FoxNews reports that a House bill designed to make it easier to build new refineries (no new refineries have been built since the 1970s, though capacity at existing refineries has gone up to barely keep up with demand) made it out of the House 212-210 on an effective-party-line vote after House Republican leadership held the vote open more than an extra half-hour to try to get it passed. It notes that 2 Pubbies finally switched to give the vote passage, while the few Dems that had “aye” votes all went to the party line. I don’t know the exact order of vote-switching, but the ‘Rats switched first.
The final vote tally notes the following:
- Dems/Socialists voting aye – NONE
- Pubbies voting no – Boehlert (NY), Bradley (NH(, Castle (DE), Fitzpatrick (PA), Johnson (IL), Jones (NC), LaHood (IL), Leach (IA), LoBiondo (NJ), Saxton (NJ), Shays (CT), Smith (NJ), Weldon (PA)
- Dems/Socialists not voting – Boswell (IA), Delahunt (MA), Hastings (FL), Neal (MA), Olver (MA), Payne (NJ)
Pubbies not voting – Beauprez (C0), Deal (GA), Norwood (GA), Paul (TX), Royce (CA), Schwarz (MI)
Guess all the House ‘Rats (at least those that bothered to show up to vote) and the Dirty Bakers’ Dozen RINOs like the idea of any little thing causing gas prices to go over $3/gallon. We’ve all seen what happens when you take out a couple refineries when they’re all running at capacity – price spikes, fuel shortages, calls for investigations into price gouging and fuel shortages. Yet when something constructive is suggested, many of the same politicians that bleat, “Big Oil’s gouging us!” turn right around and reject whatever is proposed to limit this cycle.
Sickening.
