If you haven’t already been using Twitter (hashtag: #dontgo) and Qik you’ll want to today because that may be the only place to follow what happens when House Republicans take to the House floor again today to talk about high gas prices.
Nancy Coppock summarized the tech efforts House Republicans used Friday to bypass the MSM. […]
House Democrats adjourned without voting on expanding energy production. So the House Republicans decided to take over the chamber with or without lights, microphones, or Democrats. The cameras are off so your best chance to follow what’s going on is through Twitter.
“House Dems Turn Out the Lights But GOP Keeps Talking”
UPDATE: What’s just as interesting […]
Jessi at Wake Up America wants to get more people activated online to get Congress to open more areas to domestic oil drilling. Every Tuesday, post your local gas price. Let your readers know gas is too expensive and Congress is standing in the way.
The gas station near me says $3.99. It sure beats […]
When it comes to taxes the government’s appetite never dissipates. Higher gas prices mean fewer drivers buying gas. That means a reduction is gas tax revenues. The government’s answer: raise the gas tax. King Banian, subbing for James Joyner, writes:
The government has used a tax system that says, in short, the more miles you drive […]
Help repeal Wisconsin’s minimum markup law that artificially increases the price of gas. Watch this video then forward it to your friends and family.
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Badger Blogger has an interesting post and discussion about the inefficiency of ethanol-based gas like E85.
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Talk about out of touch. While oil and gas prices skyrocket Democrats do nothing except say “no” to more drilling, “no” to more coal use, and “no” to building more nuclear plants. Here’s the latest Freedom’s Watch video:
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) would be perfect as an energy czar for a President Obama. Neither want to be serious about getting the energy needed now to satisfy America’s demand, and both really don’t mind high gas prices.
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I know Laurie David means well in her fairly clueless Hollywood way to end the United States from using fossil fuels to move molecules in a friendly way to humans (ie. the economy) but using Iceland as an example is pretty ludicrous:
The most impressive fact about Iceland is that they went from a completely fossil […]
A secret World Bank report argues that turning food into fuel has boosted world food prices up 75%. In June the IMF issued a report that blamed biofuel promotion policies for increased corn consumption. “In particular, rising corn-based ethanol production has accounted for about ¾ of the increase in global corn consumption in 2006-7,” says […]
Before we go and declare the end to the suburbs and workers putting up with long commutes only to embrace their mass transit inner child lets see what happens when the economy starts picking up. That hour-long commute with the triple-digit fill up will feel better when the person doing it can better afford it […]
Matthew Yglesias doesn’t think Sen. John McCain’s $300 million prize for improved automotive batteries:
On top of all that, $300 million seems preposterously low. A good electric car battery would earn you way more money than that in the course of things. For a prize to make sense, the scale of the prize needs to be […]
Eyeblast.tv travels down memory lane to a time the Left doesn’t want voters to remember: President Jimmy Carter and high energy prices.
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By pushing to lift a federal ban on offshore drilling Sen. John McCain is betting on good policy being good politics.
McCain has previous challenged a key state issue without damage. During the Florida primary he continued his opposition to a federal catastrophic insurance plan. Gov. Charlie Crist supported it yet still endorsed McCain. The […]
The idea of a “Manhattan Project” for alternative fuel always made me skeptical. In the case of building the atomic bomb the five-year project was a response to the fear that Nazis would beat them to it changing the outcome of World War II. That fear of totalitarian domination allowed the U.S. to spend what […]
