The New York Times is running an editorial urging “a grown-up conversation on energy,” while observing that “what we are getting instead is a mindless rerun of the drill-baby-drill operatics of the 2008 campaign, when gas was also at $4 a gallon.”
Right. But they, and you, we, know very well why this isn’t likely to happen. Case in point:
Even John Boehner, the Republican leader, conceded in a recent ABC News interview that oil companies “ought to be paying their fair share.” When horrified aides reminded him that ending the subsidies would amount to a tax increase — anathema among Republicans — he backed off.
The obvious response to the Boehners of the world is simple: Throw the bums out! Let me repeat that: Throw the bums out! One by one, state by state, throw them out.
Meanwhile, sign this petition urging to Congress to stop subsidizing the oil industry.
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