Grasstops USA fax campaign
June 13, 2008
What can we do? Grasstops USA does a lot of fax campaigns, and one of them is geared toward energy independence. Here is their second update:
SECOND UPDATE: It has almost reached the level of a conspiracy! Worse… it’s a full frontal assault!
On Tuesday evening, the liberal media lined up firmly on the side of the liberals in the Senate and distorted coverage to make it appear — to the uninformed — that conservatives are blocking efforts to lower gas prices!
Brent Baker with NewsBusters.org had this to say:
“The three broadcast network evening newscasts on Tuesday framed coverage, of a Democratic Senate plan to somehow lower gas prices by imposing a windfall profits tax on oil companies which they would just pass on to consumers, around how Republicans ‘blocked’ the effort. No one cast any doubt on the presumption the oil companies are earning ‘windfall’ and/or ‘excessive profits.’”
Let’s break it down.
The federal government already gets 15 percent of every dollar you and I spend on gasoline. That’s about 60 cents per gallon if gasoline is selling at $4.00 per gallon. Oil companies make approximately 4 cents (sometimes more, sometimes less) of profit on every gallon of gasoline.
So, are we to understand that giving that 4 cents to the Pelosi-Reid Congress is somehow going to make the price of gasoline go down?
It sounds ridiculous but the sad truth is that the vast majority of people BELIEVE what they see and hear on the news. Few people take the time to reason things out.
Of course, we have precedent that shows what happens when taxes on gasoline go up.
According to a press release from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) which quotes NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett:
“Burnett points out, for example, that a 1990 Congressional Research Service report estimated the windfall profits tax enacted in the 1980s reduced domestic oil production by 3 to 6 percent and increased oil imports between 8 and 16 percent. He also noted that a windfall profits tax would put U.S. oil and gas companies at a competitive disadvantage in the global energy marketplace.”“‘U.S. energy policy should focus on the supply of oil and gas, not raising prices for consumers as any windfall profits tax would have done,’ Burnett said. ‘The Senate considered this bill despite every government study and economic analysis, all of which prove that a windfall profits tax will only raise prices for consumers, make it more costly to develop and produce oil supplies and increase our dependence on foreign oil.’”
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Yesterday, we told you that liberals would not give up on this quest to raise taxes by playing on people’s fears and offering false and empty solutions.
There’s more to this e-mail but you get the point. For a small contribution, you can fax the President and leaders of the house and senate by going here.
