You get what you deserve

A saying older than the MLG itself. But also very true, especially for gas prices. Why? H.L. Menchken said, "Democracy, is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." (It should be noted that the United States was not intended to be a democracy) In other words, we the voters sent these people to Washington, we bear some of the responsibility for their decisions on energy policy.

On May 13th Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Saudi Arabia "holds the key to reducing gasoline prices at home in the short term." Therefore arms sales to that kingdom should be blocked unless it "increases its oil production by one million barrels per day," which would cause the price of gasoline to fall "50 cents a gallon almost immediately."

How can a senator, who spends most of his time looking for a camera, know exactly how the price of gas would respond to that increase in the oil supply, and that it would be immediate? What Chuck DOES know that if you increase the supply of something, the price of it will fall. (Free market at it's best, something Dem's don't believe in). That's why 97 senators recently voted to increase the supply of oil by stopping the flow of oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which protects against supply interruptions (Katrina etc). Also, 71 of the 97 senators who voted to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ALSO oppose drilling in ANWR. Does this make sense to you?? How can you believe that putting more oil on the market will make the price go down, but oppose bringing more on the market? What's more important, the future of our economy (and the "working class" you purport to be on the lookout for, since Republicans are evil of course) or some moose in Alaska, that MIGHT (no evidence) be harmed by a highly improbable spill?

One million barrels a day is what geologists estimate would flow from ANWR if Heir Slickmeister had not vetoed legislation to permit drilling there back in 1995. One million barrels produce about 20 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. 72 of today's senators, including Chuckie, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack Hussein Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain, have voted to keep ANWR's estimated 10 billion barrels of oil off the market.

WE also elected senators and representatives who have voted to keep ANWR off limits, and voted to put 85 percent (that includes Florida, where most of the MLG is located) of America's offshore territory off-limits. The restricted area contains estimates of 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, that's 10 times the oil Americans use in a year.

I bet most of my esteemed MLG associates did not know that drilling is under way 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by (take a guess).....China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.

In September 2006, Chevron announced that their "Jack No. 2" well, in the Gulf 270 miles southwest of New Orleans, had tapped a field with perhaps 15 billion barrels of oil, which would increase America's proven reserves by 50 percent. Just probing four miles below the ocean floor would cost $100 million to $1.5 billion. But how does Congress respond to such good news???? They propose increasing their tax burdens.

Yes folks. These are the Rep's that WE elected! WE bear some of the responsibility for this dribble. While you pay out the nose to fill your car up and drive to work, they are busy making a name for themselves and scoring political points by burning the Oil exec's at the stake, and doing everything BUT creating energy independence for the United States.