Energy and the price of a gallon of petrol will no doubt be at the forefront of Nancy Pelosi’s mind this week when – as is her routine – she travels in from her regular hair appointment in Georgetown to Capitol Hill in a convoy of two SUVs.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has a tough task at hand before Congress begins its August recess: ensuring that Democratic legislators do not return home empty-handed, without any proof that they are taking action to tackle record petrol prices.
One Democratic proposal that would have required the government to sell 70m barrels of light sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve failed to pass the House last week.
So, the idea is to push for our SPR to release some of it's stocks to offset costs? All the while, she's totting around in a convoy of TWO SUV's?
Is her head really that empty? It's called the STRATEGIC Petroleum Reserve, not the "Let's keep prices down petroleum reserve".
It's designed to keep oil flowing in the event of an EMERGENCY. High prices aren't an emergency, regardless of what people tell you.
Then, she has to convince idiots that her and other Democrats are "doing something" about the price of gas, which they have no control over.
This will go down as yet another one of her empty campaign promises. "Vote for us, and we'll fix everything". Yeah, it worked so well in 2006 didn't it?
Travis
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