Bachmann’s Energy Bill, Seriously?

by Matt Martin | 11 Comments
June 18, 2008, 12:22 am | Category: General |

11 Responses to “Bachmann’s Energy Bill, Seriously?”

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  • Walter Hanson
    June 18, 2008 at 1:17 am

    Okay so what is the solution? We put our cars away and ride bicyles. I believe Obama suggested that in a speech a couple of weeks ago. I hope Matt and the Blue man come next January will do that.

    What I find so interesting here is that you folks care more about attacking Michelle Bachmann who supports our country trying to drill for more oil (according to polling data 60-70% public support that position).

    You’re the minority on this view point.

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  • Jon
    June 18, 2008 at 3:56 am

    You’ve never heard of Carbon tax credits, seriously?

    Does “cap-and-trade” ring a bell? What do you think it is that is traded under this system? I’ll answer for you: its carbon tax credits. Whoever Blue Man is, he obviously doesn’t know what he is talking about and is trying to make a pollution-reduction scheme look like a pro-pollution scheme; either because he doesn’t understand the terms being used or he wants to make Michelle Bachmann look pro-pollution.

    For the record, I don’t even know who Michelle Bachmann is.

  • amuseinc
    June 18, 2008 at 8:50 am

    OK, I’ll bite… why would you use up a critical nonrenewable domestic resource to bring the consumer cost down a quarter when if you wait, and use up foreign product, you strengthen your domestic security? To cut costs now so SUV drivers get gouged $10 less a tankful when that same oil could be much more valuable later is stupid. Don’t Republicans know that we are on the downside of oil as a resource? I’d rather take the pain now and use foreign oil until we get a national energy policy that makes sense than use up our domestic resources. In 2012 do you honestly think that saving twenty-five cents a gallon in 2008 is going to matter. Think ahead… what would happen if the foreign oil spigot got turned off by war, where would we turn without a domestic reserve?

    I thought Republicans were trying to defend America not open us up to foreign control.

  • Hal
    June 18, 2008 at 8:51 am

    No, we’ve heard of carbon tax credits, the right wingers love to associate them with Al Gore and Global Warming. Merely pointing out the global warming aspect of this and Bachmann’s contempt for anything global warming.

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR03089:@@@P

    Question for the smart guys in the room.

    Why did Thornberry propose the bill in July 2007 and do nothing with it for a year? Election year fodder? Bachmann didn’t see fit to sign onto this “great legislation” until late April of 2008?

    John Kline waited for $4 gas until signing on.

    Don Shelby took Bachmann to task over her antics.

    http://wcco.com/intheknow/bachmann.gasoline.pitch.2.749869.html

  • Typical Frightened Right Wing Guy
    June 18, 2008 at 8:52 am

    Walter Hanson, Minneapolis MN, I agree 100%,

    Everybody knows that when we are allowed to drill for oil, prices will fall back to where they used to be whan Bush took office.

    The Republican track record of accurately, precisely predicting outcomes makes this 100% true.

    Great Job!

  • The Gipper
    June 18, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Yeah, were really worried here in the 6th that our Representative supports more drilling:) Good luck to her opponent with a funny name!!!

    Bachmann wins by double digits!

  • Danno
    June 18, 2008 at 9:38 am

    You’re right on Amuseinc. Russia recently announced that its supply has reached its peak. RUSSIA! The biggest oil supplier in the world! Here is what will be good for our nation: building an inferstructure based on renewable energy (I would include nuclear in this system, but that is another debate), and hold onto our oil reserves, keeping our resources as investments for the future and keeping the US safe from unexpected drop in supply from the rest of the world that could be triggered by say… Oh, I don’t know.. War in Iran.

    Tapping into our oil reserves now is like a tapping into your IRA when you’re thirty.

    Oh, and by the way, I do bike to work 25 miles a day. Quit your whining and change your habits or place of residence and it wouldn’t be such a problem, would it? The Europeans have been dealing with these prices for years; are you trying to tell me that we can’t?

  • Matt Martin
    June 18, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Jon, you’re laughably wrong, sorry. Carbon Credits are what are traded under cap and trade. While they may sometimes be called “carbon tax credits” and that usage may sometimes be right, what Bachmann’s calling for here is altogether different but even she can’t really articulate how. What’s clear is that she doesn’t mean cap and trade, or at least that’s presumed given her recent opinion article in the strib denouncing such plans:
     http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/19678679.html

  • swiftee
    June 18, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    A Republican Congresswoman offers concrete action; the Democrat feverswamp sputters and obfuscates.

  • Danno
    June 18, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Nice comeback Swiftee. A real opinion changer you offered there.

  • lojasmo
    June 18, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Hmm. I walk to work. EVERY day.

    I just insulated my house.

    A plurality of the bulbs in my house are CF.

    My kid’s school is four blocks from my house (we bought our house to be close)

    Drilling for more oil won’t provide enough to last us one year.

    Bachman is a dumb shit.

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