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Republicans Fight Back on Gas Prices
By Dan | June 11, 2008
John Boehner knows what Republicans need to do to win in November. From Rush Limbaugh yesterday:
“House Republican leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called it ‘insane’ that the Democrat-led Congress is still refusing to allow increased production of American energy. ‘Today marks another dubious day for this Do-Nothing Democratic Congress. On their watch, gas prices have soared to new heights, and by refusing to schedule a vote on a plan to increase American-made energy to help lower gas prices, congressional Democrats are complicit in this unprecedented surge in fuel costs,’ Boehner said on Sunday.
Today in the Hill Boehner responded to Obama’s comment that gas prices needed to rise more gradually.
“If Obama really thinks consumers ought to shoulder higher energy costs while we make the transition to alternative fuels, he should answer a simple question: how high should gas prices go? $5? $6? $10 a gallon?” Boehner said Wednesday.
“Obama admits that demand for energy ‘is badly outstripping supply’ but he has yet to come out in support of measures to increase American energy production,” Boehner added.
Republicans advocate opening up new domestic areas for oil exploration, a plan Democrats reject as ineffective.
“There’s a groundswell of grassroots support for new American energy production and it’s time Obama and Democrats in Congress paid attention,” Boehner stated.
Obama slipped up and told us what he really believed for once, consumers need to pay more for gas. This makes sense as the Democrats have done nothing to reduce the price of gas for the American peoiple. They block any effective energy policy and then blame the Republicans for high oil and gas prices.
Republican whip Roy Blunt put this chart together illustrating the vast differences between Republicans’ and Democrats’ ideas to lower gas prices.
H/T Powerline via Stop the ACLU
*Update* Mike at Flopping Aces has a great post on this topic.
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