Another “Lower Gas Prices” petition and e-mail campaign
June 17, 2008
Freedom’s Watch has a non-partisan petition to help lower gas prices. Go here to sign. Here’s what they have to say:
Rising oil prices are playing havoc with our economy. Continental Airlines just announced it’s laying off 3,000 workers; Ford is considering slashing about 2,000 jobs. And now what you pay for electricity is going up as much as 29 percent. If you’ve had enough, please sign our petition and email your representative.
Since the new majority took control of Congress in January 2007 on a pledge to bring down gas prices, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have not sent a single bill that would lower fuel costs to the President. Just the opposite. Reid tried to get the Senate to pass a “cap and trade” bill that could have actually raised the cost of gasoline by as much as $1.10/gal.
Meanwhile, Senator Chuck Schumer’s (clueless) solution to skyrocketing gas prices is to bully Saudi Arabia into increasing production and lowering their price of oil.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Believe it or not, America may hold more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Venezuela - but it is closed off to exploration by our own government. So why bully Saudi Arabia when, in terms of oil production, we could become Saudi Arabia?
The good news is that Congressman Mac Thornberry (heroes) has introduced the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089), which would allow for more oil drilling here at home, increase wind energy, encourage the construction of new refineries, and expand clean nuclear power. If 218 House members sign the discharge petition on the bill, it will be brought to the floor for a vote.
Freedom’s Watch will tomorrow begin calling residents in selected congressional districts urging members to support H.R.3089. You can help, too.
First, sign our petition supporting this bill that we can deliver to the House leadership on your behalf. Second, click here to send your representatives an email telling them to sign the discharge petition for H.R. 3089.
Congress is all that stands in the way of energy independence and lower fuel costs for America. Let them know where you stand!
Chuck Norris joins the debate at Townhall
June 17, 2008
Chuck Norris has written a column about our gas crisis and some things we can do to lower the price per gallon. While we don’t agree with releasing Strategic Reserves because it would be a temporary fix that would delay congress from doing anything signficant that would help us in the long term, at least people are starting to think about it.
Of couse, the nay-sayers had to chime in with the usual responses. Cam from California said in a comment:
Democrats in Congress have been trying to improve US efficiency for years. (You remember efficiency? It’s what you expect of government.) We consume a quarter of the world’s oil while only being 5% of the world’s population. Shouldn’t we fix that before drilling the last drops? Don’t study half the issue and blame everyone else.
Environmentalists oppose oil shale
June 16, 2008
Are we surprised? Environmentalists are bereft of ideas… all they do is oppose those that do have them and want to improve our lives. It’s time to tell your representatives (Republican or Democrat) that we are fed up with overy burdensome environmental controls. That’s doesn’t mean we are against clean air and clean water. It just means sensible solutions should not be ignored just because environmentalists don’t approve of them.
Glenn Beck interviewed Congressman Chris Cannon from Utah today about his proposal to develop oil shale as a means of increasing oil supply and thereby lowering gas prices. Read the story here. To quote Congressman Cannon:
You know, if we’re going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost. And that’s oil shale.
In Utah and Colorado and to some degree in Wyoming we have an amazing amount of oil. If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it’s like three times as much as all of that combined and that’s just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. And long term if we change the technology, perhaps as many as 4 trillion, with a T, 4 trillion barrels of oil. There’s enough, marginally if we just supplied all of our use in America instead of importing oil, it would be enough for 100 years or so.
There’s just no energy crisis in the world. There’s a regulatory crisis. So what I’ve done is I’ve introduced a bill that would give the President the authority to draw people together that can understand these issues in government and to sit down with people that want to develop that shale and say, okay, let’s figure out what you need to do to do it in an appropriate, careful, environmental manner and then let’s go forward with it. And that would mean fairly quick production of oil and that would have a big impact on the price of gas at the pump.
Go to Glenn Beck’s website to read the rest of the interview.
Glenn Beck interviews hero, Congressman Peterson of Pennsylvania
June 13, 2008
Congressman Peterson has brought a bill before the house sub-committee to drill for our own oil. Read the interview here.
