The American Energy Act - Take Action - I Did!
Posted by Andy on August 20th, 2008
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R MN6) is urging people to visit Minnesota Majority and sign their petition to get Democrat SOTH Pelosi to stop the energy blockade.
Here’s what I sent in.
Sphere: Related ContentStop The Domestic Energy Blockade
I am amazed that some politicians in this country are so bound to special interests that they would put them before the struggling American citizens. Decades of inaction, or rather, action by Congress has literally put a blockade around America’s Domestic Energy sources and forced us to be dependent on countries that hate America to get the energy we need.
Now that the public has basically taken to the gas pumps with pitchforks and demanded that Congress get the heck out of the way of increased Domestic supplies and cut the red tape that allows fringe special interest groups block any and every new energy project.
Get back to work and get us some energy!
I drive as efficient a vehicle as I can, but I do need a big truck. I bought it last year. I need a big truck. I bought one of the new clean diesels. I bit the bullet and bought new diesel when I could have saved THOUSANDS and gotten an older design that still spews out the soot.
Thanks to the new Federal emissions mandate, my new truck gets about 20% less miles per gallon than the older “dirtier” version. Well, now that Congress and our Government have forced us to be dependent on dark and unstable corners of the world, the price of diesel is killing me financially. That’s another thing YOU (and by you I mean Government) has done that is forcing me to hand over more money for fuel.
And I am not alone in my plea for cheaper diesel. Our economy’s consumer goods all rely on diesel. Just about every single thing bought or sold in America at one point or another gets transported in a truck that burns diesel fuel.
If you don’t get back to work and free up American Domestic oil supplies so we can lower the price of diesel drastically and immediately, YOU will be solely responsible for putting our economy into a real recession. Truckers are going under everyday because they can’t absorb the high fuel costs and stores aren’t sticking the shelves as much, because American shoppers don’t have disposable income to spend on extra goods. If that cycle keeps up you will see unemployment like never before.
Times are tough right now when we’re just pumping gas and diesel. My fear is the forecasters are correct and home heating fuels are going to double or possible even quadruple. When that happens people will be forced to spend all of their money on just energy and stop spending money in the economy.
Get back to work and get Americans what they deserve. Reliable, cheap, domestic Energy.
If you don’t YOU will put America in an economic tailspin.
Remember, you work for us!Andy Aplikowski
August 20th, 2008 at 8:02 am
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August 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I’ve been taking action on this, highlighting the AEA in this post. In highlighting it, we show the American people that we not only have the right principles on the energy issue; we also have a specific piece of legislation that addresses their needs. As Billy Joel says, “Give them something to believe in.”
August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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August 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
The only word I find repeated is “work.” I don’t see that it makes sense. I also don’t see where it makes sense to prefer losing an election. We’ve tried letting Democrats win elections and run the Legislature and the Congress. It seems to me that it hasn’t really worked well as a strategy for advancing conservative principles.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Diesel.
Diesel powers our economy.
NO one said to lose an election except for liberal policy lover Brent.
I want to win an election and with it majorities based on a plan to reduce the burden of energy costs plus lower consumer and service costs by lowering the price of diesel.
That is a critical component to this debate that is not being addressed.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Oh, Diesel. Ok, diesel. Well, I didn’t get from Senator Coleman’s reply letter that he had anything against diesel, wanted to make it more expensive or prohibit its use. I think that energy is a very comprehensive policy and you probably can’t cover every aspect in one single page “response” letter.
I’m still convinced that Senator Coleman will represent me better on energy policy then a “senator” Franken will.
Brent
August 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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