Liberal Gasbags: Times Change But the Gasbags Don't

Ah Liberal Democratic energy policy. The more things change, the more they stay the same. If liberals really cared about the world environment, why do they want to import more oil which causes "pollution" where it is extracted? Simply the liberal energy policy is a power play, to grab more power as regular Americans suffer.

Eyeblast TV has the right idea about liberal energy policies from the Carter 1970's to today and Obama's shortsighted policies:

Nancy Pelosi Stalls Oil Drilling Bill Keeping Gas Prices High

From Dan Lee's blog.

Today a bill put before the Senate was shelved by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a stalling tactic that’s all too familiar to the American people. This Democratic led Congress who has approval ratings in the teens, is notorious for stalling for time while they try to use their bought & paid for Mainstream Media Cronies to sway public opinion on the issue at hand.

The problem is, while they are doing that, the public is usually starving for actual results & relief. In this case we need immediate relief from the exorbitant Gas Prices we’re being charged, as it continues to erode at the stability of our national economy.

Why are Gas Prices So High?



Nancy Pelosi's Failed Gas Policy

Lame Duck Bush Playing Politics With Oil

President Bush has mentioned that he might lift the Executive order on off shore drilling. Now instead of immediately helping Americans, he's playing games with Congress. Bush said he'll lift the Executive order if Congress moves first and lifts their own ban on drilling. Fat chance with a Democratic Congress. Why can't Bush just do something good for America and authorize drilling.

You see once the markets know that we will have more oil in the future, prices will begin to drop immediately. Read more on Michelle Malkin's blog

Democrats Are The Cause of High Energy Prices

As much as they spin and lie about how it is President Bush's fault that gas prices are high, Red State has proof the Democrats are thwarting any attempt for the United States to lower gas prices.

Here is an excerpt from Red State and a breakdown of votes regarding energy independence:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed

Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed

Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed

Nancy Pelosi's Broken Promises on Lowering Gas Prices

When Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over the House majority in November 2006, Speaker Pelosi promised to lower gas prices. That was almost two years ago.

Here are the facts:

• “Do-Nothing” Democrat leadership continues to sit on the sidelines as gas prices soar higher

• Average retail gas prices hit an all-time record high over the weekend of $4 per gallon of regular unleaded, according to AAA

• Average prices have gone up over $1.65 since the beginning of the 110th Congress – this represents a nearly 71 percent increase during Nancy Pelosi’s speakership

The Congress has also thwarted any attempt by President Bush to increase the energy supply by drilling more.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on a discharge petition filed by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) to force Democratic leaders to schedule a vote on the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089), legislation authored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) to increase U.S. energy production and invest in alternative sources of energy:

“The Democratic Majority’s callous indifference as American families and small businesses struggle with $4 per gallon gasoline is both inexcusable and irresponsible. By flatly refusing to schedule votes on the House GOP plan to help reduce fuel costs and achieve energy independence, the Democrats in control of Congress are proving themselves complicit in our nation’s energy crisis, which is growing worse by the day on their watch.

“Where Democrats refuse to lead, Republicans will. Beginning today, House Republicans will offer a series of discharge petitions aimed at forcing the Democratic leadership to schedule several GOP-sponsored bills to increase production of American-made energy, reduce America’s costly dependence on foreign sources of energy, harness new alternative energy technologies, and lower gas prices. I thank Rep. Tim Walberg for offering the first discharge petition in this effort – one that seeks to force Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer to schedule Rep. Mac Thornberry’s No More Excuses Energy Act. The Thornberry bill will open new American oil refineries, invest in alternative energy sources, and increase environmentally-safe exploration of untapped oil resources in the United States.

“Rep. Walberg’s discharge petition provides rank-and-file Democrats an important opportunity to back up their rhetoric on gas prices with real action. By joining House Republicans in supporting it, they can send a long-overdue message to the Democratic leadership: American consumers are hurting, and this Congress has a responsibility to act on meaningful legislation aimed to bring down soaring prices at the pump.”

NOTE: The No More Excuses Energy Act would help reduce the price of gasoline by opening new American oil refineries; investing in diverse energy sources such as wind, nuclear, and captured carbon dioxide; and making available more homegrown energy through environmentally-sensitive exploration of the Arctic coastal plain and in deep ocean energy resources. A recent Gallup survey indicated that 57 percent of Americans support increased production of American-made energy. For more information on the House GOP’s comprehensive plan for lower gas prices, please visit the House GOP’s “Real Energy Solutions” website at http://GOPLeader.gov/energy

Will Pelosi shove this in a drawer and forget about. She is historically partisan. This bill is good for Americans. What will she do?

I am not holding my breath.

Hey Liberals... Drill for Oil in the United States

Over thirty years of dumb energy policies supported by Democrats and various RINO's have given us $4 per gallon gasoline. Then the idiots in congress bring big oil executives to DC to explain the high oil prices. Have any of these idiots on Capitol Hill taken a basic economics course. Note to liberals when big oil makes 4% per gallon of gas. While local and federal governments pull in over 20% profit in taxes from each gallon. Oil companies have to drill, ship, refine, and deliver for their 4%. Government has to... face it government does nothing for their protection racket cash. At the same, government does everything it can to make gas more expensive through invasive regulation of refineries and drilling.

We can become energy independent by drilling for oil on land and in our shores. In doing so, we will be lowering the price of gas, increasing national security, and provide resources to explore new energy technologies.

Here are excerpts from a recent George Will article on our oil problems:

RISING in the Senate on May 13, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, explained: "I rise to discuss rising energy prices." The president was heading to Saudi Arabia to seek an increase in its oil production, and Schumer's gorge was rising.

Saudi Arabia, he said, "holds the key to reducing gasoline prices at home in the short term." Therefore arms sales to that kingdom should be blocked unless it "increases its oil production by one million barrels per day," which would cause the price of gasoline to fall "50 cents a gallon almost immediately."

Can a senator, with so many things on his mind, know so precisely how the price of gasoline would respond to that increase in the oil supply?

Schumer does know that if you increase the supply of something, the price of it probably will fall. That's why he and 96 other senators recently voted to increase the supply of oil on the market by stopping the flow of oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which protects against major physical interruptions.

Seventy-one of the 97 senators who voted to stop filling the SPR also oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

One million barrels is what might today be flowing from ANWR if in 1995 President Bill Clinton hadn't vetoed legislation to permit drilling there. One million barrels produce 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Seventy-two of today's senators - including Schumer, of course, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain - have voted to keep ANWR's estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil off the market.

So Schumer, according to Schumer, is complicit in taking $10 away from every American who buys 20 gallons of gasoline.

"Democracy," said H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." The common people of New York want Schumer to be their senator, so they should pipe down about gasoline prices, which are a predictable consequence of their political choice.

Also disqualified from complaining are all voters who sent to Washington senators and representatives who've voted to keep ANWR's oil in the ground, and who voted to put 85 percent of America's offshore territory off-limits to drilling. The US Minerals Management Service says that restricted area contains perhaps 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas - 10 times the oil and 20 times the natural gas Americans use in a year.

Drilling is under way 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than US companies are.

ANWR is larger than the combined areas of five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) and drilling along its coastal plane would be confined to a space one-sixth the size of Washington's Dulles Airport.

Offshore? Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed or damaged hundreds of drilling rigs without causing a large spill. There hasn't been a significant spill from an offshore US well since 1969. Of the more than 7 billion barrels of oil pumped offshore in the last 25 years, 0.001 percent - that is one-thousandth of 1 percent - has been spilled. Louisiana has more than 3,200 rigs offshore - and a thriving commercial fishing industry.

In his "Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence,' " Robert Bryce says Brazil's energy success has little to do with its much-discussed ethanol production and much to do with its increased oil production, the vast majority of which comes from off Brazil's shore. Investor's Business Daily reports that Brazil, "which recently made a major oil discovery almost in sight of Rio's beaches," has leased most of the world's deep-sea drilling rigs.

In September 2006, two US companies announced that their "Jack No. 2" well, in the Gulf 270 miles southwest of New Orleans, had tapped a field with perhaps 15 billion barrels of oil, which would increase America's proven reserves by 50 percent. Just probing four miles below the Gulf's floor costs $100 million. Congress' response to such expenditures is to propose increasing the oil companies' tax burdens.

America says to foreign producers: We prefer not to pump our oil, so please pump more of yours, thereby lowering its value, for our benefit. Let it not be said that America has no energy policy.