Democrat energy policies targeted by voters and GOP
Image via WikipediaRepublicans are getting ready to capitalize on record prices at the pump with a May focus on oil and gasoline.The Democrats are on the wrong side of the voters on the issue of offshore drilling which is favored by 65 percent of Americans. The Democrats know they are on the wrong side so they are trying to change the subject as they do every time energy becomes an issue. They are responsible for the higher prices because they have been strangling production of domestic energy for decades. They actually want the higher prices, they just will not admit to the voters.
The government shutdown battle put the issue on the back burner even though prices at the pump have been rising steadily since February. Now, with President Barack Obama already on the defensive, the GOP is ready to pounce.
House Republicans are planning bill introductions, hearings, markups and floor votes on legislation aimed at expanding domestic oil production in response to high gasoline prices.
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In March, House Republicans unveiled their “American Energy Initiative,” a broad pledge to “stop government policies that are driving up gas prices; expand American energy production to lower costs and create more jobs; and promote an ‘all of the above’ strategy to increase all forms of American energy.”
As part of that strategy, House Natural Resources Committee Republicans last week passed three bills aimed at expanding and expediting offshore oil and gas drilling. A spokesman for Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) said he expects at least one of those bills to be on the floor the first week back from recess.
That first bill is likely to be one that gives the Interior Department 30 days to make a decision on offshore drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing for two 15-day extensions of permits that were not already approved before the Obama administration’s drilling moratorium installed after the BP oil spill last year.
The bill gives Republicans — and some Democrats — a structured debate in which to hit back at the Obama administration’s official five-month deepwater drilling ban last year and what critics labeled a de facto ban for months afterward.
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Democrats always want to see an investigation of price gouging, and every time they have done so they find that market forces were responsible and there was not price gouging. I thine this will be about the fourth time they have pushed this bogus meme in the last 20 years. It is just a coverup for the high prices they are responsible for and want to make their alternatives look more interesting and also to give them a chance to push us into crappy cars we do not want.
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