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...Campaign for Change staff and volunteers will be approaching motorists who, according to AAA, will be paying an average of $4.19 per gallon for regular unleaded, and $4.67 per gallon for diesel, and make sure that they are registered to vote in November in order to elect a candidate who has put forward real plans to address this critical issue....
"Montanans are rightfully angry that they have to shell out over $4 a gallon for gas to get to work because John McCain and George Bush have chosen to protect the oil companies' record profits instead of reducing our dependence on foreign oil," said Mike Dorsey, Obama's State Director in Montana. "We are going to be out at gas stations talking to drivers about Sen. Obama's plan to address this critical problem and get them registered to vote."
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this is just an amazing idea, registering voters at gas stations! Get 'em while they're p*ssed off!
If I wasn't laid up with this infection- I would have gone to town today to see who all the volunteers were that were working the local filling stations...I had heard they were going to be out here too as well as stations all over the state...
I wonder if they are telling everyone about how the Republicans yesterday voted down the Bill to close the Oil Speculation loopholes- choosing backing Big Oil and the K street elitist speculators over the consumer :???:
The Repubs seem to be wanting to give these elections to the Dems.... :wink:
Oil-speculation bill blocked
Bloomberg News / July 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans blocked action yesterday on legislation proposed by the Democrats to curb speculation in energy markets and reduce record oil prices.
The measure, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, didn't get the 60 votes required to end debate and bring it to a final vote. The tally was 50-43.
Republicans want to be able to debate numerous amendments to the legislation, including expanding offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Reid, of Nevada, said the Republicans were trying to talk the legislation to death. He proposed limited amendments, with the goal of moving the measure before Congress leaves for its August break.
"It looks increasingly unlikely that the Senate will move Reid's aggressive antispeculation measure before the August recess," Christine Tezak, analyst for Stanford Group Co. in Washington, said in a note yesterday.
Speculators are being blamed by Democrats for 30 to 50 percent of the cost of oil.