Go ahead and vote for that Democrat

After all, he's been in office for 30 years and he has done a lot of good things for the district and it isn't him that is blocking the Repubs attempts to get drilling started back up in the US.

It's those Lefties and the Leadership.... It isn't him.

Uh.... Guess what. The leadership...Reid and Pelosi... that is destroying this country and bankrupting you...is in place because there is a majority of Democrats in office. Your good buddy local rep who is a Demo but isn't really is a DEMOCRAT.

His presence in Congress is one of the reasons we have Reid and Pelosi and $4.00 gasoline....

I paid my utility bill yesterday. Took a look at the total and noted again that the per KWH price is 8.3 cents. A bargain in many areas, but in this rural environment it is at the upper edge for many people.

In May 2005 the price was 6.3, so in the last three years we have had a 32% increase. If the trend continues, and oil at $137 says it will trend upward faster, it will be 11 cents in 2011 and 14.4 cents in 2014. Again I note that assumes the same rate of change that we have seen, yet oil has gone up 149% in the last 16 months.

Simply put, I don't know what it will be in 2014, but if energy doesn't go down, it will be much more than 14.4 cents. Your $200.00 electric bill will be $500. Tack that on to a $400.00 gasoline bill and you have a nut of $9,800 before anything else happens to your wonderful life.... such as food, heat in the winter...clothes... school for the kiddies....etc.

The EPA says that annual miles driven per vehicle is 12,000. Given that most families work, that would be two per household, or 24,000 miles a year at 20 mph that's 1200 gallons of gas, or $4800. per year. In February of 2007, when the Demos took over Congress gas was $2.25 a gallon, or $2700. That's a difference of $2100.

Look at it as the charge you pay to have the Demos investigate how many Assistant Attorney Generals Bush fired, or did an aging baseball player take steroids...
I am sure you think that was a bargain at only $2100.

And the above is a best case view. Outside the northeast it is not unusual to find people with a 50 mile one way drive to work, or 500 miles a week or 25,000 miles or so a year. If both husband and wife do it, that's 50,000 miles a year, or $10,000 dollar a year gas bill as compared to a $5625 gas bill, or $88.00 a week INCREASE. If you make $30.00 and hour that's ONLY about 4 hours of work (after taxes.)

Look at it as the charge you pay to have Nancy Pelosi travel to Syria to discuss foreign policy, something she has no right to mess around with...

And none of the above factors in the increase in food prices due to energy price increases in both production and distribution...nor the price increases in everything else due to the energy price increases... some of which have been absorbed, but they can't be forever..

And yet Congress does not act. It does nothing.

Last summer Congress tried to pass a terrible immigration bill. It was pushed by all the usual suspects. Yet the people of this country flooded the phone lines of their Representatives and Congress obeyed their demands. The bill was defeated.

In the morning I am going to call my Congress people. Here is a link if you don't know who and how. Congressional Contact Information

Please join me in calling them.

Tell them that the we need to start immediately drilling for oil in the US no matter where it is at or what is disturbed. And that they can, at the same time, support all the so-called "new" energy sources/research the technonerds like to talk about.

We can make them move. And those we can't we can toss out of office in November.