The Democrat solutions to high fuel prices
Posted by Moonage on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Energy Policy
We’ve already seen what Nancy Pelosi has done for rocketing energy prices, she’s made it worse. Now, we’ve got Harry Reid tackling the issue since it’s obvious Nancy’s ideas just make things worse.
Another item under consideration for Reid’s bill is a demand that the Bush administration put pressure on Saudi Arabia and other OPEC-member nations to increase oil supplies and bring down prices. Several Democrats last week warned that Congress will block military sales to those countries unless they open up the spigots.
Our only carrot is military sales? Given our relationship with Venezuela and a few other OPEC members, I seriously doubt military equipment is much of a carrot. The Russians and North Koreans I’m sure would be more than happy to fill that void. Sure, their stuff isn’t as good as ours, but who’s going to let another country jeapordize our oil supply? As usual, I’m sure most of OPEC will laugh off Harry’s threat.
Despite the effort, a similar bill is unlikely in the House, said a senior House Democratic aide, who applauded the Senate movement.
“We’ve done a number of energy bills already to lower prices and the speaker called on the president to not fill the SPR. We are pleased the Senate will take action on some of our bills,” the aide said.
Yeah, and see what those bills have done for us so far? I HATE, I mean I absolutely HATE that stupid SPR distraction. Put it in perspective here ok?
Among those championing stopping the SPR stockpiling effort is Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who frequently complains that it’s not in the nation’s interest for the Department of Energy to continue to put nearly 70,000 barrels of oil into the reserve.
Now, from another site, the US is consuming over 20 million barrels per day. Now, IF we completely stopped filling our reserves, that would lower demand .35%. That would amount to a savings for the average US consumer of just about 1 cent. That is the evidence Dorgan and Pelosi use to justify their argument that Bush is sold out to oil companies.
None of these measures will amount to crap at the pump. Not even close. None of their proposals in any requires the US to provide a real scare to OPEC. Open up ANWR. Susbidize drilling in North Dakota. Open up the coasts of California.. Open up rigs everywhere we can. Make Iraq the 51st state and import every drop of their oil. Subsidize new refineries that are much more efficient that our outdated ones.
And in the meantime, put every spare dime into renewable energy.
Then, we’ll have real solutions.
As long as they wanna play politics with the issue, we’re screwed and OPEC knows it.
Pride goeth before the fall. And, we’re falling. Time to drop their stupid aversion to drilling amongst the trees and get back to reality.
3 Comments »
on 30 Apr 2008 at 5:59 pm 1.Christine said …
I hate to do this to you, even though I agree with you. It is ANWR, not ANWAR. Technicalities!
trust me, I work in Oil and gas here in Alaska. You spell something like that wrong.. not many will take you seriously.
on 30 Apr 2008 at 7:29 pm 2.Moonage
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Corrected. I don’t that many people take me seriously either way. However, I do hope that if enough voices support logic instead of knee-jerk political correctness, someone will listen.
I hope you come back to read this, I’d really like to know what people working in oil think about the ANWR issue. If you’ve elaborated that on your blog, please send me a link.
on 04 May 2008 at 9:05 am 3.Moonage SpaceDream » Tesla Roadster - get yours now? said …
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