An Open Letter To Ed Markey
This morning, Rep. Ed Markey, (D-Taxachusetts), wrote an editorial in the WSJ criticizing Republicans for their insistence on drilling. This is my response to Rep. Markey:
Rep. Markey, I find this section of your Wall Street Journal editorial highly objectionable:
Ask most Americans how to break our dependence on oil and expensive fossil fuels and bring down prices, and they’ll tell you to expand renewable energy production, produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and be smart about using energy. Ask the oil industry, or their allies in Congress and the White House, and they’ll have a singular answer: drill.
The problem is, a fire sale of our nation’s beaches to oil companies won’t bring down prices for at least a decade, and even then the effect would be insignificant. And that’s according to the oil-centric Bush administration.
Considering the fact that you chair the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, I’d expect you to know about production levels of oil rigs on the OCS. Whether you agree or disagree with the report, certainly you’ve heard of this report by the Institute for Energy Research. IER’s study debunks the myth you and other Democarts are spreading that drilling won’t “bring down prices for at least a decade.”
Rep. Markey, why wouldn’t we see relief long before a decade considering the fact that rigs off California’s coast would be producing substantial amounts of oil within two years?
I also find it offensive to read this in your editorial:
The drill first, worry later philosophy was tested by more than a decade of Republican Congressional rule. The result? Our current energy crisis.
If only this were true. Had President Clinton signed into law the opening of ANWR in 1995, we would’ve avoided this crisis altogether. Oil would’ve been flowing for several years by now. Minimum.
Rep. Markey, You know that drilling isn’t just about oil, either. You know that there are substantial natural gas deposits on the OCS. With winter approaching faster than we’d like, working people are rightfully worried about heating their homes.
Saying no to drilling tells people in northern states that they’ll just have to deal with high home heating bills this winter. You’re telling senior citizens living on fixed incomes and single moms that high heating bills are their problem. That’s morally unconscienable.
What type of person would do that to the most vulnerable in society?
Your closing statement says that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi should be praised for their “their steadfast dedication to real solutions that will help our economy, our environment, and produce ample, inexpensive, clean energy for our generation and the ones to follow.” Forgive me for not praising them.
They deserve scorn because they’ve abandoned the most vulnerable of society while pushing America’s economy to the brink of a deep, long-lasting recession. I’m betting that that isn’t the type of New Direction voters thought they were getting.
The good news is that they can correct their mistake this November.
Technorati Tags: Ed Markey, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Recession, Drilling, Bush Administration, OCS, Natural Gas, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 8th, 2008 at 9:31 am
These guys are lying to us about time:
Via Powerline:
How Soon Could We Pump Oil?
August 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Man, I’d sure like to know what school of economics these donkey Einsteins went to, just so I could recommend to people they avoid sending their kids anywhere near them.
You’d think that, with all the money the donk leaders are worth, they’d have a better grasp of basic econ 101.
Or maybe they do! They just don’t want schmucks like me to figure out how to make and save a buck, ’cause that would make me less dependent upon them, our saviors.
Obviously, as groups the “African-Americans” and hispanics haven’t, ’cause everyones giving them at least 75% of the groups’ votes this fall (not counting the criminal alien motor-voter votes).