Posted on 06/11/2008 5:22:57 PM PDT by Starman417
Our Representatives in Congress have many fine solutions. But Dems are blocking votes on every bill the GOP proposes!
You never know what you might learn watching C-Span that you're never going to learn if you watch the liberal news media.
For instance, have any readers seen reporting that describes the steps Republicans have proposed to deal with high energy prices? Probably not.
So, when I saw Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK)give a speech Tuesday evening on the House Floor describing GOP plans to address the issue, I decided I'd better pass it along as I doubt too many people would have heard about it.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Record June 10, 2008(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...But let me talk a little if I can about what the current state of play is in energy prices. Today as you have had up on your sign, the national average price for a gallon of gasoline is $4.04. That is something I never thought I would live to see, and frankly, no American should have ever lived to see. You can now buy a barrel of light sweet crude for July delivery at $131.31, a nice round number, nice even alliterative number. Currently in my State, Oklahoma's price at the pump, and we are producers, in some ways we will we feel it even worse because we have been producing for over 100 years much more than we consume and exporting it to the rest of the country. And we are delighted to do that. But it is pretty tough when people in Oklahoma, a producing State that sacrificed, that frankly are delighted to have exploration and production, but they are paying $3.83 a gallon.
In January of 2007 when this majority, this Democrat majority took office, the price per gallon was $2.08 a gallon. That is a rise of $1.75, an increase of over 80 percent.
The country as a whole has experienced very much the same thing. The average price since the Democratic majority has come into power has gone up $1.67, an increase of 71 percent. Now, that is not what our friends on the other side of the aisle expected to happen at all. As a matter of fact, let me read you a few quotes of what they told America as they came into the majority our energy future would be.
Our distinguished Speaker, Speaker Pelosi, said on April 18, 2006, ``Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down the skyrocketing gas prices.'' She said a few days later, ``The Democrats have a plan to lower gas prices.'' Our distinguished Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on the 4th of April, 2005, ``Democrats believe that we can do more for the American people who are struggling to deal with high gas prices.'' I would love to ``struggle'' to pay $2.08 a gallon. It would be a nice fight to have. Our good friend and distinguished whip of the majority party, JIM CLYBURN, said, ``House Democrats have a plan to help curb rising prices.'' That is on the 26th of July, 2006. If this is the plan, we want them to go back to the drawing board and reconsider where they are at. Four times since they have taken the majority they have voted to increase energy taxes; to increase energy taxes. Now, even people that don't like the energy industry can usually say, well, gosh, if you increase the tax, won't they pass that along to us in the price? It is an incredible record. Now, every single energy bill the majority wants to reach the floor has reached the floor. Most of them have passed this body. Some of them have gone all the way to the President and been signed. As I recall, I don't remember anybody who actually vetoed any energy legislation that has actually reached the President's desk. So what we are seeing really is the product of the majority's legislative agenda. What haven't they let come to the floor? What commonsense solutions that most Americans support haven't come to the floor? I am just going to list a few of them, because, as my colleague knows, there are many of them.
Our colleague from Texas, MAC THORNBERRY, has a wonderful bill, the No More Excuses Energy Act, H.R. 3089, that literally covers the gambit of things we ought to be doing. Not just oil and gas, but nuclear, solar and wind. It incentivizes production. That is the lesson that our friends on the other side have forgotten, that supply is really important to cost. They simply seem to have no conception of that.
Taking the blame.
Hey Nancy Pelosi promised a year and a half ago she was all over this issue.
“That is the lesson that our friends on the other side have forgotten, that supply is really important to cost. They simply seem to have no conception of that”
Indeed!
It’s sad they can’t get their message out. I think it shows the dire need the party has in leadership. Why isn’t the President getting this message out?
John McFlap would pass a “wind fall profit tax”. he’s a piece of crap.
It’s McLame stupid. No one in the GOP has the cajones to tell him to STFU.
Bump!
The Republicans in office are doing NOTHING! Don’t you know it a free market.
What Are Republicans Doing About High Gas Prices?
In a word - nothing.
Blaming Demo-rats is all ....
Go to Powerline about how having McCain is going to hamper GOP efforts to rightly blame the D for this:
Highlights:
“But it’s going to be difficult, if not impossible, for Republicans to get traction on the energy issue without help at the top of the ticket. Here, the problem is that John McCain long ago signed on to the anthropogenic global warming fallacy. As a result, his energy policies can scarcely be distinguished from those of the Democrats. This was in evidence this morning, when McCain appeared on NBC’s Today Show.”
LAUER: ... drill in the wilderness areas, because that’s still oil, oil, oil. Your energy plan will take us away from oil?
MCCAIN: Oh, it’ll have to. We have to. Not only because of the compelling reasons of the price of gasoline [Ed.: Huh?], but also because of greenhouse gas emissions.
Let me ask you this question: As Americans go to the polls in November to vote for the next president, what do you think we’re going to be paying for a gallon of gasoline?
MCCAIN: I’m not sure, because I think part of it depends on how it looks like we are making advances in — toward alternate energy. Look...
(CROSSTALK)
LAUER: Can we make advances in that short time?
MCCAIN: Oh, I think we can certainly show some progress in the development of a battery that will take a car 100 miles or so before you have to plug it in. And plans for — concrete plans to move forward with nuclear power plants — with a lot of other things.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/06/020736.php
I can’t take this anymore.
That is the question isn't it? I just e-mailed him with a bunch of info kindly provided by ExTexasRedhead. It's word count is kinda high but this issue doesn't lend itself to snippets. GWB needs to rally the troops and by doing so get McCain's head on straight.
They are sitting on Gull Island and bodacious amounts of other oil deposits thats NOT ANWR.. legal and drillable but still a secret to almost all Americans..
Shuush they are keeping it a SECRET.. WHY?.. WHy indeed..
Its the EXECUTIVE BRANCH THATS KEEPING IT A SECRET..
You know. BUUUUSH... and the Interior Dept..
Michael Savage says gas prices would drop to $2.50 a gallon if Bush would take Iraqi oil.
But Bush’s oil buddies wont let him do that, they want to keep prices high.
People that don't want to drill, use nuclear, don't want anything in their area , in ANWR or off the coast... and on and on yet scream over rising costs don't touch my heart.
I have my thermostat set higher for A/C.lower for heat than was my usual custom..I use energy saving bulbs and do one big grocery shopping instead of running to the store often....Thank heavens I am older and don't have to commute..
Our days of cheap energy are gone for the foreseeable future.The world at large has increaing energy needs.
This is the wrong question to be asking. The question that should be asked is...Why didn't the Republicans have the balls to do something about this when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House? They can make all the lame excuses they want now, but there is no excuse for having done nothing when they were in control. They all make me sick.
You would be amazed the energy and water savings by getting a side washer, current refrig, current dishwasher, current a/c and updated class 5 toliet. But I can’t control the price of oil.
Democrat politicians and activist judges have been blocking our country getting to our sources of oil or building refineries for 35 plus years.
If all the public took active rolls in learning what is really happening in politics, most of America would throw Democrats out, the rest would have their hands out looking to take other people’s money.
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