Democratic energy policies have denied Americans jobs and hurt the economy
It is the Democratic policies that deny the opening of oil fields on American soil and off shore. Washington’s leftist regulations have stopped energy companies from building refineries. For decades, special interest groups such as the Sierra Club and Green Peace have lobbied for legislation that denies American companies access to domestic oil fields. Wikipedia.com list 89 environmental groups. Special interests and Democratic politicians in the federal government and the state level have achieved a stranglehold over America’s oil resources. It is common knowledge that maintains ,with more oil in the market our consumers would see the price of oil drop and stabilize. At this time, the American consumers are at the mercy of OPEC and states such as Venezuela. The United States economy, and every citizen is dependant on the most unstable countries in the world and stated enemies.
With the removal or correction of leftist policies, American companies would expand in business and hire American workers. These high quality jobs would provide workers with benefits such as health insurance and a retirement plan, something that everyone desires. Added to that failure are the Democratic policies and special interest lawsuits, by trial lawyers, that stop companies from building refineries. The cost of lawsuits are passed on to the consumer as a business expense, raising gas prices. These refineries would add gas to the market and cause the price of gas to be reduced. Again, refineries provide good high paying jobs with benefits for workers. America’s last refinery was built in Garyville, Louisiana in 1976. I’m amazed that gas isn’t higher. Another point to consider, is the cost of goods and services that increase with fuel and oil based materials. America’s natural resources should be used to grow good jobs domestically instead of outsourcing the jobs to the Middle East. It is interesting that Communist China, working with the Cuban government, is in the process of building an oil field off the Florida coast.
These investments in American resources would deny terror states U.S. funding via the oil market. The Left has denied voters the financial stability that American jobs provide while growing an important sector of business. At this time of economic upheaval, high quality jobs in the energy sector would provide American citizens long term financial stability that NAFTA has denied since the Clinton administration. Clearly, the Democrats have failed to protect an American economic sector that needs to expand for quality jobs, voters financial stability and national security. It is this writers opinion, that ultimately America is better off with high paying long term jobs and energy independence from the Middle East. America needs to bring jobs home starting with the energy sector.
Mike Moseley
Staunton
And now for something completely different….reality!
Oil was at $25 a barrell before the Iraqi war and industry projections said it would remain at that level for 7-10 years.
Bush got us out of Afghanistan, where OSB hangs out with his Taliban buddies after attacking us on 9/11, and into a $3 trillion war in Iraq because Saddam tried to kill his daddy and he had a lot of Big Oil IOU’s from his election. Now the al Qaeda folks and Taliban are selling Afghan heroin to finance their resurgance and to wage war on America here at home.
http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/08/13/afghanistan-democracy-is-drowning-in-illegal-drugs/
Oil is now at $101 a barrell, Oil companies have record profits and oil is well in Bushy land for W and his merry band of crooksters. God save America from the Republicans!
It was Republican policies that have lost American automotive jobs. By not raising CAFE standards, Detroit had no incentive to change.
By allowing huge deductions for purchases of gas guzzling SUVs, but only relatively small deductions for energy efficient cars (hybrids, electrics)j, they encouraged American consumers to become dependent on oil and demanding huge SUVs from Detroit.
As reported above, a war was started in an oil-rich country. This has made Iraq’s oilfields unusable for long periods of time and created an atmosphere of American-distate in the rest of the oil rich nations.
All brought to you by Republicans. Don’t blame Democrats for not being able to undo 10+ years of bad policies in less than 14 months.
Suzy, that is the LAMEST excuse I have ever heard. CAFE standards will NOT bring down the price of fuel, or the rate of consumption. It will INCREASE the amount of fuel used, making us MORE dependant. If you spend $50 a week for fuel and can go 550 miles on that fuel, you will end up driving more when you can go 600 or 700 miles on that same $50.
Timmy, you want to know why oil is over $100 a barrel? The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 changed the way oil is traded, now it is less regulated than ever and the speculators are just running up the price. I forget, who was President on December 21, 2000, the day the act was signed into law?
Now take a look at this: No Zones!. See that map? Those are all places we cant drill. Now would one of you moonbats PLEASE tell me how the hell we are EVER going to be off foreign oil when we cant exploit our own known reserves?
You can’t win with liberals…not they are against wind power because it might kill a few migrating birds during the course of a year. Yeah, I guess it’s better to pay $4 per gallon and throw the economy into a tailspin than sacrifice a few birds. But, we can look at those pretty flying geese…yippie!!!!
Also, wind power was supported by the left until it affected the elitists…Ted Kennedy fought legislation for wind farms off of the cost of Nantuckett - it was going to ruin his view of the ocean while he sailed on his yacht. (The wind farm wouldn’t be visible from land).
The hypocrisy of the left is absolutely astounding!
And two ex-oil pimps have run the executive office for 7 years. You can’t win with oil pimps. Or their supporters.
Let’s see, in my adult lifetime, there have been two periods of incredible run-ups in the price of crude oil: 1972-74, and 2006-2008. During both of those periods, REPUBLICANS were in the white house, escaping just in time to dump the problem on a Democrat, who then got (or will get) blamed for the repercussions that followed.
I see other parallels: in the early ’70’s, there was an actual policy among domestic auto makers that went, “big cars mean big profits, small cars mean small profits”, and when the oil embargo hit, and demand appeared for small, economic vehicles, Detroit responded with the Vega, the Pinto, and the Gremlin. Is the same thing getting ready to happen again?
By the way, I do agree with the assessment that groups like the Sierra club and others have never seen any energy policy they like. Ted Kennedy and the Nantucket wind farm is just silly. And, there are plenty of people in his own party who have told him so. Somebody, someday, is going to have to stop saying “NO”. The great blackout of 2003 should have been a wakeup call. It was largely ignored by everyone outside the electric utility industry…..and the next time, it will be worse. I don’t see the big environmental groups moving out of their air-conditioned buildings
The right-wing is still with us this time living in la la land with head buried all the way to the waist. Blaming the oil crisis on the goofy Democrats is like blaming WWII on Australia. Imagining someone so totally out of touch with reality as to blame the oil crisis on someone else while Dick Cheney is in charge of US energy policy is taking Fantasyland to new levels unheard of. Perhaps next week, Mr. Mosely will blame the Ten trillion dollar US deficit on tax cuts for hobos.
There go all these bleeding heart liberals crying again. It is always some one else’ fault no matter what. CAFE standards are a joke, global warming is a hoax and liberals are idiots. If you want cheaper oil, get the hell out of the way and let the oil companies drill where the oil is, and build Nuke power facilities for electric. Coke and Pepsi make more profits per ounce than the oil companies, why not tax them to death too. Hell, just let Uncle take them over, like the libs want to do with health care. We will be sitting in line for gas and waiting for months to see a Doc. Libs, get an education, get a job and take responsibility for yourselves for a change. It is really not that hard.
We are doing a whole lot of assuming here. If the US drilled and discovered oil in, say, ANWAR, that oil goes directly from Alaska right into the tank of my brand new Ford Exploder with the oversized Firestone Shredmaster tires, right? Actually, the federal government leases oil rights to oil companies, who in turn drill the oil, store the oil, and sell the oil, to whomever will pay the highest price for it. We are kidding ourselves if we assume that oil from this country, stays in this country.
Secondly, are we purporting that the poor, pitiful oil lobbyists are stymied in their efforts to build more refineries by the all-powerful lobbyists of the mega-conglomerate, multi-complex, world dominating environmental industries like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club? Does anyone know the address of BP or Exxon, so I can send a contribution and help them in their quest to provide more good American jobs and rid them of those pesky record profits they have to endure?
I love Dom Perignon. But I just can’t afford it–so I rarely drink it. I curb my consumption, rather than blame liberals for the problem–what a concept.
The politicians and lobbyists live off arguments like this. Democrat, Republican, left wing, right wing; meanwhile the federal bureaucracy borrows from the future and sells off the past. It reminds me of a couple of toddlers fighting over a bag of potato chips till the unopened bag contains nothing but crumbs.
As long as the special interests on both sides (environuts and oil barons) manipulate the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. the taxpayers and consumers of the USA will keep getting screwed.
Can people not look at the last half century of governance and see what is happening regardless of party? Please, please, take off the partisan blinders for a moment and look at what we are doing to our legacy by ignoring the wisdom of the U.S. Constitution.
Bravo Bb.
The only difference in the two parties is the line of bullsh%& they feed us in their efforts to get elected.
I doubt that oil companies would lower prices regardless if they drilled in my back yard. Why should they?
Slamfist… Oil companies won’t lower prices at the pump for the same reason farmers won’t lower prices at the supermarket. Commodity prices are speculator driven. The “record” profits are a result of consolidation and volume, not an increase in profit margin.
But, as long as the evil oil companies can be blamed we don’t need to examine energy policy any further. Right?
Pardon me, Bb. But I believe the letter writer is blaming the liberals.
Commander…. #13 was in response to #12. However, I’ll edit for your benefit……
But, as long as the evil liberals and oil companies can be blamed we don’t need to examine energy policy any further. Right?
Can this guy form a sentence without using the word “left”. First of all if you want to make a compelling argument, make the point without labels. When you start ranting against the “left” anyone you want to convince is automatically turned off….Allow me to rebutt.
Oil Companies sure aren’t complaining about all these “leftist” laws, that’s for sure. All time record profits for any indutry in the history of the world…yeah, they’re crying….to the bank.
Does this letter writer take into account all the new jobs that have been created with the emergence of alternative energies industry? Wind farms, bio-fuels, ethanol, solar industry, and other lesser technologies such as algae. Any jobs that are “lost” have been more then made up by alternative energy companies.
Every year you and I have to endure high gas prices in the spring. Why? This is due to the oil companies shutting down refineries for cleaning….or whatever reason…this happens EVERY SINGLE YEAR. THIS IS NOT A ONE TIME EVENT. THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE. EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. What about the oil companies creating their own jobs and using their record profits to build refinieris? WHAT A FRIGGIN’ NOVEL IDEA THAT IS. Why should I as a tax payer be forced to subsidize the #1 industry in the world for stuff that they should be doing themselves and when they don’t they are still making record profits.
The current status quo is just fine with the oil companies and the Bush administration. Dick Cheney had secret “energy policy” meetings with heads of the oil companies and here we are only a few short years later, these same companies that met with the New Tricky Dick are reaping record profits. Do you not see the connection? Are you that thick headed?!?!?!?!?!
Republicans complain about their tax money being thrown at the poor and indigent but yet they seem to be happy to sign paychecks away to BILLIONAIRES.
Reps of both parties get money from the oil companies to KEEP THE STATUS QUO. Only regime change is going to make a difference.
If you complain about high gas prices, blame the oil companies for not investing in their own companies and own infratructure.
Give me a break!!
“With the removal or correction of leftist policies, American companies would expand in business and hire American workers. These high quality jobs would provide workers with benefits such as health insurance and a retirement plan, something that everyone desires. Added to that failure are the Democratic policies and special interest lawsuits, by trial lawyers, that stop companies from building refineries. The cost of lawsuits are passed on to the consumer as a business expense, raising gas prices. These refineries would add gas to the market and cause the price of gas to be reduced. Again, refineries provide good high paying jobs with benefits for workers. America’s last refinery was built in Garyville, Louisiana in 1976. I’m amazed that gas isn’t higher. Another point to consider, is the cost of goods and services that increase with fuel and oil based materials. America’s natural resources should be used to grow good jobs domestically instead of outsourcing the jobs to the Middle East. It is interesting that Communist China, working with the Cuban government, is in the process of building an oil field off the Florida coast.”
And furhter…..
Are you kidding me? Corporate America has been sending jobs oversees because that is how they make money. NAFTA was greatly supported by the GOP.
All those “leftists” are getting on Wal-Mart’s case to provide the health insurance you espouse above…is this a leftist endeavor.
This letter writer’s arguments are so off base that they can’t be argued against. He blames “leftist” policies but in the next sentence he shouts the benefits of “leftist” policies.
Funny, as I type this Green Day’s song, “American Idiot” is playing in the background.
#2 - and Al Gore did what for the environment and gas prices when he was vp for 8 years - and you are aware that the vp can also introduce legislation?
Lester, Green Day’s “American Idiot” playing in the background as you typed your response at #17? No kidding?
What do you think of the possibility of Toby Keith’s “Big Dog Daddy” playing in the background as Mike composed his letter?
Change the title of the letter to “Republican and Democratic energy policies have denied Americans jobs and hurt the economy” and you’ll have the truth of the matter. They’re all snake oil salesmen.
#2
You are a joke. I guess high prices for cars have nothing to do with loss of automotive jobs. I wish I could get 90 to 95% of my pay while layed off. I also guess you believe corruption in all the unions have nothing to do with it. When the unions take all the members dues and give it to the dems, to help them get elected, that is a crock. Birds of a feather………
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