Posted on 08/10/2008 2:58:26 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Senator Tom McClintock Friday called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues to end the real energy crisis by returning to Washington to adopt a national energy plan that expands domestic oil production immediately.
In a new campaign radio commercial, McClintock blames the failed Democrat policies of the past 30 years as the reason Californians are paying $4.50 a gallon for gasoline.
“Liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown want to continue supporting federal laws that prevents us from tapping America’s vast oil resources. That’s how we got into this mess —and why gasoline prices are now breaking our family budgets,” McClintock states at the beginning of the radio spot.McClintock said the real energy crisis is caused by “politicians sitting on their hands while we pay at the pump. We don’t need government bureaucracies and higher taxes to fund them—we need to get government out of the way and open American oil to American production right now.”
“America has nearly a trillion barrels of recoverable oil—more than three times that of Saudi Arabia—that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown won’t even let us touch. In fact, more than 94 percent of our territory remains off-limits because of this foolish prohibition. If we want to change this policy, we’ve got to change this Congress.”
The Rand Institute reports that the Green River shale formation (covering portions of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) holds a proven, recoverable reserve of roughly 800 billion barrels of oil. The Democratic-led Congress has strictly prohibited the development of these domestic resources.
“Government is not the solution to our energy crisis,” McClintock said. “Government has been the cause of that crisis.”
Listen to the ad:
http://www.tommcclintock.com/media.php
“The Real Energy Crisis”
RADIO: 60 (as recorded)
August 7, 2008
Hi, I’m Tom McClintock.
Liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown want to continue the federal law that prevents us from tapping America’s vast oil resources. Folks, that’s how we got into this mess —and why gasoline prices are now breaking our family budgets.
America has nearly a trillion barrels of recoverable oil—more than three times that of Saudi Arabia—that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown won’t even let us touch.
In fact, more than 94 percent of our territory remains off-limits because of this foolish prohibition. If we want to change this policy, we’ve got to change this Congress.
That’s where the real energy crisis is—where politicians sit on their hands while we pay at the pump. We don’t need government bureaucracies and higher taxes to fund them—we need to get government out of the way and open American oil to American production RIGHT NOW!
This November, we can take back America’s independence. I’m Tom McClintock, and I approve this message.
ANOUNCER: Paid for by McClintock for Congress.
Charlie Brown is a Democrat? Good grief! Tom McClintock should of, instead, truly said to call on Conservatives to return to Congress and end the energy crisis asap if not during the next Congressional term!
I’m all for Tom in his run for Congress, and I think this add is right on the target. Good for him.
That being said, what is the American public to think of the Republicans who held Congress for 12 years, and didn’t address many issues just like this one when they had the opportunity? They had six years under Bush with a majority in the Senate and the House.
If I were the American public, I’d be ready to hit the snooze alarm every time the Republicans start talking about what they could do if only they had the majority.
We are our own worst enemy.
This is exactly what I fear will cost us in 2012. After having a leftist Republican for four years, how will we be able to sell our capabilities, if only given the chance? We’ll have had that chance for 12 years at that point, half of which was under a Republican majority Congress.
Screw OPEC: Drill now, drill here, drill everywhere --- drill in my backyard!
ps - a new tagline
they are not going to.
If McClintock was half as good on TV as he is on radio, he'd be governor today.
Hopefully, they will realize that not all Republicans are a like and that there is a certain portion of congresscritters that are either corrupt, stupid, or so concerned with the populist views that the compromise with the leftists (or worse, work to achieve the Lef'ts traitorous agenda). It's time to weed those folks out and rebuild. Tom is a good start.
I love it!
It’s a start.
Yeah... unfortunately, up until late, McCain has been one of those populists joining with the lefty environmentalists in limiting all sorts of energy alternatives. Even his calls for "Drill here, drill now" ring hollow given his long track record.
I agree with you about Tom--he's not great on TV. But then again, McCain comes off like a ditz, IMO. And Nixon got elected and he wasn't exactly from Hollywood Casting, Inc., either. ;-)
Our “energy crisis” may be summed up in the simple concept that WAY too much of our energy is coming from foreign sources. That the major “foreign sources” are Canada and Mexico, does not change the equation at all.
We are sitting on a WEALTH of energy, in coal, petroleum, and natural gas, much of which is off-limits, and with little chance of getting the restrictions on access lifted. The Democrats are yelling about the major oil exploration companies have leases on some 68 million acres, as if every square inch in those areas had oil. The fact is, most of those leases either have no recoverable reserves, or what is there is inaccessible for various reasons. If exploration companies cannot extract what is there, in an economically feasible way, they shall not put forth the effort. It is not as if the deep wells or difficult terrain are cheap to operate in, they are not. Extraction costs leave little margin for error in transportation, refining or delivery.
Natural gas provides perhaps the best return on investment for exploration, as once opened, it tends to pressurize itself up out of the reservoir, while crude oil has to be dragged out of the ground in some circumstances. The pipelines for delivering the extracted product, whether it is natural gas or petroleum, once in place, assure a steady delivery, but what if there is no refinery to convert the crude oil once it is delivered to a point? How does that get gasoline into the tanks of automobiles?
Coal and petroleum fuel our industry, light our homes and streets, and provide the means by which we go to work, run errands, and enjoy our leisure time. Denying access, or making use of these staples of our civilization too difficult or expensive to use, is a prescription for a miserly life, stunted and grim, with no margin to relax and appreciate what are the benefits of being an American.
Ted Kennedy doesn’t want us using coal to make electricity? Fine, put a battery of windmills off Cape Cod, churning out power for the Boston area, so they are not stealing power from Maine or Vermont or Ontario. Open up the coastline off the Carolinas for natural gas extraction, to heat the homes of New Jersey and New York City during those bone-chilling nights in January, when the wind comes across the North Atlantic, spinning those windmills at Cape Cod at their maximum capacity.
Sustainable power is the objective? Then how about using Plasma Arc Trash Reduction, and by application of known engineering principles, use this technology not only to eliminate and empty landfills, but to generate a SURPLUS of electricity to support the city where the trash is generated, and further reduce our dependence on foreign sources of petroleum? No soot, no smoke, all clean energy, all the time. The exhaust from this plant produces nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor.
Stop the bad rap on carbon dioxide altogether. That is mere evil propaganda, with no basis in fact, just sheer hysteria. Know this and know it for a certainty: Carbon dioxide is plant food. Without it, plants wither and die. It is our OBLIGATION to increase carbon dioxide to the degree we are able, to aid our plant life on this planet to grow and extend to its maximum limit.
In 2000, Al Gore spoke of “risky schemes”, while at the same time, he was about to embark on the riskiest scheme of all - carbon cap and trade.
The Minority Report calls for the removal of petroleum as a source of stored energy to power our civilization. Sorry, can’t do it in ten years. Or twenty. Or a century.
Petroleum is a very compact and easily transformed energy storage medium. We have built most of the infrastructure over the past century on the easy access to coal, petroleum and their derivatives, and to claim now that there is no way we can continue to use that really very plentiful and reliable source, is to say that we should retreat to the caves and trees, decimating our numbers in an endless struggle for declining access to the means to sustain ourselves.
We are not all self-abnegating ascetics and austerity freaks. Some of like to enjoy life just a little, and for an entirely different reason, pick up our messes after ourselves without endless nagging by self-appointed “morality” police. And really ignorant ones at that.
Who is the we chemosabe?
All here are supposed to be conservative. Many are conservative by nature and partisan by convention. A few, who I would sorely like to throttle, are blindly, partisan Republicans. A few. Hardly a we.
Bravo!!!
“It’s a start.”
Republicans should make this a national issue. Any vote for a Democrat in the House is a vote for Pelosi and a vote against using our own oil and coal.
I realize Congress and the President don’t stick to what true Conservatives believe, but the Republican party is the only viable conduit to power for Conservatives. If that party doesn’t do what is right, we all pay for it.
These Republican entities refer to themselves as Conservatives. The media refers to them as Conservatives.
While you and I don’t buy that, it’s still in our name that they do what they do.
The Democrats couldn’t do as much harm to our cause, as ‘we’ (admittedly using the term loosely) do to ourselves.
If you still don’t agree with my comment, I do understand where you are coming from.
I agree.
I see where Peggy Noonan opines in a column in today's paper that, Gosh, McCain is looking like he's got a chance!
*sigh*
Democrats are going to elect McCain. That should tell us something.
That’s about the only thing that could make me vote for him.
If the Democrats do, it’s because they’re scared to death of Obama too.
We’ve got scary and scarier running this year.
BTTT
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