Thursday, June 12, 2008

Gingrich Offers Advice on Gas Crisis (Video)-- House Republicans Vow To Fight On With Energy Plan

UPDATE: Newt Gingrich offered Senator John McCain advice on how to solve the energy crisis facing America today.
Hopefully, the good Senator McCain was watching.

Gingrich also announced that 650,000 Americans have already the petition:
"Drill Here. Drill Now. Save Money."

Gingrich appeared on The O'Reilly Factor:

BTW: Bill O'Reilly made much more sense tonight than when he was agreeing with Dennis Kucinish last night(?)

HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOW TO FIGHT ON WITH ENERGY PLAN!
World Oil Prices Continue To Soar As Inventories Drop--
Do you think the Democratic plan of raising taxes on oil companies will help?
How about the Democratic plan to sue OPEC over gas prices?... Do you think that will help increase inventories?

Here's a look at the Democrat and Republican plans on Energy:

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House Republicans vowed today to continue to push Democrats for more energy development.
Reuters reported:

Congressional Republicans vowed on Thursday to make a major push for more U.S. oil and gas drilling and in the process force Democrats to cast difficult votes at a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices.

With the November congressional and presidential elections looming, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are blaming each other for rising energy costs and gasoline prices that are topping $4 a gallon.

Republicans cited Democratic opposition to opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and drilling.

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said Republicans would try to raise public awareness and force more votes on the issue. He said Republicans would back a comprehensive approach of more oil and gas drilling as well as energy conservation and moves toward alternative fuels supported by Democrats.

"Over the next five months, House Republicans will fight every single day to hold Democrats accountable for their dismal record on producing more energy in our country," Boehner told reporters.

Many democrats oppose opening ANWR and more offshore sites to oil and gas drilling and support conservation and developing more alternative energy sources to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But Republicans believe rising gasoline prices will build public support for expanding U.S. oil and gas development.

"We cannot drill our way out of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California countered.
Unfortunately, it looks like Democrats are not taking this crisis seriously.
--$4 Gasbags is right.

Daniel Henninger at The Wall Street Journal says, "Drill! Drill! Drill!"

More... Gingrich also discussed 3 ways to reduce the cost of oil.

UPDATE: David White writes in with this:

Nancy Pelosi’s position of ‘we can’t drill ourselves out of this problem’ has got to be backed up by Ms. Pelosi. She needs to validate her research on this position, a position that the Democrats have taken for so long. Someone has got to demand the scientific proof of this, if not even the economic evidence.

Also, the ‘domestic production will not come on line for 7 to 10 years’. So what.

And, ‘domestic production will not bring down the price of oil’, but ‘suing OPEC to increase production to bring down the price of oil’ will work?

12 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:34 PM

    The Republican Party needs to push this issue into the public eye and show the public the true culprits behind the energy problems...and it's not big oil.

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  2. Anonymous6:34 PM

    Newt '08

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  3. Anonymous7:10 PM

    Grand ole party grandstanding.Don't forget the grandstanding in the last election concerning building a real barrier to illegal aliens and the promises made to finally secure our border,a decade of doing naught and now grandstanding on what should already have been done.

    M. Wilcox

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  4. ++

    re: [Unfortunately, it looks like Democrats are not taking this crisis seriously.}

    that's because the Rockefeller Dems have huge expectations of making trillion dollar industry out of renewable energies via taxing Americans from here to eternity any which way they can.. Global Warming is a SCAM conjured up to make billions for investors off the backs of Americans, not to mention the rest of the world!!

    Rockefeller vs. ExxonMobil

    and it's working beautifully..

    Exxon to exit U.S. retail gas business

    take that Saudi Arabia.. we don't give a crap about people, we could care less if America suffers, the Rockefeller Dems will win the war!!

    (hey, they can afford to live anywhere.. i imagine most preferably on the Islands they keep their tax free bank accounts, if not Sweden)

    btw: The Great Global Warming Swindle Documentary has been banned from the net.. what are the fear-mongering 'sky is falling' alarmists afraid of the public finding out?? oh yeah, Al Gore holds a high position on the Google board, so you add it up & see what pops up..

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    not only that, unfortunately..

    the real reason for the Global Warming scare..

    excerpts:

    [What do John McCain, Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pew Center on Climate Change have in common? They have united to support a massive new tax increase on energy — which will raise costs throughout the economy and threaten the vitality of, among others, the oil and automobile industries.]

    what a MAVERICK!! is it any wonder i believe the MSM chose this years candidates?? no matter who wins.. we either lose the "CHANGE" in our pocketbooks, or "HOPE" we're not having to turn to Mecca 5 times a day when Obama annihilates the Constitution (he's about admitted as much) & establishes laws according to Sharia on top of taxing our taxes on taxes!! *sigh*

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    one more unfortunate thing..

    BUSH WAS RIGHT!!

    but bipartisans have seen to
    it that he stands alone.. :(

    even Salmon die swimming their way upstream.. after fighting an uphill battle for 8 years, the man has to be totally exhausted at minimum..

    God Bless President Bush!! (thumbsup)

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  7. Hey, Speaker Queen Bee and Sen. Warislost ... I have a suggestion on how to deal with those "windfall" profits ...

    ... have the oil companies reinvest them in America, to reduce our dependence upon foreign oil ...

    ... by opening up our own offshore areas and ANWR to responsible drilling!

    Don't worry about the caribou, or the fish ... the caribou like the warmth of the pipelines, and the fish love the oil rigs, which they see as just another reef.

    The crux of the biscut: two words ...

    ... DRILL, DANGIT!

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  8. I don't know if people in the States realize, I'm sure many do, but the oil industry provides hundreds of thousands of new jobs into an economy - directly and indirectly. It isn't just about lower fuel prices and being energy dependent - it is also about boosting the economy.

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  9. Now why would anyone consider believing Gingrich now after this bit of nonsense or this bit of asinine but socialist drivel?

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    HT : Valerie via ITM

    Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

    excerpt:

    [I suspect you haven’t heard it because the mass media did not report it, but I am not alone on the no man-made warming side of this issue. On May 20th, a list of the names of over thirty-one thousand scientists who refute global warming was released. Thirty-one thousand of which 9,000 are Ph.ds. Think about that. Thirty-one thousand. That dwarfs the supposed 2,500 scientists on the UN panel. In the past year, five hundred of scientists have issued public statements challenging global warming. A few more join the chorus every week. There are about 100 defectors from the UN IPCC. There was an International Conference of Climate Change Skeptics in New York in March of this year. One hundred of us gave presentations. Attendance was limited to six hundred people. Every seat was taken.]

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  11. "What do John McCain, Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pew Center on Climate Change have in common?"...

    Well now bg, even Ron Paul is starting to look like a better alternative than McCain...

    How sad is that?!?!

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