RIGHT ON

I wonder who the legislator is who vigorously supported expanding energy AND vigorously supported reducing demand? As far as I know, everyone who supports off-shore drilling & ANWR drilling also vigorously opposed increasing automobile fuel efficiency standards. Sen. Bond certainly has always been one of the most vigorous opponents of higher CAFE standards.

Higher CAFE standards actually cause the loss of UAW jobs. Shouldn’t the American driver have the right to select what type of vehicle they want to drive; whether it be a Toyota, made in the US, or a Chrysler, made in Canada? Whether it’s a Hummer or a Prius? Whether it’s blue or red? Do we want to move in the direction where the federal gov’t is determining what type, model and color of car all Americans should drive? The Soviets tried that and it doesn’t work.

How many oil derricks are located in the Gulf of Mexico and were hit by Katrina? How many oil spills were caused by Katrina? How much does that safety, zero spills, cost us at the pump? How safe does oil exploration and refining have to be before we are allowed to drill?

The people are speaking and they want oil exploration, not more efficiencies. They want oil and coal extraction, not higher CAFE standards. This issue may bite the Leftists in the rear this election cycle if the American people percieve the Donk Party forcing their “one size fits all” policies down their throat. The Donks are the only party (beside the loony Greens) to refuse to allow drilling and do not allow oil exploration; the American people will take notice.

Why didn’t the Republican Congress take care of this when they controlled both the House and the Senate for 12 years!. From 2001 to 2007 the Republicans controlled Congress and the White House!
Instead, they gave oil companies tax breaks and laughed at unprecedented federal spending and earmarks to nowhere…Not to mention a $2 trillion dollar war that cut the international value of the U.S. dollar in half.

Now, suddenly it’s the Democrats, who have maintained a slim majority in Congress for the past 17 months, that are responsible (funny)… and the ditto-heads and knuckle-heads want to blame the “Donks” for a failed economic policy….This entire Haliburton/Exxon screw-up is Bush’s baby.
Spin it the best you can Tango.

Hey, let’s let the free market work….let the oil co’s drill where they want, and let the market price prevail at the pump. Of course, if demand increases for smaller, fuel efficient cars and the US automakers go down the tubes because they aren’t making the right vehicles….so be it.

Or, IS there a free market in oil? Or is it driven by a global cartel that sets the production rate to maximize profit (that’s what it appears to be).

The market is already speaking: $4 gas appears to be the price point where consumers start changing their behavior. No problem for me. Don’t whine, adjust. It’s back to the future time: Back in the ’70’s, when Japan took over the US auto market because of fuel prices, and all Detroit had to offer in the name of small “fuel efficient” cars were forgettable monsters like the Vega and the Pinto. “Big cars mean big profits” was a possibly apocryphal statement that came out of Detroit at the time. I can hear these guys saying the exact same thing today.

Mr. Cange:

I have asked this question and I’ll ask it again. And I’ll keep asking it… Why is it that OPEC is always brought into the center of this issue, when the No. 1 and No. 3 exporters of oil to the U.S., respectively, are Canada and Mexico? Saudi Arabia is second. I believe its because OPEC serves as an expedient, a convenient scapegoat that the average American cannot do anything about, considering most of its members are half a world away. One might say they’re used as a red herring, even. The questions that need to be asked are: Why is this easily uncovered fact (all you need do is open an almanac) kept under wraps by our politicians, oil executives and the popular media? Whose interest is it in to do so? Drilling in ANWR is worth debating, but its not the most pressing question. Rather, these other two questions are.

In the spring of 06, San Fran Nan said the dems had a solution to high gas prices that would only be effective if they got control of congress, since they took control of congress in Jan 07, diesel prices have DOUBLED! Is this her magic plan? The only plans they have voiced are suing OPEC and taxing oil companies, neither of which will do a damn thing to lower fuel prices (quite the opposite actually).

Garrison

Remember back around 13 years ago, when Billy Clinton vetoed the drilling bill passed by a republican congress? Probably not.

Ever since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried siezed complete control of Congress, oil and gas prices have soared! And where is that plan that Nancy Pelosi promised us in 2006 that would lower gas prices?

I worked at Chrysler and I always wondered why the UAW always endorsed the Democrats when they hate what we did (built trucks).

To say the average worker there is democrat is quite a stretch. The deadbeats were of course, but the family men weren’t.