Letters/Emails about gas prices?

[emdee]

I sent a few emails with the following data and thought that I'd post this in case anyone else wanted to use it.....

From 2000 during the campaign with Gore: http://www.issues2000.org/2004/More_George_W__Bush_Energy_+_Oil.htm
Campaigning here in the Midwest battleground where gas costs are the highest in the nation, Bush accused Gore of backing a multimillion-dollar tax break for oil companies. Bush’s claims are a direct counterattack on Gore’s recent charges that the Texas governor is too close to Big Oil, and they made Bush sound more like a Democratic populist than a conservative Republican. Bush specifically attacked a part of the Gore plan calling for the extension of a moratorium on payment of royalties to the government for natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. “My opponent is giving major oil companies a huge tax break. I believe the royalties moratorium ought to happen when the price declines. We ought not have moratoriums when the price is high. I look forward to hearing his explanation on why big gas producers ought to be given a big tax break.”

Bush said today that he would bring down gasoline prices by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude. “I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.” Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the US built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the US something in return.


From http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-17-bush-gas-prices_x.htm
But Bush has not lobbied members of OPEC, the consortium of oil producers. In 1999, he criticized Vice President Gore for rising prices and said President Clinton "must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices."

From: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/30/bush.ad/
A new Bush ad floats the notion that Kerry would raise gas taxes, if elected.
Kerry's answer: "You have to give this administration credit because they clearly understand the connection between gas prices and the economy, because their approach to a solution of these high gas prices is just to make sure no one has a job to drive to," Kerry said at the San Francisco fundraiser.

[ClintonTyree]

1. That was when gas cost about $2.00 a gallon.........

correct? :eyes:

I'm going to start my own LTTE campaign as well. This raping of the American consumer has gone on too damn long. The worst thing is, I doubt we'll EVER see the price go down from here. They've got carte blanch from this, crooked, traitorous, oily White House, they're not going to stop until they've redistributed the wealth of this nation entirely to themselves.

[Miss Chybil]

2. I just wrote McCain and Kyl...

Dear Senator Kyl,

It is becoming increasingly difficult to afford the gas it takes to get to work everyday while at the same time oil companies are posting record profits. What is happening to our country? What are you doing to help alleviate the burden rising gas prices are placing on the wage-earners of America? This is going too far. Record oil profits at the expense of the common man is not what America stands for. At least, it didn't used to.

Sincerely,
(Miss Chybil)