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Sutton Energy Plan: No Drilling
- Filed under: Energy, Sutton / Potter
- Date: Aug 14,2008
CNN Money: "Weaning ourselves off oil is the answer." - Representative Betty Sutton, Democrat, 13th District, May 7, 2008.
Betty Sutton, as class president of the freshman 2006 House Democrats, is making her boss Speaker Pelosi proud. She recently sent two mailers to district residents that touted her energy "accomplishments." The mailers were paid for by taxpayers as part of the incumbency protection program. (4 individual links in this post can be clicked on to see the mailings I am describing; may take a few seconds to load.)
In her August mailer Sutton said: "As your voice in the United States Congress, your priorities are my priorities. From working to lower gas prices to keeping good paying jobs in our communities, I have been fighting for the issues that are most important to you." That sounds good. One of my priorities is indeed lowering gas prices. I just wish Sutton was actually doing something and not just following her party line.
On a separate page of the mailer, you can read what Sutton had to say under "Fighting to lower the price of energy." Nothing in there about drilling.
Sutton also sent out a piece about a month before that, touting her support of the "Energy Independence and Security Act." Guess what? Nothing about drilling. There was what you would expect - biofuels, green energy, blah blah blah. It was signed into law on December 19, 2007. Energy really plummeted in price after that, right Congresswoman? (This waste of money also included such great ideas as "air dry dishes instead of using your dishwasher's drying cycle," and "install a programmable thermostat that is compatibale with your heating and cooling system.")
Sutton sends out these pieces with no mention of drilling. People all across America, and in her district, want lower gas prices and for America to start exploring resources here at home. Maybe Sutton is fine with gas around $3.70 a gallon as long as people are using the new kind of light bulbs and only using the washing machine for full loads. Surprising she didn't ask us to wash clothes in a bucket of water and soap and then use a clothesline for drying.
There is nothing wrong with one changing or evolving her position (she hasn't) when events warrant (and they do in this case), but in my eyes this is worse than a blatant flip flop, it's a distortion in a taxpayer paid communication. Sutton is not fighting to lower gas prices. Fighting to try and sue OPEC maybe. But that is about it. Don't forget, she was in the Democratic majority who voted 213-212 to adjourn for the summer without addressing gas prices. I would love to hear Sutton debate her opponent Dave Potter on drilling and energy and why she voted to leave Washington without doing anything. Probably a debate she would run and hide from. I am sure the phone polling she has been doing around the district on the issue lately tells her as much.
So in conclusion, while Betty Sutton tries to impress Henry Waxman with her sham oil executives hearings and talks about "market manipulation," 13th District residents can read her mailer that they helped pay for while paying about double the price to fill up their cars as compared to when Betty Sutton was elected in November 2006………..
15 Responses for "Sutton Energy Plan: No Drilling"
Sounds like Betty Sutton has a "No Energy" Plan.
Incumbency protection is a good way to describe the flyers that members of congress send out. Tax payer funded campaign pieces.
Gas was actually $3.67 a gallon today by my work. Thanks Betty!
I would invite anyone to have a discussion with Betty Sutton about anything. I mean it. Anything. Ask her to speak off the cuff on any number of topics. She really is a cretin.
The mailers are laughable. I thought they were produced by her campaign until I saw printed at taxpayer expense.
sherrod Brown used to also send newsletters but they were not even close to being as obvious as suttons piece. Maybe that is because Brown served under Republicans and he could not have gotten such an obvious campaign piece approved.
I got mine from little timmy "two toes" the other day. Same montra, all BS.
There's nothing about drilling in the newsletter…..because drilling offers no answers to the current problem.
Or do you have data that proves otherwise?
When Betty Sutton sends out a mailer containing no mention of drilling as part of the Democrats energy plan…..it's because drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower prices, in the near OR far term.
Why would Sutton send out misinformation stating that drilling will help lower gas prices…..when it won't?
Do you want your representatives to lie to you?
Someone that believes that drilling will not have an immediate effect on the prices of gas knows nothing about the commodities market or economics. She can spout that garbage and lie to the common person and get away with it, I just hope that she knows better. This is the same short sighted thinking that has gotten us where we are today.
Why have fuel prices dropped? Because Bush lifted the moratorium on drilling. It has been on a steady decline since. This is how you handle out of control speculation.
Also the lies they are telling about this effecting prices in 10 years. The oil companies can get this oil in the big well known reserves in less than 3 years if the government would expedite their permits and let American entrepreneurs do what they do best.
The reason she mentioned no drilling is because she is being led around by the environmentalists and other special interest entities that she says she is against. We are not ready for alternative fuels. We need a comprehensive plan that includes all forms. Are we to endure high gas prices until they develope these technologies? If you listen to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi…yes, because they are so far out of touch with our reality it's pathetic.
If we worked toward creating and instilling all forms of energy we would have 99% employment. As long as the govt would provide tax incentices to develope and produce that technology here.
WHat is their answer? Windfall profit taxes. Giving American $1000 stimulus checks paid by stealing from American business. They have no right to those profits. DOn't they realize a huge part of our retierments and 401k's are invested in companies effected by the oil companies? Or is there a more dastardly scheme on the horizon? They certainly have the players backing them: Al Gore, George Soros, T Pickens and World Resource Intsitute.
When a pipeline break in Nigeria or a threat by a foreign country on another country can shoot prices up here in America, where we have more energy resources than we know what to do with. Something is wrong and needs to be done.
I suggest that anyone that isn't for a comprehensive plan be replaced in the next election. THey AREN"T looking out for our best interest.
Well stated averagejoe.
Did not Bush just mention about drilling and crude fell about $25.00?
Maybe if she and our other senators and representatives were worried about employment in our state we wouldn't have 7.6% unemployment. Hey! Pay attention to who is writng your paycheck and quit wasting your time writng ineffective and ridiculous energy legislation. We are about to lose another 8000 jobs and yet we still have the mandatory 7 sick day scam on the ballot, that's goin to attract some companies. But they will blame it on the citizens afterall they voted for it.Sacrificing them to maintain the Union Labor vote in the elections. Also is anyone trying to do anything to attract more industry to Ohio or are we just going to continue over-taxing what we have left.
Are We Headed Toward Extinction?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93636633&ft=2&f=510221
Extinction? We have high unemployment that's all.
Doesn't Obama's world view sound wonderful?
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Democrat
Do you see the progressive actuality of your comment? Or is it just me? It's like a cancer and one day I pray this isn't going to replace our constitution. The changes are happening…slowly.
Drilling will do nothing to bring down the cost of crude. That's what a Bush Administration report concluded. Any new supply would not reach the WORLD market for 10 years and when it did, it would lower the price of a gallon of gas by 5 cents.
Those are the facts.
The current high pricing in crude has been brought to us by the Enron loophole in the futures market. Expert testimony in Congress says that closing the loophole in the oil futures market would reduce prices by as much as half.
Those are also the facts.
Now, perhaps everyone could get a psychological high from drilling, like McNasty and Gramm said, but those highs won't produce many miles per gallon. Hot air doesn't burn.
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