Now I understand. Higher gas prices = thuglican Energy Bill

[deminks]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-mulls-summer-sequel-on-gas-prices-2009-06-11.html

GOP mulls summer sequel protest on gas prices

By Molly K. Hooper
Posted: 06/11/09 09:21 PM

Amid rising gas prices, Republican leaders are considering another energy protest on the House floor this summer. GOP conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.), who was instrumental in spearheading the 2008 energy protest, told The Hill on Thursday that all options are on the table.

Pence said, “As gasoline prices rise, we are going to use every means at our disposal to make our case for more domestic exploration, more nuclear power and more conservation and more renewables to the American people.”

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Republicans attracted national media attention last summer when they delivered speeches on the House floor after the lower chamber officially adjourned for its August recess.

The protests — as gas prices hit $4 a gallon — put political pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who subsequently scaled back her resistance to offshore oil drilling.

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Again, nothing new from the thugs. It's all drill baby drill with a little help from the speculators.

[spanone]

1. mike pence = rodeo clown

[Bandit]

2. Common sense would dictate getting off oil instead of grasping for more.

But I can not recall anytime in my entire life Republicans were ever accused of having "Common Sense"

[imdjh]

3. Call their bluff

Make the oil companies perform. If Texaco wants to drill in the Gulf of Mexico- then sell them a lease which has a production timetable. You have to by up and running by X and you must be producing oil by X or you will pay.