"allies of Big Oil plan a crude maneuver" today at the Senate

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http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/421401_JOEL09.html


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As oil gushes out of the Deepwater Horizon, and undersea plumes spread across the Gulf of Mexico, allies of Big Oil plan a crude maneuver Thursday on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Jim Imhofe, R-Oklahoma, will ask the Senate to approve a resolution that prohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from developing rules that regulate emissions from large polluters such as refineries and power plants.

The resolution would gut EPA's authority and rescind recently adopted rules that require increased fuel efficiency on cars and light trucks manufactured over model years 2012 to 2016.

"The resolution would ignore and override scientific findings and allow big oil companies, big refineries and others to continue to pollute without any oversight or consequence," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson wrote Monday.

"It would also gut EPA's authority in the clean cars program, a program that would help reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut down on air pollution," Jackson added in HuffingtonPost.

Big Oil is boss of senators from oil and automobile states. It's been that way since Sen. Robert Kerr, D-Oklahoma, ruled the Senate Finance Committee and enhanced finances of the Kerr McGhee Corp. a half-century ago.

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President Barck Obama is trying to show Americans that he's damned mad, resorting to salty language on the Today Show and declaring he would have fired BP boss Tony Hayward if Hayward worked for him.

He ought to define a new national strategy using famous words of John F. Kennedy: Don't get mad, get even.

Twist arms to block the Murkowski amendment. Get behind Murray and other legislators trying to raise Big Oil's liability limit. And speak truth to the power of Big Oil:

It's time -- NOW -- to move out from the dark muck and corruption of the carbon economy, and into the sunlight of a new energy future.
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[meegbear]

1. "a crude maneuver"?

Oil vey.

[Lerkfish]

2. wouldn't that be pretty much all of congress?

Just sayin.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Sen. Blanche Lincoln is supporting Murkowski's amendment and bragging about it on TV.

[City Lights]

4. Cheney those asswipes!

:grr: :mad: :argh: