Will Pelosi Really Allow a Vote?

Very Good Post, You address great questions we all possess. There are many reasons why the alternative technologies now out on the market need further developing. Not all types of energy fit all applications. For example fishing vessels they require a form of petroleum distillate. Busses require diesel etc. Ethanol requires a large volumn of raw plant product and more energy to produce. The development and improvement of alternative energies will take possibly as long as the anti-drilling and anti-petroleum folks say about new oil production.

Your point about Pelosi - will she really allow a vote, I am as skeptical as you. I will believe it when I see it.

I agree we need an energy policy without restrictions.

I am not seeing Pelosi have a straight up or down vote for energy. The drilling can not be a clean bill. She has said many times "comprehensive." And she really wants to attack big oil and get a wind fall profits tax included.

As for alternative energy, we have been hearing about it for years and years. I remember when ethanol was supposed to save us. I really did not know that much about it, but recently have learned how expensive it really is.

Apparently many in Congress feel that our technology is still in 1976 and has not moved forward in any way. Which I still have not figured out why. Technology has improved tremendously, but Congress continues to look at from 30 years ago.

Conservabear, what you said about the fact that some vehicles/machinery are dependent on petroleum is a good point. It reinforces what I said about the non-viability of the alternative energy sources put forward thus far. And as someone (I think it was Glenn Beck this morning) has said, you can't power a car with wind!
Sue, the problem is that the Dems in Congress are looking at the world through a thoroughly leftist prism, one that is 150 years old: capitalism is bad, America is bad, and the solutions they put forward are the same old, tired, and failed (a word they like to use a lot about Conservative policies) solutions that they had 30, 40 years ago: tax, tax, tax, the world will be perfect if we achieve "social justice" and economic equality. Then when their policies drive the US, and by extension, the world economies into the ground, it will be---our fault! I know they think they are patriots, that they love this country, but I think they are very self-deluded.

Don't the Dems sound like the most negative group that you have ever heard? We can't do this...we can't do that...

We have been talking about alternative energy for so long. They make it sound like you can whip it up in the lab and the next day it is out there doing the job.

I am tired of hearing the word "failed." A new positive word beyond "hope" and "change" would be nice. And of course some action.

I really believe that Pelosi has her own agenda going and apparently believes that she is a super power in her own right. I have a feeling that when they return from their vacation, there is not going to be all of the love that she thinks there is going to be toward her.

I think Pelosi has overplayed her hand in this (at least I really hope she has). I think she is very full of herself. Why else would she have taken it upon herself to meet with the dictator in Syria? The Dems have assumed that this election was theirs from the start. But I'm betting that people are as tired of their tired rhetoric as you and I. Don't tell me what we can't do; tell me what we can do! Better yet, as you say, show us some action!

I think Speaker Pelosi really over played her hand on this one. She really is on a power trip and the American people are getting fed up.

That entire trip to Syria was horrible and of course a slap in the face to the President.

I am with you on the Dems. I keep hearing how in November they are going to win in a landslide and the Republicans are going to lose all of these seats. Excuse me, has anything really gotten done? They have not be doing a spectacular job by any means.

I am one of those people that really believe that we need term limits. Some of these people need to get booted from Congress and not be allowed back in. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!