I have a favor for someone more educated that me..please slap down Joe Barton(in print)

[w8liftinglady]

My editor went through great pains to make Smoky Joe the best person of the week for his stance on energy.PLEASE..write and correct them.
original artical
http://www.midlothianmirror.com/articles/2008/08/10/news/doc489e771b31b33233734669.txt
my editor's column
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/08/11/opinion/doc489e4896e5a87324809146.txt
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CHEERS to U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, for taking a stand on the failure of Congress to address America’s energy crisis.. While there is much debate on the best way to solve the nation’s skyrocketing energy costs and dependency on foreign oil, doing nothing is not the answer. We urge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call Congress back into session so our lawmakers may work together to find meaningful solutions to our energy problems.

Thanks,guys!

[billyoc]

1. The oil companies aren't sinking any new wells with the leases we've given them already,

and they won't sink any new wells with additional leases. The only reason that they want these leases is to use them as collateral to restructure their own corporate debt. Now, why would companies that are recording record profits need public lands given to them for free to restructure their corporate debt, you ask? The answer is quite simply that they don't. They don't need any help from the taxpayer, but they've spent all of their record profits buying back their own stock, because this raises the price of the stock. Coincidentally, most oil executives are paid exclusively in stock! So the only option they have left for debt restructuring is to launch their public relations blitz to remind the taxpayer that the reason gas prices are so high is because the taxpayers haven't given enough money(land) to the oil companies. Since even this short paragraph is too long to be used in sloganeering, ala "cut and run" and "up or down vote", it seems to have been deemed beyond the ken of the ordinary citizen. Perhaps "No free land for Exxon", although that may even be too many syllables.

:hi:

[Wilber_Stool]

2. So,

now you want the Democrats to come save you from yourselves. I would suggest you get in touch with Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force and see what they have in mind. That is, if you can find them.

[Redbear]

3. I posted this.

Joe Barton and George W. Bush had 6 years to address America's energy problems and did nothing. In their first year in power Democrats passed a sweeping bill that mandated greater fuel efficiency in vehicles and appliances. They also sought to roll back 13.5 billion in oil company tax breaks to use the money for wind, solar and biomass energy development, but that failed due to GOP filibuster.

This sudden interest in "solutions" by the GOP is nothing but election year grandstanding fury that signifies nothing. Big oil likes things just as they are and thats how the GOP wants to keep them.

[w8liftinglady]

4. THANK YOU!!!excellent!

[w8liftinglady]

5. i'll kick..please respond online.Joe isn't used to anyone talking back

[JNelson6563]

6. K&R!

You go girl!

[Swamp Rat]

7. Ta da!

:D