New (old) GOP talking point revived...Gas prices....blame those Dems!

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http://www.newshorn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=206&Itemid=116

$5.00 Per Gallon
Contributed by Dan Richey
Friday, 19 August 2005



United States’ energy policy has been set by tree huggers for almost 40 years. You see the results every time you fill your gas tank, especially now, when gas prices are going through the roof. As Rush would say, the environmental whackos are in control.

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Two events in the late 1960s and early 1970s changed all of this and marked the ascendancy of tree huggers. In 1969 seven birds were killed in the Santa Barbara, California oil spill, prompting the liberal media to begin outrageous provocations and distortions. The end result was congressional passage of the national Environmental Protection Act (EPA). The EPA, single handedly, albeit unconstitutionally, has done more to retard the development of energy supplies in the United States than any other entity. Tree huggers have owned this bureaucracy lock, stock and oil barrel ever since.

The second event was the oil embargo of 1973, which occurred after Middle East sheiks and sultans expropriated privately owned interests of American oil companies and then held the oil off the market as they created the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
The one-two punch of EPA and OPEC jolted America’s energy industry. The solution was obvious – curtail the tree huggers and develop more domestic energy sources, especially from coal and nuclear power. That’s when the hard core leftists amidst the tree huggers went to work.
The goal of the socialists has been to break the capitalist hold on America. Here was there great opportunity – bring the U. S economy to its knees through a carefully crafted environmental policy that would prevent the development of new energy sources. Their successful results are obvious.

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Until then, brace yourself. To make you feel better, they’ll probably start selling it as liters. Get ready for $5.00 per 3.78 liters. Wow! Almost four liters for five dollars!
Doesn’t that make you feel better?

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

1. More pot calling the kettle black.....

Hint Rush: There's a reason why your whole audience is dissapearing, you're divorced from reality!!!

Nobody has control over any of the oil prices, except the oil barons and thugs in CONGRESS! :rofl:

[wli]

2. more BS from the reich wing...

Call me naive, but I suspect a lot of people will make the connection between armed conflicts in the Middle East and oil prices (though it's largely false, and the current price fixing is pure profiteering and/or Enronization).

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. "We can't DRILL our way out of this." --- John Kerry

I really liked his answer and, of course, he backed it up with statistics (sometimes too many stats for the general public).

But, anyway, that's my answer to that RW talking point every time someone uses it with me.

[whistle]

4. Liberalism and the left are really the cause of all the woes in....

...the United States, basic premise to the neo-conservative propaganda....aka scapegoating!

[acmejack]

5. There are those who beat up environmentalists on this board too

So the Right apparently has no corner on that market. I was excoriated for opining we should save some of the planet for our grandkids, told I was "an elitist, anti-intellectual, faux-progressive" and that I was "contemptuous of the working class".

I have been called many things in my 50+ years, but those words were definitely firsts.

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

7. WOW, those sound like closet freepers in my mind....

DLC types? Those words are truly discouraging. :shrug:

[acmejack]

8. Here is that post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2020963&mesg_id=2022153

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. With Rush losing more than 40% of his audience, is it really smart to

quote him?