Pelosi Asks Bush to Draw From Petroleum Reserve to Combat Surge in Oil Prices

[Willow]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378241,00.html


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Bush on Tuesday to draw down a portion of the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to reduce crude prices and help motorists who are suffering from the rising cost of gasoline.

The House Republican leadership responded to Pelosi's proposal by noting that she was supporting a supply increase — something the Republicans have rallied behind in the form of increased offshore drilling, which the Democrats oppose.



Nancy 

[Red October]

You care about working class motorists?  Drill.  For.  Our.  Own.  Oil.   

No, you say? 

You are the reason gas is what it is.  And for what it will be.

[Rebel]

You care about working class motorists?  Drill.  For.  Our.  Own.  Oil.   

No, you say? 

You are the reason gas is what it is.  And for what it will be.

The irony here is, where does that dumb bitch think we get the oil FOR the reserves?

[Jim]

That would have like 1/10th the effect of a summertime tax break.

[Lord Undies]

That's one hell of a political blunder on her part.  I'll bet the democrat party big wigs are going nuts behind the scenes.

This blows every popular meme all to hell.  I'm laughing my ass off.

"We can't drill our way out of this!"  

[Jim]

That's one hell of a political blunder on her part.  I'll bet the democrat party big wigs are going nuts behind the scenes.

This blows every popular meme all to hell.  I'm laughing my ass off.

"We can't drill our way out of this!"  

This is what happens when she's left alone with noone to talk her out of crazy shit.

Oh wait...

She says crazy shit all the time !

Nevermind...

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Thats all well and good IF the refineries weren't working at max capacity already.

In about one month at least one refinery will have to shut down for several weeks to a month so they can do maintenance [cleanup, etc] so they can begin producing FUEL OIL for those schmucks who still heats their homes and businesses with fuel oil.

In the mid-1950s the backward state [to those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast who look down upon those who grow their food] of north Dakota weened itself from using heating oil and converted to natural gas and propane.  My dad worked in that growing industry in north Dakota and was involved in installing conversion kits on farm tractors to change them gas power to propane power.

Maybe those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast ought to get off their ivory tower and join the 21st century and ween themselves off fuel oil.

[JohnnyReb]

Thanks Nancy, that's a good idea. Just do like Clinton and drain it to lower prices.  ..... and leave it for the next president to worry about.

[Chris_]

With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now.

“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”

Well, pelosi?  We're waiting.

[Airwolf]

How these idiots are going to retain power after two years of gas prices going up after Skeletor promised to lower them is beyond me.

[Willow]

It wasn't even Pelosi's idea, remember Newt? He interviewd a week or two ago and suggested it! That clip is around here somewhere! Dummies!  Why didn't New run for President? I could have backed him.

[Lauri]

Thats all well and good IF the refineries weren't working at max capacity already.

In about one month at least one refinery will have to shut down for several weeks to a month so they can do maintenance [cleanup, etc] so they can begin producing FUEL OIL for those schmucks who still heats their homes and businesses with fuel oil.

In the mid-1950s the backward state [to those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast who look down upon those who grow their food] of north Dakota weened itself from using heating oil and converted to natural gas and propane.  My dad worked in that growing industry in north Dakota and was involved in installing conversion kits on farm tractors to change them gas power to propane power.

Maybe those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast ought to get off their ivory tower and join the 21st century and ween themselves off fuel oil.

maybe you can enlighten us here... i heard earlier this week that some of our refineries in the US are *not* working at capacity. i cant remember which two they mentioned, but one was a red state which was suprising to me...

[Chris_]

How these idiots are going to retain power after two years of gas prices going up after Skeletor promised to lower them is beyond me.

Because they keep repeating the meme that it is Bush and the Republican's fault and neither Bush nor McCain will mix it up and call them the bald-faced liars they are.

In terms of allowing the mud to get thrown all over the Republican party, Bush has been a compete and total failure. His "high road" philosophy is going to kill us -- and this country.

[DixieBelle]

I'm holding out hope that someone (anyone?? Bueller?? Bueller??) will stand up to these asshat liars and call them on their sh*t.

Bush is checked out for the most part. McCain is playing it cool.

I'm the eternal optimist though. I hope I'm not wrong.

[Ptarmigan]

Petroleum Reserve is for the military and they need the fuel more than we do.

[jinxmchue]

The irony here is, where does that dumb bitch think we get the oil FOR the reserves?

The Oil Fairies.

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Thats all well and good IF the refineries weren't working at max capacity already.

In about one month at least one refinery will have to shut down for several weeks to a month so they can do maintenance [cleanup, etc] so they can begin producing FUEL OIL for those schmucks who still heats their homes and businesses with fuel oil.

In the mid-1950s the backward state [to those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast who look down upon those who grow their food] of north Dakota weened itself from using heating oil and converted to natural gas and propane.  My dad worked in that growing industry in north Dakota and was involved in installing conversion kits on farm tractors to change them gas power to propane power.

Maybe those ENLIGHTED folks on the east coast ought to get off their ivory tower and join the 21st century and ween themselves off fuel oil.

maybe you can enlighten us here... i heard earlier this week that some of our refineries in the US are *not* working at capacity. i cant remember which two they mentioned, but one was a red state which was suprising to me...

Refineries never run at 100 percent capacity for safety reasons.  If they did and something went wrong I'd sure hate to see the consequences of an over-pressure situation in one of the pipes -- can you say catastrophic explosion, an explosion which could lead to losing the entire refinery?

An example of not running full out is the M-1 Abrams.  They installed a govener on the engine because if they ran the engine at true 100 percent they would tear the transmission and driverain apart because the engine puts out far more torque than the transmission could handle.  Before installing the govener, they found that the M-1 could run right around 60 mph but they quickly discovered the reason for multiple transmission failures, so they governed the engine to a max speed for the vehicle at 45 mph.

Its mind boggling to even think of a 60 ton vehicle traveling down the road at 60 mph.