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Military.com Forums Hot Topics & Current Events Point-Counterpoint What happened to the democrat's plan to lower gas prices when it was $2.91 a gallon?|
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Dims and libs are nothing more than gasbags spewing what ever they think the public will believe. Their sole purpose is to discredit any opinion/solution but their own (which by the way they never have one...except raise taxes and throw money at the problem). But hell, Im preachin to the choir.
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How words do come back to haunt all ineffective leaders.
"Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude. ''I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,'' Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. ''Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.'' Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the United States something in return. ''Ours is a nation that helped Kuwait and the Saudis, and you'd think we'd have the capital necessary to convince them to increase the crude supplies,'' he said. Asked why the Clinton administration had not been able to use the power of personal persuasion, Mr. Bush said: ''The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' '' He went on to suggest, as he did in answer to other questions, that voters should simply trust him. ''I will be,'' he said in answer to his own question about whether he would be a successful president. ''But until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.'' http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E4D7...sh+oil+prices&st=nyt Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil production http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24660754/ |
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Republicans have blocked any attempt by the Dems to fix the problem, meanwhile their only solution is to drill, drill, and more drill. The oil companies don't have the resources to drill what they already have. |
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You got a link to back that assertion up? |
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"fix the problem"? I'm sorry, I missed the attempt. All I've seen is the usual Dem. solution to lowering prices. Tax them more, regulate them more, then complain when Corp. H Q moves off shore.
Do yourselves a favor, libs, look up "Capital flight" and "brain drain", keep it up and the current trickle will become a flood. |
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mmmmm....this question is like the guy who gave that aircraft carrier speech...that "end of hostilities" thing sooooooooooooo many yearsssssss agooooooooo
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Here ya go: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/business/19drillship....c=rss&pagewanted=all This message has been edited. Last edited by: esample1, |
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Current trickle? Millions of jobs have been outsourced since 2001, even though corporate taxes have been cut repeatedly by Bush. |
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Here's that link, but repaired:
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Eesample1 - You said:
Perhaps you can simply summarize those attempts since your NYT link doesn't work. Seems to me the Dems have been doing a pretty good job of blocking the President's initiatives but at least I know what those are. Other than a windfall profits tax and removing oil company subsidies (neither of which will bring down prices at the pump), I don't know what the Dems propose that will help you and me. Obviously you do ... so please enlighten us. |
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An artical in the NYTimes is not proof of anything.
Could you please show where Congress or President Bush put to pen something as you wante NYTimes to prove for you. A story or reporter, Republican or Democrat, is nothing without proof. Too much use of a story in a Newspaper is used as proof. It is nothing. I am not saying that the Republicans didn't do it, but proof comes from Washington and Bills Papers passed by one of our Houses there. |
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Why don't you read the article and then use it as a step stone to getting more data instead of just dismissing it blind? |
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Can't speak for Mainedawg but ... I've read the article and it hasn't got the square root of peanuts to do with Republicans blocking any Democratic solution to the problem that they claimed they had when trying to get elected in 2006. They've been elected. Where's the solution? It isn't in the NYT article that was linked to. |
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Mod Hat Off
I am expecting after this post that most of the haters and such will jump on this thread. All I ask is be nice and look at the issue and reason for the thread. Thank You The artical has nothing to do with Dem's or Rep's stopping the lowering of gas prices. I will not use that artical as a stepping stone for anything. You posted it, You use it ... I really want to know if someone blocked the lowing of gas prices. No matter who it is.... |
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I thought I was being asked for proof that the oil companies lacked the resources for more drilling.
There is no way to prove Republicans blocked the Dems attempt to lower gas prices, since they think anything done to the oil companies will raise prices. Since noone knows how to lower oil prices, then no, that question can't be answered. |
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ALTMIRE VOTED TO BLOCK LEGISLATION THAT WOULD LOWER GAS PRICES
Cranberry Township, PA - Yesterday, the US House Democrats voted to block the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089) from being considered on the House floor. The No More Excuses Energy Act would encourage new refinery construction, lift the congressional moratoria on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, open ANWR to environmentally responsible drilling, extend the wind production tax credit and encourage investment in nuclear power. Jason Altmire, (PA-4), joined with the majority of the Washington, D.C. Democrats in voting to block this imperative legislation. A discharge petition was filed earlier this week on this same bill. This discharge petition would immediately bring this energy development bill to the floor for a vote. Altmire has so far declined to sign the discharge petition. “This bill addresses key initiatives that America should already be pursuing, yet Pelosi and the Washington DC Democrats don’t even want to have a vote on the bill,” said PA-4th district candidate Melissa Hart. Hart added, “Too much of our supply here at home is off limits due to restrictive government policies. This has forced us to be too dependent on foreign oil. We all know that America has a problem. I find it inexcusable that the Washington DC Democrats are continuing to play politics refusing to even allow a vote on energy bills to move us forward.” “Each week it becomes more evident that this Congress is not serious about finding practical solutions to our acute energy problems. It is going to give voters a lot to think about when they head to the polls in November.” |
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I could go on all day and night posting items like this.
I will also state that I can post just as much about the Republicans. |
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John, that artical just talks about nothing. Things they might do.
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