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DUMBASSDEMS
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Congress is currently considering the idea of raising fuel taxes by ten cents. Right now we pay 18.4 cents a gallon on gas and 24.3 cents on diesel. Congress thinks that this would be a great time to increase those taxes that you are paying at the pump.
Why???? Well, it seems that our federal government doesn't have enough money to spend on highway projects. The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Jim Oberstar presented the House with a list of how many jobs we will lose if we don't continue to spend tax dollars on highway construction and infrastructure. Oberstar says, "We'll put all things on the table ... but the gas tax is the cornerstone. Nothing else will work without the underpinning of the higher user fee gas tax." Gas tax revenues are down, of course, because the high price of gas is forcing people to consume less.
Here's an FYI for you ... If you include state and local taxes, Americans pay about 47 cents on average in taxes for a gallon of gas. In many European countries, gas costs $8 to $9 a gallon, and at least half of that goes to taxes.
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DUMBASSDEMS
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, "the worst speaker in the history of Congress," explained the cause of high oil prices back in 2006: "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect."
Yes, that would explain why the price of oral sex, cigars and Hustler magazine skyrocketed during the Clinton years. Also, I note that Speaker Pelosi is a hotelier ... and the price of a hotel room in New York is $1,000 a night! I think she might be onto something.
Is that why a barrel of oil costs mere pennies in all those other countries in the world that are not run by "oilmen"? Wait -- it doesn't cost pennies to them? That's weird.
In response to the 2003 blackout throughout the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada, Pelosi blamed: "President Bush and Rep. Tom DeLay's oil-company interests." The blackout was a failure of humans operating electric power; it had nothing to do with oil. And I'm not even "an oilman."
But yes -- good point: What a disaster having people in government who haven't spent their entire lives in politics! That explains everything. A government official with relevant experience or knowledge about an issue is obviously a crisis of gargantuan proportions.
This must be why the Democrats are nominating B. Hussein Obama, who finished middle school three days ago and has less experience than a person one might choose at random from the audience of "American Idol."
Announcing the Democrats' bold new "plan" on energy last week, Pelosi said breaking into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "is one alternative." That's not an energy plan. It's using what we already have -- much like "conservation," which is also part of the Democrats' plan.
Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It's as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: "Just eat a little less every day." Great! We'll die a little more slowly. That's not what we call a "plan." We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death.
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DUMBASSDEMS
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But there's more! Pelosi announced that the Democrats also plan to push for "an historic investment in biofuels, efficiency, conservation and the rest." The "rest" is apparently what she called our "important and essential" investment in alternative energy.
That certainly would be historic: We would make history by throwing our money away on unproven energy boondoggles that have eaten up untold billions since the 1960s without producing a single net kilowatt of power while we all starve to death.
The proposal to use energy sources that don't yet produce any energy is like the old New Yorker cartoon with Obama in Muslim garb -- no wait, that was a different cartoon. The cartoon is: A scientist has written out his extremely complicated theory on a blackboard and is showing it to another scientist. The theory consists of numbers and characters and takes up the entire blackboard. About two-thirds of the way across, reading left to right, appear the words, "then a miracle happens," followed by more numbers and characters.
That's the Democrats' plan to run cars on biofuels, solar and wind power: Then a miracle happens. The current Democratic mantra on energy is: "We can't drill our way out of this problem." Apparently their plan is to talk our way out of this problem.
Democrats are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill -- presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don't want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry.
If the Democrats really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they'd allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil.
But they don't. They don't want drilling. They don't want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die. We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears.
It's good to know that in the middle of a crisis, the Democrats are still liars. As long as we're fantasizing about "alternative" energy sources, what we really need is a car that runs on Democrats' lies.
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DUMBASSDEMS
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) about the estimated amount of recoverable oil we have in ANWR.
According to the USGS, the mean estimate of technically recoverable oil in the Coastal Plain of ANWR is 10.4 billion barrels – all of which is now economically recoverable.
• That’s more than twice the proven oil reserves in all of Texas.
• That’s almost half of the total U.S. proven reserve of 21 million barrels.
• That represents a possible 50 percent increase in total U.S. proven reserves.
What does 10.4 Billion Barrels of Oil Mean?
10.4 Billion Barrels produces:
• 436.8 Billion Gallons of Gasoline
o 12.6 Billion Tanks of Gasoline (based on a 16 gallon tank)
o 93 tanks of gas for EVERY registered passenger vehicle
• 10.4 Trillion Gallons of Diesel
o 320 Million Tanks of Diesel (with Two 150 gallon tanks on a semi)
• 4.3 Trillion Gallons of Jet Fuel
o 5.7 Million Tanks of Jet Fuel (on fully fueled 737-600s with 6,875 gallon tanks)
Let’s be clear about this. The Coastal Plain of ANWR, also known as the 1002 Area, is neither wilderness nor refuge. It was set aside by Congress and President Carter in 1980 for future oil development. Development would be limited to 2000 acres of the Coastal Plain or 0.01% of the entire 19.6 million-acre refuge. These lands were set aside for America to produce its own energy resources. What are we waiting for?
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Cyclone Charlie
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Calm down and take your meds, Dumba s s.
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DUMBASSDEMS
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What ARE we waiting for?
Answer: CONGRESS.
This is what we get when we vote in a San Francisco leftist into power - disaster.
Let's drill NOW!
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The Truth
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About time. How long will it take voting constituents to rid themselves of the flapping
Congressional obstructionists? Haven't we had enough of the Chicken Little mentality? Please
write to the following: Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and last but not least,
the insufferable Nancy Pelosi. Their sole agenda is to undermine the Bush Administration in particular and all Republicans in general. They don't care if the United States of America is going to Hell in a hand basket. It makes me sick. The whole lot of them should be impeached. These pathetic narcissistic ego maniacs deserve nothing more than the boot out the door at every election until we are rid of them.
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The Truth
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Of all the energy our do-nothing Democrat lead congress is saving by just putting on the back burner and hoping the problem will go away.
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The Truth
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What are we waiting for?
We're waiting for Hell to freeze over. And judging from Nancy Peolsi's approval ratings and her congress, that may have just happend!
Drill, said the dentist. Drill said the car.
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The Truth
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It will take 10 years
to get oil from here. You heard half of the quote recently, which said
"We can't drill our way out of this"
What you didn't hear was the rest of the quote which was:
"Because our buddies in the environmental lobbies and the trial lawyers will hold it up in court for at least that long".
You gotta listen to the WHOLE Democrat message.
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The Truth
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No, no, no! Do the math!
Are you kidding me? At today's prices that would redirect $1.4 trillion from our turbaned friends to us (ed: I realize it doesn't all go to them. We get a lot from Canada and Mexico). And by 'us' I don't mean us, but people who cling to religion and want to work for a living. Keeping that money in our own economy would create too much opportunity and put some serious punch behind the dollar.
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Keyboard Commando
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ANWR and the 08 vote.
If you are as tired of this garbage as I am, Vote. Just about every seat in the house is up for reelection this year. Throw the bums out and get some new blood and some new ideas. There has to be enough sane people in San Francisco, to vote Nancy Pelosi, out of office, as well as the other's who are dragging our country down. VOTE THEM OUT.
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Keyboard Commando
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ANWR
Let's not kid ourselves! We can vote all the liberal obstructionists out, but unfortunately not the judiciary. The enviro-fanatics and their ambulance-chasing lawyers will still tie up exploration and drilling indefinately by picking unaccountable judges who will rule in their favor. These people are not restrained by laws or the constitution, but only by their sense of what they can get away with.
I weep for my country...
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Keyboard Commando
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Ironic, Carter set it aside
Why do liberals oppose this when their hero Carter was the one who set aside the land for exploration in the first place? If anyone needs PROOF that libs are walking contradictions, here you go.
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Keyboard Commando
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Hey Pelosi, Reid! Use it or Lose it!
They tried pushing the Use It or Lose It bill, telling companies to drill on the lands already leased...
Well, maybe Pelosi and Reid, instead of CONSTANTLY asking for more tax money should use the money they already have. Use it or lose it folks.
Right?
Party of airheads, I swear.
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Keyboard Commando
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Bush's mere LIFTING of the executive ban on offshore drilling had an IMMEDIATE affect on the price of a barrel of oil, the VERY next day, without producing a SINGLE drop, falling from $143plus a barrel to nearly $133 a barrel.
Futures my friend, futures.
Imagine what giving the go ahead in ANWR would do.
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Cyclone Charlie
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Daily Press, this troll under different identities keeps repeating the same old s--t post after post after post. (Obviously he has too much time on his hands.) Please delete this whole thread.
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