Lies and Half-Truths From The Left

The constant cry from Barack Obama & Nancy Pelosi's defenders have been that the Republicans are putting up a "drill only"plan to solve our energy crisis. "Drilling only won't solve anything" they repeat like a religious chant. The other chant is "the Republicans have not put up any options until now". The problem with those claims is that there is absolutely no truth to them. Here are just a few examples of legislation that Republicans in the House have put forward, that have been buried by Nancy Pelosi (HT to the #dontgo activists at Fort Hard Knox).

H.R. 3089, No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007 Reduces the price of gasoline by opening new American oil refineries; investing in diverse energy sources such as wind, nuclear, and clean coal-to-liquid technology; and making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope and America’s Deep-Sea Energy Reserves.

H.R. 2279, Expand American Refining Capacity at Closed Military Bases Reduces the price of gasoline by streamlining the refinery application process and by requiring the President to open at least three closed military installations for the purpose of siting new and reliable American refineries.

H.R. 5656, To Repeal the Ban on Acquiring Alternative Fuels Reduces the price of gasoline by allowing the federal government to procure advanced alternative fuels derived from diverse sources like oil shale, tar sands and coal-to-liquid technology.

H.R. 2493, Fuel Mandate Reduction Act of 2007 Reduces the price of gasoline by removing fuel blend requirements and onerous government mandates if they contribute to unaffordable gas prices.

H.R. 6368, Increase Mileage Reimbursement Rates for Americans Act Increases the mileage reimbursement rate Americans could claim for business travel and charitable travel.

H.R. 6566, Comprehensive American Energy Act To bring down energy prices by increasing safe, domestic production, encouraging the development of alternative and renewable energy, and promoting conservation.

Bold was in the original and the red and italics is my emphasis. Note the number of times these bills refer to alternative energy, renewable energy and conservation! This is not just drilling only! Get that out of your heads now.

Now to the second question - this is just legislation that was put forward in this last legislative session. There is plenty more where that can be found.

Now how about we sit down and have a real talk about comprehensive energy bill not just talking points.