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Thread ID: 17826 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-04-17
2005-04-17 13:51 | User Profile
Note the difference... What size cars do you think most of these Demorats drive?
"President Bush prodded Congress on Saturday to pass a long-stalled national energy strategy, saying American families and small businesses are feeling the pinch from rising gasoline prices.
"If you're trying to meet a family budget or a payroll, even a small change at the pump can have a big impact," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
Bush is using concern over the recent spike in fuel prices to pressure lawmakers into passing an energy bill set for a vote next week.
Although the House bill is focused in the long term on diversifying the nation's energy supply and increasing production, it is not likely to provide immediate relief at the pump. According to the Energy Department, prices are expected to remain well above $2 a gallon through the busy summer driving season.
Republicans included two controversial provisions in the House bill: a green light to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and a shield against product liability lawsuits for makers of the gasoline additive MTBE, which has been linked to groundwater contamination.
Democrats have criticized the measure for failing to deal with gas-guzzling automobiles. They also oppose drilling in the Alaskan wildlife refuge -- an item that likely would be left out of the Senate's energy bill because it would attract a Democratic-led filibuster and could jeopardize passage of the legislation.
"Today our energy needs are growing faster than our domestic sources are able to provide," Bush said. "Demand for electricity has grown more than 176 percent in the past decade, while our transmission ability lags behind. And we continue to import more than one-half of our domestic oil supply."
The House energy bill is tilted heavily toward helping traditional energy industries -- mainly coal, oil and natural gas. Less than $500 million in tax incentives are directed at renewable energy and efficiency programs.
Bush said the legislation must encourage the use of technology to improve conservation and production at home in environmentally sensitive areas. Moreover, he believes the bill must diversify the nation's energy supply by developing alternative sources of energy like ethanol or biodiesel.
The House measure would boost production of corn-based ethanol, a boon to farmers, by requiring refiners to use at least 5 billion gallons a year as a gasoline additive.
Biodiesel is fuel or a fuel additive made from vegetable or animal fats, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
In his broadcast, Bush said the nation must promote the use of safe, clean nuclear power and create more energy choices.
"Congress should provide tax credits for renewable power sources such as wind, solar and landfill gas," he said. "We must also continue our clean coal technology projects so that we can use the plentiful source of coal in an environmentally friendly way. The bill must also support pollution-free cars and trucks, powered by hydrogen fuel cells instead of gasoline."
Any future energy strategy must also help find more reliable ways to deliver energy to consumers, the president said.
"In some parts of the country, our transmission lines and pipelines are decades older than the homes and businesses they supply," he said. "Many of them are increasingly vulnerable to events that can interrupt and shut down power in entire regions of the country."
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/16/bush.radio.ap/index.html[/url]
2005-04-17 15:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]Republicans included two controversial provisions in the House bill: ...a shield against product liability lawsuits for makers of the gasoline additive MTBE, which has been linked to groundwater contamination. [/QUOTE] WTF?! Great. Not only does the GOP send our kids to the Middle East to get killed, import millions of third world immigrants to infect our communities, obliterate our civil rights courtesy of the Patriot Act, and do their utmost to defend racial quotas for negroes, but now they want to poison us as well?
[QUOTE=Gabrielle] "Today our energy needs are growing faster than our domestic sources are able to provide," Bush said. "Demand for electricity has grown more than 176 percent in the past decade, while our transmission ability lags behind..." [/QUOTE]A major reason our energy needs exceed supply is because of [u]mass immigration[/u].
2005-04-17 18:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Stuka]** WTF?! Great. Not only does the GOP send our kids to the Middle East to get killed, import millions of third world immigrants to infect our communities, obliterate our civil rights courtesy of the Patriot Act, and do their utmost to defend racial quotas for negroes, but now they want to poison us as well?
A major reason our energy needs exceed supply is because of [u]mass immigration[/u].[/QUOTE]
Mass immigration was not a problem thirty years ago when all those ââ¬Ëearth first freaksââ¬â¢ demanded that Americans start driving in tuna can-death traps, and added all that clean air crap like MTBE into gasoline.
Stop acting like a silly leftist and stick with the subjectââ¬Â¦this has nothing to do with Negroes and the Patriot Act. This is about forging ahead as Americans and ending our dependence on foreign oil. We should act like white people, not like longhaired, sissified fags that cry about trees and meanwhile care nothing about human life.
And stop parroting the kosher media about Bushââ¬Â¦itââ¬â¢s getting oldââ¬Â¦really oldââ¬Â¦
Again, what size vehicles do you think members of the House and the Senate drive?!
ââ¬ÅThe gas-additive law was passed in 1990 as an amendment to the Clean Air Act at the behest of Farm Belt politicians. It required all areas not meeting federal air pollution standards to add so-called "oxygenates" to gasoline.ââ¬Â
[url]http://web.gsm.uci.edu/~navarro/Open_Forum_Gasoline_Debate.htm[/url]
2005-04-17 23:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]We should act like white people, not like longhaired, sissified fags that cry about trees and meanwhile care nothing about human life.[/QUOTE]Agreed. Thing is, most of the time, apart from my family, friends, and fellow whites who "get it," I do care more about my immediate environment -- which includes the beach, and the desert, and the mountains, and the ocean -- than I do about total strangers. Especially if they're fat, arrogant power elites in Washington trying to poison me and my own. Pollution = third world immigration.
[QUOTE=Gabrielle] And stop parroting the kosher media about Bush.[/QUOTE]I'm not. I'm parroting the Far Right media, who abhor Bush just as much if not more than do the Left. :thumbsup: Of course, you should know that by now.
2005-04-17 23:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]We should act like white people, not like longhaired, sissified fags that cry about trees and meanwhile care nothing about human life.
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neo-classical would disagree with you.
2005-04-18 10:09 | User Profile
Bush Formulating Energy Policy with Trusted Advisors...[img]http://www.jperspective.com/bush@wall_big.jpg[/img]