Liberty's Blog

Who's fault is it?

Its the blame game. Everyone bitches about the price of gas, and wait until this winter when they start pulling the frozen corpses out of older peoples homes. Its all OPEC's fault, or the Oil company's making massive profits.

The real cause of the spiraling costs is our government and the regulations that they impose on the industry. Reformulations of gasoline. Regulations and licensing in bringing refinerys and oil platforms back online after Rita and Katrina have done their damage. Congress seems bent to do everything it can to obstruct reasonable pricing.

Democrats voted at 9:50 PM on Thursday May 18, 2006 to block US companies from drilling off the coastal United States. This vote passed even though China, with an awful environmental record, will be drilling for oil within 50-100 miles of America's shores. Cuba announced last week that 36 oil wells are in the works, already.

The Democrats aren't the only ones responcible though, 59 Republicans also saw fit to continue the blockade against offshore drilling.

Nancy Pelosi typifies Congressional attitudes of blaming everyone, but refusing to do anything about the high prices of oil and gasoline.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Surprise!! voted against the drilling. This is the same Nancy Pelosi who said:

* On September 21, 2005- "Gas and oil prices are sky rocketing in our country. They are hurting consumers and they are hurting our economy, yet the Bush Administration is doing nothing to help."

* On November 8, 2005- (to House Speaker Dennis Hastert) "I hope you will join me and House Democrats in insisting that the House take three concrete measures that will provide Americans with relief from skyrocketing gas and home heating prices."

* Wednesday April 26, 2006- "Where have you been, Mr. President? The ... middle class squeeze is on, competition in our country is effected by the price of ... energy and of oil ... and all of a sudden you take a trip outside of Washington, see that the fact that the public is ... outraged about this, come home and make a speech. Let's see that matched in your budget, let's see that matched in your policy, let's see that matched in your separating yourself from your ... patron, Big Oil. Cut yourself off from that anvil that is holding ... your party down and this country down. Instead of coming to Washington and throwing your Republican colleagues under the wheels of the train, which they mightily deserve for being a rubber stamp for your obscene, corrupt policy of ripping off the American people."

Pelosi would do well, to remember the words of Pogo. "We have seen the enemy and he is us."

posted by Liberty @ 7:22 AM