May 31 2008
Taylor Hits Myrick on Offshore Drilling
Harry Taylor, Sue Myrick’s Democratic Congressional opponent has come out criticizing Myrick’s offshore drilling bill as being ineffective.
Taylor, responding to Thursday’s proposal by the GOP congresswoman, said the problem is U.S. consumption. To offset that, he proposed:
A $2,000 tax cut to help “working families” pay for gas or switch to more economical cars.
A $4,000 tax credit for the purchase of hybrid vehicles that get more than 30 miles per gallon.
A requirement that in four years, every car sold in America be a hybrid.
A national pledge to cut gas consumption 10 percent within 30 days.
I’m not opposed to Taylor’s idea of giving tax cuts for buying hybrid cars or for gasoline, but I’d sure like to know who “working families” are. I mean, if you have a job, you’re working, right? A CEO works for a living, doesn’t he?
The rest of his ideas are just a bunch of fluff. You can’t require every car sold four years from now to be a hybrid unless you really want to stick it to the poor and lower income Americans. Hybrid cars are expensive because they are expensive to manufacture. As far as the national pledge he refers to, that will be about as useless and naive as high schools that do the “Prom Promise” to not drink on prom night.
Taylor is in error to say that Myrick’s plan won’t be effective. American consumption of gasoline has already dropped over the past year and gasoline prices have skyrocketed. It’s not just our consumption that is the problem; it’s also the rest of the world, primarily developing nations like China and India that are using more oil. You need to increase the supply to be greater than the demand to bring down the prices and that is what Myrick’s plan helps do.
India and China drilling oil 50 miles off the shore of Florida keys But American oil companies are barred from this? Congressional legislation and the Clinton’s Veto in 1995 has alot to do with our oil prices. If Congress, Liberals and the Big Government the Democrats bring our way would get out of the way of progress were would not have this problem. By the way India and China are slant drilling into our continental shelf. Hence stealing our oil. But congress through frivolous legislation has made that illigal for US companies. Democrats, liberals and socialist Clinton’s are in bed with China. Hussein Obama is not better.
Right On Fellas.
This stupid idea about tax cuts is our centuries “let them eat cake.”
Toss some crumbs and the rats will be happy. We’re in dire need of more oil and a few thousand dollars a year isn’t a drop in the bucket for most folks.
And 4 grand for a new car??? The average Hybrid is 1/3 more expensive than non hybrids that are only 2-5 miles per gallon less efficient. So I can buy a toyota tercel that gets 29 mpg for 10 grand or a new prius that gets 35 mpg for 26 grand?
How bout I stick with my 1997 S-10 that gets 24 mpg and is paid for and costs next to nothing to insure. Where’s that work into the masters plan?