That 70s Energy Policy..

I posted here regarding the striking similarities between Bush's new energy conservation policy and that of Jimmy Carter's during the 70s, and how the next thing we would see would be GWB in a cardigan sweater. Well lo and behold if King didn't go and direct us to this site that not only compares our current energy situation to the 70s, but also gets into how we got there (along with a great Brady Bunch spoof). Of particular interest was the following:

Senator John F. Kerry (D)

• Kerry opposed siting LNG terminals in his state, calling the decision to do so “downright reckless.”
• He co-sponsored the Feinstein amendment making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.

Senator Byron Dorgan (D)

• Dorgan introduced the Windfall Profit Rebate Act of 2005 (S 1631) which would impose a 50% excise tax on profits earned on oil above $40 a barrel.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D)

• Feinstein introduced an amendment to the Energy Bill making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.
• In 2001, she co-sponsored S. 80 that would have established price controls in the West.

Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R)

• Snowe co-sponsored the Feinstein amendment making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.

Senator Christopher Dodd (D)

• Dodd co-sponsored the Feinstein amendment making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.
• He co-sponsored the Windfall Profit Rebate Act of 2005, which would impose a 50% excise tax on profits earned on oil above $40 a barrel.
• In June 2000, Dodd called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to expand its ongoing investigation into gas price hikes in the Midwest into a nationwide probe.
• In a press release on August 31, 2005, Dodd called on President Bush to “investigate and comprehensively monitor pricing” of natural gas.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D)

• Boxer co-sponsored the Feinstein amendment making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.
• She co-sponsored the Windfall Profit Rebate Act of 2005, which would impose a 50% excise tax on profits earned on oil above $40 a barrel.
• In 2001, she introduced S. 80 that would have established price controls in the West.
• Whenever gasoline prices shoot up, Boxer can be depended on to demand an investigation of oil companies, even though all previous investigations have found no conspiracies.
• In 1999, Boxer asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into possible collusion among oil companies due to high increasse in gas prices.
• On September 2, 2005, she sent a letter to the Chairman of the FTC demanding that the Chairman “closely monitor and scrutinize the oil industry for possible market manipulation and price gouging in the coming weeks.”

Senator Susan Collins (R)

• Collins co-sponsored the Feinstein amendment making it harder for states to build new LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, thus limiting supply and raising prices.

Now in the middle of our gasoline hovering around 3 dollars a gallon, I often wondered why natural gas was going through the roof. After all, I was always under the impression that we had plenty of natural gas:

The United States has large reserves of natural gas. Most reserves are in the Gulf of Mexico and in the following states: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, and Alaska. If we continue to use natural gas at the same rate as we use it today, the United States has about a 50-year supply of natural gas, though another 200 years of additional gas supplies could be produced if people are willing to pay more for the gas they use.

But wouldn't you know it--just as our current problems with gasoline center not as much on the supply of oil as much as a lack of refining capacity due to environmental strangleholds on increasing that capacity, it would appear that the same enviro-whacko element was at work making sure that our ability to expand our LNG facilities and to keep natural gas supplies up to snuff was stifled if not downright snuffed out by a few democrats and willing RINO compadres. Now thanks to these forward-thinking mental gnatsgiants, you have millions of people in the midwest who are going to be a little colder this winter, or a little hungrier, with natural gas prices going up by as much as 70 percent. While your heating bill may have been 300 dollars a month during last year's coldest months, expect it to be upwards of $510 per month during those same months this year. Yay.

But I wouldn't place all the blame on this "gang of 7" moonbats. There's plenty of blame to go around since there was only seven of them, but plenty more who could have confronted and prevented these moonbats from shoving their socialism-dressed-up-as-pseudo-science down our throats. But nobody had the cajones to stand up and be counted, for fear that they would be branded as being against clean water and clean air. Pretty slick, eh?