House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, of Missouri, said to reporters late Friday August 3, 2008, " I just saw one of the Democrats interviewed on television. The question was, if oil was $10 a gallon and you knew exactly where to get it in Alaska or on the coast, would you drill there and there was no answer,"

Blunt said, " We think we need to have more sources of energy, use energy more efficiently, and invest in the future. That's all. We want to have that debate. We think those are winning ideas in America today. But for whatever reason, the leaders of this Congress, the Democrat leaders of this Congress, are afraid of those ideas,"

As Congress departed for its 5 week vacation without taking action even though polls Friday said 73% of motorists are concerned, the average prices here in Colorado according to the AAA's Daily Fuel Gage Report were:

Many motorists are beginning, including Police Departments, the Airline and Trucking industries who depend on these commodities are beginning to distress. However, many environmentalists are beside themselves with glee, believing that these high-gas prices will result in less driving and less greenhouse gas emissions.

In contradiction to Congress' vacation and environmentalist's glee the Democrats campaigned and won the November 2006 election in part because the Democrats promised to fix the fuel crisis over two years ago. Senator Ken Salazar's speech on the floor of the Senate, " President's Rhetoric Out of Touch with Oil and Gas Prices outlined an agenda for energy independence, 06/28/ 2006" and Representative Mark Udall in E-Newsletter April 28, 2006: PAIN AT THE PUMP Udall Spells Out Plan for Relief" defined the issue and what they would do about it with a Democratic Congress.

Today August 3, 1008 most Americans drive and feel the pinch of high gasoline prices - but the cost of fuel affects the whole economy in spite of the fact Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House Pelosi and Harry Reid is Majority Leader Harry of the Senate. With Nancy Pelosi's claim she is "going to save the planet" the very least Coloradoan's in our current situation can expect is for gas and diesel prices to drive up inflation and damage the economy. The implication of her "justification" for Congress to do nothing is that Americans are doing nothing about the Environment. Baloney!

Big bad environment-eating corporations like General Motors have invested billions into the development of alternative energy vehicles. GM is expected to launch the world's first hydrogen-powered, gas-free vehicles before the end of the decade. While it's widely believed among European-loving leftists that American giants such as Ford and GM are lagging behind companies such as BMW, Volkswagen and Volvo in environmentalist practices, the beliefs are not supported by the facts. European emissions standards (see EURO-5 Emissions Standard) are less stringent than their US counterpart EPA standards for new vehicles. In fact, many cars sold in European countries would not meet the requirements for sale in the US and Canada as they pertain to emissions control.

FACT: The United States has the strictest environmental controls on automobiles in the world. BMW has been consistently ranked among the poorest in terms of environmental practice, such as the continued use of Polyvinyl Chloride in their construction process; a practice which American car companies ceased in the nineties.

General Motors ranks first among world automotive companies as it pertains to the use of recycled materials in new vehicle construction. According to the company, as much as 80% of plastic-material in their new car construction is recycled.

In general, American car companies win again in terms of their investment in research into alternative energy technologies with GM and Ford cumulatively spending over $10 billion US in fuel cell research. Despite the fact that the US thumbed their nose at Kyoto, and for very legitimate reasons, the US free market and specifically its automotive industry actually leads the way in terms of "clean air technologies".

The unsubstantiated belief that European countries are somehow "leading the way" in environmentalism is absurd. Believing that they are superior in their environmental laws and practice simply by virtue of signing the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming is nonsensical. Because the European Union has admitted it will come no-where close to meeting its 2015 targets. Secondly, because they never had anything to lose; the treaty was designed around redistributing economic wealth from the US.

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution states that the president " may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses" of Congress. On more than two dozen occasions in our history, presidents have done just that, forcing the Senate and House of Representatives to meet on extraordinary matters of defense or economic peril. Democrat President Truman convened the "80th do noting Republican Congress"; call President Bush Comments: 202-456-1111; or Comments: 202-456-6213 or FAX: 202-456-2461; or email comments@whitehouse.gov to reconvene the 110th Congress to remedy the National fuel crisis that is ruining the economy Congress promised to fix November 2006.