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Drill here... drill NOW!

Posted by Mick O. on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:50:20 AM
According to my liberal representatives here in California, the current high gas prices would not be helped by drilling here in the US. To quote Diane Feinstein, "...I do not believe that we can drill our way out of the current record energy prices..." Why not? Increasing the inventory ALWAYS brings down prices. Which school did she go to? The school of environmental special interests that's where.
 
Living in California has been politically frustrating. After the June 3 defeat of proposition 98 which would have restored sanity to the rental market in places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and Berkeley and the pending passage of an assembly bill which would make "point of sale" energy audits mandatoy, I fear we are heading toward recession. Crazy politicians and their even crazier constituents are pushing the state toward bankruptcy. Even the Governor, no conservative, is fearful for our economy.
 
So on a national level, the California Democrats like Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein are running the agenda. And after two years, look at where we are. They want to blame President Bush, but how then do they explain the previous 6 years of prosperity? Think of what it will be like with 4 years of Obama or Clinton and even bigger majorities in the house and senate. I'm warning you. That little island place we bought in Panama is starting to look better and better!
 
My fear is that we are losing our country. I know, I know. They thought that right after the Revolutionary War too, but at least they were closer to agreeing on what this country would look like. Does anyone think if the founders were alive today they would approve of the way the environmental minority is setting the agenda for the rest of us with bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom and more litigation? NO WAY! Remember, they went to war over an amount in taxes, that is more than just the amount we pay today on our telephone bills for the hearing impaired!!
 
If people want to solve this gas crisis now which has been created by environmentalists and liberals who refuse to let our oil companies drill and refine in this country, there is a new website that will be going up soon. It is called www.FedUpNetwork.com and will primarily focus on one issue at a time. The first endeavour will be HIGH GAS PRICES and pointing out who is to blame for them... and it sure isn't the Republicans like Democrats claim!
 
Check it out.
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John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil is my new hero

Posted by Mick O. on Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:28:00 PM
 Oil executives have it bad. Every other week, it seems, they are being called up to Capitol Hill to testify as to why gas prices are so high when it is the idiots who called them to come are the real culprits. And now, John Hofmeister has told them just as much.
 
At some point, people are going to tell environmental whackos where to get off and insist the government lift some, if not all of the restrictions that have been placed on oil companies. Everything we drives uses gasoline. There's no getting around it. Even hybrids use petroleum products. Even the plastic bike helmets that the liberal whackos don so that they don't have to burn fossil fuels to get somewhere are made from petroleum! So why are we not being allowed to go get it?
 
Look at any other business and tell me one that has been told to produce something, but you can't get it here, can't explore there. If we did that to Congress the country would be in better shape, but other than that, not a single business could do well. And yet they are being charged as if what they are doing to make a living is crimminal. I, for one, am insulted on behalf of the oil companies.
 
That's why when John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil handed it to the judiciary committee this week, Dick Durbin and Charles Schumer should have been ashamed of themselves. But they won't be because they are politicians... actors... and they have no conscience. Their only contribution to society is to pretend to solve problems and then get paid for it... thus keeping them off unemployment. Personally, I would prefer they do the latter. Scumbags.
 
Let the oil companies do what they do best and let's start hauling the global warming hoaxsters into court and make them prove their case!
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Democrats are telling us exactly who they are...

Posted by Mick O. on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:25:18 PM
Democrats are showing everyone what is in store if they win the whitehouse, and gain seats in the senate and house. Look at the last 2 years. Let's start with this month. Postal rate increases. This is almost unheard of in an election year. Usually, the party in power is too timid to show who they really are by raising postage rates (another form of taxation) when there is such an important election coming up... particularly when they just raised the rates not that long ago.
 
And let's look at gas prices. While they haul oil executives up to Capitol Hill to testify as to why energy is so expensive, today the oil companies hit back saying essentially that it is congress's policies that are causing the problem, not the oil companies! HOW TRUE! While everyone finds comfort in blaming big oil for price gouging, if everyone's business was as regulated as the oil industry, we would have an all out revolution.
 
Democratics have had the majorities in both the house and senate where all the legislation starts, and look at the mess our economy is in. Do we hear this from the press? NO! They are LIARS! Ever since Democrats won in 2004, the economy has gone south. During the first 6 years of the Bush tax cuts, the economy has gone gangbusters. It doesn't take a genius to see that conservative approaches to taxation works, and liberal policies don't.
 
So imagine if Obama or Clinton win the white house in 2008 and more Democrats are swept into power in both the House and Senate, we are going to be in big trouble. They are promising to raise taxes. Obama has suggested increasing the capital gains taxes. Who does he think creates the jobs in this country? It's the people who earn capital gains! And if they can't use those gains to purchase new equipment, open new businesses and hire employees, who is going to? Oh, I forgot. They will go into the new national health care industry! We are screwed!
 
Even if McCain can somehow pull out a win, he's as liberal as the day is long. How many Democrats have you talked to who have said they wouldn't mind a McCain presidency? I have talked to quite a few... those who will NOT vote for Senator Clinton no matter what. McCain has bought into the man-made global warming agenda... the same one that won't let us drill for oil. Can you say $10 a gallon for gas?
 
Someone out there has to have the figures. I am told we now import most of our oil from Canada. Is this oil that they produce or are they buying from somewhere else and then reselling to us? The good news is that oil futures can only go so high. The market will soon reach a price that can no longer be sustained. So all these speculators are going to go bust. Will they ask for government subsidies like the idiots who bought houses on speculation? Seems to me everyone is turning to the government who is only too happy to step in and solve just about any problem that comes along... whether it's their business or not.
 
Remember, what we have gotten from Nancy Pelosi and her gang for the past 2 years will only get worse once Democrats get more power. Count on it. And you can say you heard it here FIRST! Because you sure as hell won't hear it on the news.
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Blme Democratics for high gas prices

Posted by Mick O. on Friday, May 16, 2008 2:05:30 PM
Who else can be to blame when Democratics:
  • side with environmentalists who will not let us drill for new oil
  • side with environmentalists who will not let us build new refineries
  • make the oil companies formulate different blends of gasoline
  • will not take less in taxes to lower the price at the pump

Democratics are our enemies, and they should be defeated.

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The topic is ENERGY policy... or lack of one!

Posted by Mick O. on Monday, May 12, 2008 2:13:12 PM
 The senate is out of touch. With Democrats in the majority, they have ruined our economy with their stupid policies. And now they are about to do it again. As recently as May 9th, they are proposing a double whammy to America's energy companies.
 
Not only will they revoke any tax credits for big oil companies, but they are also proposing a windfall profits tax on companies that don't invest in new energy sources. This is the stupidist thing I have ever heard.
 
Companies are in business to make a profit. If they could sell mud and make money they would do so with or without any tax consequences by the government. So why are politicians threatening oil companies if they don't invest in something that might make them money??? You've got it. There will be no profit in these energy alternatives because they don't work and people don't want them. Just like the recycling ruse foisted upon us by liberals (because most of the recycling goes into land fills and does not get reused... it's too expensive!) And who is going to pay for these extra expenses? You and I will. How does this lower gas prices????? It doesn't.
 
Harry Reid could be one of the worst senate leaders ever. If he is still in office after the next election, then people will deserve what they get from his incompetence. Remember those expensive bi-partisan hearings where the oil executives were marched up in front of the arrogant senators and asked to defend themselves? And remember that the investigation into "price gouging" turned up nothing? So where are the windfall profits?
 
After 6 years of booming economy, the Democrats have been in power in both the house and the senate and the bottom has dropped out of the economy. Who are they blaming? Bush. Now if Bush gets the blame, then shouldn't he get the credit for the previous 6 years? No, Bush is bad, Democrats are good. BULL. I contend that liberal policies are ruining this country and with a Democrat president, it will only get worse.
 
I suggested to the oil companies on their websites that they do a little better job of tooting their own horns. The press surely is not going to do it. I suggested they do the OSH "we pay the sales tax" promotion where they voluntarily lower their per gallon price at the pump by the amount of state and federal taxes to show people how much they are really adding to the skyrocketing gas prices. Then they should use that opportunity to educate people on what it takes to bring that gas to the pump. And all the roadblocks that the government is putting in their way to brining us cheap gas.
 
We need one formulation of gas. We need more refineries. We need more drilling. Even hybrids still use gas. And since ethanol is using up our food sources and making our groceries cost more, we need to do something. Corn can be eaten, so why use it for fuel? Oil is good for nothing other than burning for energy. Let's get real.
 
I am going to harp on this until someone wakes up and starts telling us the truth!
 
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