Energy Creates Friction
One shudders to think about how much carbon dioxide was emitted into the atmosphere by members of the United States Congress yesterday as they bemoaned high gas prices.
Lawmakers scheduled no fewer than 12 events relating to energy costs: six news conferences and six hearings. The Washington Sketch went to all of them, while also checking in on the debates on the House and Senate floor, which, while ostensibly discussing housing and taxes, also returned repeatedly to gas prices.
The tour, from the Dirksen Building on the Senate side of the Capitol to the Rayburn Building at the opposite corner of the complex, should offer some reassurance to anxious Americans. The nation may be lacking in gasoline, but let it never be said that America has a shortage of gasbags.
Pretty much nothing government can do -- neither GOP plans for more drilling nor Democratic calls for more renewable energy -- will make gas prices lower anytime soon. But angry constituents won't allow their representatives to do nothing, so lawmakers have retreated to their default position: Blame the other party.
-- Dana Milbank
By Dana Milbank |
June 26, 2008; 12:00 AM ET
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Posted by: Curmudgeon | June 26, 2008 1:01 PM
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By shuddering, you expend energy; so I wouldn't recommend that. All of this shuddering will lead to greater food intake, which spells trouble for the the world food market. And if you are shuddering, and trying to report at the same time, well, that's an energy disaster.