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Dennis Hastert: Democrats blocking road to cheaper fuel
Chicago Sun-times ^
| April 20, 2005
| Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert
Posted on 04/20/2005 5:14:24 PM PDT by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189
Sorry, but any energy plan that relies heavily on alternative fuels is just more rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Hastert and other GOP Congressional critters are merely supporting the same energy status-quo that doesn't focus on increasing production.
He might as well have just re-read Carter's malaise speech....
To: RWR8189
The United States has the world's largest coal reserves. Alberta, Canada and in parts of NW Canada there are oil reserves that rival those of the Middle East. There are also oil reserves off the coast of CA and Gulf of Mexico.
These people in Washington truly need to be flushed out due to their extreme stupidity and malfeasance.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:37:56 PM PDT
by
No-Compromise Conservative
(Liberals don't compromise their beliefs, so why should conservatives?)
To: reformed_democrat
If it just was a substitute for lead in gasoline it would be okay, and if it was really just a way to use up "surplus" corn, other than making burbom of course it would be okay.
But corn is being grown to make ethanol, and the process is a net energy loser. The farmers get subsidies for growing and selling the corn, and make big contributions with some of the money and the contributions go to the politicians who back the use of ethanol. Because of this, ethanol IS a PORK project.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:42:49 PM PDT
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: RWR8189
Now I know that you're teasing me. Everyone knows that the Speaker of the House is Nancy Pelosi.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:44:03 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
To: RWR8189
The good people of S.D. fired one of the road blocks"Daschle" and the rest of us should fire as many of the road blocks in 06 as possible
The Democrats are a bunch of thugs that say do it my way or else and the else cost every one of us big bucks we could use to pay for health care or other family needs.It is time to sweep the floors of our government clean and get rid of the socialist/communist or Democrats what ever they call them selves they are all the same.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:50:34 PM PDT
by
solo gringo
(Liberal democrats And Flora-duh judges are parasites)
To: RWR8189
Alternative fuels, if nothing else, would stop sending billions to fuel islamofascism.
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:52:59 PM PDT
by
tkathy
(Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
To: okie01
But don't buy into the fiction that it takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it provides. The amount of energy necessary to produce a gallon of ethanol is completely irrelevant. Our economy does not balance costs and benefits on the basis of kWHs or Therms. It does so on the basis of Dollars.
If ethanol was economically efficient, it would be in every pump in every town and burg in the World. Since it is not, then the government mandate is a subsidy, and it is paid for, as all government subsidies are, by you and me.
Since it provides no environmental benefit, reduces engine performance and leads to premature failure of engine parts, why, exactly, are we paying for the priviledge of putting this inferior fuel into our vehicles?
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04/21/2005 4:36:03 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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