Gas price relief!

You've gotta hand it to Congress. Some of these folks have their heads so far up their butts, the lack of oxygen has seriously affected their ability to think.

To wit: The Senate today passed by a 97-1 vote a measure to halt the shipment of 70,000 barrels of oil per day to our national reserves until the end of the year, an effort Senate leaders (and their cohorts in the media) are hailing as a way to curb rising gas prices.

People, this is even more ludicrous than suspending the federal gas tax (all 18 cents of it!) for the summer and saying "There Jack and Jill Public! We've done something!"

Any idea what this country's oil consumption is per day? Try 21 million barrels. By not putting 70,000 barrels of that into our reserves, know what we're denying the oil merchants (aka terrorists)? A whopping .003 percent. And this somehow is going to affect the price of oil?

Try shooting a BB gun at a tank. You'd cause more damage.

As I'm reading about this "Great Senate Measure" today (I guess they can now go back to sleep on Capitol Hill for another six months), I found one story that included (albeit at the end, of course) mention that the Senate also shot down a broader energy plan conceived largely by New Mexico senator Pete Domenici and put forth by Republicans.

The only specifics about Domenici's plan this story mentions is that it calls for opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and some offshore areas to drilling. The Environazis, of course, would never permit such a thing. So, of course, the Libs kept it from the floor under the threat of (naturally) filibuster.

Dick "Head" Durbin, the Illinois Lib senator who makes less sense than a braying jackass, actually said (and I am not making this up!) "We can't drill our way to lower prices."

OK, let's review, shall we?

We CAN'T affect what we pay for gas by producing our own and ending, once and for all, our dependence on foreign oil.

We CAN affect what we pay for gas by cutting the oil we purchase by three one-thousandths of one percent.

And we're paying (with tax dollars) these people to run our country?

(I'll blog more later on Domenici's energy bill, because there's a ton of stuff in there that, I think if the public actually knew about it, would be stringing up politicians who are blocking it.)

(Imported from May 31, 2008)