Webloggin » Two Years and Counting: Still Waiting on Democrat Plan/Promise to Lower Fuel Prices

On April 24^th 2006, Nancy Pelosi released a press statement that was reported to address the Republican’s empty rhetoric with regard to gas prices. In the press release from over two years ago Pelosi wrote:

“With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now.

“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”

It is now June of 2008 and the price of oil has doubled in the last year and it is up 44% since January. If the Democrats had a plan (I highly doubt that) then they either forgot to implement it or it was implemented and was a horrible failure. Much like any other time Democrats claim to have a plan, they are long on talk and short on action. They have conducted about a dozen investigations and have found no price gouging. The only gouging that is occurring is by state and federal governments that reap trillions of dollars in taxes and don’t have anything to show for the money.

Americans need to know why the Democrat plan has not been implemented? If it has, why has it not worked and what kind of plan was it to give us such huge increases?

Nancy Pelosi promised America that she and her Democrats had a plan and now things are worse than they were a year ago. I think I can speak for everyone when I point out why this is the case:

Empty rhetoric…

Here is an idea. Drill here, drill now, pay less.

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