Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Psst, Steve, I Won't Tell Anyone

From, Kagen4Congress web site.

"Kagen: High Fuel Prices Helped Ground Midwest Airlines

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Congressman Steve Kagen, M.D. today said that Midwest Airlines’ announcement to lay off 40 percent of its employees was caused by record fuel prices and signals the urgency for lowering energy costs for businesses and families.

“When well-managed companies with hard-working employees are forced to make such drastic cuts, the time has come for the White House and its allies to do something,” Kagen said. “Midwest Airlines really does have the best care in the air but is being punished by this administration’s failure to solve the energy crisis.”

Kagen called again on President George W. Bush sell some of the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as a means to quickly ease upward pressure on fuel prices. The SPR is currently at 97 percent of capacity, the fullest the reserve has ever been. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, oil from SPR deployment could hit the domestic market less than two weeks after a Presidential decision.

Deploying a small portion of the resources in the SPR would provide much needed assistance to American consumers and businesses facing crippling prices, Kagen said, without endangering national security.

“We are working hard to find a way forward,” Kagen said. “Drilling for new oil, investing in renewable energy and preventing manipulation of oil prices in our free markets will work in the long term, but in the short term we must take steps to help business who are being forced to cut back, and working families who are struggling.”" Kagen4Congress » Blog Archive » Kagen: High Fuel Prices Helped Ground Midwest Airlines


That must be his favorite phrase, “We are working hard to find a way forward,” Kagen said. Working hard or hardly working? I will say hardly working. Oh yea, release SPR oil and we have to wait two weeks for it to come down! What will it come down, 1/2 cent, whoopdy do.

Where was Steve Kagen the past year and a half when oil and fuel prices were going up under his term. Remember he said we can't drill and burn ourselves out of this mess. He said we have to look at alternative fuel sources first. The poor employees of Midwest can blame Steve Kagen for holding them hostage with fuel prices.

Psst., to Steve Kagen and his staff, Listen closely, I will whisper something I don't think you know. Oil prices have been falling for the last two days. It could have something to do with President Bush and his press conference Monday. You know, lifting the drilling ban. You said "quickly ease upward pressure on fuel prices", oil is going down! Psst, you need to up date your web site. I'll whisper, you need to react a little sooner on your press releases or don't put such silly comments in. As my dad would say, "your a day late and a dollar short.'

I'll tell you a secret, vote on drilling and oil will come down even more. O k, I won't tell anyone I told you.

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