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The people would not have to wait six years, as in the U.S. Senate, to turn out
what may be considered an undesirable Representative. The entire U.S. House
of Representatives will be facing election in November 2008.
The United States is importing more than 60 percent of its oil
from foreign countries, many unfriendly, particularly Venezuela.
America’s economic energy lifeline could be severely damaged
with moderate changes in our oil imports.
Gasoline prices at $4.00-plus per gallon were being reported
in several states today. Crude oil has already topped out at
$122 per barrel as of May 7. The possibility of $200 per barrel
oil prices are predicted by year’s end.
The U.S. Congress must step forward and become
accountable for solving what could become a national
catastrophe.
At least one Congressman, Dan Young, R-Alaska,
ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources,
has taken action to remind his colleagues in both
parties of the harmful, rapid rise of energy costs and,
further, that "Congress is doing nothing to ease the
pain at the pump."
The response to that challenge is silence. Congress just sits there as if dumbstruck.
While it might be difficult to find something positive that Congress is doing, most certainly
the negatives on what Congress is not doing are everywhere abundant:
Congress has been working against the
best interests of the American public for
too many years.
Unless the American public takes
control at the next November
election and demands an energy
commitment from each Congressional
candidate, the U.S. economy as we
know it may not survive.
what may be considered an undesirable Representative. The entire U.S. House
of Representatives will be facing election in November 2008.
The United States is importing more than 60 percent of its oil
from foreign countries, many unfriendly, particularly Venezuela.
America’s economic energy lifeline could be severely damaged
with moderate changes in our oil imports.
Gasoline prices at $4.00-plus per gallon were being reported
in several states today. Crude oil has already topped out at
$122 per barrel as of May 7. The possibility of $200 per barrel
oil prices are predicted by year’s end.
The U.S. Congress must step forward and become
accountable for solving what could become a national
catastrophe.
At least one Congressman, Dan Young, R-Alaska,
ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources,
has taken action to remind his colleagues in both
parties of the harmful, rapid rise of energy costs and,
further, that "Congress is doing nothing to ease the
pain at the pump."
The response to that challenge is silence. Congress just sits there as if dumbstruck.
While it might be difficult to find something positive that Congress is doing, most certainly
the negatives on what Congress is not doing are everywhere abundant:
- Congress is not acting to open ANWR's 30-year, one-million-barrels-a-day
supply to reduce America's imported oil dependency.
- Congress is not acting to develop a process to begin reclaiming what
could be some two trillion barrels of shale oil that underlies an area from the
Canadian border through Montana and Wyoming to the state of Utah. Canada has
set an example by reclaiming millions of barrels of oil from its tar sands deposit,
principally in Alberta.
- Congress is not permitting the
exploration and development and
drilling of new gas fields
necessary to provide the cleanest of
all America's fossil energy sources.
- Congress is not supporting the
development of clean coal so
necessary in reducing the carbon
dioxide output of our coal-fired
electrical generating plants.
- Congress likewise is not
emphasizing the development of
nuclear power, the safest, cleanest
and most economical power-
generating source of all time.
- Congress is saying no to energy exploration in 85 percent of the U.S. outer-
continental shelf.
- Congress is against energy exploration in the U.S. Intermountain West.
- Congress is objecting to more hydropower energy.
- Congress is saying no to 90 percent of energy that runs America's powerful
economic engine.
Congress has been working against the
best interests of the American public for
too many years.
Unless the American public takes
control at the next November
election and demands an energy
commitment from each Congressional
candidate, the U.S. economy as we
know it may not survive.
| This GUEST eCOLUMN is used by MyBestYears.com with special permission from E. Ralph Hostetter, a crusading newspaper editor, owner and publisher for a half-century, and a champion of individual liberty. In his columns Hostetter consistently warns of the harmful erosion of our constitutional rights. Born and educated in Maryland, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 and was assigned in 1943 to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1945. He was released from World War II service in 1946 with the rank of Ensign. Recalled into the U.S. Navy in 1950 during the Korean War, he served as a Naval Intelligence Officer until released in 1952 with the rank of Lieutenant, Senior Grade. Hostetter is chairman and publisher of American Farm Publications Inc., Easton, Md., and former president and owner of TriState Publishing Company, Elkton, Md., a chain of 13 community newspapers. He was elected to the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1990. The New Jersey Agricultural Society awarded Hostetter its highest award, the Gold Medallion, in 2003. Hostetter is also Vice President of the Strasburg Rail Road Co. (PA), Chairman of Ambassador Travel Service (DE), Chairman, Southside Virginia Auto Auction, (VA) and owner of Camelot East Farms, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Active in civic affairs, Hostetter is presently a member of the Board of Directors of Free Congress Foundation, Washington, DC. In nearly 50 years of travel, Hostetter has made three round-the-world trips, visiting 113 countries, including traveling to Antartica, going through the Northwest Passage on a Russian ice breaker, and to the North Pole on an atomic-powered Russian ice breaker. He married the former Edith White of North East, Md., in 1947 and they have five daughters, one son and 13 grandchildren. |
E. RALPH HOSTETTER
...A Dumbstruck Congress
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom provided that
one section of the U.S. Government be established to
provide the closest access possible for the people of
the nation.
On the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, that became
Section 2 of Article I, the U.S. House of Representa-
tives. As additional protection, the term of office of
members of the House of Representatives was set as
the least of any elected office holder, just two years.
...A Dumbstruck Congress
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom provided that
one section of the U.S. Government be established to
provide the closest access possible for the people of
the nation.
On the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, that became
Section 2 of Article I, the U.S. House of Representa-
tives. As additional protection, the term of office of
members of the House of Representatives was set as
the least of any elected office holder, just two years.
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