Most humorous and frustrating mail of the day: a brochure with “Does filling up your gas tank have your wallet running on empty?” Yes, my congressman is here to help! He’s cosponsored the following bills. I’m including their titles because they are both clarifying and confusing:
HR 3089 No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007 This opens new oil refineries in the U.S. Because it’s not a demand problem. It must be only a supply problem.
HR 2279 Expand American Refining Capacity on Closed Military Installations Yes, that too opens new oil refineries, but on military installations. Because having the military involved in oil has worked out so well.
HR 5656 To Repeal the Ban on Acquiring Alternative Fuels What kind of alternative fuels? Oh, the diverse kind that come from oil: oil shale and tar sands. God, I can’t imagine why we would have originally banned using them….
HR 2208 Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Act And then there’s coal. Because surely there aren’t any other alternative beyond fossil fuels.
HR 2493 Fuel Mandate Reduction Act of 2007 Removes fuel blend requirements and “onerous” government mandates. Oh, those government rules! If it weren’t for the rules, gasoline would be free and clean and we’d bathe in it and sing!
HR 6107 American Energy Independent and Reduction Act This opens the Arctic slope.
HR 6108 Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008 This opens deep ocean exploration.
I can see what the problem is clearly now: government lefty regulation that keeps us from the oil that is rightly ours. God help us. And, I returned the response card to his mail already.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
“Dear congresscritter,
I did not vote for you last time, and if these bills are any example of your thinking I will not be voting for you next time, either. Thanks for the stamp so I could tell you this.”
Something like that?
July 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Sadly, he did not include a stamp. I had to pay to participate.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Or you could say, “I want you to support H.R.6495, the Transportation and Housing Choices for Gas Price Relief Act of 2008.” Provides support for alternatives to single-driver automobiles, including such good ideas as a telework tax credit and expanded transportation fringe benefit (excluded from taxation.)
July 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Thanks! I added it to my response.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:59 am
[…] Again, call your rep or your rep’s legislative assistant and show your support. It’s a far better option than what Ms. Theologian’s rep is considering. […]
July 18th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Are you sure that your congressmoron and mine aren’t the same? Well, maybe just identical twins separated at birth?
July 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I don’t know, ogre, you do live in Southern California, don’t you? They might be the same person!