100 gallons of oil rocks the vote!

This morning I called to schedule a delivery of 200 gallons of home heating oil. Total price: $856.00

Can’t afford that. I settled for 100 gallons. Total: $427.00 That still hurts.

With no “plans” being offered to help America become oil/energy independent, this winter is clearly going to be one that dramatically impacts our national economy, and not in a good way.

As the Mike Ramirez cartoon above brilliantly illustrates, every congress and every president since Jimmy Carter has failed us on the issue of Energy Independence. Every single one of them.

China is drilling 75 miles off our coasts; we’re drilling nowhere.

When Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took over their respective houses in 2006 – just two years ago – oil was trading for $56.00 a barrel. Gas was around $2.25 a gallon. The high oil prices are not all their faults, but they offer no ideas, no help beyond (as Maxine Waters admitted) “taking over the oil industry” – which, given how poorly governments run anything, is not reassuring. Chavez’s government runs Venezuela’s oil. Fausta says they’re now importing!

Holding your own countrymen hostage to foreign oil while also refusing to allow nuclear energy…it’s not leadership. It is the opposite of leadership. And it’s un-American, too.

Signing petitions is all well and good, but I begin to think that the only way congress will ever take action is if they get hurt.

And the only way to hurt a congress is to vote them all out.

Whoever the incumbent is, vote for the other guy. A new congress full of greenhorns cannot be worse than the clowns in charge, now, and maybe the thick-heads facing re-election next time will finally understand. Maybe.