Gas prices are the first important issue in the 2008 elections.
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The Democrats have finally painted themselves into a corner that they cannot wiggle their way out. Their foolish energy policy has shown itself to be lite on free market realities and heavy on failure proven socialistic rhetoric.They should be pushed to vote on the Drill Now Legislation. If they are able to block the vote from coming to the floor for an up or down vote, then they should at least be question unceasingly so that their socialistic Chavez-like tendencies will be clearly displayed and identified.
This is a very easy issue to understand....We currently have $4.00 a gallon gasoline that is a direct result of a dwindling supply oil in a world that is requiring more and more (aka Indian and Chinese increasing hunger for a bigger slice of the pizza) and throw in an aging and inadequate domestic oil refining capacity.
Sign up on the American Solution's petition and push members of Congress on this issue....HARD!
The Republicans have finally, been given a real opportunity to lesson their political losses this November. They most take the football and push it straight up the middle.
Bush prods Congress to end banCongressional Democrats were quick to reject the push for lifting the drilling moratorium, saying oil companies already have under lease 68 million acres on federal lands and waters outside the ban area that are not being developed.
Drilling proponents say that number is misleading because sometimes it takes years for actual development to take place.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Bush's proposals "another page from (an)... energy policy that was literally written by the oil industry — give away more public resources."
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, rejected lifting the drilling moratorium that has been supported by a succession of presidents for nearly two decades.
"This is not something that's going to give consumers short-term relief, and it is not a long-term solution to our problems with fossil fuels generally and oil in particular," said Obama.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, lumping Bush with McCain, accused them of staging a "cynical campaign ploy" that won't help lower energy prices. "Despite what President Bush, John McCain and their friends in the oil industry claim, we cannot drill our way out of this problem," Reid said. "The math is simple. America has just three percent of the world's oil reserves, but Americans use a quarter of its oil."
And this.....
| Our Issue: The No-Drill Democrats |
Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. Win the Election. AP: W. to Congress: Embrace Oil Exploration Institute for Energy Research Report:The Truth About Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf |
TN Republicans Join Call for More Domestic Oil ExplorationWednesday, June 18th, 2008
Tennessee’s Congressional Republicans joined in the President’s call for more oil exploration off-shore and in Alaska today.
Lamar Alexander spoke on the floor of the US Senate and slammed the Democrats for focusing on alternative fuels and reducing fuel demand.“We need to explore off shore and we need to take the moratorium off oil shale. And we need to go into the very narrow parts of Alaska where we would propose to explore there, still leaving 17-million acres for wilderness.”
Alexander says Republicans are ready to find more oil while also using less.
Senator Bob Corker says he supports lifting the ban on off-shore drilling and believes states should have the right to permit what he calls “environmentally-friendly” drilling.
Republican Congressman Marsha Blackburn says she has actually been ahead of the president on the issue.
A spokesman for Nashville Democrat Jim Cooper says the representative generally opposes drilling in Alaska, but supports offshore drilling in limited cases.
We’re waiting for a response from Middle Tennessee’s other Democratic representatives.
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