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Gasoline prices hurting your family finances? Want to see production increased and gas prices lowered to help relieve the strain caused by Social Democrat policies and their ceaseless sucking-up to environut neo-Luddite watermelons who view all humanity as a “virus” and prefer you to freeze and starve in a darkened hut? Champion of the Common Man Blinky Pelosi doesn’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday shut the door on expanding oil and gas drilling beyond areas that have already been approved for energy exploration, drawing a clear distinction from her counterparts in charge of the Senate.
“This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. “It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
As Seedubya says: THEIR policies? Nice try, you lying sack of weasel crap:
“Clear distinction?” I’d say so, yeah.
Tar. Feathers. Torches. Pitchforks. The day cometh, and that right soon.
Update! Via Insty yet again, John Cornyn lays it out:
We’ve put ourselves in an irrational box. We’ve put 85 percent of our prime energy exploration lands off-limits. The U.S. is the only country in the world that refuses to develop its own natural resources. With a growing worldwide demand for energy, we’re willing to enrich foreign governments – some of which wish us harm – instead of helping ourselves.
The U.S. is well on the way toward transitioning away from over-reliance on fossil fuels. I’m for pursuing every source of energy out there – solar, nuclear, clean coal, wind, biofuels, hydrogen, shale. We need it all. But we’ve built up an infrastructure over 100 years that must be relied upon as we make the change to renewable sources. Congress has to get out of the way and allow the U.S. to develop its resources for that infrastructure – or we’re headed towards economic catastrophe.
As John notes, a number of Democratic officeholders have heard from their constituents, and they want to vote to expand energy exploration. But their leadership is making sure they cannot.
It’s perfectly true, and it ought to remembered for a long, long time. Cornyn thinks it will be, with the just result beginning to manifest itself in November. We’ll see.
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They also speculated that, with more people buying motorcycles, scooters and "lighter, more fuel efficient cars" driving related deaths would continue to decline. Am I the only one who sees a problem with that statement?
Not Verizon, but on-topic nonetheless.
what it fails to mention is that all those folks who can't afford to drive anymore are also going to be the ones forced to choose between eating or paying rent when the cost of food starts skyrocketing due to the increasing costs of shipping and refridgeration.