Some People Are Too Stupid To Breath.

My God, I swear sometimes you wonder if our "representatives" have enough brain cells to even send their vital organs signals to live.

With oil executives being ripped into by Congress, you would think that there would be a big push for alternative energy.

But some people just can't put two and two together.

The House of Representatives passed a $57 billion package of tax
incentives for wind, solar and other alternative-energy sources, and
other business tax breaks. The House approved the bill on a 263-160
vote.

But Republican opposition to the bill was strong enough
to indicate that the GOP would likely be able to sustain a possible
veto from President Bush. Thirty-five Republicans voted in favor of the
bill, while the 160 no votes on the bill are well above the one-third
threshold needed to sustain a White House veto.

We keep talking about getting off of foreign oil, and when you are presented with the chance to actually DO something about it, you vote no on it? Why? $57 billion is indeed a lot of money, but we need a "Manhattan Project" size effort to get ourselves off of foreign oil.

We can do it. We NEED to do it, yet some in the House Of Representatives seems to think we don't. There's too much at stake here. We can absolutely DESTROY the Middle East's main source of income if we switched from oil to say electricity from renewable resources. Oil prices would plummet, rogue regimes would fail spectacularly, and it would create MILLIONS of jobs here in the US.

So what's the fucking problem here?

Put forth a bill that says that each car manufacturer MUST make a car that gets 100+mpg and be less then 10% more expensive then any of their other cars. Put forth a bill that says they MUST make a pure electrically powered car, regardless of where it gets the electricity from (plug in, solar, etc.)

It can be done, you just WANT to have to do it. Remember "American ingenuity"? It's still alive and well, it just needs a massive new project to work on.

So, without further ado, here's your list of people who voted "no":

Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachmann Bachus Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boustany Brady (TX) Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Chabot Cole (OK) Conaway Cubin Culberson Davis (KY) Davis, David Davis, Tom Deal (GA) Doolittle Drake Dreier Emerson Everett Fallin Feeney Ferguson Flake Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen

Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Granger Graves Hall (TX) Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Hoekstra Hulshof Hunter Inglis (SC) Issa Johnson (IL) Jordan Keller King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline (MN) Knollenberg Kuhl (NY) Lamborn Lampson Latta Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant McCarthy (CA) McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McKeon McMorris Rodgers Mica Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Musgrave Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Paul

Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Poe Price (GA) Putnam Radanovich Ramstad Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Sali Saxton Scalise Schmidt Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Stearns Sullivan Tancredo Terry Thornberry Turner Walberg Walden (OR) Walsh (NY) Wamp Weldon (FL) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield (KY) Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wittman (VA) Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL)

Travis

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