Aug 12 2008
David Price Uses Your Tax Dollars to Lie to You
Residents of N.C.’s 4th Congressional District got a wonderful little gift in the mail the other day- a beautiful glossy campaign ad from quasi-socialist congressman David Price paid for at taxpayer expense.
It’s one of those annoying “Keeping in Touch” mailers that congressmen use to exalt themselves while ostensibly keeping in touch with the little guy, like you and me. These mailers, being official government business, are paid for with taxpayer dollars. Nice to see Congressional franking privileges being put to such good use.
Anyways, what really creams my wheats about this mailing is a section he called “Drilling Down the Rhetoric”, wherein he calls expanded drilling a “deeply flawed” idea. He opposes offshore Atlantic drilling because “it would be a dangerous gamble with our state’s important tourism and aquatic resources”. No, Congressman, a dangerous gamble is relying on oil from countries who hate us and who are in a militarily unstable part of the world. And I suggest you ask Brazil and Norway, two countries who have had great success with offshore drilling, how much of a detriment it is to their aquatic and tourism resources.
Price goes on to say that according to the Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook, 2007, Atlantic and Pacific drilling “would have no significant impact on production or prices before 2030″. Well, I may not be an energy expert, but I call “BS” on Price and that study. Expanding the supply during a period of heavy demand will almost certainly bring prices down, and it won’t take 23 years to build a damn oil platform or to see price reductions.
Price concludes by demanding that those big mean evil oil companies drill in land that has already been set aside for them. Well that would be swell, except for that we don’t know if there’s any oil in them thar hills. We DO know, however, that there’s a veritable ocean of oil in ANWR, but boobs like Price won’t let drillers near it because we might hurt a caribou.
Price is a old hack who’s been in Congress for over 20 years- which is 20 years too long. I hope my fellow 4th District residents take a good look at this clown and at his opponent, B.J. Lawson, and decide that it’s time for a change.
