What do you think of the Republican Congressmen participating in 'energy protests'?

Question

"Angry that the Democratic leadership had closed down the House for a five-week recess -- and turned off the lights and microphones -- without a vote or the chance for some more arguments on an energy bill that would allow more offshore drilling for oil, GOP members stayed on the floor, talking in the dark without electronic aid to one another and tour groups."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080802/NEWS07/808020313/1009/NEWS07

However, a recent study found that these same congressmen have consistently opposed renewable energy projects.

"The CAPAF analysis examined the protesting representatives’ votes on six different bills or amendments in the 110th Congress that would support clean energy alternatives.

Three votes on closure of some tax breaks for big oil companies. The money would be invested in wind, solar, and geothermal energy, and in efficiency.

Two votes to extend existing tax incentives for renewables and efficiency beyond their expiration at the end of 2008. These provisions also included new incentives for the purchase of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

One vote to establish a renewable electricity standard that would require utilities to use wind, solar, and other renewables to supply 15 percent of their electricity by 2020.

The average participant in the protests to urge drilling in protected coastal areas voted against clean renewable energy 95 percent of the time."

http://climateprogress.org/2008/08/13/opportunity-knocked-republicans-shut-the-door-but-now-protest/#more-3557

What do you think of these Republican Congressmen who will stage protests to increase offshore oil drilling but consistently vote against renewable energy?

Answer 1

As to most of your tripe I will not respond as to one point in general....

However, a recent study found that these same congressmen have consistently opposed renewable energy projects.

Please show the consumers of America a 'renewable' energy that will at this moment replace the fuel in our cars, trucks, trains, buses etc.  A fuel that we can buy today.  at a price we can afford.  Can you?   No you cant'  that was the point they were making.   If you would pull your head our of the sand you might see reality.

Then again, maybe having it stuck there is a good thing after all.

Answer 2

Most of those bills had "poison pills" contained in them-- like an extension of the ban on off shore drilling for example--

Dana you are just way off track on this one-- Republicans want to do EVERYTHING to address our energy crisis-- while Democrats put all the known reserves off limits to exploration and drilling and fight tooth an nail for an expansion of nuclear or investment in clean coal technology-- see T Boone Pickens wind farms -- a known Republican building wind farms ??? well what do you know!

The oil lobby??? you mean that little ole industry with less than 3% of the reserves ON LINE and tapped? Oh-- you must mean the 700 billion we pay every year to import oil from several despicable countries.

Answer 3

As has been the case for more than 30 years now the democrats are doing everything in their power to hold the American people enslaved to off shore oil and manufacturing. Why do democrats hate the American worker so much, have we done something to these politicians that hate the nation they are supposed to represent. Listening to some of these democrats rant and rave gloom and doom about the US you would think they were Russian’s or something. Dana are you and Bob really Russian’s or does you rhetoric just make it seem as if you are.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H.L.Mencken

Answer 4

we have not had a spill from drilling for years and that's the only reason the democrats have for not drilling.  The other reason they cite is we can't drill our way out, if that's the case, then we can't windmill our way out either.  It takes all efforts to keep up.

Why should tax payers give money to study stuff that we already know the answers too.  The dems give money to study, the repubs give Money that yields things and that's where the debates should reside in funding alternative energy.

Answer 5

Typical Demoncrats;

America's "Inconvenient Fraud" - he's the environmental activist whose 20-room mansion and pool house devour nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year - more than 20 times the national average. His name - Al Gore, the Academy-Award winning producer of the pro-global warming fraud, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Answer 6

Sorry but the fossil fuels are renewed by plants every year. So we should never run out. Stop trying to destroy the oil production until U have an alternate that works.

Answer 7

I thank the Republicans for exposing Pelosi so that we can all see what a dictatorial witch she really is. Her failed book tour means more to her than America's future.

Answer 8

Alm0st is right.  When you seek governments to do everything for you, you may on day regret it and get your wish.  I personally don't need anyone telling me how many squares to use.  If it is economically viable, we don't need big brother to do it.  They would just get in the way anyway.  

Socialism fails at every opportunity, yet leftists always ignore the failures, generally suggest there wasn't enough money thrown at the problem (which they comfiscate from other people while they feel generous about it) and yet it never seems to dissuade them.  At some point, lack of learning has to be seen as a type of insanity.  

Answer 9

They are doing their job.  Why oh why Dana Quixote do you need the government to start your renewable energy projects?  Get off your lazy butt and start your own renewable energy company.

Answer 10

Well first of all, drilling has little to do with renewable energy - - most forms of renewable energy are ways to generate electricity.   Oil is almost entirely a transportation fuel in the US.

Answer 11

It shows how much power the oil lobbyists have over the Republicans and I think it's shameful.  I voted against Bush both times and I will continue to vote against all politicians who place the wants of the oil companies ahead of the needs of America as a whole.  Giving preferential treatment to the oil companies doesn't benefit anyone but the oil companies.  All other industries suffer from the burden of higher transportation costs.

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To those who believe the Republican Congressmen are actually accompishing something by doing this, it's nothing but an election-year stunt attempting to turn voters against the Democrats.  They keep insisting the solution to everything is more oil, completely ignoring the fact that it's a non-renewable resource and dismissing all renewable alternatives.  All they're proving is how narrow-minded they are and how devoted they are to Big Oil.

Answer 12

Don`t worry, be happy! Your big government and Al Gore will save you!

Answer 13

I wonder how many years it took them to decide what a light switch was? Did they put that up to vote? I guess that was their way of solving GW and the energy crises. Just makes me want to do volunteer work-- inflating tires for the needy.