House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took up the "drill more, drill now" refrain Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address, offering up a list of policy proposals intended to show that Democrats do indeed care about high gas and energy prices.
Here's the YouTube version (text can be found here):
Pelosi bashes the Bush administration for failing to deal with energy issues for the past eight years, and she offers up all the obligatory slams against Big Oil. It's not just about drilling, she reminds listeners, outlining proposals to invest in mass transit, tighten mileage standards, and fund clean energy research. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer makes very similar points in a Wall Street Journal essay today.
Will voters respond to a "drill more, but invest in the future" policy, or will the GOP succeed with its "drill only" politics?
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LGT Posted 1:06 pm
18 Aug 2008
Why thank you, Ms. P
for boosting the virtual CO2 content of the dollar!
http://edro.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/carbon-footprint-for ...
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amazingdrx Posted 2:34 pm
18 Aug 2008
What lobbyist wrote this?
Let's look at the moronic points in the speech. The few good ideas are obvious.
"...encourages the promotion of clean, renewable fuels."
Fuel farming, neither clean nor renewable.
"...releasing some oil from the government stockpile will reduce consumer prices in ten days, not ten years"
Idiotic pandering, gas prices already dropped. The reserve needs to be saved for emergencies and a rationing plan should be inplace before it is tapped.
Said rationing to acompany the release. The rationing plan will let the oil rats manipulating markets know that we are ready for their trickery. It will stave off manipulation.
"...invest in clean, renewable resources like ... biofuels,"
More fuel farming. At least doubles GHG. Will never reduce fuel prices. Starves millions. Wrecks eco-systems.
"...address the role that undue and excessive speculation plays in driving up the cost of oil."
It's not speculation that is the problem, it is unregulated insider trading manipulation and monopoly price fixing. In short, corruption, criminal activity in so-called "free" markets.
Teddy Roosevelt's example must be followed, bust those trusts with regulation, enforcement, and oil use demand reduction targets. 5% reduction per year for 20 years. Bring OPEC, the exxonmob, and Russia to their knees. Then negotiate some favorable terms for planet earth and its life forms.
"...it will increase the use of natural gas, which is abundant, clean, and cheap."
It is clean, compared to coal and nuclear, but still emits GHG, and it is neither abundant or cheap. Ask someone heating their home with natural gas how cheap it is. If it's abundant why is it being imported on tankers and why is ammonia fertilizer made from natural gas being imported on tankers from Russia?
Better than Steny.
Nancy you get a D instead of an F.
So this is what we have to look forward to from a democratic administration and legislative branch?
Please take some time to talk to Lester Brown and Amory Lovins both of you. This is too important to rely on industry lobbyist propaganda.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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Wolverine Posted 3:56 pm
18 Aug 2008
You're Right About "Lobbyist"
As I live in her district, I can verify that Nancy Pelosi is nothing but a political hack. I won't list her transgressions here, but suffice to say that she's part of the Democratic "machine" here and progressives have been battling her since she first ran for election. Cindy Sheehan is running against her this time and I'm thinking of working on Sheehan's campaign.
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Pangolin Posted 4:52 pm
18 Aug 2008
Assuming idiot voters
A fair assumption given the last eight years. The hypothesis that the United States electorate has a hint of a clue as to the nature of peak oil and the decline of their future lifestyles as a result has no foundation in data.
The Democratic Party has to behave like a bunch of slightly less clueless grinning chimps until the first wednesday in november. Nobody in the mainstream media will notice because not a one of them has ever touched a scientific calculator. Graphing exponential functions isn't even on the horizon.
The blogosphere will just have to deal.
Put the Carbon Back
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