Vote Them Out of Office

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Comment by Nicolas Guillermo on November 14, 2008 at 1:25am

We can outsource the recall process and nomination process costs with the strength in our numbers.

Go to www.petitionright.com to join the revolution. Become a petition coordinator and create permanent results!

Comment by Dianna Brown on October 26, 2008 at 8:22pm

If you are interested in joining our March on Washington in Spring 2009 - or just helping us organize, please consider joining our March on Washington group, started today. We hope to have booths and/or demonstrations... what a perfect way to bring your favorite alternative energy source to the forefront! Read more on the group site! Tell your friends!

Pickens Plan March on Washington

Comment by Diane on October 10, 2008 at 6:03pm

The congress has received so much money from the oil companies, financial institutions, etc. they cannot afford to go against them. But they will go against the people that put them in office. That's why the bailout was a farce. They had no intentions to write in the bill to go no compensation to the CEO's.

I say vote them out. I am looking at my congressmen very close. I am writing them and it has helped.

Comment by MM on August 14, 2008 at 12:00pm

I received information that Nancy Pelosi has contributed a great sum of money to Pickens Plan. If this is the case I do NOT want to be involved in this plan. We need to drill NOW for our Oil independence and find a way to rid ourselves from foreign oil all together. Look what Russia is doing. This is only the start. Wind, Solar and other forms of energy are great..but what are we doing about our short term goals?

Comment by John C. Johnson on August 8, 2008 at 5:04pm

Got a link to the following in my email today.... interesting, shows how government can continue screwing it all up while they pretend to fix it....

Better Off Doing Nothing
Letting OCS ban expire trumps Gang of Ten’s ‘New Era’ plan

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2008/08/06/better-off-doing-nothing/
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Institute for Energy Research (IER) today released an analysis of the New Era energy plan proposed by the self-titled “Gang of Ten” U.S. Senators. Publicly-available details on the plan are limited to press releases and brief summaries, which form the basis of IER’s analysis. The Institute’s resident economist, Robert Murphy, issued the following statement:

“Faced with the prospect of having the ban on offshore energy production expire at the end of September if Congress does nothing, this headline-hungry gang decided it had to do something before leaving town for the August vacation,” Murphy said. ““The New Era plan is the same as the era we find ourselves stuck in today – flush in subsidies, tax credits, and various other government handouts, but short on the energy supplies our economy and our consumers need to prosper. American families would be better served if the Gang and the entire Congress simply stopped trying to help, stepped aside, and let the offshore ban expire.”

IER Analysis: Key Flaws in the ‘New Era’ Plan:

The Gang of Ten calls for additional offshore production in areas currently under moratoria, but proposes a process that fails to guarantee/deliver any new supplies whatsoever. New production on federal offshore lands is left to the discretion of several state legislatures.
Production potential is severely limited. Only four coastal states would be granted the ability to “opt out” of energy bans. Arbitrary 50-mile buffer zones would exclude potential resource deposits, such as the Gulf of Mexico’s Destin Dome, which is some 25 miles offshore.
The plan ignores the urgent national need to repeal the offshore energy exploration and production bans that have contributed to the very problem their plan purports to solve. It may even give the ban the force of permanent law for the first time ever. This is an especially short-sighted, as the Congressional ban is set to expire in less than two months, on October 1, 2008, which will open the entire 1.76 billion acre outer continental shelf (OCS) to energy production.
Spending $85 billion on tax credits, subsidies, and various other federal handouts in lieu of increasing domestic oil and gas production is the kind of failed approach to energy policy that helped deliver the crisis we find ourselves in today. Government continues to be the source of the problem; government-centered ‘solutions’ will only compound our problems.
Dedicating additional, inordinate sums to biofuel programs is especially unwise, as they represent up to 75 percent of the recent spike in food prices, according to the World Bank. They are not as “renewable” as their proponents claim, and may not even provide any environmental benefits whatsoever.
Click here for the complete IER analysis.

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a not-for-profit public foundation that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. Founded in 1989, IER is funded entirely by tax deductible contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations. No financial support is sought or accepted from government (taxpayers).

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Comment by John C. Johnson on August 8, 2008 at 4:42pm

How do you like the way Nancy just called it quits, and went on Vacation? Closed down the House of Reps so no real voting could take place on oil drilling? We are paying paying paying. Every which way they can screw us. Tax, Tax, Tax some more. What gets me is how they blame it on the Oil Industry. They made mega bucks, but they paid MEGA taxes. And they are world wide, not just in USA. If they push them to hard, they will move off shore and do business elsewhere and all the folks who have invested in them through their retirement funds, etc. will get it in the pocket book even more. Funny how all this got so important to them in the last few months. Most have been sitting up there in DC, living the easy life, flying for free on government jets, with all their other perks, while we are out here working hard just to stay out of the red. I wish we had term limits.

JOHN

Comment by helen allison on August 7, 2008 at 12:57pm

i am all for voting them out of office and every one of them should know that we are sick and tired of going along to get along .. here in this state the rep. for my area talks much but does nothing and i will vote for the democrate this fall

Comment by John C. Johnson on July 24, 2008 at 9:13am

Congress.org - Congressional Directory

Here is the link to find out who to call and fax. Click the links on the page for more information. Copy and Paste the link below:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Comment by Joshua McDaniel on July 18, 2008 at 11:24am

We should all write in T. Boone Pickens for President come this fall

Comment by Danielle on July 17, 2008 at 10:10pm

I agree. We need representatives that can make decision and not just sit on there buts. I am definitely not going to vote for people that lack decision making skills.

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