GOP on Energy Crisis: IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT! [debunked]

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Oh this is priceless.

via GOP.com

The 1993 Clinton Btu Tax Would Have Increased The Price Of A Gallon Of Gasoline By Six Percent.

This is 2006.

In 1993, 53 Senate Democrats And 218 House Democrats Supported The Clinton Tax.

This is 2006.

...Sen. Harry Reid, Congressional Record, 7/16/93

This is 2006.

In 1993, 50 Senate Democrats And 217 House Democrats Voted To Increase Gasoline Taxes By 4.3 Cents Per Gallon, Costing A Family With Two Vehicles An Additional $47.30 A Year.

This is 2006.

On Top Of That, Democrats' Windfall Profits Tax Could Cost Americans An Additional $287 Per Year

What?

President Bush Threatened To Veto A Bill That Included Any Increase In Taxes On The Oil Companies.

Thank God we have a president who will protect the oil companies' profits at all costs!

Past Democrat Rhetoric On Gas Taxes And Prices Shows Lack Of Desire To Help Americans At The Pump

What?

Here's something they won't tell you: The 1993 BTU Tax was defeated

In 1993...President Clinton's proposed BTU tax on fossil fuels, the centerpiece of Clinton's plan to combat global warming. Journalist David Helvarg described this campaign as follows in the December 1996 issue of The Nation: "Clinton committed the United States 'to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000.' The Administration's plan to accomplish this included a deficit-reducing energy tax and increased gasoline taxes of up to 25 cents a gallon. Then a computer-driven 'grass roots' letter and phone-in campaign orchestrated by the American Energy Alliance, along with an oil-funded push by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, helped undermine support for the energy tax. The Administration abandoned the tax in the Senate after House Democrats, braving the wrath of industry, had passed it. Relations between the White House and Congressional Democrats soured quickly after that. Congress also voted to keep the gas tax below 5 cents, guaranteeing that with the lowest fuel prices in the developed world, alternative energy sources would remain noncompetitive."

More of the same from the Republican corporatists.

6 years off and they're still blaming Clinton.

GOP: Guns, Oil, Profits

[noahmijo]

1. But there IS a hidden tax on gas which is passed down to us

The soldiers stationed in Saudia Arabia who are there to protect it-who do you think pays for that? better yet who do you think they trickle that cost down to?

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME FROM ALL NATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST NOW