Congress MUST Step Up (Updated to add video)
With a nine percent approval rating at last look, will Congress have the audacity to not agree with the President?
It’s a call to arms people. President Bush is lifting the decades old executive ban on offshore drilling, but it must have congressional support.
I’d like to believe this time will be different and will applaud the House and Senate members should they concur on this important issue but there is a part of me which says I won’t hold my breath.
~J~ has another important post on available domestic energy product here. If you mail or call your representative, be sure to touch on both issues.
This seems to confirm the information in the post Sue referenced, although the President said it would be enough to last for a century. He did mention shale oil. ~J~
Update 2: Here is what the Speaker of the House of Representatives, you know, the Congress with a 9% approval rating has to say about the President’s remarks:
WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s announcement lifting the executive ban on drilling in protected coastal areas:
“Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil.
“The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas.
“If the President wants to bring down prices in the next two weeks, not the next two decades, he should free our oil by releasing a small portion of the more than 700 million barrels of oil we have put in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
“It’s time to tell the oil industry: ‘You already have millions of acres to drill. Use it or lose it.’”
SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House
That tells you where the Democrats stand on getting oil to their constituents. You’d better think twice when you pull that lever in November because voting for a Democrat for Congress or President will get you higher gas prices than now and no domestic drilling and refining. ~J~
Written by Sue
~J~ Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pmVisit ~J~
No blood for oil was the battle cry not long ago. Now the Democratic syncophant heard on the video clip is telling us oil in Iraq is 40¢ per gallon. I guess we didn’t go there for the oil, huh?
This has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with OPEC and Congress sitting by wringing their hands while they do nothing to harm a certain rare breed of something and in the meantime, Americans are suffering.
Contact your congressman and senators. It does no good to contact Pelosi as she will only talk to her constituents, but yet she’s the Speaker of the House and is in charge of all the Congress critters.