Press Releases › McClintock Calls on Democrats to Return to Congress and End ‘the Real Energy Crisis’
Campaign Unveils Message in New Radio Commercial
Senator
Tom McClintock Friday called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her
Democratic colleagues to end the real energy crisis by returning to
Washington to adopt a national energy plan that expands domestic oil
production immediately.
In a new campaign radio commercial, McClintock blames the failed Democrat policies of the past 30 years as the reason Californians are paying $4.50 a gallon for gasoline.
“America has nearly a trillion barrels of recoverable oil—more than three times that of Saudi Arabia—that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Brown won’t even let us touch. In fact, more than 94 percent of our territory remains off-limits because of this foolish prohibition. If we want to change this policy, we’ve got to change this Congress.”
McClintock said the real energy crisis is caused by “politicians sitting on their hands while we pay at the pump. We don’t need government bureaucracies and higher taxes to fund them—we need to get government out of the way and open American oil to American production right now.”
The Rand Institute reports that the Green River shale formation (covering portions of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) holds a proven, recoverable reserve of roughly 800 billion barrels of oil. The Democratic-led Congress has strictly prohibited the development of these domestic resources.
“Government is not the solution to our energy crisis,” McClintock said. “Government has been the cause of that crisis.”
