Posted on 07/12/2008 5:08:28 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
We welcome Senator Alexander to the blog, and applaud his action to improve our energy situation. - Jon Henke
Americans are feeling the pain at the pump. Hundreds of my constituents have written me with their stories of how record-high fuel costs are affecting their family budgets. One Tennessean who wrote to me is a diabetic who is having trouble paying for her insulin shots due to rising gas prices. She says: "Gas for work or insulin to live. That is the decision I have had to make several times daily."
It's time for Congress to take action. Forty-four Senate Republicans are co-sponsoring legislation to address these record-high costs. Our bill – the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008 – can be summed up in four words: "Find more, use less."
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"Find more" means we would increase U.S. oil production by one-third through offshore exploration and Western states' oil shale. This will over time produce at least 3 million barrels a day. "Use less" means we would reduce imported oil by one-third by making it easier for millions of Americans to drive plug-in electric cars and trucks. This will over time reduce Americans' use of oil by 4 million barrels a day. Just those three provisions – deep sea exploration, Western shale, and plug-in cars – will allow us to cut our oil imports in half.
Unfortunately, most Democrats still insist on trying to repeal half the law of supply and demand.
Instead of Economics 101, we might call this new theory "Obamanomics."
When we say "offshore exploration," they say "No, we can't." When we say "oil shale development," they say "No, we can't." When we say "more nuclear power for clean electricity to power plug-in cars and trucks," they say "No, we can't."
They would rather our country beg Saudi Arabia and other countries for more oil when we already have larger reserves than the Saudis offshore and in shale in Western states.
Republicans will do BOTH – find more and use less – and we intend to work hard and in good faith to find a way for Democrats to say "yes we can," too.
It is probably time we all wrote our congress critters.
Tell them that we can’t siphon our way out of this mess the way Pelosi suggests (tap NSOR).
I keep hearing the dem. response to more drilling and domestic development is that the oil co. already have permits for millions of acres that they are not using. Is there a Repub. response to this, if so, where is it????
I call my congress people a couple of times a day...and ask about Nancys commonsense plan, and how the democrats are doing with their suing opec...I get a blank answer...It is cheaper to call then write, lots of toll free lines to the capitol,
Yeah I wrote to my congress critters twice this week. Told them thanks for the bank failures, and doubling in fuel prices since the Dem’s have been in charge. Not to mention the housing meltdown. I just asked them to allow Nuclear, and Drilling instead of watching our economy tank. I fear that is what they really want for political reasons, or worse reasons.
What is the toll free line to the capitol?
Can you post some of the toll free numbers?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lamar is up for re-election...
Nough said....
Isn’t Lamar into the Carbon Credit scam?
It’s time to vote them all out.
¡Lamar! can pound sand. He ain’t getting my vote again. I’ve had enough of that RINO asshat AND his compadre, Boob Corker. I want REAL leadership.
This addicted to oil BS needs to stop.
We need to break our addiction to Socialist Government a lot more than we need to break our addiction to oil.
Why not building new refineries? And bring the gov’s together to agree on one refined standard nation wide? That would drastically cut down the refining expense! Regardless of what innovation come along, we need OIL to develop it, and to get the infrastructure built around the country. We CANNOT run the entire national infrastructure on what is to come in the future. Promises, plans, inventions are all well and good, but in the meantime, lets start talking some common sense for a change, huh Congress? The Dems problem is they know some of their own are going to vote for drilling, therefore they table the drill bills and won't allow a vote. They will not have any part of the energy crisis being solved by Republicans, and while a Republican is in the White House. They are willing to bankrupt us all, and the economy in order to prevent that from happening. Just plain EVIL!
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