The Dims Dumb Energy Plan

[Faithfulee]

The Democrat plan to tax oil companies was the dumbest most counter productive Bill that I have every witnessed the Dims try  to foist on he American public.

Taxing oil companies may be good politics for those ignorant of the way the world works,  It is good politics however.  Labor Unions sent their followers in the streets screaming "Tax the Oil companies" 

The should have been calling for "Drill here, Drill now,  Lower prices"  That policy will stimulate the economy,  send thousands of additional workers into the oil patch and will result in lower gas prices for workers.  But alas that is the Dim party.  A policy to raise taxes isnever good for the economy, or for America.

But the truth about Oil is explained In a Heritage Foundation that  wlll get the link for shortlly,but here is a summary of the Dims plan to destroy the US Oil Industry.

The proposal would empower Washington to

Raise taxes on domestic oil production. When Congress adopted this policy in the 1970s, domestic production actually dropped, making us more dependent on imports and hardly helping prices at the pump.

Pick winners and losers among energy alternatives. This strategy of government direction of the economy has failed time and again in the past and rewards special interests at taxpayer expense.

Impose counterproductive “price-gouging” legislation. Like price controls, Lieberman explains, such laws “try to make high prices illegal,” keeping new supplies from reaching the market. Without more supply, prices remain high.


typically, The Dims are pandering to the ignorance of Americans


The facts

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1951.cfm

[SquirleyWurley]

I have to say I don't like the idea of EITHER party having both the house and the senate and the presidency, and I like the idea of the Supreme Court CONTINUING to be able to consistently irritate each party's extremists and single-issue voters.

Especially given McCain's track record, I think he'd probably do pretty good, so long as he WAS NOT unduly influenced by the Republican Party power players/leadership, and so long as there are not Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

My point is that McCain may do quite well, with Democrats having enough seats to serve as good gadflies, and perhaps together they could accomplish much.  I think there needs to be a regained balance of powers in Washington.

If Obama wins, I hope that Republicans have enough seats to serve as good gadflies.

In either case, I hope the gadflies aren't so numerous that no one can breathe, but I do hope they irritate and confound the agenda of whoever wins the election, to a sufficient degree.

Some of my biggest problems with the Democrats in the last decade are that they either gadlifed about meaninglessly, being ineffective gadflies, or they didn't have the guts to be gadflies, or else they didn't have enough power or organization to serve as gadflies.  Some of my biggest problems with the Republicans in the last decade are that they chose to use so much of their power as gadflies to go on and on about Monica Lewinsky, engaging in demagoguery, and continuing to act as if they were persecuted gadflies and continue to call liberals (or any Bush critic or war critic) traitors (or they implied this).

But then, politicians are NOT gadflies, they are vile rhetoricians, cooks who serve their cookery to whatever idiot will eat it.  They look in the mirror and see themselves Gorgias.

[Faithfulee]

Wurley

There seems little possibility of  Republicans controlling the three branches of government, but  there is a possibility of Obama heading a  government with Democrat majorities.

This would be a disaster for this country.  With his liberal record, Obama will turn on a dime and bow and scrape to the left.  In the matter of Energy this would be a tragedy.

We need more domestic oil an gas and we need to drill here and now to get it.  There are reports that liberals in California have actually come to approve offshore drilling there.

I just got back from Alaska where the US has huge deposits of oil and gas that need to be developed and added to our domestic supply.  The pipeline now  sends half what it did at it’s peak, and there has not been one spill or other disturbance of the environment.  Yet there are factors in Alaska that  are  reluctant to develop these resources.

An Obama presidency would  assure that these would not be developed.

As to ANWAR,  I didn’t get to see that area but the whole state has vast expanses of public land.  With our new technology,  we can develop these recourses without any effect on the environment, animal life, or any people, (I don’t think any people live in that area).

Drill here, Drill Now, and pay less.

[SquirleyWurley]

We may or may not achieve disaster with either party having majorities in the House/Senate and the presidency.  Certainly some predicted disaster because of Bush having the presidency and Republicans having the House/Senate.  Your concern should be put in that context.  It is a valid concern, and yet disaster may not follow.

For example, since the Supreme Court is balanced enough to surprise/disappoint either party, it may balance/check things sufficiently, or perhaps there will be large enough minorities in either the House or Senate to acheive SOME sort of balance/check, or perhaps the desires of the President and the advice received by him don't necessarily lead to a speedy disaster in the way they are manifested during the Administration for other reasons.  Sometimes public concerns as expressed in letter-writing, polling, protests, do play a role in steering a President away from an extreme or dangerous/dubious position, though the President doesn't admit any influence or concern about the public opposition.

[Faithfulee]

President Bush today took large step in removing the executive order prohibiting offshore drilling.

This challanges the Congress to do the same.

McCain favors it, the American people favor it, and the pressure in on Congress and Obama to do what needs to be done to start relieving the American public from opressive gasoline prices. And of course also diesel prices (I drive a "diesel pusher" RV in my domestic travels).