Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:32:57 PM
We here in California have more than our fair share of legislative losers. We threw out a democrat governor just to get a RINO in his place. And for years now, we've been saddled with Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, with no sign of relief in the foreseeable future.
I've been e-mailing both of my senators lately inquiring as to what they intended to do about the high price of gas. I got the following response from Boxer:
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Dear Friend,
Thank you for contacting me regarding high gasoline prices. I appreciate the opportunity to hear your views on this important issue, and I share your concerns.
Firstly, I highly doubt she appreciated hearing my views, and I know for a fact that she doesn't share my concerns, nor am I her friend.
Gasoline prices reached an all-time high this year, and costs for other basic necessities, including food, are rising drastically. As millions of Americans struggle under this increasing burden, oil companies continue to report massive, record-breaking profits. This is unacceptable, and I want to assure you that the Senate is working hard to lower prices and protect Americans from price gouging.
The Senate passed legislation that raised the price of food. The Senate has consistently passed or not passed, as the case may be, legislation that raised the price of gas. What is being done to protect me from the Senate?
On May 13, 2008, by a vote of 97 to 1, the Senate approved legislation to temporarily halt oil shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which would put more oil on the market and help ease rising gas prices as we enter this busy driving season.
No it won't, and I said so in my e-mails. Apparently, she missed the part where I said that halting shipments to the SPR was like putting a band-aid on an amputation, or maybe she just didn't understand plain English.
In addition, I am proud to be a co-sponsor of S.2991, the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008. This important bill would impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies to discourage price gouging and to help consumers offset the high costs of energy products, punish any country or company colluding in setting the price of oil, and limit excessive speculation in oil markets.
How is taxing the profits of the oil companies - which means they're going to have less profits - going to give me relief at the pump? How is the Senate going to punish another country? And, how is that punishment going to give me relief at the pump?
S.2991 also includes a provision that is similar to legislation I authored that would require the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible manipulation of gasoline prices any time prices rise rapidly.
How exactly will a lengthy investigation give me relief at the pump?
Americans deserve better than oil companies that gouge consumers in order to make huge profits. Rest assured, I will keep fighting to help Americans enjoy fair and reasonable energy prices.
A bill just passed out of her committee that could raise the price of gasoline anywhere from $1.50 to $5.00 a gallon. She voted against legislation that would have ended the moratorium on harvesting the oil from the Colorado shale fields. She has consistently voted against drilling in ANWR and anywhere else. Everything she has done has been the exact opposite of what she said in her e-mail.
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Either she actually believes what she says, in which case she's stupid and shouldn't be in office. Or, she doesn't believe what she ways, in which case she's lying to me and thinks I'm too stupid to know it. Either way, she shouldn't be in office.
America deserves better than the likes of Ms. Boxer. We deserve better than the neverending cycle of incompetent and/or irresponsible legislators who ignore a problem until it becomes a crisis and then can do nothing better than point fingers at everyone but themselves and come up with "solutions" that won't do anything except make things worse.
And, we certainly deserve better than the endless stream of drivel we receive in these regards on a daily basis from people whose egos could fill the world's oceans but whose abilities couldn't fill a thimble.