Nancy Pelosi Questions john McCain's Energy Proposals

   Nancy Pelosi today had a comment about John McCain's rhetoric when it comes to energy policy and the fact that he's been calling for Congress to come back into session when he himself misses practically all of the major votes on energy issues.

  The Gavel

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to calls from Senator McCain that Congress resume session to consider energy proposals:

“Senator McCain wants to call Congress back into session to vote on ‘drill only’ proposals that he knows full well will not provide immediate relief to consumers, and yet he was absent from the Senate during critical votes to cut subsidies for Big Oil, help consumers and promote renewables and conservation.

“The New Direction Congress will continue to demand that the President release oil from our nation’s stockpile to provide immediate relief in 10 days, unlike the McCain-Republican-Big Oil plan that lowers prices at the pump by 2 cents in 10 years. Freeing a small amount of our oil from government stockpiles is the only immediate solution to the pain at the pump.

“John McCain could have been the deciding vote in favor of key energy initiatives, but instead he decided to stand by Big Oil. Senator McCain’s absent leadership on energy independence doesn’t match his rhetoric.”

  There is a little more background on McCain and some of the votes that he has missed when he should have been at work, not that you and I do not know how he would have voted anyway.

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John McCain and the Oil Money

  It would seem that Mr. Straight Talk has been bought off by big oil as his campaign contributions have gone up considerably thanks to his change on drilling for oil off of our coasts and up in ANWR.

   One company in particular stands out, and that would be Hess.

   TPM

Ten senior Hess Corporation executives and/or members of the Hess family each gave $28,500 to the joint RNC-McCain fundraising committee, just days after McCain reversed himself to favor offshore drilling, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
Nine of these contributions, seven from Hess executives and two from members of the Hess family, came on the same day, June 24th, the records show. The total collected in the wake of McCain's reversal for the fund, called McCain Victory 2008, from Hess execs and family is $285,000.

The Washington Post reported last week that campaign contributions from oil industry execs rose in a big way in the last half of June, after McCain drew a huge amount of attention by reversing his opposition on June 16th to the federal ban on offshore drilling.

  Not to be out done by the McCain camp, Barack Obama put out an ad taking Mr.McCain to task for his energy love-feast.

   At least the ads coming forth from the Obama camp have truth to them.

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