President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is beginning to eye executive orders that can be overturned and rescinded by Obama's administration. First up are overturning prohibitions on drilling for oil here in the United States and government funding for the creation of human embryos for the purpose of destroying them. Don't be surprised when, as the […]
If you wonder if your state representatives feel your pain when they fill up their cars at the pump, then you were wrong. SACRAMENTO (AP) - Californians have been feeling pain at the pump for months amid record-high gas prices, with one notable exception: state lawmakers. Members of Californias Legislature enjoy a perk not available […]
Yesterday, the House voted 236-189 for a bill that would open up a miniscule portion of the outer continental shelf for drilling, allow a few states along the southern eastern seaboard to allow drilling, but would give the states that allowed it no benefit -- and therefore no incentive -- to allow it. This farce […]
Sen. Barack Obama's energy plan gets a brutal reality check from The Washington Post editorial board today. The Post first assails Obama's plan to do a meaningless swap of light-crude for heavy-crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and then they really lay into him. Meanwhile, thanks to high crude oil prices, energy companies are, indeed, […]
Or both? Time magazine came out with an article this week ,which curiously isn't labeled opinion, that misstates what Barack Obama said and then comes to the conclusion that Obama was right all along when he said that proper tire inflation and regular tune-ups can save as much gas as we would net if we […]
No, I'm not talking about the heavenly light that emanates from his mere countenance. On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama said that he would be open to a compromise that would allow "limited" offshore drilling as part of a package of other alternative energy solutions. Is it a flip-flop? Yes, but so was John McCain's abandonment […]
Colorado's Jr. Senator, Democrat Ken Salazar, was in the inenviable position on the Senate floor this afternoon of being the designated "objector" for Senate Democrats. Yep, that's right. There now exists video of a Democrat voicing opposition to drilling off the outer continental shelf and ANWR even if the price of gas at the pump […]
In a political year that should ensure a Democratic Party landslide in the fall, Democrats seem poised to shoot themselves in the foot. Case in point is Reps. James Oberstar and Peter DeFazio's plan for a gas tax hike. Oberstar, D-Minn., said his committee is working on the next long-term highway bill. He estimated it […]
This issue isn't specific to California, but it's in the same vein as the popular book "What's the matter with Kansas?" that posited that the middle class votes against its economic interests (read: Democrats) because Republicans use religion and societal issues as wedges. My short answer to that is: So what? Every election requires voters […]