Category Archives: Pain at the Pump

It’s About Time

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The House Republicans finally get some nuts!

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess…

“This is the people’s House,� Rep, Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) said. “This is not Pelosi’s politiburo.�

It’s about time the GOP members in the House started acting like true conservatives again. I hope they keep it up during recess and continue to pour it on when they return. Don’t go out without a fight!

Maybe “>Mr. T. paid John Boehner an unannounced visit…

More Calls for Socializing Oil (Update: Then Again, Maybe Not…)

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After Maxine Waters caught herself and backpedaled on her desire to socialize the oil industry, her House “comrade”, Maurice Hinchey echoes her words as well:

Contrary to popular belief Marxist indoctrination, WE CAN DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS.. The Marxists in Congress just don’t want us to.

Damn the Watermelon Brigade! DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS.

Update: Hinchey “changes his mind” about socializing the nation’s oil refineries.

“Big Oil”, Indeed

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For all the price-gouging accusations from the left and Congress, ExxonMobil is struggling to make ends meet.

Exxon Mobil, proclaimed by the no-drill demagogues to be the poster child for gas gouging, recognizes this as well, deciding to unload its 800 company-owned stations and an additional 1,400 dealer-operated locations to distributors.

Still, Democrats will say Exxon and its unindicted co-conspirators still make obscene profits. The fact is that American oil companies in 2007 had an 8.3% profit margin, compared with 8.9% for all U.S. manufacturing. The cigarette and beverage companies’ profit margin was 19.1%. Drug companies made 18.4%.