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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."

The Dem Blog:
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.
 

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Oldtimer said:
...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."

The Dem Blog:
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.

I watched most of the debate on C-Span and I 'll tell you the Republicans didn't want to mention the word "speculator" I guess too many of them are their friends. If offshore drilling started today it was agreed upon by most during the debate that it would be years before we would see results but a curb on the speculators according to the Dems would yeild much faster results. I mean what could it have hurt to go on and pass the bill curbing speculation and then take up the drilling bill next go around??? Looks to me like the Reps could have used it as leverage to get their drilling bill passed especially if they were so sure that speculation was not the problem. :( I really wish all of America could have seen those debates it was so obvious who the Republicans were trying to protect, it seemed to me, anyway.
 
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TSR said:
Oldtimer said:
...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."

The Dem Blog:
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.

I watched most of the debate on C-Span and I 'll tell you the Republicans didn't want to mention the word "speculator" I guess too many of them are their friends. If offshore drilling started today it was agreed upon by most during the debate that it would be years before we would see results but a curb on the speculators according to the Dems would yeild much faster results. I mean what could it have hurt to go on and pass the bill curbing speculation and then take up the drilling bill next go around??? Looks to me like the Reps could have used it as leverage to get their drilling bill passed especially if they were so sure that speculation was not the problem. :( I really wish all of America could have seen those debates it was so obvious who the Republicans were trying to protect, it seemed to me, anyway.

Yep-- I watched a good part of the hearings too- and I thought the same...They are playing politics and protecting the K street and oil people at our expense- because I know several of the Repubs (McCain included) believe closing the speculation loopholes will take down the prices of oil- and know it needs to be done... I really thought when Lieberman introduced his bill, that he might get bipartisan support-- but there is still that bunch of Repubs that back the oil men- both the ones in and out of the White House- and the K street elite that have almost bankrupt this country....

I personally think this stalling will backfire on the Repubs- as many folks don't follow Congress that close- they just hear or read the headlines "REPUBLICANS BLOCK OIL SPECULATION BILL"-- and they know that there are two OILMEN in the Whitehouse- that are now being accused of some of the most corrupt and hideous actions--and blame this whole mess on the man at the top...

When you are in the coffee shop- or waterhole- or especially at the gas station you don't hear people cussing Pelosi (who some don't even know exists-unless they watched Letterman the other day)-- you hear them cussing OILMEN- and BUSH-- which I thought made this campaign plan so genius....

“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is calling the Bush presidency a total failure. Total failure. I don’t know, I think he’s done okay. I think he’s done okay if you don’t count Iraq, the economy, the environment, Afghanistan, the mortgage crisis. I think he’s done all right…”

“The deficit. Gas prices. Hurricane Katrina. Illegal wire tapping…”

“The national debt. Tainted food. Failure to catch bin Laden. CIA leaks. Other than that, I think it’s been pretty good” -David Letterman

I heard a quote today that I thought was interesting- not so much the quote- but the author who could see thru the dangers of big business getting too big...

"Our goal is to promote prosperity- and to guarantee that prosperity is spread around"
Theodore Roosevelt

This was when he was promoting and passing many of the anti-trust and corporate regulatory laws that broke up the big monopolies that were taking control of the country and forcing workers into almost slave labor in order to survive....
Too bad we have no more Teddy's around that put principles and the US public over politics and stuffing their personal pockets....
 
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“The price of oil has dropped to under $125 a barrel for the first time in two months. And gasoline is down six cents a gallon. You know what this means. The White House will call for an emergency bailout to help the struggling oil companies. ‘We got to stop the bleeding!’” -Jay Leno
 
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