.
“The fact that the peak gasoline price in 2006 was $2.50 a gallon tells me that at today’s $4 a gallon we’re saving even more lives,” Pelosi conjectured. “Rather than undermine this salubrious trend by attempting to reverse the rising costs of fuel we should be celebrating our good fortune.”
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If most trips are senseless, why did she need a bigger jet??
If you like $5/gal, Thank Pelosi in Nov.
Pray for W and Our Troops
This is satire.....right?
She has a point. It's kinda like North Korea's famine has dramatically dropped the obesity rate there.
Maybe.
Our supposed representatives now telling us what to do. This is what liberals expect, but it’s not the system we should have inherited.
So Joe bluecollar has to chose between driving to the liquor store and driving to it. If he walks he can get a couple of sixers if he drives, only a short dog.
In a few months, you will probably pine for $5/gal gas.
What a....opps that word would get me banned.
Well it beats pining for the fjords. :)
Your first clue was how they disrespect their oath of office and then the Second Amendment. The Marxists are going top try and enforce their will no matter what. It's all in time.
Whoa....almost had me there.
It is scary to think one can’t tell truth from satire these days.
Pining for fjords beats longing for a Ford.
Pining for fjords beats longing for a Ford.
(Not really, but don’t parrot me on that.)
ms. feinstein was on Fox today. When asked why foreign countries could drill 30 miles off our shores, but we couldn’t, she replied that that was a different story and continued babbling.
She needs to be draged across apre 1050s So. California beach and then locked in a chicken coup for an hour and she would be ready for parading down the main street of town, PROPERLY DECKED OUT IN TAR AND FEATHERED!
“across apre 1050s”
ACROSS A PRE 1950S
ok but beautiful plumage regardless
Yhis is poitical dynamite. A smart GOP’er would run with her elitist comments saying that Pelosi wants you to ride a bike, while she flies in a big jet, and is chauffered in her limosine.
“Making gasoline more affordable would be the exact opposite of what we need to do,” Pelosi asserted. “We need to wean the country off of its dependence on fossil fuels. We can only do this if we discourage Americans’ love affair with their cars and put an end to the frenzy of excessive and senseless driving.”
I hope there is a youtube video of this.
“Making gasoline more affordable would be the exact opposite of what we need to do,” Pelosi asserted. “We need to wean the country off of its dependence on fossil fuels. We can only do this if we discourage Americans’ love affair with their cars and put an end to the frenzy of excessive and senseless driving.”
I hope there is a youtube video of this.
She is beyond insane.
Her world view isn’t even comic book viable.
Nice try. You did not get me like you did last time. Once again though, this is not too far off the mark.
Electric cars will take care of the problem.
This from a woman that demanded and got her own personal Air Force One.
If I were president, I’d have it sitting on the tarmac empty and let her fill it up.
This bitch needs to get drilled in her goofy head.
The people can’t afford gas for their cars? Then let them fly their planes!
You’re a silly guy, Jon. That’s why my wife and I have loved your work since the Tribune days.
“Making gasoline more affordable would be the exact opposite of what we need to do,” Pelosi asserted.
Easy for a millionaire to say...
It’s time for this bimbo of the left to shut up and sit down. Her stewardship of the House has been a more dismal failure than Jimmuh Cahtuh’s presidency, and she accomplished that phenomenal feat in half the time of the peanut farmer from GA.
some satire...cause that’s really what she was saying...
nancy my driving to work isn’t excessive
although if you agree to take less of my salary to fund your dumb socialist programs I promise to drive to work less...
The fascist democrats want us to save energy by sitting home while they fly around the world on jet planes and live in 20 room mansions.””
The rules don’t apply to the nobility. Many of the elites think they own the little people—you don’t get it. We, you and me, are the serfs and we will dang well pay homage and taxes so the sniveling limo-liberals can live their lifestyle in peace. After all, hollywood tells us what is best and who is the best leader. They, the world muslim population, and sniveling liberals are going to deliver obamanation to the whitehouse—strange allies I know, because many muslims don’t like hollywood either.
Democrats in Congress are all self-serving porkers, Pelosi is their Queen. “”
This is why she has changed her to Piglosi.
Cutting out the fluff driving is easy. Now it is about not being able to get to the work place.
My better half just said: “If I want to chose to drive across the country to visit family, I shouldn’t have to ask the Democrats for permission”.
Is the nation even awake? The Democrats are the cause of the gas prices (and they want it even higher). Surely they will be defeated at the ballot box in November.
“Surely they will be defeated at the ballot box in November.”
Dunno. Nancy is acting like she expects to maintain or extend her majority in the house. But I think the tide is running against her and the Dems. Polls certainly are. Obambi at the top of the ticket doesn’t help as I think McCain will beat him handily.
However, if she wins, we’re screwed, bad.
Okay, Ms. Pelosi, put your money where your mouth is, or STFU! Your food is grown, processed and delivered by oil. Stop eating, permanently. Then I'll believe your sincerity.
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