I was a little disappointed today when I learned that my Congressman, Mike McCaul (R-TX 10) wasn’t still in Washington D.C. fighting for energy independence and trying to force a vote on Drill Here, Drill Now!
But I was much relieved to see that, though he’s home here in Austin right now, that he is still working — and not on recess like the Do-Nothing-Democrats who are refusing to allow a vote on Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.
Via a tip from Blue Dot Blues, I found out that Rep. McCaul was going to be at the Shell Gas Station just one exit south of my office today from 8:30 — 10:00 a.m.
So, at about 9:30 I sped over to the gas station to meet my Congressman and see what he was up to.
And what Congressman McCaul was doing was talking to gas customers about the high cost of gas, and what they — the consumer and the voter — thought that Congress should be doing about the high prices of gas.
He was also collecting gas receipts to send to Speaker Pelosi, who is doing her damnedest to “not hear all that.”
Listening to the answers that people were giving Rep. McCaul, there seemed to be an overwhelming nod of approval towards Drill Here, Drill Now, and Pay Less!
It was nice to finally meet my Congressman, too. Which also afforded me the opportunity to meet Mike Rosen, who is Rep. McCaul’s Communications Director.
I’ve been looking for an avenue to get myself and Urbangrounds involved in Rep. McCaul’s re-election campaign (he’s in for a tough battle with a big-money lawyer Larry Joe Doherty, who also played a television judge on Texas Justice (ala Judge Judy).
Hopefully, I can work help Mr. Rosen work towards getting Rep. McCaul re-elected.
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There was a great media turnout at the gas station. But the cool part of it? I’ll have my report and story up hours before any of them have a single word printed.
More love for the new media filling the gap of the old media.
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I met with Mike last Monday at a benefit for his campaign. He is right on the ball with what had interested Texans. And if you haven’t gone to his website and read his report on the border, you have done yourself a disservice. It is excellent.
Last Friday I called his Austin office and was told he was already on his way back. Too bad. He is a great guy and a real family man with conservative Texas values. He has an uphill battle against the big lawyer money in Austin.
Anyone who can afford a fiver should sent it to Mike to help him win reelection. Texans need him. Americans need him.
Now Barry is saying that we should sell off some oil from the strategic reserve.
WTF??????
Sell off the reserve, but don’t drill for more??
The guy is on drugs or something.
Drilling won’t bring any new oil to the market for at least 7 years so what do you and MacCall propose to do in the meantime? Really, why are you so friggin dense?
Being fairly new here I had to look it up to find Lamar Smith is my rep. What’s the information on him out there?
Lamar Smith only represents parts of Austin because of reckless GOP gerrymandering. He lives in San Antonio and only focuses on his hometown (taxpayer teat-sucking) issues. There’s a real good chance that Dems will regain control of the Texas House this year, in which case Austin will soon have a US Rep who speaks for its majority constituency, one whose influence has been substantially diluted by the San Antonio cartpetbagger.
Really, you think it takes that long? We have a winner in the dense category, and probably the reigning champion.
Senile,
I have heard reports that that we could be pushing oil into the system in as little as 2 yrs. Im no expert but 7 seems a bit high. As long as private industry is leading the race to oil it should be pretty damn quick. Afterall, oil companies are greedy right? Which means they want to make money. So if they can bring up their own oil as opposed to ‘bending over the barrel’ im sure they would be much better off, which should relate to lower costs at the pump for everyone. Crude prices seem to be based on speculation and corruption at this point. Flooding the oil supply with excess oil production can do nothing but drive the cost per barrel down. Am I missing something here? It looks like simple supply-demand. Of course I dont know if that controversial topic is even being discussed in Universities these days.
The oil is here, and plenty of it, but the amount being harvested has not kept up with the demand. Drill Here, Drill Now and watch the cost per barrel fall. I hear its falling right now…
I guess I need to speak a little slower for the remedial class. Oil companies are free to drill more now without any action from the president or congress. But if you’re talking politics then you’re talking about opening up new offshore oil leases (despite the fact that there are plenty of areas offshore that no oil company is drilling now) or ANWR. And neither will bring new oil for at least 7 years.
The big Republican proposal for new drilling areas will not help us for 7 years. I often wonder, why do Republicans hate America so much?
Senile, I am constantly amazed at how some of you can manage to only parrot the left wing talking points. Now, do to the my good nature, I will attempt to enlighten you (I use the word attempt as most liberals have such closed minds they are like the guy who sticks his fingers in his ears and shouts “Nah, nah, nah, I can’t hear you”:
1) from rig construction (most of which is done ON-SHORE, to pumping the first barrel, can be acheived with 24 months, or less, on most of the continental shelf.
2) the simple fact that the supply will increase within a short period (and yes, 2 years is a short period) will drive down prices as other nations lower their crude costs to get a jump on the competition
3) The Dems are touting their “use it or lose it” mantra. Only those who suffer severe grey matter deficits believe this. Oil leases are tied to actually production and are only extended for a fixed length of time (5-7 years). If at the end of that lease, there is no producing well, the government has the opinion to renew the lease, or give it to someone else. So this rhetoric, while the Dems are playing on it, is an outright lie.
4) The Dems excuse that there is already 68 million acres leased is moot if there is no oil there.
But I was much relieved to see that, though he’s home here in Austin right now, that he is still working — and not on recess like the Do-Nothing-Democrats
Hilarious.
I pray that you don’t really believe this caricature and it’s just political posturing.
As big and mean as they seem, Democrats too come home to speak to and to listen to their constituents.
You ain’t drilling your way out of this conundrum (there’s a reason why we libs call conservatives knuckle-draggers, y’know:)
Pat,
what is India’s “current living standards”? thx
Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. Unless you are counting on the lawyers for the whack-job leftard enviro groups to prevent the drilling operations. When it comes to the whack-job enviros, the donks in Congress are their wholly owned subsidiary, but even if we get the Congressional approval needed for the drilling rights, they have the special interest groups and their lawyers to prevent America from being energy independent. One might even get the impression that the donks and the whack-job enviros want to see that $700billion cash transfer to the countries in the ME, but I still think it is just to support the anti-capitalism movement that drives the donks and the whack-jobs.
Listen, ‘tard…there are plenty of existing leases available right now for drilling with proven oil supply. There’s nothing stop an oil company from going ahead and drilling offshore. The reason they aren’t is because there’s a very limited supply of drilling ships. So unless you know a jeannie who can conjure up a few ships in a couple months, I’m sticking with the 7 year estimate.
The only one lying around here is you, jackass.
Okay, dingus, stick with your lie, fine with me, I expect nothing less from leftards. It still doesn’t make it true.
Everyone knows how ethical and truthful the left is.
This is what American Petroleum Institute has to say on the issue of the time it would take for new deep ocean drilling to bring oil to market. Note, for the repugnant-cans, API is the lobbying organization for big oil.
Note, API’s timeline of at least 5 years doesn’t address the shortage of ships. http://www.api.org/policy/exploration/upload/Fact_Sheet_OCS_Moratoria_Top_Questions.pdf
And here’s what Bush’s own head of the Energy Information Admistration had to say about the prospects for new drilling: It won’t impact gas prices for many years. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adlgNMu.LrHg
Why do Repugnant-cans hate America?
Gabe – India’s only significant by extreme comparison. The fact is that there is not enough oil, coal, or wind available to sustain even the most conservative projections of near-term global consumption levels. Although developed countries are only now beginning to question the wisdom of their historically excessive energy consumption, developing countries like China and India are just now getting used to the modernization that has come with globalization and understandably want their fair share. Right now those two countries consume about one fourth of the energy that the US consumes per capita, but projections are for that to double by 2030, and that doesn’t even include the rest of Asia and South America. It’s increasingly obvious that the only way to quench modern humanity’s seemingly insatiable energy appetite is to get it from the sun, and just last week scientists at MIT may have finally cracked that code.
Fossil fuels are so 20th century.
And here the U.S. is sitting on 27% of the world’s coal reserves, the veritable Saudi Arabia of coal, and some people don’t want us to use it, and we have enormous amounts of natural gas. Between the Barnett Shale, and the recently discovered Haynesville Shale, we have two of the largest gas fields in the world.
Ever hear of GTL technology? What was once old, is now new again.
The USAF has even gotten in on the GTL tech.
Senile, you really are, aren’t you?
Try and remember you said this…“There’s nothing stop an oil company from going ahead and drilling offshore. The reason they aren’t is because there’s a very limited supply of drilling ships.”
Congress forbids drilling on 85% of the Continental shelf. You think that shouldn’t stop them from drilling? Where is all this area offshore that the oil companies can drill in, on the other side of the world?
There’s even a pretty map, with lots of colors for you to look at.
Of course there is a limited number of drilling ships, dingus, there is no demand. Of all the things the oil companies are alleged to be about, the only thing they really do that makes them money is to find and extract oil. Given the opportunities, and without the many hurdles they have to face with environmental impact studies, lawsuits, etc., they could get the oil into the system much quicker than seven, or even five years, once they have the equipment, and trained crews.
A 2005 RAND study estimates that about 800 billion barrels of oil trapped in shale are technically recoverable from the Green River Formation. This amount is more than three times the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
The US Minerals Management Service estimates that America’s outer continental shelf holds about 19 billion barrels of undiscovered recoverable oil and 85.7 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered recoverable natural gas. But Congress has outlawed development there.
We need energy, and as long as their are people like Piglosi preventing us from getting it, the free market is unable to do what it does best, get results.
Then again N2L, these people may also be onto something.
I already knew you were a proponent of the flat-earth theory, Pat. Why point out the obvious?
Ha! Flat-earthers are the tribal elders of the drill-til-you-drop fatalists.
Not to me, the flat-earthers are of your cult, wishing to see us all live in caves, wear loin cloths, and pray to the altar of Karl Marx.
Moonbats protest for $10 a gallon gas…so the demand will decrease, and the price will fall.
What?
Like This Ain’t Hell says, this is what happens when you smoke pot before your Econ 101 class.
We’ll let history be the judge of that. In light of Reagan and Shrub’s sacking of both the treasury and the Constitution, it should make for same dandy summer reading.
Oh, and I’m an atheist so save yer misplaced insults for the crunchy granola crowd.
History will be the judge of many. Currently three new books out on B-HO that will make some good summer reading, too.
In another light, we are still paying the price of the Horny Hick years, and the damage he did. Sure wish Perot had stayed out of those two elections, then we would have had only to endure four years of misery with a donk in the White House(President Peanutz), in the last forty years.
I know you are an atheist, Pat, among other things, but Marx is only a demi-god to the left, so I imagine you have a bust of him in your closet, surrounded with candles.
Since when? When was the last time you read a treatise extolling the virtues of communism by someone representing the American left? You wingnuts cling to some of the most antiquated concepts like “Vietnam Syndriome” and “Jimmy Carterism” You do realize nearly than half the elctorate were in diapers durinf the 1960s right? That Encyclopedia Brittanica set you have is a bit outdated.
Keep pooing in that right hand bruther. Stick with Rush regarding the Way Things Ought to Be , and we in the reality-based community will tend to the shop while you kiddies go out and play in the yard for a decade or two.
It really is comical how detached from reality the right’s vision of progressives is. But given the tendency of the right to stick with reinforcing media like Rush, Fox, or Instapundit it’s really not surprising at all to realize they have no understanding of the concerns of other Americans.
As for N2L’s delusion that the eight years of the Clinton administration were somehow a failure… I guess it’s just a result of the phenomenon I just described. If Rush and Brit Hume think it was less prosperous and less successful- well it must be.
Oh my.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
You truly are a caricature of a leftard.
As for Preston, he personifies denial. The Horny Hick’s record of failures speaks for themselves, as do his garment stains.
His accomplishment would take less space to cover, than his failures; getting elected and re-elected, both times with less than 50% of the popular vote.
As for the self-adoring term of progressive, what a steamy pile of leftard poo. What the left really proposes is proregression, to ideas and policies that have always failed, every time they were tried. Still must suck for you two, to be reminded the Berlin Wall has fallen.