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
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