Boxer Doesn’t Get It! Surprised?
August 28, 2008
From a “canned” letter to her contituents dated 8/28/08:
Thank you for contacting me regarding high gasoline prices. I appreciate the opportunity to hear your views on this important issue, and I share your concerns.
Gasoline prices reached an all-time high this year, and costs for food and other basic necessities are rising drastically. As millions of Americans struggle under this increasing burden, oil companies continue to report massive, record-breaking profits – $123 billion last year alone. This is unacceptable, and I want to assure you that I am working hard to lower prices and protect Americans from price gouging.
I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of S.3044, the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008. This important bill would impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies to discourage price gouging and to help consumers offset the high costs of energy products, punish any country or company colluding in setting the price of oil, and limit excessive speculation in oil markets. Unfortunately, the Senate minority has blocked further consideration of S.3044. [So let us get this straight. You are going to punish the same people who are bring us oil by imposing a windfall profits tax on them? First of all, it has been shown that there are NO WINDFALL PROFITS in the first place which is why your stupid bill failed. Corporations pass increases in costs including taxes to their consumers anyway. They need to make profit to stay in business and pay their people. Are they not entitled to do that? Afterall, nobody is trying to set a price control on the Senate's pay scale! - FedUpEditor]
In addition, I strongly support S.3268, the Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 2008. This vital legislation would help to lower energy prices by increasing regulation of energy futures trading and eliminating excessive speculation. S.3268 would provide more staff, resources, and authority for the Commodities Future Trading Commission, the agency charged with regulating commodity futures. This bill is currently being considered by the full Senate. [Once again, speculators are not the problem. Tey are only betting that losers like you will not increase domestic production. As is evidenced by the FREE MARKET, prices have come down recently for both oil and gasoline! - FedUpEditor]
At a time when so many Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to make the impossible choice between buying food for their families and filling up the gas tank, it is crucial that we pass both S.3044 and S.3268. [NO, NO, NO! - FedUpEditor]
Opening up drilling in the United States is not the best way to achieve lower gas prices. For example, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) would provide us with six months of oil at most, and at great cost. Furthermore, it would be more than a decade before we saw any of that oil. Ultimately, we need to move away from our dependence on oil and gasoline by developing renewable and efficient energy technologies. Right now, we need to go after the big oil companies that are holding Americans hostage with their exorbitantly high prices. [At whose great cost? Not yours. Oil companies will make that decision and have decided there is a HUGE reserve in ANWR and would produce over 700 BILLION barrels of oil! - FedUpEditor]
Americans deserve better than oil companies that gouge consumers in order to make huge profits, and Congress needs to take action to help alleviate this crisis. Rest assured, I will continue working for the passage of S.3044 and S.3268, and I will keep fighting to help Americans enjoy fair and reasonable energy prices. [Blah, blah, blah, blah. We say check her portfolio for wind and solar energy stocks! - FedUpEditor]
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