{"id":8877,"date":"2011-03-11T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2011-03-11T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:22:31","slug":"soaring-gas-prices-inspire-republicans-to-invest-democrats-to-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8877\/soaring-gas-prices-inspire-republicans-to-invest-democrats-to-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring Gas Prices Inspire Republicans to Invest, Democrats to Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if we needed another issue to highlight the differences between conservatives and liberals, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is showing each side\u2019s true colors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/10\/republicans-pledge-new-legislation-domestic-energy-production-gas-prices-rise\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> reports that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants to put forward several \u2018bite-sized\u2019 bills to expand domestic energy production through increased oil drilling, easier permitting, and promoting nuclear power plant construction.\u00a0 (The piecemeal legislation is also intended to be a jab at Democrats\u2019 penchant for \u2018comprehensive\u2019 legislative fixes.)<\/p>\n<p>Liberals like Ed Markey (D-MA) want to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to drop prices by increasing supply.<\/p>\n<p>How brazenly foolish.\u00a0 As usual, liberals want to blow a savings account instead of increasing their revenue streams.\u00a0 Shattering the nation\u2019s energy piggy bank isn\u2019t a solution to the problem \u2013 it\u2019s a delaying tactic that puts off the hard decisions until later.<\/p>\n<p>The time for stop-gap measures is over.\u00a0 If liberals continue to show a genetic inability to create sustainable budget and energy policies, conservatives should bypass them and get America back on a sound footing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if we needed another issue to highlight the differences between conservatives and liberals, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is showing each side\u2019s true colors. Fox News reports that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants to put forward several \u2018bite-sized\u2019 bills to expand domestic energy production through increased oil drilling, easier permitting, and promoting nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[928,646,1549,2468,195,2116,1057,739,1216,334,2469],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-democratic-party","tag-drilling","tag-ed-markey","tag-energy","tag-gasoline","tag-john-boehner","tag-liberal","tag-oil","tag-republican-party","tag-strategic-petroleum-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}