On April 24th 2006, Nancy Pelosi released a press statement that was reported to address the Republican’s empty rhetoric with regard to gas prices. In the press release from over two years ago Nancy wrote:

“With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now.

“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”

It is now June of 2008 and the price of oil has doubled in the last year and it is up 44% since January. If the Democrats had a plan (I highly doubt that) then they either forgot to implement it or it was implemented and was a horrible failure. Much like any other time Democrats claim to have a plan, they are long on talk and short on action. In fact, are usually lying about what they “plan” to do. There is a lie up front in the price gouging claim. They have conducted about a dozen investigations and have found no price gouging. The only gouging is by state and federal governments who reap trillions of dollars in taxes and don’t have to do anything for the money.

The real thing we need to know is why has the plan not been implemented? If it has, why has it not worked and what kind of plan was it to give us such huge increases? Nancy Pelosi promised America that she and her Democrats had a plan and now things are worse than they were a year ago. I think I can speak for everyone when I answer why this is the case.

Empty rhetoric…

Democrats have had congress for 2 years, and since then gas has sky rocketed. Bush can NOT control gas prices. If he can please tell me how he can lower gas prices? Oh, he could drill for oil in OUR COUNTRY. Oh wait, the democrats BLOCKED that, so looks to me like the solution for LOWER PRICES, was blocked by democrats.

The price is set by the market when the oil comes OUT OF THE COUNTRY. If we drill here, well then WE CONTROL THE PRICE. If we are buying it from other countrys, they can raise the price. If we get the oil ourselves, then we can sell it to our own citizens without having to worry about the Arabs raising the price to try and cripple our economy. Oil is everything, and right now these diaper heads have us manipulated. If we stop buying the Saudis oil, their entire infrastructure will collapse.

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Your right because the democrats won't let us drill in our own country!! You just proved my point!! If we drill why would we need to buy their oil?

Are you a ten year old? That new oil would last two years max. You are ridiculous. Go back to school.

I was discussing this with a right-wing friend of mine this week, who thought the USA only imports 16% of its crude oil. I showed him it was more like 50%. One of our major importers, Chavez's Venezuela, is no longer an ally, and their oil is too sour. Mexico, a non-OPEC member, has declining production. Other importers are fair-weather friends at best, enemies sometimes. If you opened up all the offshore leases, ANWR, the Dakotas, the tar and oil sands, etc., it would take ten to twenty years to make a dent in that 50% import number. Energy independence is a nice idea, but we are far from it. Maybe 50 years from it.

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The Dems are the ones that got us here and it will only get worse. We have the largest proven reserves of crude on the planet. Yet a small minority will not let us exploit our natural resources. It was Slick Willie that vetoed harvesting Anwar. And today a bill to allow drilling in formerly banned coastal areas was blocked by dems in committie. No mystery here. The dems want people to suffer so as to view them as their savior. They don't give a fk about the country. Power is all they want.

The Dems are the ones that got us here and it will only get worse. We have the largest proven reserves of crude on the planet.

How much was gas before Bush came along?

Hey stupid jerk.

What we have is Natural Gas, Coal and Oil Shale. The Saudis et al have what's called Light Sweet Crude. It was a million or more years before there was such a thing as a Democrat or a Republican before Mother Nature decided where the 'good' oil would go

Oversimplifying things a bit for stupid morons like you: you can almost take what comes out of the wells of Saudi Arabia and run it through a cheese cloth and then stick it in your car. You can't do that with the 'proven reserves' of the USA that you are talking about. Oil Shale is certainly a source of energy; but its anything but a cheap, convenient one.

How much was gas before Bush came along?

Hmmmm.

Wonder what the price of gas was when the democratic controlled congress was sworn in.

Anybody know?