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Fore!! Grand Oil Party’s Hypocrisy on Gas Prices Exposed
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UPDATE: FORE!! Boehner’s Trying to Get Out of Bunker & Back to the Beltway >>
DCCC Press:
The Washington Post reported this morning that Minority Leader John Boehner has spent the first week of the congressional recess doing a series of golf outings while a small band of House Republicans remain in Washington to call for "drill only" legislation that does nothing to bring immediate relief to Americans paying high gas prices.
Big Oil tax breaks and subsidies supported by
Republicans ... $14 Billion
Political
contributions made to Republicans by Big Oil this cycle ...
$13.5 Million
Profit
earned by the top five Big Oil Companies last quarter ... $44
Billion
Cost of John Boehner's green
fees while a small band of House Republicans' express faux outrage about gas
prices * ... $240
The Grand Oil Party's hypocrisy about the cost of gas ...
Priceless
"Minority Leader Boehner's golf outings this week expose the Grand Oil Party's continued hypocrisy on gas prices," said Jennifer Crider, DCCC Communications Director. "Despite a small band of House Republicans' theatrical ‘outrage' about gas prices this week, House Republicans don't get mulligans - or do overs - when it comes to their pro-Big Oil record."
"Republicans are protecting $14 billion worth of tax breaks and subsidies for Big Oil companies earning billions of dollars in profits while middle class Americans struggle to fill up the family minivan. While Republicans whiff on high gas prices, Democrats will continue to fight for commonsense, bipartisan solutions to lower gas prices."
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Democratic Solution to Lower Gas Prices |
House Republican Response |
President Bush's Response |
Outcome |
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Use It or Lose It - requiring oil companies to drill on the 68 million acres of land they already lease |
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Status Quo |
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Ending tax breaks for Big Oil companies |
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Status Quo |
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Expediting leases for drilling and federal pipeline development in Alaska's Energy Reserve |
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Status Quo |
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Cracking down on gas price gouging |
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Status Quo |
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Releasing gas from the government stockpile |
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Status Quo |
BACKGROUND
- Minority Leader Boehner's green fee totals excludes the initiation fee and dues for use of the private Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio and the Wetherington Golf and Country Club in West Chester, Ohio.
- Boehner and the Bunker Mentality [Washington Post, 08/07/08]
- Average cost of a gallon of gas is $3.85 [www.fuelgaugereport.com]. For those keeping score, John Boehner's green fees would have purchased more than 62 gallons of gas.
- Nearly 75 percent of all Big Oil campaign contributions - $13.5 million - have gone to Republicans this cycle. [Center for Responsive Politics]
The real question is: Is oil (and gas) continually being replaced as some suggest - OR does taking all of this oil from the earth leave a big hole by which catastrophic geological events may be catapulted or exacerbated??? Regardless, we can catapult alternative energy source development and utilization using natural sun and wind power. (Forget the bio-fuels- they are way too costly in more ways than one.)
I agree with Anne Fischer about corn-based ethanol, but let us not disregard waste-based bio-fuels, such as the diesel-substitute made from used cooking oil. It is a win-win if someone pays you to take something he/she would otherwise have had to dump, but you can convert it to bio-fuel and sell it at a profit.
You know, nobody really cares whether Boehner plays golf or not. What would really be useful on a site like this would be documentation of the claims you have made about “Big Oil”. If I have not made up my mind yet about who to vote for in Novemember, I want facts which I can check on to make sure they are really accurate and not just “spin” that you campaign writers seem to think is so effective. Both the R’s and the D’s do it so much I can’t take anything that either party says at face value!
Royal Kiehl is absolutely correct! Both the Dems and Reps spin the spin so fast and so hard that it’s impossible to keep up with it all.
FACTS!!! WE WANT _*FACTS*_!!!!!
Bob Barr is looking better and better every day. :|
Apparently you already know how to use the intertubes, so look for verification yourself. Think of sites ‘like this’ as identifiers and clarifiers, and yourself as someone who doesn’t need everything laid at their feet.
One good thing that the oil companies do is they are starting to pump CO2 into their wells in order to replace the oil they took out and to force out more oil. That reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Maybe small potatoes right now, but people are thinking of doing this on a grander scale with the CO2 that comes from coal-fueled power plants. This is strictly a global warming issue, nothing to do with gas prices, but Anne was concerned about the holes left by oil drilling. Those holes are filled with other stuff before the wells are tapped out, at least that’s my understanding.
The solution to the energy problems and the high price of oil is electric cars. The technology is here today. Heavy drive trains of current cars can be replaced by light electric motors and currently available batteries (the lightest yet designed) are now available. No tune-ups, no oil changes, no labor-intensive parts like engines and transmissions. Every car put on the road is a permanently lost oil user/consumer. You don’t think that would drop the price of oil? I just hope the oil industry doesn’t drop the price and revive our complacency so that we stop the shift to electric cars. Consider this. You could charge your car using photo voltaic cells on YOUR roof and not pay ANY per mile additional cost. Could you adjust to that? I think I might be able to.
With respect to Firebrand’s comment, such checking can take hours and hours of time. If I come to a site like this assuming I will have to do my own research to verify what they are telling me is true, why would I bother coming? I find that political campaigning nowadays has more to do with inuendos, distortions, and candidates getting into arguments about petty issues that sound good but have little to do with the crucial issues our country is facing. The result is that many of us “turn off” and realize we can’t assume any of it is true. The suggestion I made above was for a way to make campainging more believable, and hence more effective.
There’s not time enough in the day, I guess.
However, it took me less than five minutes to find articles related to the claims made on this page, and while I have no interest in debating whether or not this site should be able to forecast each reader’s individual and particular concerns related to each article’s claims, and then list the information for them--I think it asks a great deal. Especially, when, as I stated, the info is easily accessed via the intertubes.
Finally, if you don’t want to type in your own search terms, try clicking on the live links (red in this article) in the article?