Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, June 09, 2008 6:12:48 PM
One-Day Increase in Oil Prices:
"With crude oil prices reaching another record high today, Democrats in Congress are fighting to reverse seven years of Bush-Cheney energy policies that have driven up the price at the pump for Americans struggling to make ends meet."
For the first 6 years of the Bush-Cheney administration, gas prices were relatively stable. It has only been with the advent of the democrat majority in 2007 that gas prices have spiraled out of control. It is decades of incometent democrat policies that have brought us to this point, not 6 years of Bush-Cheney.
"Democrats are working to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce gas prices, launch a cleaner, smarter energy future for America that creates hundreds of thousands of green jobs and helps save our planet."
What exactly have democrats done to reduce our dependence on foreign oil? "Launch a cleaner, smarter energy future for America." What about here and now? If America's still around, the thousands of "green jobs" that will be created will only replace those have been lost.
"The bipartisan Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, now law, includes an increase in vehicle fuel efficiency to 35 miles per gallon in 2020 - the first congressionally-mandated increase in more than three decades - and promotes the use of more advanced American biofuels. This legislation is a critical first step toward addressing our nation's energy independence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
What happens between now and 2020? If vehicle fuel efficiency is so important, why did a democrat-controlled congress not do something in 1992 when they had the chance? First increase in more than three decades. Didn't democrats control congress for 60% of that time? Biofuels are not environmentally friendly and are less efficient. Plus which, using them starves people. By the way, climate change is a hoax.
"In just the last few months, Congress successfully pressed the Bush Administration into investigating oil market price manipulation, passed a Farm Bill that boosts home-grown advanced biofuels production, halted deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase oil supply in the market, and passed legislation that invests in clean, renewable, and efficient energy technologies, including tax incentives for plug-in hybrid cars, energy efficient homes and applicances."
Once again, what about the here and now? Halting deliveries to the SPR did nothing to reduce prices, neither will a windfall profits tax.
"By July 4th, we will work to develop other innovative energy independence legislation that addresses high energy costs and continues to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and we will look into speculation in the energy futures market."
In other words, you're going to "work to develop" "legislation" and you're going to "look into" speculation. In other words, you're not going to do anything except talk.
How on earth did someone so incredibly incompetent become Speaker of the House?
You know what may be the most frightening thing of all about this statement, Pelosi might actually believe what she's saying. She might actually believe that she's doing something to resolve the crisis. Either that or she's just lying to us.
And she is, God help us, only a few heartbeats away from the Oval Office.