Rep. Jeff Miller (R) doing his part to help with the gas prices.
Glad to see that Rep. Jeff Miller is concerned with the gas prices and is attempting to do something about it. Even if it is voting along party lines on this subject.
Rep. Miller is just the opposite of Rep. Boyd and Senator Nelson on this subject. He has voted against opening up the National Reserves and supports drilling in the currently closed areas. Both of which Nelson and Boyd have done just the opposite.
Rep. Miller has said in an email that it is a matter of national security that we try to limit our trade deficit with other countries by drilling our resources. While I agree with him on this point I do disagree with him on the point of the national reserves which he says is for a national security only.
…the proposal to open our nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This Reserve is only to be used for matters of national security. – Rep. Jeff Miller
It is a matter of national security that we continue to purchase more and more oil from overseas where many people work against our country and ideals. High oil prices is just sending more of our money to those people. Just so they can turn around and use it against us.
Releasing some of our national strategic petroleum reserve will have a very short term effect of stimulating the economy. It will also lower some of the prices in an underwhelmed market even further. And as the prices drop there will be opportunity to purchase those reserves back.
I do agree with him on voting against the Democrat proposal though. Just doing one thing isn’t enough. There needs to be more done than just releasing the Reserves. Streamlining and approving nuclear power plants, knocking down the obstacles to wind and solar power that environmentalists pose, developing new methods of gasoline production and building refineries would go a long way to improving our national security. Something which Senator Bill Nelson (D) and Rep. Alan Boyd (D) don’t quite seem to see.
Of course both of them consistently vote the party line on those subjects instead of what the voters in their districts really want.
Unfortunately these things only fix the symptom of the problem. Agreed the democrats aren’t doing any better, but the republicans are doing next to nothing as well.
Here is the real issue: http://astrologieklassisch.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/oil-crisis-abc-ron-paul-talks-about-reason-of-oil-prices/
Ron Paul is a Republican last I noticed. But he is really a non factor in the race other than he is supporting the same political line that the rest of the Republicans are supporting.
I’d have more to say but the link you provide doesn’t have any verbiage nor does the video link work.