House Resource Committee's GOP spin on gas prices media releases

[NVMojo]

Amazing they can use tax dollars send this out in government emails, I just received the following:




From: Resources Communications
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Committee on Resources Snapshot

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EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK
Pains at the Pump
Don't liberals like sky-high fuel prices?
Wall Street Journal
April 29, 2006

"If $75 a barrel oil and a $3 average for a gallon of gasoline isn't a wake-up call, then what is?" --Senator Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), April 23, 2006

Yes, that's a fine question Senator Schumer asks. But a wake-up call for what, exactly? A wake-up call to produce more domestic oil? Heaven forbid. In fact, Mr. Schumer and most of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate -- the very crowd shouting the loudest about "obscene" gas prices -- have voted uniformly for nearly 20 years against allowing most domestic oil production. They have vetoed opening even a tiny portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas production. If there is as much oil as the U.S. Geological Survey estimates, this would increase America's proven domestic oil reserves by about 50%.

They have also voted against producing oil from the Outer Continental Shelf, where there are more supplies by some estimates than in Saudi Arabia. Environmental objections seem baseless given that even the high winds and waves of Hurricane Katrina didn't cause oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. In the 1970s the environmentalists and their followers in Congress even protested building the Alaska pipeline, which today supplies nearly one million barrels of oil a day. If they've discovered some new law of economics in which a fall in output with rising demand can cause a reduction in price, we'd love to hear it.

Click here to read the full Wall Street Journal editorial
http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/hottopic/?id=110008309

RESOURCES SCHEDULE

Wednesday:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/schedule/witness/050806.htm

Water & Power
Legislative Hearing on:
H.R. 4588, H.R. 5079, and S. 214/H.R. 469
10:00AM - 1324 LHOB

Fisheries & Oceans
Legislative Hearing on:
H.R. 4947, H.R. 5094, and H.R. 5232
10:00 AM - 1334 LHOB

Thursday:
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/schedule/witness/050806.htm

Full Committee
Oversight Hearing on Minimum Internal
Control Standards (MICS) for Indian Gaming
10:00 AM - 1324 LHOB

National Parks
Oversight Hearing on Disability
Access in the National Park System
10:00 AM - 1334 LHOB